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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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Slaking the World's Thirst with Seawater Dumps Toxic Brine in Oceans
4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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America Plans to Withdraw from 1987 Nuclear Treaty with Russia
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Creative Tools in the Post-“Deep Fakes” World
4 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Show HN: ONNEMI-4211, A minimal coding style that can be used with any language
4 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Near $1B Startup Is Led by a 27-Year-Old Female CEO
4 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Fallout from Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention Is Severe
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Forget Bitcoin, Try Your Mattress
4 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Meet the 14-year-old who discovered Apple’s shocking FaceTime bug
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Countries with More Butter Have Happier Citizens
4 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Heavy metal confronts its Nazi problem
4 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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He Asked Permission to Touch, but Not to Ghost (2018)
4 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Why Mayors Keep Trying to Woo Business with Tax Breaks
4 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Google: Software Is Never Going to Be Able to Fix Spectre-Type Bugs
4 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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A new net neutrality bill is headed to Congress
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Ask HN: What Are Your Recommendations from the ACM Digital Library?
4 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Learn Internationalization in JavaScript. ES6 Only, No Libs
4 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Charlie Munger Speaks at Daily Journal Annual Meeting
4 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Nest Secure had a secret microphone, can now be a Google Assistant
4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Ask HN: Do You Usually Visit the Same Small Number of Sites Every Day?
4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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What Is OpenTracing? Everything You Need to Get Started
4 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Japanese Spacecraft to Attempt Landing on Distant Asteroid
4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Apple buys AI voice startup PullString
4 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Why Highly Efficient Leaders Fail
4 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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How to build a Node.js server that scales
4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Oracle Is Destined to Beat Amazon at Cloud Database: Larry Ellison
4 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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The Machine Stops
4 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Project Management, an engineer's guide
4 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Design of a Modern Cache – Part Deux
4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business (2017)
4 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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The Management Myth
4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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The “Backendification” of Front End Development
4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Training quantum neural networks with pytorch and tensorflow
4 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Ask HN: Can you transition from trade secrets to open source?
4 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Ask HN: What tech paradox is analogous to 'dark night sky' paradox in physics?
4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Samsung's Blazing Fast 512GB EUFS 3.0 Flash Enter Production for Flagship Phones
4 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Climate change: World heading for warmest decade, says UK's Met Office
4 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Reality check: Can cat poop cause mental illness?
4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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What Is a Better Call to Action Than “Request a Demo”?
4 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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AI on Raspberry Pi with the Intel Neural Compute Stick
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces
4 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Preserve the Heritage; Ski with Wood
4 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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The magical thinking of guys who love logic
4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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China data leak exposes vast hi-tech surveillance operation in Xinjiang
4 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Google researchers say software alone can’t mitigate Spectre chip flaws
4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Face Recognition with Python, in Under 25 Lines of Code
4 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Twitter’s PWA Does Not Indicate That More Menu Options Are Available
4 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Why did ancient Egypt spend 3000 years playing a game nobody else liked?
4 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Why I Never Work Weekends
4 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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SpaceX’s first Starship engine suffers “expected” damage during Raptor test fire
4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Dies
4 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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What Is the Future of PHP?
4 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Stack Overflow Questions
4 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Humanity’s 30M-page backup plan is heading to the moon
4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Lessons from 6 Software Rewrite Stories
4 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Alan Kay, 2018: The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Create It. But
4 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Linux Network Queues Overview
4 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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50,000 Heck*ng Facebook Ad Variants?
4 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Owner of USB Stick Found in Seal Poop Has Come Forward
4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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No, you can't take open-source code back
4 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Automation Is Coming for the Oil Jobs, Too
4 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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GitHub: Unlimited free private repos
4 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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President Trump Calls for 6G Technology
4 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Ask HN: What Are You Fiction Book Recommendations?
4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Show HN: Nintendo Switch Emulator for Android (Experimental)
4 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Crisis Has Now Reached 5 Sigma Certainty
4 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site
4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Biggest offshore windfarm to start UK supply this week
4 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Facebook enables ads to target users interested in ‘vaccine controversies’
4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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AOC Is Right: Algorithms Will Always Be Biased as Long There’s Systemic Racism
4 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Solving Artificial Intelligence's Problem with Gender and Racial Bias
4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Brazil (1985 film)
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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PostgreSQL BRIN indexes: performance for big data with minimal storage
4 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Crypto Exchange Founder Dies with Only Password
4 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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All Your VMs Are Disconnected: Attacking Hardware Virtualized Network (2017) [pdf]
4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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A Mulching Proposal [pdf]
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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DenseNets – Expanding the Idea of ResNets
4 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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The Devastating Fallout from Prenatal Testing
4 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Columbus Lowered World Temperature
4 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Anti-vaxxers plan to subvert changes to vaccination laws
4 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Democracy’s Midlife Crisis a Conversation with David Runciman
4 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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A Troubling Discovery in the Deepest Ocean Trenches
4 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Splunk Pulls Out of Russia with Mysterious Statement
4 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Paris in the Twentieth Century
4 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Chat with Gitlab CEO: Offering an On-Prem/Self-Managed Version of Your Software
4 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Could we soon be able to detect cancer in 10 minutes?
4 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Why White People Don’t Use White Emoji
4 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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What We Wrote About Facebook 12 Years Ago
4 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Pinterest Files Confidentially for IPO
4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Netflix – Extending Vector with EBPF to Inspect Host and Container Performance
4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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The Power of Product Scoring Mechanisms – Product School
4 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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The Guy Who Sent a Hiring Manager a Shoe to “Get a Foot in the Door”
4 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Hot Tech Markets, 2019 [slides]
4 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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What I learned from giving up everything I knew as a leader - Jim Whitehurst
4 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Making Out-of-Print Pre-1942 books available with “Last 20” provision
4 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Why the future of satellite internet might be decided in rural Alaska
4 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test
4 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Practice Your Go WebAssembly with a Game
4 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Bad Statistics Are Costing British Taxpayers $1.3B a Year
4 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Show HN: Konami Code Using React Hooks
4 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Tesla launches orders for the $35,000 Model 3
4 points • comment • feb 28, 2019