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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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Economists’ projections of interest rates and unemployment have proved too high
76 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Particle Filter
76 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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The Czochralski method for growing single-crystal semiconductors
76 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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A Robot That Explains Its Actions
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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Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook’s Fact-Checking Systems
76 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (2016)
75 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)
75 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case
75 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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In praise of property-based testing
75 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Taking a look at a covert CIA virtual fencing solution [video]
75 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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What it would take to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air than we put in
75 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Gsuite suspended my account because I paid
75 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Metrics That Matter
75 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Three Best Business Books of 2019 (According to Every Other Best-of-2019 List)
75 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Commit messages are not titles (2015)
75 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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How to Show Available WiFi Networks on Linux from the Command Line
75 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Source Code Linking: Merging C Headers into Rust Modules
74 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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International Space Station computer gets a heart transplant
74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Work Is a Queue of Queues
74 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Dating of bones from Indonesia confirm Homo erectus roamed planet for 1.8M years
74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Boom Supersonic (YC W16) XB-1 Fuselage Construction Underway
74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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A few comments on ‘age’
74 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Ask HN: Partial Bootstrap for a SaaS Startup
74 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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How to Build a Remote Team: Resources and Advice from Remote Companies
74 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Mining Social Media
74 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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You have to follow the recipe
74 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Andrew Yang’s math on the robot takeover doesn’t check out
74 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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BPF Theremin, Tetris, and Typewriters
74 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Neovim Configuration and Plugins in Fennel Lisp
74 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Reggae: A build system with multiple front ends (D, Python) and back ends
74 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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American Letter Mail Company
74 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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There’s No Winter Break from ‘Publish or Perish’
74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Federation is the Worst of all Worlds (2018)
73 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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RabbitMQ integer overflow that leads to heap memory corruption
73 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Natural language isn’t just English [pdf]
73 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Hobbes – A Language and an Embedded JIT Compiler
73 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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V8 Release v8.0
73 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Infosys settles with California over alleged visa scam, tax evasion
73 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Monads, or Programmable Semicolons (2014)
73 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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How Complex Modern Headlights Can Be
73 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Ask HN: D programmers, what does your development setup look like?
73 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?
72 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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ARM64 CPUs speculatively execute instructions after ERET
72 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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US government is entitled to all Snowden book proceeds, judge rules
72 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Machine Learning Christmas Calendar
72 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Deploying Authoritative OCaml-DNS Servers as MirageOS Unikernels
72 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Donate – iTerm2
72 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Genius used watermarks to catch Google stealing its content
72 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Privacy or Data, a Convenient False Dichotomy
72 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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One year, one lab, 16 spinouts
72 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Research Papers That Caught the Public's Attention in 2019
72 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Make your website a black hole to big tech
72 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Highest Paying Tech Companies of 2019
72 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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San Francisco supervisors opposing bill to increase housing density
72 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008)
72 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Bitmain Rival’s Founder Arrested as War of Crypto Miners Heats up
72 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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The scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong
72 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families? Now we know
71 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Ask HN: What are the best computing-related videos you've watched recently?
71 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Move to the Big City (2018)
71 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Chimpanzees Spontaneously Dance to Music
71 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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The Liar's Walk: Detecting Deception with Gait and Gesture
71 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Cray-2 vectorization instruction notes by former Principal Engineer of Cray
71 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Type systems and the future of programming languages
71 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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DARPA head resigns, moving on to industry
71 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Bloomberg Beta Investment Documents
71 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Why do holes horrify me?
71 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Zhaoxin Unveiled Next-Generation x86 SoC Plans
71 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Dissecting Linux Kernel Code
71 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Our Tesla Model 3 Suffered a Failure While Parked
71 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Pivoting from conventional search to search-as-you-type: Our story with Mozilla
70 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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LifeLabs pays ransom after data breach affecting up to 15M Canadians
70 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
70 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Clive James Got It Right
70 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Bushfires Release over Half Australia’s Annual Carbon Emissions
70 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Show HN: Microfronts – Front-end solution for running multiple frameworks as one
70 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Emergent dynamics of neuromorphic nanowire networks
70 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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FTC Weighs Seeking Injunction Against Facebook over How Its Apps Interact
70 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare
70 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Why was SCTP selected for WebRTC’s data channel? (2014)
70 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
70 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Twistronics: superconductor prototypes discovered after twisting graphene sheets
69 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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SafeLife: AI Safety Environments Based on Conway's Game of Life
69 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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How Robert Cottrell of ‘The Browser’ finds the best writing on the web
69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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The Silurian Hypothesis
69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Automatically finding Codenames clues with GloVe vectors
69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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GPS Is Going Places
69 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (2017)
69 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Redis 6 RC1 is out today
69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’
69 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Human Web – Data Collection Without Privacy Side-Effects
69 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Ask HN: How can I tell if I am a good developer?
69 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Well, duh (1996)
69 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Two-Headed Go
69 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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A7: Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry
69 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Verifiable Voting: A Primer
69 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Missing Movies (2018)
69 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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An Opinionated Onboarding Setup for New Hires at Microsoft
69 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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How I run a small discussion mailing list
68 points • comment • dec 17, 2019