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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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‘Trotsky’ Is an Icepick to the Heart of Soviet History
18 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Colliding Blocks Act Like a Beam of Light [video]
18 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Discerning the Origins of the Negritos, First Sundaland People
18 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Show HN: Chord Assist – An accessible smart guitar for the blind, deaf and mute
18 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2B Profits
18 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge
18 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Mozi: No Aggression, but Universal Love (2011)
18 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Textbook errors in binary searching (1988)
18 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Ask HN: What Is a Good Daylight/SAD Lamp?
18 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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U.S. Student-Loan Delinquencies Hit Record
18 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Ask HN: Starting a CS degree at 28?
18 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Show HN: A rap song about the struggles of finishing a side project
18 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Boarding Passenger Arrested Sued After Tossing Coins in Jet Engine for Good Luck
18 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Software pirates use Apple tech to put hacked apps on iPhones
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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An airline is suing a customer who skipped a leg of his flight to save money
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad application
17 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Thanks to Yao Ming, killing sharks for their fins is down 50%.he’s just started
17 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Gustav Klimt in the Brain Lab
17 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Physics has demoted mass (2017)
17 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Optimizing Aggregations in Sql Query Execution
17 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Cerebral blood flow and personality: a positron emission tomography study
17 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Microsoft at MWC Barcelona: Introducing Microsoft HoloLens 2
17 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Python in Visual Studio Code – February 2019 Release
17 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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European Parliament Approves Controversial “Meme Ban”
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Category Theory Lesson 2: Basics of Categorical Abstraction
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Thank You Google – Flight Cancelled
17 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Digging Up Diderot
17 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Tesla Customers Describe Maddening Problems with Returns and Refunds
17 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Loop Seems Like a Logistical Disaster That Might Work
17 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion
17 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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China and India Account for One-Third of the Greening
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Dart 2.2
17 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Reasons Employees Prefer to Work Remotely
17 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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What's the right amount of swap space for a modern Linux system?
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Ask HN: How does a tech person work well in a fire-all-developers style company?
17 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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The Affinity Between Events, Streams and Serverless
17 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Frie Otto – Modeling with Soap Films (c. 1961) [video]
17 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Revolut insiders reveal the human cost of a fintech unicorn's wild rise
17 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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U.S. Loses Appeal Seeking to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger
17 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Ask HN: What technical books are you reading?
17 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Introducing the Wealthfront Cash Account
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State
17 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Postmodern Family Clan
17 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Building a Literal Library of Building Blocks
17 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Show HN: A Simple Resume Generator
17 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Lidl whisky costing £13.49 named best Scotch in the world
17 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Liberals and Conservatives Can Believe Fake News, but for Different Reasons
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs
17 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Tasting the Highs and Lows of Ethiopian Honey Wine (2015)
17 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Woody Allen Sues Amazon Studios Claiming Breach of Contract
17 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Decades Ago, MDMA Was Used in Marriage Counseling
17 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Under Amazon, Whole Foods prices were expected to decrease but they’re rising
17 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – digested read (2018)
17 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Ubuntu Developers Seem to Be Pursuing ZFS Root Partition Support on the Desktop
17 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Some best practices for using Git
17 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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In the Future, Senior Citizens Will Play Video Games All Day
17 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Chinese Novelists Are Reimagining Science Fiction
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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The magical thinking of guys who love logic
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Ask HN: How Do Services Like PythonTutor and Repl.it Run Code Safely
17 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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StyleGAN Trained on Anime Faces (Japanese)
17 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Vector vs. SIMD: Dynamic Power Efficiency
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy (2012)
17 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Browning Fever: A story of fandom, literary societies, and impenetrable verse
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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The tech giant fighting anti-vaxxers isn’t Twitter or Facebook. It’s Pinterest
17 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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The Empty Brain
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Relevant Xkcd
17 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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A thermostat company shut down every thermostat in the middle of a cold night
16 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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All You Need to Know About Elastic Search but Were Afraid to Ask
16 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Preventing SQL Injections When WAF’s Not Enough
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Record 7M Americans are delinquent on car loans
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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(German) Niklaus Wirth – a pioneer of computer science turns 85
16 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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I'm a crime-fighter, says FamilyTreeDNA after caught giving DNA data to FBI
16 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Update in ajv package broke webpack
16 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century
16 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Raiding Clearance Aisles and Reselling on Amazon for Profit
16 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Tesla shares fall after Consumer Reports says it will no longer recommend Model3
16 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Google: News sites may lose 45% of traffic if EU passes its Copyright Reform
16 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Want a Glimpse of Facebook’s Soul in 2019? Look at Its Internal Propaganda Lab
16 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Trail runner comes forward: How I killed that mountain lion
16 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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How to Get Started with Building Serverless Applications?
16 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Pro-Amazon Protesters Paid to Demonstrate Against Company's Withdrawal
16 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is Finally Official
16 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Show HN: Always Be Closing – Pull Request Management Service
16 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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The World Might Run Out of People
16 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Super-tall,super-skinny,super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of NYC's super-rich
16 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Supervised racing with Donkeycar AI
16 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Show HN: Visualize Git Commits and Pull Requests Across Many Repos
16 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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“Not everybody lives in California”: Tesla Model 3's frozen door handles
16 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Microsoft Edge Secret Whitelist Allows Facebook to Autorun Flash
16 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Fire Drills: Communications Strategy in a Crisis (2011)
16 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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The Bad News About Helicopter Parenting: It Works
16 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Show HN: Learn SQL Fundamentals
16 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Learning how to learn
16 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Locality-Sensitive Hashing in Elixir
16 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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It Looks Like Idera Is Gutting Travis CI Just a Few Weeks After Acquiring It
16 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Bezos probe concludes mistress' brother was Enquirer source
16 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Show HN: Two strange useless things to do with a neural net
16 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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JuliaAcademy Launches
16 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Plprofiler – A Handy Tool for Profiling PL/pgSQL Code
16 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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European slaughter of Native Americans changed the climate
16 points • comment • feb 01, 2019