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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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Lessons from 6 Software Rewrite Stories
11 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk' Database
11 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Why the National Debt Is the Wrong Problem to Care About
11 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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I Got a Data Breach Alert. What Next?
11 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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MIT Artificial Intelligence Podcast: Guest Interview With Eric Schmidt
11 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Going Deep on UUIDs and ULIDs
11 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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A Global Guide to What It Means to Be Part of the 1%
11 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Python Development in Visual Studio Code
11 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Journalism Isn't Dying, It's Returning to Its Roots
11 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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How Did They Make TV Graphics in the 80s and 90s? Meet the Quantel Paintbox
11 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Sex robots are raising hard questions
11 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Security PSA: “Hidden” Content Is Readable in Shared, Readonly Google Sheets
11 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Butlerian Jihad
11 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you version control your event stream schema?
11 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?
11 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Unearthed Emails Could Be Smoking Gun in Epic GDPR Battle Against Google, Adtech
11 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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The world’s most precious spice is on the verge of disappearing
11 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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The N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America
11 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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The Tragedy of systemd
11 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Man plans to sue parents for giving birth to him without his consent
11 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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BTC investors are out $190m after the only guy with the password dies, firm says
11 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Google removes government-banned sites from Russian search results, report says
11 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020
11 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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EU Commission Deletes Article 13 Post Because 'Mob' Understood It Incorrectly
11 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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How YouTube’s A.I. boosts alternative facts
10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack
10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Why existing profanity detection libraries suck and how I built a better one
10 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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String Formatting with Python
10 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Tesla self-driving car gets confused, crashes on highway – CBS News
10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Discovery of Cameras Built into Airlines’ Seats Sparks Privacy Concerns
10 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Hotel booking sites forced to end misleading sales tactics
10 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Principles of Good Experience Design
10 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Google’s new Chrome Extension automatically checks your passwords are secure
10 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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If anyone cares: Get rid of new Facebook sponsored posts
10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment
10 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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How to Cut U.S. Emissions Faster? Do What These Countries Are Doing
10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Military to investigate decision to certify the Falcon Heavy rocket
10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Tesla launches long-awaited standard Model 3 starting at $35,000
10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Show HN: Libre-Wsdl4j
10 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Neural Networks seem to follow a puzzlingly simple strategy to classify images
10 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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New patent win for University of California upends CRISPR legal battle
10 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Trump climate advisory panel structured to avoid public records
10 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Learn Enough Git to Be Useful – 4 Essential Workflows for GitHub Projects
10 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Security researcher won't share MacOS exploit details with Apple out of protest
10 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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How We’ll Invent the Future, by Bill Gates
10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Processing Trillions of Events per Day with Apache Kafka on Azure
10 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Ask HN: What do you use for notes + reminders + tasks
10 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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How to create a SaaS landing page that converts
10 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Airbus Beluga XL spreads its wings at long last
10 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Ubuntu vs. Debian vs. OpenSUSE on the POWER9 Raptor Talos II
10 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Ask HN: What’s the most important software in the world?
10 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Lufthansa Sues Passenger Who Missed His Flight – 'Hidden City' Trick
10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Unintended consequences
10 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Google Play Apps with 10M Installs Drain Batteries, Jack Up Data Charges
10 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Amazon wants to sell “every genuine product in the world.” That’s a mistake
10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Body modification artist charged with GBH, despite written consent
10 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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[NSFW] This Vagina Does Not Exist
10 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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The organic universe (2017)
10 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Why Everyone Is Fighting About CSS/UX and JavaScript
10 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Sharding the Shards: Managing Datastore Locality in Facebook at Scale with Akkio
10 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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NY Times, Why Are You So Worried About 23andMe's Genetic Tests?
10 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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How An Investigation of Fake FCC Comments Snared a Prominent D.C. Media Firm
10 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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As Tension Escalated Between India and Pakistan, Misinformation Spread Online
10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder
10 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Our World in Data Is at Y Combinator
10 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Trump Set to Declare Emergency Over Border
10 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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2.7M Medical Calls Breached in Sweden, and It’s Pure Comedy
10 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does This Mean for the Future?
10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Watch a harpoon successfully spear a piece of space junk
10 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Zig Is Great
10 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Janus: Statically-Driven Profile-Guided Automatic Dynamic Binary Parallelisation
10 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Facebook Has Changed Computing
10 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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What I've Learned from Hacker News
10 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Snake sex is every bit as peculiar as you would expect (2017)
10 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Will Automation Set Us Free?
10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Forecasting a software project's completion CREATES toxic agile teams
10 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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A general reinforcement learning algorithm for chess and Go (Journal Club)
10 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Show HN: Minimum Viable Bash Prompt
10 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Official Looking Mailings Continue (2018)
10 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Switching.social: ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives
10 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Venezuela Voices: “We Are Starving Here”
10 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Ask HN: How to Migrate All the Data from Your Google Account?
10 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you write efficient and elegant systems / APIs?
10 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Learn UX Design A$AP
10 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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OpenShift in a world of KaaS
10 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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The cost of companies staying private hits all of us
10 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Hack My House: Garage Door Cryptography Meets Raspberry Pi
10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Sewing Needles Reveal the Roots of Fashion
10 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six minutes
10 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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The Maldives counts the cost of its debts to China
10 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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The Little Book of Stoicism
10 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Tesla Is Decades Away from Full Self-Driving Cars
10 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Bill Gates: Textbooks are becoming obsolete
10 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Research Suggests YouTube Aids Flat Earth Conspiracy Theorists
10 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Can anyone working @Google explain the decision to kill Inbox?
10 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Learning to Generalize from Sparse and Underspecified Rewards
10 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Ask HN: Any programmers with long arms?
10 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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CEO Who Held $150M in Crypto Died in a Region Known for Having Fake Death Mafia
10 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Amazon Federal Taxes: How the Company’s Corporate Tax Bill Was $0
10 points • comment • feb 20, 2019