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Hacker News (Feb 2019)
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Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages
129 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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A meta approach to implementing programming languages (2018)
129 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Fast Perfect Hashing
129 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Living Alone Can Be Deadly
128 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (2009) [pdf]
128 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Ask HN: What's it like to work in the same company for decades?
128 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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That photo of Colossus
128 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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World's largest bee ‘rediscovered’ after 38 years
128 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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PDP-1 FPGA Implementation in Verilog, with CRT, Teletype and Console
128 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
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Air Canada agents reveal overselling practices
128 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Exposure to Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Increases Risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
128 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Could Get Millions to Turn Factory into Condos, Is Not Selling
128 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Oracle's Newest Audit Tactic: Focusing on Java
128 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Show HN: Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
128 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Nadella: Microsoft will sell war tech to democracies to “protect freedoms”
127 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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A Beach Nobody Can Touch
127 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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500M-year-old worm 'superhighway' discovered in Canada
127 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
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Delta Chat
127 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Swc – Fast JavaScript to JavaScript compiler
127 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Netflix and FreeBSD: Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video [pdf]
127 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Modern Robotics
127 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
127 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Memcached – Caching Beyond RAM: Riding the Cliff
126 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published
126 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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We Also Failed to Build a Billion Dollar Company
126 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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WiPhone: A professionally-packaged Arduino phone
126 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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Be: Fundraising Misadventures
126 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Facebook Decided Which Users Are Interested in Nazis – and Let Ads Target Them
126 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Show HN: Simple way to share state using React Hooks and Context
126 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once
125 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Intern at a YC Company
125 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Grave Concerns Over White House Efforts to Transfer Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia
125 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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A History of Singapore in 10 Dishes
125 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Build me a Lisp
125 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
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Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (2014)
125 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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Txti – Fast web pages for everybody
125 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window (2016)
125 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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An Introduction to CubeSats
125 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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A Mini-Introduction to Information Theory
125 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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'Extinct' Formosan clouded leopard spotted in Taiwan
124 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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Public hacker test on Swiss Post’s e-voting system
124 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content, UK government report
124 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Sparta: High-Performance Static Code Analyzers Based on Abstract Interpretation
124 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor
123 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
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Should Mental Disorders Have Names?
123 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Linux kernel: Add io_uring IO interface
123 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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The SDK “Power Mac G5” for the Xbox 360
123 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds
123 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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Applied Machine Learning Is a Meritocracy
123 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb
123 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Ask HN: How Would You or Did Convince Your Boss That You Can Work Remote?
123 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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Innovative Cultures
122 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering
122 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Is There a Fourth Neutrino Out There in the Universe?
122 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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Do Jails Kill People?
122 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Russia considers 'unplugging' from internet
122 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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The State of Python Packaging
122 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town
122 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
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U.S. Is a Rich Country with Symptoms of a Developing Nation
122 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
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Lawyer in Charge of Apple’s Insider-Trading Policy Accused of Insider Trading
122 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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I'm not 54. I'm 22 with 32 years experience
122 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
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Are Mail-Order Meal Kits Doomed?
121 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future
121 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Sexy prime
121 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
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Terrapattern – A visual search tool for satellite imagery
121 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Interview with Ted Nelson
121 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs
121 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Unity Technologies Targeting 2020 IPO
121 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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California lawmakers introduce plan to end surprise ER bills
121 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
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A Tinder-style app called Tudder lets farmers find breeding matches for cattle
121 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
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Hacker News Meetups
121 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
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A Fairly Fast Fibonacci Function
121 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Created a fake account and Facebook still figured out who I am. How?
121 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Key Takeaways from Zero to One
120 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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First .dev Domains Go Live
120 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
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Implementing End-To-End Encryption in Matrix Clients
119 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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Chase had ads on 400K sites then on just 5K and got the same results (2017)
119 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
119 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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Microsoft’s New MT-DNN Outperforms Google BERT
119 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
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The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience
119 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Journalism generated by machine is on the rise
119 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
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Jupyter switches to C++ kernel and widgets
118 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3
118 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
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Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, researchers said
118 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
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FuckJerry’s Success Is Instagram’s Failure
118 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
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The infrastructural humiliation of America
118 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
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FDA warning brings young-blood transfusion company to a halt
118 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
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Software Rot (2017)
118 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
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The Unscalable, Deadlock-Prone, Thread Pool
118 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Microsoft is Abandoning SHA-1 Hashes for Updates
118 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
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Private Mossad for Hire
118 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
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All late projects are the same (2011) [pdf]
118 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Additively manufacturable micro-mechanical logic gates
117 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
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Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld
117 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
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Studies Shoot Down Tech’s Harmful Effects on Kids – So Now What?
117 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
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Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift
117 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
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CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers (2015)
117 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
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Time Travel (2006)
117 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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Americans Cross Border into Mexico to Buy Insulin
117 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
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AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers
117 points • comment • feb 23, 2019