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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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Ask HN: Do you contribute to open source? Why? Why not?
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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America After Climate Change, Mapped
27 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Is Nuclear Power Worth the Risk?
27 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Online hate speech could be contained like a computer virus, say researchers
27 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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There aren't enough humans for cloud-native infra
27 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Don’t Blame Tech Bros for the Housing Crisis
27 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Burning the incestuous fox: A Tibetan fumigation ritual
27 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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The physics behind how fire ants band together into robust floating “rafts”
27 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Setting Up an Electronics Lab
27 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Ask HN: What have been the biggest technical achievements of the 2010s?
27 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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The Dangerous Business of Mining
27 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Show HN: Shout It – A platform to shout out your feelings
27 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Oracle Product Manager Claims He Was Forced Out for Refusing to Sell Vaporware
27 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Outside of a Dog: Rebuilding the NPR Book Concierge
27 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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New York City is flooding subway entrances to prepare for climate change
27 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Sperm whale dies with 100kg 'litter ball' in its stomach
26 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Why a Judge Made Uber Create an Email Address
26 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Today I was unable to take a picture in a photo kiosk
26 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Serverless Containers with Google Cloud Run
26 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Developing Blockchain Use Cases for CMU Coin
26 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Hardy Littlewood Rules (2010)
26 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Canadian islanders angry over US mail searches
26 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Top key takeaways and announcements from KubeCon and CloudNative Con 2019
26 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Show HN: I built a newsletter that sends you cheap weekend trips from your city
26 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Why Sexual Morality May Be Far More Important Than You Ever Thought
26 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Tony Brooker dead at 94, author of the first high level language
26 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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How does chemo brain affected your software engineering job?
26 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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A quarter of Alabamians live in homes without internet access
26 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Why you can't get cell service on the tarmac
26 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Danny Cohen, Inventor of the First Flight Simulator, Dies at 81
26 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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SICP JavaScript Going Public
26 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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The Penguin Book of Oulipo review – writing, a user's manual
26 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Uber, Postmates Sue California to Block Gig-Worker Law
26 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Top Cybersecurity and DevOps Trends for 2020
26 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Show HN: Botfront: open-source chatbot platform to craft complex conversations
26 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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GB Studio v1.2 Released
26 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA
26 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Say Goodbye to Banking as We Know It
26 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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The Stages of a Twitter Storm (2018)
26 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Best Practices for Navigating an API's Documentation
25 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in our place
25 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features
25 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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State of Postgres
25 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Firefox 71 and WebRender vs. Chrome 79 Browser Benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux
25 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Nationalist Anthems: Remembering a time when composers mattered more
25 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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DIY ngrok/localtunnel with traefik and SSH
25 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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The Use of Knowledge in Society (1945)
25 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Man to plead guilty to sending a strobing GIF to a reporter who has epilepsy
25 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Git v2.24.1 and Others
25 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Twitter Will Finally Stop Making Your Images Look Terrible
25 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Ask HN: Could EU residents comment on how the GDPR has improved their privacy?
25 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Facebook has turned data against us. Here's how we fight back
25 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Typing the Technical Interview (2017)
25 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Had a debate with Google engineer and the page was removed from Google. Related?
25 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Bot can beat humans in multiplayer hidden-role games
25 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Folder Poetry Club
25 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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A function to sleep a 1000 years: explained
25 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Stores Ask Shoppers to Use the Honor System
25 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work without paid time off
25 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Condors or Lead Ammunition? (2015)
25 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Frequent Kernel Panics in macOS Catalina
25 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Elon Musk’s ‘Pedo Guy’ Trial Shows the Depth, Danger of His Own Mythos
25 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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The Security Architecture of Qmail (2004) [pdf]
25 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Cox owes $1B to record labels for harboring music pirates, jury decides
25 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Show HN: NanoArgMode – A Macro System for Nano
25 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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State of C Programming Language in 2019
25 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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The Strange Properties and Histories of the Magic Hat
25 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Tips for being the family holiday sysadmin
25 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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World's oldest fossil trees uncovered in New York
25 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Show HN: Explore related artists on spotify through a network of nodes
25 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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yGuard – An open-source Java obfuscation tool
25 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Show HN: Cronhooks – Schedule one time or recurring webhooks
25 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Nonlinearity Breeds Contempt (2013) [video]
25 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Tail Recursion
25 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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A maxed-out Mac Pro will cost you $53,000 – without display
25 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development
25 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Misery in the Head
25 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Americans want paid family leave and affordable child care, why can't we get it?
25 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Variable Fonts: The Future of Web Type (2016)
25 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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100% automated, official certificates for Docker containers
24 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Functors – What Are They?
24 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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The Mac Pro and Apple's Slide
24 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Thoughts on San Francisco
24 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Just JavaScript
24 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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6502 PRIMER: Building your own 6502 computer (2013)
24 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Cryptocurrency investors want the body of Quadriga CEO exhumed
24 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Migrate Your AWS Lambda Functions to Kubernetes with OpenFaaS
24 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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A new way of blogging about Prolog
24 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Silicon Valley billionaires skirt charity rules each holiday season
24 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Show HN: CSV file merging
24 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Headphone Specs Explained (2017)
24 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Functional Generative Art Using ClojureScript
24 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Power Your Dreams with Xbox Series X
24 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Show HN: Cron Color: Color Tool and Contrast Checker for Web Design
24 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Macros That Work Together: Comp-Time Bindings, Partial Expansion (2012) [pdf]
24 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Start Using Git on the Command Line Like a Pro in 5 Minutes
24 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Show HN: I Graded Software Companies on Their Perks/Benefits/Compensation
24 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA)
24 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Jumping to Conclusions: When People Decide Based on Insufficient Information
24 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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We Can’t See ‘Star Wars’ Anymore
24 points • comment • dec 21, 2019