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Hacker News (Dec 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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The Unpredictable Cactus
35 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Kodak Reference Handbook (1945)
35 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes
35 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Promoters of Climate Anxiety
35 points • comment • dec 10, 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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Spirit Scripts: Japan’s mysterious outcast alphabets
35 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Germany Calls for European Firewall Against U.S. Sanctions
35 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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YouTube seeks 'responsibility'
35 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Sushi Design System
35 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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The Classic Tetris World Championships Explained (2018) [video]
35 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Bitcoin.com Lists Ponzi Token, Hex, to the Dismay of Bitcoin Fans
35 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Lipid metabolic pathways converge in motor neuron degenerative diseases
34 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the IPO Fizzle
34 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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You should make a blog!
34 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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EU investigates Google data collection practices
34 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Through the snow as if on rails
34 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work
34 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Apple is trolling us on prices?
34 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Show HN: I built remote.io – Job board for work-at-home / remote careers
34 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Light – Learning in Interactive Games with Humans and Text
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Records on Bone
34 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Show HN: Ordered Error Diffusion Dithering
34 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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CCC Schedule – 2019-12-27
34 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs (2018)
34 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Two Arms and a Head (2011)
34 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Use of nanoparticles for detection of vascular calcification in atherosclerosis
34 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Adventures with Dockerised Headed Chrome, Extensions and Selenium-Python
34 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Chinese criminal gangs spreading swine fever to force farmers to sell pigs
34 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel-winning economist, says end the GDP
34 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Announcing AWS Wavelength for delivering ultra-low latency applications for 5G
34 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Genetic Test Led 7 Women in 1 Family to Have Major Surgery–Then the Odds Changed
34 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Show HN: Unifrost – Stream PubSub Messages to the Browser
34 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action
34 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Kenneth E. Iverson: An Autobiographical Essay (2004) [pdf]
34 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Driver 'blows up' car with 'excessive' use of air freshener
33 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Tech
33 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Political Ads
33 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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A Life of Pliny
33 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail, and a lucrative ‘hot list’
33 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Suppressing Innovation: Bell Laboratories and Magnetic Recording (1993)
33 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Play Sports for a Quieter Brain: Evidence from Division I Collegiate Athletes
33 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise
33 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Google founders’ exit signals end of era at search giant
33 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for building your next app?
33 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Americans are putting off medical treatment in record numbers because of cost
33 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Free of Heavy Metals, New Battery Design Could Alleviate Environmental Concerns
33 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Let’s Talk about Ghastly Dishwashers
33 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Is Larkin Good for You?
33 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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When Betelgeuse goes supernova, the brightness will rival a full moon
33 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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A Framework for First Principles Thinking
33 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Ask HN: Why do tech startup owners do not own the majority of their stock?
33 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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CVE-2019-14899 - Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections
33 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Why is a circle in a plane surrounded by 6 other circles?
33 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Apple Platform Security
33 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Christmas code in 140 characters of JavaScript
33 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Capacitor but no 'nuclear reactor' found so far in Northwest side man’s garage
33 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Monads aren't as hard as you think
33 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful (2011)
33 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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The Ergodicity Problem in Economics
33 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Show HN: HN Card, Hacker News Profile Overlay
33 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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FckdEx
33 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Zen project forks Zig, relicenses, and “moves” original license to separate file
33 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Ask HN: What was your biggest failure in 2019?
33 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Diagram.Codes
32 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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American kids want to be famous on YouTube, kids in China want to go to space
32 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Carlos Ghosn Flees Trial in Japan for Lebanese Homeland
32 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Finland is making its online AI crash course free to the world
32 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Automate GitHub Dependency Updates with Dependabot
32 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Raiders of the Lost Web (2015)
32 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Experimenting with RGBW Color Mixing
32 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and Happy New Year
32 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Arm brings custom instructions to its embedded CPUs
32 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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The Pygmalion Effect: an invisible nudge towards success
32 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
32 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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I Staked Out My Local Domino’s to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is
32 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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What if debit cards could pay for purchases by selling securities?
32 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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The Second SHA-1 Hash Collision
32 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Retailers Don’t Like Paying the Fees for Your Apple Card
32 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Dithering in Games, Part 1: Simple Quantization (2016)
32 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Triangle Rasterization in Practice
32 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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DisseminOA
32 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Can one earthquake trigger another on the other side of the world?
32 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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AMD Releases Radeon ProRender 2.1
32 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Tradeoffs: The Currency of Decision Making
32 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Writers write, but this one couldn’t about the most important person in his life
32 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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MLISP (1968) [pdf]
32 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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A Note on the Use of Dictionaries (2012) [pdf]
32 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Ask HN: If you could automate one thing you do often at work, what would it be?
31 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build Next
31 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Google Donated To A Senator Who Voted Against Gay Conversion Therapy Ban
31 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Merriam-Webster declares ‘they’ its 2019 word of the year
31 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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An oral history of the 2010s
31 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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NASA satellite finds crashed Indian Moon lander Vikram
31 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Ask HN: Editing and Email Accssibility for Stroke Victim
31 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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New South Wales rolls out mobile phone detection cameras
31 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Ostif.org Unbound DNS Audit Results – 1 Crit – 5 High – 5 Med
31 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read
31 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Going Serverless with OpenFaaS and Golang – Building Optimized Templates
31 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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The Future Internet Regulation
31 points • comment • dec 01, 2019