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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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What Are the React Team Principles?
117 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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A guide to OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python
117 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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I don’t use Semantic Web technologies anymore, though they still influence me
117 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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The eleven nations of the United States and their cultures
117 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Network.framework: A Modern Alternative to Sockets (2018)
117 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art (2015)
117 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385M-Year-Old Tree Roots
117 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult? (2018)
117 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Using machine learning to choose compression algorithms
117 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Build APKs on Android devices with Termux
117 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Ask HN: Making a mobile app as a back-end developer?
117 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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California car burglaries are at crisis levels
117 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Announcing the New PubMed
117 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Shakti, the new data platform from Arthur Whitney
116 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Assembly Language Programming: Still Relevant Today (2015)
116 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies, aged 61
116 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and write about it
115 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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OpenTitan: An open-source silicon root of trust from lowRISC
115 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit
115 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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JVM Garbage Collectors Benchmarks Report
115 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Breast Cancer Linked to Permanent Hair Dye and Chemical Hair Straighteners
115 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development
114 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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A genomic predictor of lifespan in vertebrates
114 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Books on Critical Thinking
114 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Fed Adds $72.8B to Markets, Balance Sheet Moves to $4.07T
114 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Dungeon Generation in Enter The Gungeon
114 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Why tennis balls are yellow or green
114 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance
114 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests
114 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Carlos Ghosn Flees to Lebanon to Escape Japan Legal System
114 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads
114 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Citymapper
114 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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When will the Netherlands disappear?
113 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Tensorflow User Experience
113 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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iKe: a browser-based sandbox for K
113 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Toxic fumes from idling cruise ships are still a problem in New York
113 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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SoftBank Is Selling Wag Stake Back to Company
113 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Show HN: Falco – Open-Source Web Performance Monitoring
113 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Alcohol and social bonding in humans (2018)
113 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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The Ethical Failures Behind the Boeing Disasters
113 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Larry and Sergey: A Valediction
113 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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FBI asked Sony for data on user who used PlayStation network to sell cocaine
113 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (1999)
113 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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On Technical Writing
112 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Squashed Bugs, with Failure Rate Heatmaps
112 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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A look inside TSMC
112 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Tars: Tencent's microservice RPC framework, open-sourced to Linux Foundation
112 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Show HN: A Go web server with logging, tracing, and demo apps in a single file
112 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Netflix was the top stock of the decade
112 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Randomize HN: Removing the vote threshold for getting to the front page
112 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Show HN: Ordinary Puzzles – An open-source mobile puzzle game
112 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Bacteria can 'outsmart' programmed cell death
112 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Implementing WebGPU in Gecko
112 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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George Laurer, co-inventor of the barcode, dies at 94
112 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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What are your options for cognitive enhancement?
112 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue (2018)
112 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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I thought I understood recursion
111 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
111 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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JSON on the Command Line with Jq
111 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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New Material to Make Lithium Ion Batteries Self-Healing and Easily Recyclable
110 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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JIT and Ruby's MJIT
110 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Show HN: CalmJobs.io – Work with companies who values work-life balance
110 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Making a text adventure game with GPT2
110 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
110 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)
110 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan?
110 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Super Mario World Memory Map
110 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf]
110 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
110 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Writing web-based interactive fiction with Ink
110 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unintended mutations'
110 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Social media bots often tweet fake health claims about cannabis: study
110 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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StyleGAN2
110 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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The Feedback Fallacy
109 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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OpenBSD system-call-origin verification
109 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy
109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Porting a JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust (Part 1)
109 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]
109 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware
109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Create-React-App 3.3
109 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Face recognition in European police forces
109 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Boeing 737 Max Was Plagued with Production Problems, Whistle-Blower Says
109 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Contractor admits planting logic bombs in his software
109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Hospital superbugs are evolving to survive hand sanitizers (2018)
109 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Show HN: Rewtro plays tiny videogames encoded in origami GameBoy cartridges
109 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Beyond L2 Loss – How We Experiment with Loss Functions
109 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Ask HN: Which charities do you donate to?
109 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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My Year in Review: 2019
108 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Show HN: Linkding, a self-hostable bookmark service
108 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Smalltalk with the GraalVM
108 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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A 6k-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yogurts
108 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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In glyphosate review, WHO agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings (2017)
108 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Show HN: CuteUID – Generate Cute UIDs
108 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Why there isn’t an Apache Arrow article in Wikipedia
108 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)
108 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Flight stats, entertainment, and trying to crack Widevine
108 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Ask HN: What are successful projects that started as prototyped hypotheses?
108 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Security in Plan 9 (2002) [pdf]
107 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody
107 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Biggest list of fully remote, 100% distributed companies
107 points • comment • dec 11, 2019