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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform
435 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?
431 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting
431 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive
429 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)
427 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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The Gyllenhaal Experiment
426 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Myths in Machine Learning Research
425 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener
422 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
418 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Linux Desktop Setup
417 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts
414 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release
413 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Better Language Models and Their Implications
412 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021
412 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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This Cat Does Not Exist
412 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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I Bought a House with Solar Panels
411 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Let Children Get Bored Again
410 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
408 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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A Python Interpreter Written in Rust
407 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage
407 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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New York governor orders probe into Facebook access to data from other apps
406 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income
406 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
405 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth
404 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Google Maps: Bird Mode
399 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Tiny PWAs and why I keep building them
395 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail
393 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly
393 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement
393 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code
390 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Moving from Go to PHP Again
388 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Show HN: Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file
388 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Y Combinator Resources for Developers
387 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Practical Facts about the Human Brain
386 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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A 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight
385 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
383 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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France Enters the Matrix
382 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default
381 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed
381 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure
380 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf]
380 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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“Illegal” Lego Builds (2006) [pdf]
379 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls
379 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose
378 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Data Structure Visualizations (2011)
377 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work
376 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Build your own old-school 3D shooter in a weekend
374 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision
373 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws
370 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable
367 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Why I hate the weekends (2017)
365 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Earnest Capital is live
365 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
364 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant
364 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses
363 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC
362 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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We Lost Our Ability to Mend
361 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death
358 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page
358 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results
357 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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MyBrandNewLogo – A 3-step Logo Generator
357 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Fully managed PostgreSQL databases
357 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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PKI for busy people
356 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas
355 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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German for Programmers
355 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Show HN: GuiLite – Tiny UI framework, runs on MCU without OS
349 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road
349 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Lectures in Quantitative Economics as Python and Julia Notebooks
348 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised
348 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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A Humility Training Exercise for Technical Interviewers
348 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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New ‘past’ link on HN front page
347 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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None of my projects want to be SPAs
345 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve
344 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source
341 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
340 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Building a RISC-V PC
339 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Problem solving with Unix commands
339 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control – Free Textbook (2017)
338 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Instacart and DoorDash’s Tip Policies Are Delivering Outrage
338 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups
337 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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The Case for Transmissible Alzheimer's Grows
337 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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An update about Redis developments in 2019
334 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Interactive 3D ASCII scenes
332 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Universal Binaries Using WASM
330 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Hexagonal Grids (2013)
330 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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React as a UI Runtime
330 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types
329 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill
324 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Code Shelter: A Maintainer Community for Abandoned FOSS Projects
324 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Explain shell
323 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts
322 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Space Colony Art from the 1970s
322 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods from Their Massive Stumps
322 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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How to Secure a Linux Server
321 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Show HN: Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in the browser
321 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it
319 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women
319 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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We need to talk about systematic fraud
319 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Leon: An open-source personal assistant
318 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction
318 points • comment • feb 14, 2019