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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction
318 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Google .dev domain early access
318 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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What Impossible Meant to Feynman
317 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Introducing draft pull requests
314 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Amazon is buying Eero
313 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Google needed to build a graph serving system
313 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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I scanned Austria
311 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com
309 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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“Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphones near a crime scene
309 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Linux Kernel Through 4.20.10 Found Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution
308 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?
308 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug
308 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Indonesia reports reduced deforestation, triggering carbon payment from Norway
307 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018)
306 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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PostgreSQL's Explain Analyze Made Readable
305 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers
305 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview
305 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Makefiles – Best Practices
305 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Show HN: Open source balloon simulation with Three.js
303 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Tarrare
302 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook
301 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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CSS-Powered 3D Engine (2014)
301 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Why a Grape Turns into a Fireball in the Microwave
300 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
300 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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An Honest Living
300 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data
299 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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RISC-V on the Verge of Broad Adoption
299 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Formally Specifying UIs (2018)
296 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Travis CI Is Laying Off Senior Engineer Staff
296 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Modern Alternatives to PGP
296 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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On Being an Engineering Manager
296 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls
295 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Rant – An all-purpose procedural text engine
295 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Halley: Lightweight Game Engine Written in C++14
295 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Why Julia
294 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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A Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material (2016)
292 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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What ABC called "pink slime," USDA now says can be labeled "ground beef"
292 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Go 1.12 Released
291 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
291 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart
291 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Facebook moderators in America
290 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Trolls Are Real
290 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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How the Varroa Mite’s True Diet Was Discovered
289 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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An ex-YouTube whistleblower on their recommendation engine
289 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Open-Sourcing ClusterFuzz
289 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline
285 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
285 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t
285 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay
283 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Dear OpenAI: Please Open Source Your Language Model
283 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Orca – Live Programming Environment
282 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Tasks That Can Be Done with Pure HTML and CSS
282 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt
282 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Why Nasa Converted Its Lessons-Learned Database into a Knowledge Graph
282 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Learning Rust via Advent of Code
281 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in users
281 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation
280 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Principled GraphQL
279 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Why Language-Oriented Programming? Why Racket?
279 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Data science is different now
278 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com
278 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Sr.ht becomes Sourcehut
277 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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EU charges eight banks over alleged government bond cartel
277 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory
276 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals
274 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners
274 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes
273 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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The Last POWER1 CPU on Mars Is Dead
273 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Thousands of scientists run up against Elsevier’s paywall
273 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Two Large Chinese Borrowers Miss Bond Payments, Sources Say
273 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments
273 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business
272 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Audio AI: isolating vocals from stereo music using Convolutional Neural Networks
272 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir
272 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
271 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Four new DNA letters double life’s alphabet
270 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
270 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Uyghurs in Xinjiang – Onward to the Inevitable
270 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an Indie Retail Website
269 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable
269 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Google Edge TPU Devices
268 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind
268 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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What's next for SemVer
268 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia Is Connected to Our Guts
267 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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So you want to be a wizard
266 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (2016)
265 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value
265 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Pricing Experiments You Can Learn From (2011)
265 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Launch HN: OurWorldInData (YC W19 Nonprofit) – Data on World’s Largest Problems
265 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers (2018) [pdf]
264 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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RIP Culture War Thread
263 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Cancer death rates are falling, five-year survival rates rising
262 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Dutch radio amateurs image far side of the Moon using Chinese satellite data
262 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%
262 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies
260 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017)
260 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls
259 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries
259 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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New flaws in 4G, 5G allow attackers to intercept calls and track phone locations
259 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?
259 points • comment • feb 08, 2019