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Hacker News (Mar 2019)
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A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa
206 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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Apple Censoring the News App
206 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
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Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to go 100% renewables
206 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
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Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (2010)
205 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
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New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
205 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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The FCC has fined robocallers $208M and collected $7k
204 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
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How developers and tech founders can turn their ideas into UI design
204 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
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Amazon Aurora: Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, Membership
204 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
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A surprisingly arcane little Unix shell pipeline example
204 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase
204 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
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You Have to Pay the Right Person
204 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
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US citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021
204 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
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Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track finances?
204 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
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KV Storage, the Web's First Built-In Module
203 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
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Mercury is closer to Earth, on average, than Venus
203 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
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Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments
203 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
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A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster
202 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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US Army applying new areas of math
202 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
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Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
202 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
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Ask HN: Best questions for an engineer to ask a CEO during a job interview?
202 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
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A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard
202 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
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Unconscious brain activity predicts decisions 11 seconds before action
202 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
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What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf]
202 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
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Show HN: Freeciv-Web
202 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
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New Bill Would Stop NSA’s Mass Collection of U.S. Phone Data
201 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
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An Intuitive Derivation of Eigenvectors
201 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
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Pyright: Static type checker for Python
200 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
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CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of the Absolute (1983) [pdf]
200 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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Prototype iPhones That Hackers Use to Research Apple’s Most Sensitive Code
200 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
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Remove.bg – A service to remove the background of any photo
200 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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Oracle Swings the Layoff Axe
200 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
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Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
199 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
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The principle of charity: Criticize the best interpretation of an argument
198 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
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Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
198 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
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Ask HN: I will pay you $2000 and code the MVP for your side-project
198 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
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Paul Vixie thinks more people should be running their own DNS servers
198 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
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A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses
198 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
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Society Needs an Alternative Web
198 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
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Qri: A global dataset version control system built on the distributed web
197 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
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Arts contributed $763B to US economy – more than agriculture or transport (2018)
197 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
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The State of Caching in Go
197 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
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The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
197 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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24 Hours of Rust Game Development
197 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
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SPARCbook 3000ST
197 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
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Open Source Needs Open Source Companies
197 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
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Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry
196 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?
196 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There
196 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
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Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage
195 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
195 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
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Robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but can lift 100 times its weight
195 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
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5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anxiety
195 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
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The Growth Stacks of 2019
195 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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Silence is golden, especially when you need to say something important
195 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
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Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements
195 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
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Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good
194 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
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Raster CRT Typography According to DEC
194 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
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Pika/web: Web Apps Without the Bundler
194 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
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Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
194 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
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Operable Erlang and Elixir [video]
193 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
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Understand, Design, Build: A Framework for Problem-Solving
193 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
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Getting too absorbed in side projects
193 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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France Plans 5% Digital Tax as Governments Chase Internet Giants
193 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
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A brief history of why artists are no longer making a living making music
193 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
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Programming Language Rankings: January 2019
192 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
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Can you buy your own train?
192 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
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Google open sourced GPipe, a library for training large ML models
192 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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Show HN: Create Chart Images from a URL
192 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
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Essential Image Optimization
191 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
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K7 Tutorial
191 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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The rise and fall of scientific authority, and how to bring it back
191 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pros Attempt to Solve Flexgate, Without Admitting It Exists
190 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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Show HN: Stuff – An Alternative to Facebook Events
190 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
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Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
190 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
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ISPs in AU and NZ start censoring the internet without legal precedent
190 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
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APL – A Glimpse of Heaven (2006)
190 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
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Middle School Misfortunes Then and Now, One Teacher’s Take
189 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
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Air-breathing rocket engine set for key tests
189 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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It is unlikely that built-in email encryption will ever be available in Gmail
189 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
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PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution
189 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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More Than 90% of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies
189 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
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Introduction to Datalog
189 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
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‘AWS vs. K8s’ Is the New ‘Windows vs. Linux’
189 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
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Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing face of homelessness
188 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
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Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the data science generalist
188 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
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DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence
188 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
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How to open a microchip and see what’s inside
188 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
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How a small group of activists got gas-powered leaf blowers banned in D.C.
188 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
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California's San Bernardino County restricts construction of solar, wind farms
188 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
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Gif2xlsx – Convert GIFs to Excel files
187 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
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The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
187 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
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Best of Machine Learning
187 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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Show HN: Drogon – A C++14/17 based high performance HTTP application framework
186 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
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How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs (2007)
186 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
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Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
186 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
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Handshake Donates $300k to Debian
186 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
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Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks
186 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
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Why American Construction Costs Are So High
186 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
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LineageOS 16.0
185 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
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Replete 2.0: ClojureScript REPL for iOS and Android
185 points • comment • mar 23, 2019