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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?
287 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand
285 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten Notes
284 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Show HN: We used 890M chess games to make an interactive opening graph
284 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last
283 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017)
282 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC
282 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?
280 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency
280 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Database Internals
280 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Apple Sues Nuvia’s CEO, a Former Employee
280 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Low-Cost VPS Testing
279 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor
279 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)
278 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Faults in Post Office accounting system led to workers being convicted of theft
277 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
277 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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The sad state of personal data and infrastructure
276 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease [pdf]
276 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old
275 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS
275 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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PIA open-sources and announces audit plans
275 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers
275 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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What it's like to bootstrap a business before it can financially support you
274 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Betrusted: A Security Enclave for Humans
273 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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88% of Americans use a second screen while watching TV
272 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Introduction to Stochastic Processes [pdf]
271 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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I only use an iFrame to crawl and scrape content
271 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health
270 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age
269 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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The old internet died and we watched and did nothing
268 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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I Was Wrong About Speed Reading (2015)
267 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Jack Dorsey Wants to Decentralize Twitter
266 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
265 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Microbrowsers Are Everywhere
265 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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2020 Cloud Report: AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure
265 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Nim vs. Crystal
264 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?
263 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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DeepSpeech 0.6
263 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding
263 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights
261 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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L-systems
261 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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The Higher States of Bromine
261 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017)
260 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectious diseases combined
260 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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BugJail: New Java debugger – debug across time with mouse
259 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl
258 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines
258 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Why the ‘Queen of Shitty Robots’ Renounced Her Crown
258 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup
258 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)
257 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017)
257 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer
257 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Deploy-your-own-SaaS: “only yours” cloud services for everyday needs
256 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Repl from Repo
255 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions
255 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Julian Assange contributed to PostgreSQL
254 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules in PRs
254 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Oakland shows how to expand housing supply: tell developers they can build homes
254 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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RosettaGit: Same projects in many programming languages
254 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (2011)
253 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Downtime is an effortless way to improve your memory (2018)
253 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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ACM signed letter opposing open access
251 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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RIP Syd Mead (Blade Runner, TRON Designer)
251 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Keybase cancels Stellar token airdrop
250 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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The Go runtime scheduler's way of dealing with system calls
250 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL
249 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Is true hacking dead? What we lost
248 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC
248 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)
247 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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The town's so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE)
247 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality
246 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
246 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook
246 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Multipass 1.0 – Mini-cloud on Mac or Windows workstation
246 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break internet and cable titans
246 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc
245 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Is Arm ready for server dominance?
245 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Say it's 1962, you're lucky enough to be a programmer working with an IBM 7090
245 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52
244 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Best Illusion of the Year Contest - 2019 Finalists
244 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt
244 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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36th Chaos Communication Congress – Streams
243 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow
243 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Big Pile of Vim-Like
243 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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PostgreSQL at low level: stay curious
243 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns [pdf]
243 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hosting platform
243 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Using WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime
243 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Firefox Full-device VPN
243 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
242 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Ask HN: What do top engineers you know do that others don't?
241 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Climbing the Wealth Ladder
240 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do?
240 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Indexing Billions of Text Vectors
240 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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The next generation of wall chargers
240 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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How I made a website with Svelte
240 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)
238 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Cheating in Programming
238 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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SF wants startups to behave, so why did it reject the ‘nice guy’ of e-scooters?
238 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Apple admits iPhone 11 Pro still collects location data even when told not to
237 points • comment • dec 04, 2019