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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)
498 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018)
498 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
494 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit
493 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
493 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Merry Christmas HN
490 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Minimalism – An undervalued development skill
482 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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PinePhone Review
482 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Win32 on macOS
480 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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The Plain Text Project
479 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Switch to OpenStreetMap
478 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf]
477 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium
476 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Slack have blocked using the website on mobile
475 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Things that are illegal to build in most American cities now
473 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Show HN: Space Invaders in C
473 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner
471 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Build an 8-bit computer from scratch
469 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
469 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Building a Search Engine from Scratch
465 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016)
463 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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The modern web is becoming unusable
462 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Why are my Go executable files so large?
458 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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The Amazon Builders' Library
456 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Calm Technology
456 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
454 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
450 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing
443 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey
441 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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I stood up to my boss, then he got promoted
439 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M
439 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US
432 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago
431 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Tony Brooker, creator of Mark 1 Autocode, has died
430 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?
428 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
426 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation
425 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
425 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
423 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Rust 1.40
422 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Amazon CodeGuru – Preview
422 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity
420 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Music for Programming (2011)
418 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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State of JavaScript 2019
417 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later
417 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
415 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?
414 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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An opinionated approach to GNU Make
410 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months
408 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
407 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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You might literally be buying trash on Amazon
404 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
404 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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#include </etc/shadow>
404 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work
403 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network
402 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Operations for Effective CEOs
402 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console
402 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Unbearable news
400 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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How tracking pixels work
397 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline
396 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Go + Services = One Goliath Project
396 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust
396 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
395 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?
395 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]
393 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
390 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Things end users care about but programmers don't
389 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change
386 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust
386 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
386 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups
383 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Learning to code vs. learning to automate
382 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets
381 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?
380 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Show HN: Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper
379 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case
379 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server
379 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who invented the art of hunting hackers
377 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity
376 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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If this project is dead, just tell us
374 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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IncludeOS: a minimal unikernel operating system for C++ services
374 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity
373 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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NanoNeuron – simple JavaScript functions that explain how machines learn
371 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
371 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $3.7B bet on electric
370 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?
370 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
369 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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W3C recommends WebAssembly
368 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology
368 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance
367 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch
366 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without changing anything
365 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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The Amazon Premium
363 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?
363 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Ram Dass has died
361 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Hacking GitHub's Auth with Unicode's Turkish Dotless 'I'
359 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions
358 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
358 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Monica: Open-source personal CRM
357 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
356 points • comment • dec 13, 2019