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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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Google.com Ranks Slow Using New Google PSI Speed Rank
43 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Krugman Sees Possible U.S. Recession with Little Fed Wiggle Room
43 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Visual Noises – Noise Algorithms Visualised in 1D and 2D
43 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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The Final Version of the EU's Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet
43 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Lenny Baum as trader (1982) [pdf]
43 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Meth and murder: New kind of drug war makes Tijuana one of deadliest cities
43 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Neil Postman, Technopoly, and Technological Theology
43 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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How the vegan food trend made a star of the stinking jackfruit
43 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Possible cooked S-boxes in Kuznyechik & Streebog..Russian cipher & hash
43 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Reddit’s revenue per user is much lower than that of other social networks
43 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Nobody Knows How to Learn a Language
43 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Amazon Workers Are Denouncing Unions by Using Suspiciously Similar Tweets
43 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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What every physicist should know about string theory
43 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Man discovers 30 year old Apple computer still in working order
43 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Apple Rumors Point to 31.6-inch 6K Display, All-New 16-inch MacBook Pro for 2019
43 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Solution to Harvard’s admissions problem is simple: run a lottery
43 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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You Can’t just rename your IT Ops team and call it “DevOps”
42 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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An Open Letter to the FB Recruiter Who Gets Ordered, Every Quarter, to Email Me
42 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Industrial Opportunities for Startups
42 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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First U.S. Coal Plant in Years Opens Where No Options Exist
42 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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The Evolution of IPsec [pdf]
42 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Where is the universe hiding its missing mass?
42 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Skype is better, but still problematic
42 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Tepco carries out examination in Fukushima by remote-controlled probe
42 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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House Opens Inquiry into Proposed U.S. Nuclear Venture in Saudi Arabia
42 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Alstom and Siemens Show How Not to Deal with China (and Vestager)
42 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Lazarus Release 2.0.0
42 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Getting started with Readable Human Format
42 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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What It Takes to Be in the 1% Around the World
42 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Decentralized Clearing Network: A Protocol for Hybrid Decentralized Exchanges
42 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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The Wasting of Britain's Marshall Aid
42 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Wanted: Cofounder for YC S19. Robotic Tunnel Delivery of Groceries/food/packages
42 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Vocab: An online dictionary integration to the command line
41 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Illicit iPhone App Store Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
41 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Bug Bombs Don’t Get Rid of Bugs, Study Suggests
41 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Wireshark 3.0.0 Released
41 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Using Gmail “Dot Addresses” to Commit Fraud
41 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Losing Your Privacy in the Digital Age: Share Your Stories
41 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Accused College Students Deserve the Presumption of Innocence
41 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Ask HN: Things You Wish You Knew Before Getting into Machine Learning
41 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Azlo – Fee-free small business banking
41 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Fixing Random
41 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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'Everybody In, Nobody Out': What's Known About the Medicare for All Act of 2019
41 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Sr.ht experimental mercurial support
41 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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The Story of Storytelling
41 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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A Plan for Spam (2002)
41 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Don't Let Robots Pull the Trigger
41 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens
41 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Hacker News Meetups?
41 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space
41 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Ask HN: Is there an open source curriculum for for a mathematics degree?
41 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Pattern Matching Custom Data Types in TypeScript
41 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan (1981) [pdf]
41 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Manfred Eigen, Nobel-winning chemist who clocked fast reactions, dies at 91
41 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Internet Archive Wayback Machine Blocked by Vodafone, Three, O2, and EE
41 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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A landmark ruling gives new power to sue tech giants for privacy harms
41 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia (1954) [pdf]
41 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn’t Pay (1990)
41 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Bezos Selfie Controversy Triggers Alarm for Billionaires Worldwide
41 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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PlaNet: A Deep Planning Network for Reinforcement Learning
40 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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SortSupport: Sorting in Postgres at Speed
40 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Oregon expected to enact first state-wide rent control law
40 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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The exercise “recovery” industry is largely bogus
40 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Inline types and functions in Swift
40 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Millennial-Bashing Is Class Warfare
40 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Vanguard dramatically cuts its expected rate of return for the stock market
40 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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The Treeographer
40 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Early South Dakota Thrived by Being a Divorce Colony
40 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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A World Without Clouds: Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming
40 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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About the AOL announcement (2005)
40 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Someone Just Paid 2100 ETH for Transaction Fees
39 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Gods, Gurus, and the Search for the Holy Grail: Bach Recordings from 2018
39 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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“I’m moving out of state”: employees are trying to avoid California income tax
39 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Expensive Loans to Desperate People Built This $90B Industry
39 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Show HN: Serverless Page Builder
39 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions
39 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Will A.I. Ever Be Smarter Than a Four-Year-Old?
39 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Facebook Screwed Us All
39 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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What can a technologist do about climate change? (2015)
39 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Solving Depression with Analytical Thinking
39 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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A new book argues that violence laid the foundation for virtue
39 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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A 49-inch ultrawide monitor is extravagant, ridiculous, and amazing
39 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Airtable Became a Unicorn by Reinventing the Spreadsheet
39 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Programming as Translation
39 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Ex-Cons Create ‘Instagram for Prisons,’ and Wardens Are Fine with That
39 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Kara Swisher interview of Jack Dorsey
39 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Holography Transmission Equations
39 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Python exceptions considered an anti-pattern
39 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Jeff Bezos Protests Privacy Invasion, as He Builds Surveillance State
39 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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The Sorry State of the World Economy
39 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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The Next Vulnerability: Looking Back on Meltdown and Spectre One Year Later
39 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Walmart Is Eliminating Greeters. Workers With Disabilities Feel Targeted
39 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Gene therapy trials on monkeys’ eyes could help cure color blindness
39 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Why Does Mozilla Maintain Our Own Root Certificate Store?
39 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Two Starkly Similar Novels and the Puzzle of Plagiarism
39 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Hacking Laws are Silly, don't click this link
39 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Can Programming Be Liberated, Period? (2008) [pdf]
39 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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PeerTube. What It Is, and What I Think It's Problems Are
38 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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KDE Is Adding Matrix to Its IM Framework
38 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Apple Said to Launch 16-Inch MacBook Pro with All-New Design in 2019
38 points • comment • feb 18, 2019