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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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Tippin.me – Micropayments on Twitter
24 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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We Must Defend Free Thought
23 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Privacy vs. “I Have Nothing to Hide”
23 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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What Happens When You Believe in Ayn Rand and Modern Economic Theory
23 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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How Stifling Debate Around Race, Genes and IQ Can Do Harm (2018)
23 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Confidential Emails Sent by Facebook Executives Leaked Online
23 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) [pdf]
23 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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A Visit to the Site of Plato's Academy
23 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Net.wars (1997)
23 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Generating Mutually Recursive Definitions [pdf]
23 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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ABI Stability and More
23 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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My 2018 Apple Report Card
23 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Hungarian PM: no tax for Hungarian women with four or more children
23 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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The Reason They Hate Nuclear Is Because It Means We Don't Need Renewables
23 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Environment Variables: For and Against
23 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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A web browser reference implementation using Mozilla Android Components
23 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Robots Track Moving Objects with Unprecedented Precision
23 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Senator introduces a bill to legalize marijuana and it’s called S.420
23 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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A Complete Program
23 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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China Will Likely Corner the 5G Market–and the US Has No Plan
23 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Diversity Should Be #1 for Good Reason
23 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Biological sex shapes tumour evolution across cancer types
23 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State
23 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg
23 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Why My New Blog Isn’t on Medium – Dan Abramov
23 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Letter of Recommendation: Color Blind Pal
23 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Choosing a Web Framework for F# in 2019
23 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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What Is Dark?
23 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Avoiding Alzheimer’s Disease Could Be Easier Than You Think
23 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Numerical Algorithms for Computing Eigenvectors
23 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Tarpé Mills, 1940s comic writer, and her feisty superhero Miss Fury
23 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Ruby CVE-2018-8778 Arbitrary Memory Disclosure Vulnerability
23 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Tell HN: Coffee Meets Bagel hacked, yielding at least names and email addresses
23 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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What’s Better Than 40 GPU-Based Computers? A Computer with 40 GPUs
23 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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OneNote Genesis (2004)
23 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Manipulating an Indian politicians’s tweets is worryingly easy to do
22 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Spotify bans ad blockers in updated Terms of Service
22 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory
22 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers by 2100
22 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Trump declares national emergency to build border wall
22 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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People love Facebook so much they wouldn’t quit unless we paid them a lot
22 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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The Sea Was Not a Mask
22 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Converting objects to hash signatures in JavaScript
22 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Scientists Found a Compound That Reverses Aging in Mice
22 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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An Introduction to Gradient Descent
22 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Quadriga mystery deepens with little evidence of cold wallets containing $250M
22 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Tobacco Use Is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven by E-cigarettes
22 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Show HN: Package Diff: compare two versions of a published NPM package
22 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Amazon Is the Invisible Backbone Behind ICE’s Immigration Crackdown
22 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Show HN: Karaoke for Piano Overlaid and Synched with YouTube Videos
22 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Facebook Planned to Spy on Android Phone Users, Internal Emails Reveal
22 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Ask HN: How Do I Know My True Self?
22 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Germany cracks down on Facebook for 'abuse of market power'
22 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking (2016)
22 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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New Reactor Designs for Revival of Nuclear Energy
22 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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The Other Wrapping the Earth Problem
22 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Habitat: A fast 3D simulator for embodied AI research
22 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Lego Mosaic Printer (2015)
22 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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What Happens at a Firearms Training for Teachers
22 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Y Combinator’s Women-Only Forum Is Becoming Its Own Business
22 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Can Big Science Be Too Big?
22 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Paris seeks $14M from Airbnb for illegal adverts
21 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: What Is Its Source Material?
21 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Zcash Counterfeiting Vulnerability Successfully Remediated
21 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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What All the Major Surface Warships of the U.S. Navy Do
21 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Ask HN: Are sites like Elance and Upwork worthwhile?
21 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Ask HN: Unfairly Flagged Submissions?
21 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Researchers Peer Inside the Mind of the Worm for Clues on How Memories Form
21 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Ask HN: How to get aggregated user behaviour without tracking an individual user
21 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Ask HN: Should We Create a Badge for Software That Does Not Track You?
21 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Why I Prefer Dynamic Typing Over Static Typing (2017)
21 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline
21 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Fastest Speeding Tickets in Texas in 2018
21 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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After 30 years of coding and tech management, I want to get into movie making
21 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Google Employees Are Fighting with Executives Over Pay
21 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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America’s 1% hasn’t had this much wealth since just before the Great Depression
21 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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What Is the Dark Spot Visible Below the Cockpit on A-10s? False Cockpit
21 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Jeff Bezos on Peter Thiel: 'Seek revenge and you should dig two graves'
21 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Fix It Already – EFF Campaign
21 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed
21 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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“This guy’s arrogance takes your breath away” – Jiahao Chen
21 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Japanese women push back against Valentine's tradition of 'obligation chocolate'
21 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Secret History of Women in Coding
21 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Incentives to Attract Firms Induce Bad Selection [pdf]
21 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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“Algebraic Theory of French Letters”
21 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Farm Aid for the Big House
21 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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China’s Money Supply Has Outgrown Its Economy over Two Fold Since 2009
21 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Warplanes: B-52 Stays, B-1B Retires
21 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Chinese company leaves Muslim-tracking facial recognition database exposed
21 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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California cancels high-speed train between LA and SF
21 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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An architecture of diversity for commonsense reasoning (2002) [pdf]
21 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Producing an Application for Both Desktop and Mobile
20 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Show HN: Tech Productivity – A Newsletter for Techs Who Want to Get Stuff Done
20 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Ask HN: How would you sort HN users by quality of comments?
20 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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This is for the fat ones: what changed it?
20 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Digi-Comp II Replica
20 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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London’s Surprisingly Rich History of Transit Textile Design
20 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Watch This Tesla Model 3 Stop Itself to Avoid Horrific Crash
20 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Emoji Number Plates Launched in Queensland
20 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Shooting Dr. Tourette
20 points • comment • feb 03, 2019