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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Tutorial
40 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Greenwald: IG's Report on FBI Spying Reveals Scandal of Historic Magnitude
40 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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NHS gives Amazon free use of health data under Alexa advice deal
40 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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The weird criticism that Big Tech is too digital
40 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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The Evolution of Trust (2017)
40 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Honda Refuses to Track Stolen Accord Because Owner Didn't Pay for HondaLink
40 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Continuous Integration and Deployment with Bazel
40 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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More on NX Insanity
40 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Xinu Is Not Unix
40 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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The Animal-AI Testbed
40 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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New books mount aggressive but ultimately unpersuasive defenses of multiverses
40 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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The vandals destroying libraries should have the book thrown at them
39 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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PPX: Probabilistic Programming EXecution Protocol and API Based on Flatbuffers
39 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Mobile Providers’ Coverage Maps Investigation [pdf]
39 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Subscriptions Are Remaking Corporate America (2018)
39 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Astronomers on the verge of detecting “first light”
39 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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A Nice Component Gallery
39 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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China due to introduce face scans for mobile users
39 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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I documented every surveillance camera on my way to work in New York City
39 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Learning human objectives by evaluating hypothetical behaviours
39 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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State of Startups, 2019
39 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Time-Restricted Eating in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: Study
39 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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ChezWEB: Hygienic Literate Programming for Chez Scheme
39 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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California, and the US, shouldn’t be afraid of density and upzoning
39 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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‘Zork’ Source Code, Presumed Lost, Has Been Uploaded to GitHub
39 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen from Above
39 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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How fashion startups get accepted into tech accelerators
39 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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The Lost History of the ‘City’ of Brooklyn
38 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Reddit community loses mind after VSCode removes Santa hat at request of user
38 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Fu-Go Balloon Bomb
38 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Christmas is one of the biggest days of the year for hackers
38 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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36C3 Staff Brutally Assaulted Me for Political Reasons
38 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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The Genius in My Basement (2011)
38 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Big tech companies have been at the cutting edge of corporate tax avoidance
38 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Practical Introduction to Prometheus for Developers
38 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Certbot 1.0 Is Released
38 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Ditch the GPS
38 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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No Alcohol, No Coffee for 27 Months (2016)
38 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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TLDR Digital Safety Checklist
38 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you still code in BASIC?
38 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Calling on startups to support NumFOCUS
38 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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A Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs in Space (2010)
38 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you keep your notes organized?
38 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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The Daily Mail’s List of Things That Give You Cancer: From a to Z
38 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Bot Submissions to Comment Website Can’t Be Distinguished from Human Submissions
38 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Mormon Church has misled members on $100B tax-exempt investment fund
38 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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The Dark Side of WebAssembly (2018)
38 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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A Large-Scale Analysis of Early Domain Deletions
38 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Most Europeans Now Prefer AMD CPUs over Intel
38 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Awesome Google Colab and 30+ example notebooks
38 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Running LibFuzzer in a Browser, via WASM [pdf]
37 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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U.S. Tech Giants Bet Big on India, and Now It’s Changing the Rules
37 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law”
37 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Information teleported between two computer chips for the first time
37 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Apple Used the DMCA to Take Down a Tweet Containing an iPhone Encryption Key
37 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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How We Achieved 40K QPS and 20B Rows of Data in a Single Scale-Out Cluster
37 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic
37 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Recent Books on Dinosaurs
37 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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‘Horrific’ typo valued Wasatch County home at almost $1B
37 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Unity vs. Unreal Engine: Which Is Better for XR Development
37 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
37 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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What Is Secure Remote Password (SRP) Protocol and How to Use It?
37 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Elite violence and elite numeracy in Europe from 500 to 1900 CE: A co-evolution
37 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Tracking Electric Scooters in Lisbon
37 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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The Space Force is officially the sixth U.S. military branch
37 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Simultaneous recruiting of new graduates
37 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Sarah2 Cipher
37 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Ask HN: First time working from home; what to do or not do?
37 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Rclone – Rsync for Cloud Storage
37 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Pony 0.33.1
36 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Show HN: I made a simple generator to create UX design exercises to practice
36 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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MIT's Building 20: “The Magical Incubator” (1998)
36 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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On the Complexity of Crafting Crash-Consistent Applications (2014) [pdf]
36 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Anki, Jibo, and Kuri: What We Can Learn from Social Robots That Didn't Make It
36 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Show HN: No-Code CI for Android
36 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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A single wild tree on a New Zealand island could soon get some neighbors
36 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Tom Kiefer documents lives via items seized by border patrol
36 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Ruby 2.x Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain (2018)
36 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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‘The Amazon Is Completely Lawless’: The Rainforest After Bolsonaro’s First Year
36 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Tracking/Exposing America’s Most Wanted Using OSINT
36 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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A Third of America’s Economy Is Concentrated in Thirty-one Counties
36 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Code Surfer – Rad Code Slides
36 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Sound Matters (2011) [pdf]
36 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Facebook rejects ad of two men kissing to spread awareness on world-aids day
36 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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文言 – A programming language for the ancient Chinese
36 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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SunEngine – Site engine that supports forums, articles and blogs
36 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Introduction to Gate
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Accidentally Overwriting Another Local Variable in C and C++
36 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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The Fundamental Problem in Python 3
36 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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A brief look at async-await
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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State found $117k in double payments through data analytics
35 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Being more efficient on GitHub
35 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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French Strike Aims to Save an Envied, but Convoluted, Approach to Pensions
35 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany
35 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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The Unpredictable Cactus
35 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Age limit now 21 across US for cigarettes, tobacco products
35 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Infinite Multiplayer Minesweeper
35 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Sushi Design System
35 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes
35 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Ask HN: Someone posted an my passport on Facebook. Anything I can do?
35 points • comment • dec 06, 2019