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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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Nov 2019 – Visual Studio Code Update
7 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Half of all homeless people may have had traumatic brain injury
7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Larry Page’s Turbulent Kitty Hawk: Returned Deposits, Battery Fires
7 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Show HN: “AWS Lambda, the CLI Way”
7 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Taste the ash, see our pink sun: Sydney's dead future is here
7 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Update: An Agreement with Monica Cellio
7 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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To keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to end homeownership
7 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Internet Society CEO: Most people don't care about the .org sell-off
7 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Keras inventor Chollet charts a new direction for AI: a Q&A
7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Friend or foe? Five ethical questions raised by AI
7 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin - It's Underwater
7 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Ask HN: Nonfiction books to control anxiety, depression, uncertainty
7 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Kathryn Spiers: 'I was fired last week by Google for organizing.'
7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Teaching GANs a Few Tricks
7 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Retailers hide the costs of delivery
7 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Exxon wins climate change lawsuit brought by NY
7 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Americans have become much less positive about tech companies' impact
7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Potential White House open-access edict could upend scientific publishers
7 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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The Ultimate Guide to Building REST APIs with PowerShell
7 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Poland was no walkover for the Reich
7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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McKinsey Statement on NYT and ProPublica Article Regarding ICE and CBP
7 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Donated blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy
7 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Scientists get closer to creating synthetic cells that can replicate themselves
7 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Albert: A Lite Bert for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
7 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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“I never thought the government would take work away from me arbitrarily” (AB5)
7 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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IP allow lists now in public beta
7 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Spokane vs. the Border Patrol
7 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Jeff Bezos says firms should feel comfortable working for the military
7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines
7 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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A timeless Bootstrap theme built for the modern web
7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Knuth's 25th Christmas Lecture – Pi and the Art of Computer Programming
7 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Stateless OpenVPN Access Server Build for AWS build in Golang
7 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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How We Are Going to the Moon [video]
7 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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'We Are Fleeing the Law’: Hong Kong Protesters Escape to Taiwan
7 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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DraftKings going public via reverse merger
7 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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The /r/HackerNews bot is broken and has stopped posting
7 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Show HN: PHP Version Audit – Audit Your PHP Version for Known CVEs and Patches
7 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Tidal forces are gravitational waves
7 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World
7 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Elon Musk 'pedo guy' defamation trial begins
7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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List of websites to post your project or startup
7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Ocean acidification: yet another wobbly pillar of climate alarmism
7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Andrew “Bunnie” Huang – Supply Chain Security: “If I Were a Nation State ”
7 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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The Tyranny of Web Development
7 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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The AKS Architecture Map
7 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Reasons so many people are getting the hell out of the Northeast
7 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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US raises legal age to buy cigarettes to 21
7 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Putin signs law making Russian apps mandatory on smartphones, computers
7 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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The Interstellar Comet Has Arrived in Time for the Holidays
7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Show HN: Tap water you can trust
7 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Chinese programmers work like slaves in Cambodia
7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Guidelines for Data Visualization
7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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The Invention of “Ethical AI”:How Big Tech Manipulates Academe, Avoids Regs
7 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Mozilla removes Avast extensions from their add-on store, what will Google do?
7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
7 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Ask HN: Selling Software, How?
7 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Starliner makes a safe landing–now NASA faces some big decisions
7 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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America’s Cup: revolutionary 'flying' yachts take Auld Mug into new realm
7 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Atari’s home computers turn 40
7 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Major differences between successful and unsuccessful people
7 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Ask HN: Commonly mentioned, but: what tips do you have for learning discipline?
7 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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CadenceX promises a powerful alternative to classic dynamo generators
7 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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DJ Steve Aoki quietly opens a cloud only pizza restaurant in Oakland
7 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Europe threatens U.S. with carbon tariffs to combat climate change
7 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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QE4
7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Sealed Secrets (even in public repos) for Kubernetes
7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Answer to Why do software engineers always focus on salary and early retirement?
7 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Biased algorithms are easier to fix than biased people
7 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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The Story Of The Naval Tactical Data System, NTDS
7 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Tracking deliveries, opens, clicks, failures and complaints for Amazon SES
7 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Is Smalltalk a weird cause to fight for?
7 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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How to Use the Pinch to Zoom Gesture in React Native Apps
7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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All the Serverless announcements at re:Invent 2019
7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children
7 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5
7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Thomas Piketty's new War and Peace-sized book published
7 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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The Watch Is Smart, but It Can’t Replace Your Doctor
7 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Did a conspiracy destroy LA’s streetcar system?
7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Show HN: Simplify complex workflows with this modular workspace
7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Wizard Code: A View on Low-Level Programming (2016)
7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Where Is My Mind?
7 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health care?
7 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Why Bitcoin Matters for Freedom
7 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, & collector serv
7 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Russia Raids Office of U.S. Web Server Giant in Copyright Clash
7 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Web Scraping: How to Bypass Anti-Scraping Tools on Websites
7 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Patio11's Thoughts on Tech+finance
7 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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The Fate of Empires (1978) [pdf]
7 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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How Herpes Became a Sexual Boogeyman
7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Five cities accounted for more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth
7 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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How to build a startup engineering team
6 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Russia to Build Radar Array to “Control” the Arctic Region
6 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Ask HN: What HN-like forum software is substack using?
6 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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The 5 minute introduction to Osquery
6 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Show HN: OpenFaaS Classic Templates
6 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Verizon extends deadline for Yahoo Groups shutdown to January 31, 2020
6 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Show HN: Losing an argument online? Respond with fire
6 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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'I am going to say quiet words in your face': a conversation with the Zuckerbot
6 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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AI has bested chess and Go, but it struggles to find a diamond in Minecraft
6 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Former Amazon CEO Killed by Amazon Van
6 points • comment • dec 24, 2019