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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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Google and Facebook warn AI may do dumb things
14 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Show HN: React-Schemaorg: Strongly-Typed Schema.org JSON-LD for React
14 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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SAP Open Sources UI5 Web Components
14 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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10,000 Maggots Scarf Down a Pizza in Two Hours
14 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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The Global Con Hidden in Trump’s Tax Reform Law
14 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Cryptocurrency Exchange Locked Out of Funds After CEO's Death
14 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Leaving Google for a Couple of Devices
14 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Programming languages: Python developers reveal their favorite tools
14 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Reddit raises $300M at $3B valuation
14 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Bill Maher Tells Amazon's Jeff Bezos to “Take One for the Team”
14 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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A speedy 3D printer that uses light projected into resin
14 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Facebook Wants You to Have Privacy, Just Not from Facebook
14 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Missing gamma-ray blobs shed new light on dark matter, cosmic magnetism
14 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Schumer and Sanders: Limit Corporate Stock Buybacks
14 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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The Church with the $6B Portfolio
14 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Ask HN: When working on a side project with a collaborator, do you incorporate?
14 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Dropbox ignores how roaming is the new normal, refuses to protect photos
14 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Microsoft accidentally deletes customer DBs
14 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Digital exchange loses $137M as founder takes passwords to the grave
14 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Tview: Rich interactive widgets for terminal-based UIs written in Go
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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MIT AI Podcast: Deep Reinforcement Learning with Pieter Abbeel
14 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Abolish Billionaires
14 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Audi’s Traffic Light Sensor Lets You Catch All the Greens
14 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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India is turning its back on Silicon Valley
14 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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If property rights are real, climate-destroying companies should be sued
14 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Skype for Web Abandons Firefox and Safari Support
14 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Once Hailed as Unhackable, Blockchains Are Now Getting Hacked
14 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Don't name your variables after types:you wouldn’t name your pets “dog” or “cat”
14 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Apps Are Sharing Health and Finance Information with Facebook, Not Telling Users
14 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Cristiane Serruya Is a Copyright Infringer, a Plagiarist, and an Idiot
14 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Nobody Knows How to Learn a Language
13 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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In 1959, AT&T Discovered There Was a Market for a Lady’s Phone
13 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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The unscalable deadlock-prone thread pool
13 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Self-Publishing a Book with ReStructuredText, Sphinx, Calibre, and Vim
13 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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My Brief Career as an E-Scooter Charger
13 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Why Are Lawyers So Expensive Even with the Excess Supply of Lawyers?
13 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Google bans slew of malicious Android apps that stole user photos
13 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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A Boy Who Inflated the Concept of ‘Wolf’
13 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Electric cars are already cheaper to own and run, says study
13 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Show HN: PingStack.io – Simple uptime monitoring for websites and APIs
13 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Android phones can be hacked remotely by viewing malicious PNG image
13 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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SHRDLU resurrection
13 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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NYTimes and others cite a gender-blind hiring study that doesnt exist
13 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Show HN: Make a hackintosh out of an older mac using Mojave patcher
13 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Facebook Has Behaved Like 'Digital Gangsters,' U.K. Parliament Report Says
13 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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8-char Windows NTLM password can be cracked in under 2.5hrs
13 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Ask HN: What Is Your Most Vivid Memory from the Dotcom Boom?
13 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Mount Everest is a ‘fecal time bomb.’
13 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Troubleshooting Deep Neural Networks: A Field Guide to Fixing Your Model
13 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Are Health Insurers Practicing Medicine Without a License?
13 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Packages and Modern Security
13 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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FileSend – Simple open source client side encrypted file sharing service
13 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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A Book about Qt5
13 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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A Comparative Long-Term Study Of Fallback Authentication [pdf]
13 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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You don't need a CTO
13 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Panthers on the Prowl in London
13 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Miyu Kojima Creates Miniature Replicas of Lonely Deaths
13 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Amazon’s Home Surveillance Chief Declared War on “Dirtbag Criminals”
13 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Brexit needs a consitutional convention
13 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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How to Hear Like a Champion Birder (2017)
13 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Fighting Cybercrime – What Happens to the Law When the Law Cannot Be Enforced?
13 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Hollywood's Kinder, Gentler DRM Didn't Even Last a Decade
13 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Lisp and the foundations of computing
13 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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A Genius for Being Human
13 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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18,000mAh battery has a phone in it
13 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks
13 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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The designer who doesn't code
13 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Bruno Ganz, actor who played Hitler in Downfall, dies aged 77
13 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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To All the Introductions I’ve Loved Before
13 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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You’d Have to Eliminate 100% of Discretionary Spending to Halt the National Debt
13 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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The State of CSS Survey
13 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Real-Time Image Stitching for Automotive 360 Vision Systems (2014) [pdf]
13 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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$1.85B Postmates has filed to go public
13 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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NPM Announced the Release of NPM Enterprise
13 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Jolly Bad Taste vs. feeble Good Taste
13 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Talk less, write more
13 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Theophrastus’ Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior
13 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Shared scooters don't last long
13 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Not-Paid: Client did not pay?Add opacity to body tag and decrease it everyday
13 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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What the Hell Happened at Activision Blizzard?
13 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks
13 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Show HN: Yogi, Document Clustering as a Service
13 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Sci-Fi Author Robert Heinlein Was Basically MacGyver
13 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Psilocybin Could Become the Next Legalized Drug
13 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Electric taxi startup Téo Taxi closes shop, fires 460 drivers
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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'No way' Gab has 800k users, web hosting co. says
12 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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TensorFlow Datasets
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Earth may no longer be 'Pale Blue Dot' in 80 years
12 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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List of National Emergencies in the United States
12 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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HTTP/3 explained
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Amazon and Taxes: A Simple Primer
12 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Jussie Smollett Story Shows Rise of Victimhood Culture
12 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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The Volvo Polestar 2 Is the First Google Android Car
12 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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AMD Market Share Gains Accelerate in Desktop PCs, Servers and Notebooks
12 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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'Quiet' light
12 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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U.S. disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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SEC declares war on Elon Musk after another misleading tweet
12 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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SGX malware PoC released
12 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Facebook attacked over app that reveals period dates of its users
12 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot for Humans?
12 points • comment • feb 21, 2019