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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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Show HN: Event-driven Shell – a way to control flows in multiple shell windows
8 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Waymo: Ghost Riding in a Driverless Car
8 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Nine Species of Human Once Walked Earth. Now There's Just One
8 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Scientists devise catalyst that uses light to turn carbon dioxide to fuel
8 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Lime Scooter Accounts Are Being Sold on the Dark Web
8 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Amazon CFO killed after colliding with a van delivering the company's packages
8 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Ask HN: Serverless.com framework vs. raw AWS console?
8 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Portraits: Umberto Eco, Saul Steinberg, and Aldo Buzzi
8 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Seed EdTech Investors List
8 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Electric truck startup Rivian raises $1.3B more to challenge Tesla
8 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Show HN: Tai, composable, real time, data & trade execution toolkit [Elixir]
8 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Ruby 24 Year Anniversary
8 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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True Tales of High Adventure (2009)
8 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Apple's iOS 13.3 update finally lets you disable those annoying Memoji stickers
8 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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The Art of Rhetoric
8 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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The Best Optical Illusion of the Year Will Mess with Your Head
8 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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The Invention of “Ethical AI”
8 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Show HN: Senior meets junior – Connecting engineers over side projects
8 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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The 2019 Good Tech Awards
8 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Reddit User Captured a Tornado on Our Sun from His Backyard
8 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Petitparser: Dynamic Grammars in Smalltalk
8 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Moving from Simplenote to Notational FZF
8 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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FBI says Russian FaceApp is 'potential counterintelligence threat'
8 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Preoperative Patient Frailty and Operative Stress and Postoperative Mortality
8 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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The Lost Worlds of Telnet
8 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Top UN Official Accuses US of Torturing Chelsea Manning
8 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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For SysAdmins: Using a Visual Map for IT Asset/Inventory Tracking
8 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Ask HN: What Architecture Apple uses in its iOS Apps?
8 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake: Was Nul-Terminated Text Strings Wrong?
8 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Some More Grants for Open Source Work
8 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Automatic Derivation of Code Generators from Machine Descriptions (1980) [pdf]
8 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Hybrids Might Play an Unappreciated Role in Evolution
8 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Noam Chomsky on the Climate Crisis
8 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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TV Industry Suffers Steepest Drop in Ad Sales Since Recession
8 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Will Florida Kill an Innocent Man?
8 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Use Noexcept for Exception Handling in C++ Programs
8 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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OpenHW Group Announces Core-V Chassis SoC Project
8 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Georgia Governor Appoints Bitcoin Exchange Bakkt CEO Loeffler as New US Senator
8 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Christopher Hitchens on the Oklahoma bombing and the Republican big tent (1995)
8 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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WaveNet
8 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Making an open source, privacy-conscious alternative to Google Analytics
8 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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2019 in Review: 10 Brilliant AI Apps
8 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius
7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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How China steals American technology and a timeline of recent events
7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Rambler plans to sue Twitch for $2.82B in a Russian court
7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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I got $100K acquisition offer for my microstartup
7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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People Are Flushing Toilets 10 Times, 15 Times
7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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How the U.S. hydrogen bomb secrets disappeared
7 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Girls’ comparative advantage in reading can largely explain the STEM gender gap
7 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Search-warrant demands that Google turn over account info, Android info etc.
7 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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The Decade the Internet Lost Its Joy
7 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Crusaders want to preserve human culture online. Latest target: Yahoo Groups
7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Jeff Bezos in 1999 on Amazon's Plans Before the Dotcom Crash
7 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Ask HN: I'm setting up some free coding classes, would you be interested?
7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Running iOS in QEMU to an interactive bash shell
7 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Ask HN: Should I use version control or blockchain?
7 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Gitlab: Acquisitions Handbook
7 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Gitignore.io: web service to create useful .gitignore files
7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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How randomly skipping tests made them better (curl)
7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Physical maps of subways systems in Paris, London and other cities
7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Run containers like a boss with containerd
7 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Internet shutdowns, once rare, are becoming the norm in much of the world
7 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Critical tools for running SaaS business
7 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Show HN: Ultra-low overhead logging for Java
7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Why is it so difficult to make people change their minds?
7 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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A Framework for Regulating Competition on the Internet
7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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China’s TikTok Sued by U.S. College Student over Data Use
7 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Zorin OS Is the Alternative to Windows and macOS
7 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Ask HN: Where are some low budget and good CS College?
7 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Bot That Detects When Aircraft Are Circling over Los Angeles
7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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IBM Changes the Energy Storage Game with Cobalt-Free Battery
7 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Keybase moves to stop onslaught of spammers
7 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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The Aesthetically Ideal Position of the Nipple–Areola Complex on the Breast
7 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Bug adds 220MW of fake electricity demand in Ontario
7 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Compiler Basics: An x86 Upgrade
7 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Lost Passport in Dubai – Cruise Leaves Soon. Help
7 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Running 32bit Apps on macOS Catalina
7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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China's facial recognition rollout reaches into mobile phones, shops and homes
7 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Puget Systems:“Intel Has Every Right” to Make Intel MKL Run Slower on AMD CPUs
7 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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One Weird Trick for 2020
7 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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What Not to Do on Your Work Computer
7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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In America, the law is the law* (*if you’re poor, undocumented or nonwhite)
7 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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JavaScript resources you need to know about
7 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Even aggressive centipedes will co-operate if they have to
7 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Checking the Ark Compiler Recently Made Open-Source by Huawei
7 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Expedia CEO and CFO Fired
7 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Victoria Falls dries to a trickle after worst drought in a century
7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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How to Learn Data Structures and Algorithms (An Ultimate Guide for Beginners)
7 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Skymind Is Now Pathmind
7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Pg_query: Parse PostgreSQL Queries in Ruby
7 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Random Numbers: Nothing Left to Chance (2008)
7 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Linux Desktops for Minimalists: Getting Started with LXQt and LXDE
7 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Launch HN: DueFocus, Time Tracker for Gitlab, Trello, Jira, GitHub, Asana
7 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Nothing Lasts Forever– Not Even on the Internet
7 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Google Assistant can now interpret 44 languages on smartphones
7 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Bezos says 'country in trouble' if big tech turns its back on the Pentagon
7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Ask HN: What is your 2020 resolution?
7 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Venturing a Perspective on the Drug Pricing Debate
7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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The Hero’s Journey – and How to Create Your Own Today
7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019