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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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WASM as a Platform for Abstraction
83 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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The Nightjet: A Big Bet on Train Travelers Who Take It Slow
83 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (December 2019)
83 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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DeepMind Memory Task Suite
83 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Can a USR command damage a ZX Spectrum?
83 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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To stop pancreatic cancer from spreading, cut out the chatter
83 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Klong: a Simple Array Language
83 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you responsibly report security bugs to open-source projects?
83 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Greeks set to face fines if they don't spend 30% of their income electronically
83 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Toyota believes hydrogen fuel cells are the future
83 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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The Joy of Perl (1998)
83 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy
82 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen song lyrics
82 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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An open-source browser extension to auto-skip sponsored segments on YouTube
82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Why smallpox is no more, but polio and other diseases persist
82 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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To Wash It All Away (2014) [pdf]
82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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An overview of why the US has problems with Huawei
82 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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DIY ‘Meta Clock’ with 24 Analog Clocks
82 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Flutter: UI platform designed for ambient computing
82 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data unicorn
82 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Segmentio/encoding: optimized drop-in replacement for Go's encoding/JSON package
82 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Scarfolk
82 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Setup for Your Next Golang Project
82 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)
82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Get companies to erase your personal data – automated CCPA deletion requests
82 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use?
82 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Lisp Programming in Vim with Slimv or Vlime
81 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Huawei expected to surpass Apple to become world’s No 2 phone maker
81 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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XXL: A minimal vector programming language (2016)
81 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Chaos-mesh: a chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes
81 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Simple Software Manifesto
81 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Pro-Indian ‘fake’ websites aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe
81 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Announcing the Second Edition of Infrastructure as Code
81 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Formal Reasoning About Programs (2017) [pdf]
81 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Russia presses Apple to install Kremlin-approved apps
81 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Crux as General-Purpose Database
81 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Creating Online Environments That Work Well for Older Users
81 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Every bookmark manager ever made
81 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Emotion-detecting tech should be restricted by law
81 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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VirtualBox 6.1
81 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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How McKinsey infiltrated the world of global public health
80 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Understanding What It's Like to Program in Forth (2008)
80 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Tech companies will post incoherent ads for open positions in tiny local papers
80 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Byte Magazine: Future Computers (1981)
80 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Vox Media to cut hundreds of freelance jobs ahead of California's AB5
80 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Show HN: dlinject.py – Inject a .so into a running Linux process, without ptrace
80 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Chunking Optimizations: Let the Knife Do the Work
80 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Wolf 359
80 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback
80 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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HyperbolaBSD Roadmap: hard fork of the OpenBSD kernel and userspace
80 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Circumventing the JVM's Bytecode Verifier
80 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customers’ private bug reports
80 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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APL and J (2015)
80 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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90k Packages Disappear Daily in NYC
79 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Atari 8-Bit Display List Interrupts: An Advanced Tutorial
79 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Chinese Mass Surveillance – Snowden
79 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Topology and complex analysis for the unsuspecting game dev
79 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Kernel-Bypass Networking
79 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Colorado bank robber gifts money to passers-by and yells Merry Christmas
79 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Glush: A robust parser compiler built using non-deterministic automatons
79 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Climate change driving entire planet to dangerous 'global tipping point‘
79 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Brave Isn't Bad
79 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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A City Is Not a Tree (1965)
79 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Problematic monetization in security products, Avira edition
79 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Efficient Alias of a Built-In Emacs Lisp Function
79 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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64-bit unix timestamp is not supported in MySQL functions (2005)
79 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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A Rocket to Nowhere (2005)
79 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Kahan Summation Algorithm
78 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Tell HN: $13K Sales for “The Good Parts of AWS” on Launch Day
78 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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California’s Assembly Bill 5 came for me today
78 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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America's Most Underappreciated Right: Public Assembly
78 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Is It Time for the US to Drag Jobs Out of Silicon Valley and into the Heartland?
78 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal
78 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Getting Pagination Wrong (2016)
78 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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From the Big Short to Normal People: Books That Defined the Decade
78 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Dolphin Scheduler
78 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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The Great Recycling Con [video]
78 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems
78 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)
78 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Layered Programming (2013)
77 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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So Where’s My Low Voltage DC Wall Socket?
77 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Visual Studio Code repository is open again
77 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Escaping San Francisco
77 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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PG&E Had Systemic Problems with Power Line Maintenance, California Probe Finds
77 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Efficient lock-free durable sets
77 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Are Humans Fit for Space? A ‘Herculean’ Study
77 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Two Years Working at Dropbox
77 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865
77 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Worst Software Metrics
77 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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1950s Smart Homes and the Longevity of Design
77 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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The Year in Math and Computer Science
77 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Building a parachute is boggling
77 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Gitlab 12.6
77 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Extended BPF: A New Type of Software [pdf]
76 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Save .ORG from Arbitrary Censorship by Halting the Private Equity Buy-Out
76 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Reducing carbon footprint of network services with MirageOS [video]
76 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks
76 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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EU beckons Indian tech talent
76 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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A Robot That Explains Its Actions
76 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Google Reader Killed RSS
76 points • comment • dec 19, 2019