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Hacker News (Nov 2019)
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How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results
241 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
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Recursive Mono and Sans, a free variable type family
241 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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Firefox Preview 3.0
241 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
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The war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds
241 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
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California’s Criminal Cops
240 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
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Moving towards a faster web
240 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub
239 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
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Hospitals are a weak spot in U.S. cybersecurity
238 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
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Discovering less-known Postgres v12 features
238 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
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How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
237 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
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Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
237 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think
237 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
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Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
237 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
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Internet in Iran gradually shuttting down due to protests
236 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
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Ableton Connection Kit (2016)
236 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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New York State Attorney General Investigating WeWork
236 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
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Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale
236 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
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The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system and ACLU is suing
236 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
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Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe
235 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
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“We would like to apologize to the user for the error on our part this morning”
235 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
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Algebraic Data Types: Things I wish someone had explained about FP
235 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
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Why 50 Ohms?
234 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
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A Look at PureDarwin – An OS Based on the Open Source Core of macOS
234 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
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How to make your C codebase Rusty: rewriting keyboard firmware keymap
234 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
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OpenSSH's Support for U2F/Fido Security
233 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
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Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules
233 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
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Some Favorite Non-Technical Books (2018)
233 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
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Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons
233 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
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ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter – DNW
233 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
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Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)
233 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
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Satya Nadella Added $850B to Microsoft
233 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
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How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramento Kings
232 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
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If you care about user privacy, don’t use Facebook JavaScript SDK
232 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
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Lack of cdnjs activity
232 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
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DNA database that found Golden State Killer is potential national security leak
231 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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“What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects”
231 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
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Diagram.codes
231 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
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Designing better data tables (2017)
231 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core
230 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
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You can fool some of the people, all of the time
230 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
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Telling users why their content was removed reduces future issues [pdf]
230 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
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Google App Engine and Cloud Datastore Outages
230 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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After WeWork, SoftBank’s Startup Bookkeeping Draws Scrutiny
230 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
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Information Is Physics
229 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
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Minimal Viable Programs (2014)
229 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
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Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies
229 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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A Dead-Simple Web Stack in Haskell
229 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
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Homebrew Cray-1A
228 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
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Security assessment techniques for Go projects
228 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
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Ants trapped for years in an old bunker
228 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
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Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
228 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
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Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have Never Been Approved’
228 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
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Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion
228 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
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Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security firm for US intelligence
227 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
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McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality
227 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
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Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search?
227 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
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LocalStack – A fully-functional local AWS cloud stack
226 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
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Python adopts a 12-month release cycle
226 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
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HPE Drive fail at 32,768 hours without firmware update
226 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
226 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
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Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed
225 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
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GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI
225 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
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Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey
225 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
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Distilling knowledge from neural networks to build smaller and faster models
224 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
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Stop Teaching Code, Solicit Predictions Instead
224 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
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Is Inequality Inevitable?
223 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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Domes are overrated
223 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
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CRDT: Conflict-free replicated data type
222 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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Why is everyone a bank?
221 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
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Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
221 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
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Overview of Rust error handling libraries
220 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
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Fastmail – 20 Years Old
220 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
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Red Hat Introduces Open Source Project Quay Container Registry
220 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
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Garbage Collection (2017)
220 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
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Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud
219 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
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How Y Combinator Started (2012)
219 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
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A Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's
219 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you write tests before the implementation?
219 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
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Light pollution is key 'bringer of insect apocalypse'
219 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
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Instant stone (just add water) (2018)
218 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
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Yahoo Pipes
218 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
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CMU 15-721: In-Memory Databases / Advanced Database Systems [video]
217 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
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Study of “moral grandstanding” helps explain why social media is so toxic
217 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
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Naïve Bayes for Machine Learning
217 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
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Mal – Make a Lisp, implemented in 79 languages
217 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
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Show HN: Workouts – Learn by doing real developer projects
215 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
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Rust 2020: GUI and Community
215 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
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Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have to livestream your stay
215 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
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Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018)
215 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
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Webglstudio.js – Open-source 3D graphics editor in the browser
214 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
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Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA
214 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
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TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship
213 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
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Pwn the ESP32 Forever: Flash Encryption and SEC. Boot Keys Extraction
213 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
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Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft
213 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
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Crinkle Crankle Wall
212 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
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First New HIV Strain in 19 Years Identified
212 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
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Cook: ‘China Hasn’t Pressured Us’
212 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
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Cops are making fewer arrests since N.J. got rid of cash bail
212 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
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OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)
211 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
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Neat Rust Tricks: Passing Closures to C
211 points • comment • nov 25, 2019