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Hacker News (Feb 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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Show HN: Commento: a fast, privacy-focused alternative to Disqus
258 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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NBC took Bob Costas off the Super Bowl for speaking out about concussions
258 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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The Art of PNG Glitch (2015)
258 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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A Design Flaw Behind MacBook Pro’s “Stage Light” Effect [video]
257 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Matrix at FOSDEM 2019
257 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base
257 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer
256 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Debugging Emacs, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace (2018)
255 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Why are we templating YAML?
255 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions without asking
255 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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How to Make Other Developers Hate to Work with You
254 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Proposed Jail Time for Tech Companies Who Steal Data
253 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Email 24/7, Lawsuit Claims
253 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Tesla to Buy Energy Storage Firm Maxwell Tech at $4.75 a Share
252 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Tracking my phone's silent connections
252 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug
252 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
251 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless
250 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Ask HN: What company environment has enabled your best work?
250 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People
250 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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The Theory of Relational Databases (1983)
250 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Upvote for HN Darkmode?
249 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty
248 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Programming the Z3 SMT solver
246 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Wayland misconceptions debunked
245 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos
245 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge
245 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Segment Is Now Free for Early-Stage Startups
244 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Librem 5 Smartphone: Massive Progress, Exact CPU Selected, Shipping Adjustment
243 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
243 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 percent of people
243 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps
242 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Mozilla Raises Concerns Over Facebook’s Lack of Transparency
242 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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What’s Wrong with the Raspberry Pi
242 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter
242 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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The memory safety problem isn't bad coders
242 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off the assembly line
241 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will invest in the platform
241 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Wage Stagnation
240 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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OnionShare 2 adds anonymous dropboxes
240 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Underactuated Robotics
239 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Heat Pumps Work Miracles
239 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks
238 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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AMA: Steven Pruitt, a Wikipedian with 3M edits
238 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Effectiveness of Photodynamic Therapy in Elimination of HPV in Mexican Women [pdf]
238 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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This Startup Does Not Exist
237 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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USB 3.2 is going to make the current USB branding even worse
237 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger
237 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
237 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
237 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
236 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord of the Rings
236 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout
235 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Major survey finds worms are rare or absent in 20% of fields in England
235 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Shorewall – The End of the Road
235 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
234 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Next.js 8 released
234 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
233 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Datashader: turns even the largest data into images, accurately
233 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books
233 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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JP Morgan Unveils USD-Backed Cryptocurrency for B2B Payments
233 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma
232 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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I have chosen the wrong flight dates because your date picker is broken
232 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Jabra: we know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops
231 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (2014)
231 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser
231 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Moving from Ruby to Rust
231 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Crazy Circuits: An Open Source Electronics Learning System
230 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment
230 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Announcing Rust 1.33.0
229 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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In the foundations of physics we haven't seen progress for the past four decades
228 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety
228 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Show HN: Chrome Extension to See IMDB Ratings Directly on Netflix
228 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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C++20 Design Is Complete: Modules, Coroutines in C++20
228 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Color Spaces
228 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image
227 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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A RISC-V CPU for $8
227 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Things that are more inequitable than road pricing
227 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
227 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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We Must Revive Gopherspace (2017)
226 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia
225 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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My First Year as a Solo Developer
225 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript
225 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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Replacing JavaScript Hot Path with WebAssembly
224 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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America’s Cities Are Running on Software from the ’80s
224 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Canada's Bell Tried to Have VPNs Banned During NAFTA Negotiations
224 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Sample cloud-native application with microservices
224 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines
223 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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We’re Reading Fahrenheit 451 Wrong (2018)
222 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Downgrade Attack on TLS 1.3 and Vulnerabilities in Major TLS Libraries
222 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
222 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived
222 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Launch HN: Modern Labor (YC W19) – Paying People to Learn to Code
222 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Show HN: I implemented Pong as a cellular automaton
221 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Blackmailers use false copyright claims to shut down victims' YouTube accounts
220 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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How the US has hidden its empire
220 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Starbucks' music is driving employees nuts
220 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling
220 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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McKinsey Advised Purdue Pharma How to ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales, Lawsuit Says
220 points • comment • feb 02, 2019