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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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India Bans Public Protests to Quell Rising Anger Against Citizenship Law
99 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Steve Jobs: Out for Revenge (1989)
98 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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The Qt Marketplace
98 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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The 'folly' of buying a fixer-upper yacht
98 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Show HN: Timelite, a simple time tracking solution
98 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Jetstar pilots forgot to lower the landing gear
98 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Ransomware gangs now outing victim businesses that don't pay
98 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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DrumBot: Real-Time ML Drummer
98 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Caffeine enhances activity of common antidepressants in forced swim test in mice
98 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Architect Has Painstakingly Standardized the World's Subway Maps (2014)
98 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Dynamo vs. Cassandra: Systems Design of NoSQL Databases (2018)
98 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Inside Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk: Returned Deposits, Battery Fires, Boeing Shakeup
98 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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The Intoxicating History of Gin
98 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Plundervolt: Software-Based Fault Injection Attacks Against Intel SGX [pdf]
98 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Flattening Quadratic Béziers
97 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014)
97 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding
97 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Porkchop plot
97 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Long S
97 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Show HN: An experimental distributed SQL database from scratch in Go
97 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive
97 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Facebook Pledges $130M to Fund “Supreme Court” for Content
97 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018)
97 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)
97 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Show HN: Flash replacement
97 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Why we fall for cons
97 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Startup Growth and Venture Returns
97 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Teaching College-Level Mathematics in Prisons [pdf]
97 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 Max Crashes
97 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Bill Lorensen, co-creator of Marching Cubes, has died
97 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Centrifugal Machine Guns
96 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness
96 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Farmers Are Using Food Waste to Make Electricity
96 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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About Windy (2018)
96 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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My Semester with the Snowflakes
96 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
96 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Android’s Commitment to Kotlin
96 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Long Bets by Confidence Level
96 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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TailScale – Instantly interconnect your devices and services, wherever they are
96 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Which Areas Will Be Flooded with Homes Once Boomers Start Leaving Them?
96 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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MegaZeux: Game creation system released in 1994 and still being developed today
95 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (1995)
95 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent
95 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate
95 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Scratch that: Cats film to be 'resupplied' with 'improved visuals'
95 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Veteran executives and financiers helped fuel WeWork’s rise and fall
95 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Spying tools website taken down after UK raids
95 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Financial Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning: A Literature Review
95 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Google Sued Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
95 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Math Whiz Trades Without Humans
95 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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In New York, Making Ends Meet on a 5-Cent Recycling Deposit
95 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)
95 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Show HN: Yazz Pilot – Self Service Apps Without the IT Department
95 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Rsuite – R development and data science platform
94 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Book Review: All Therapy Books
94 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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How to Match “A B C” where A+B=C: The Beast Tamed (2018)
94 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (2014)
94 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Linux doesn't have Photoshop
94 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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The Ecosystem Is Moving [video]
94 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Webpack killer: a web dev server that lets you import anything
94 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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‘Spiderman’ Hacker Daniel Kaye Took Down Liberia’s Internet
94 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Stock Option Pricing Inference
94 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Twitter kicks off Bluesky: independent decentralized protocol for social media
94 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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More than 80% of total knee replacements can last for 25 years
94 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Brain-Like electrical signature emerging in a metallic nanowire network
94 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior
94 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney changed video game industry
94 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Show HN: A pure functional programming language targeting decentralized systems
94 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing
93 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Target=“_blank” – the most underestimated vulnerability ever
93 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Betelgeuse Fades More
93 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Vectorized execution brings a 10x performance increase for expression evaluation
93 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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University Issues Passwords by Hand to 38K Students and Staff After Cyber Attack
93 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Will We Run Out of Helium?
93 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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7GUIs: A GUI Programming Benchmark (2018)
93 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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How TiKV reads and writes
93 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town
93 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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How cloud computing impacts the environment
93 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)
92 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism
92 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Netflix sends journalists on pricey trips
92 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Deprecating the GitHub Developer Program
92 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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The origins of GPS, and the pioneers who launched the system (2010)
92 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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It’s crunch time for Getty Images, and for photographers
92 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Stroom – a scalable data storage, processing and analysis platform
92 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design
92 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Five cities account for vast majority of growth in U.S. tech jobs: study
92 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Confessions of a Book Pirate (2010)
92 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Networking Guides for Linux Sysadmins
92 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Recursion and Fractals
92 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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AI-powered Lego sorting machine built with Lego bricks
92 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Moscow Nginx office under police raid
91 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Eigenmorality (2014)
91 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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FBI Records: The Vault – Nikola Tesla
91 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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The Cannonball Record
91 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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New York Fed Again Upsizes Liquidity Plans for Turn of the Year
91 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people’s CDs, then vanished
91 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever
91 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying
91 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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An Overview of the Monad
91 points • comment • dec 05, 2019