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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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The gene-based hack that is revolutionizing epidemiology
5 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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These Journalists Lost Their Jobs. Here Are the Stories They Couldn’t Tell
5 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Scala 2 Roadmap Update: The Road to Scala 3
5 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Spell Checker in Python
5 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use the App. It’s Not the Only One
5 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Cops storm Nginx's Moscow offices after a Russian biz claims it owns Nginx
5 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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China’s space programme gets back on track with successful rocket launch
5 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Piles of insecure smart toys fill retailers shelves
5 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Science does advance one funeral at a time
5 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Why are people attracted to 50:50 probabilities?
5 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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OverDrive Media Acquired by PE Firm
5 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Tesla launches $2k Acceleration Boost for 3.9s 0-60 MPH in Model 3 Dual Motor
5 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Putin: Russia manifesto outlining plans is coming true
5 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Tech Stack: How I quickly developed a successful product as a solo developer
5 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Osquery vs. Ossec: Which Is Best for Linux Security in 2020?
5 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X Running on Google Cloud Platform
5 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Chinese programmers work like slaves in Cambodia
5 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Ask HN: Net Neutrality Repeal Consequences?
5 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Chinese scientists are collecting DNA to build a ‘genetic tool’ for surveillance
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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DeepMind co-founder moves to Google
5 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Boeing considers suspending or halting 737 Max production
5 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Ethereum Studio
5 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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‘Star Wars’ Owes a Great Debt to Akira Kurosawa’s ‘The Hidden Fortress’
5 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Bastillion – A web-based bastion host with auditing and key management
5 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Billionaires haven’t earned all they have
5 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Ask HN: What do you do with your free tier or dirt-cheap VM?
5 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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The Experts Look Ahead: Cramming more components onto integrated circuits (1965) [pdf]
5 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin
5 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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America Shouldn’t Panic About China
5 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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The Main Problem with Tesla's Supercharger Network
5 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Waiting for Betelgeuse: what's up with the tempestuous star?
5 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Tech Companies Need Philosophers
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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'This is small talk purgatory': what Tinder taught me about love
5 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Ransomware Gangs Now Outing Victim Businesses That Don’t Pay Up
5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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A closed-door meeting shows farmers are waking up on climate change
5 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Why Event-Based Systems?
5 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Self-cleaning solar panels: why nanotexture and hydrophobicity matter
5 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For
5 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Reddit says UK-US trade talks document leak 'linked to Russia'
5 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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2019 My year in review: inlets proxy and tunnel
5 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Ransomeware attack hits major US data center provider
5 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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HSBC bank steals money from Hong Kong resistance movement
5 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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WireGuard merged to net-next, on its way to Linux 5.6
5 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Widespread Protests Across India Against the Citizenship Amendment Bill
5 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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An Inside-Out Course on Number Theory (Last Class)
5 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Does Natural Law Need Elegant Mathematics?
5 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Google finally ends support for the old Google Glass after a controversial life
5 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Is Net Zero Emissions an Impossible Goal?
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Alphabet,Apple,Tesla, Microsoft exploit child labor to mine cobalt for batteries
5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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First human head transplant could be achieved by 2030
5 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Boost's shared_ptr up to 10× slower than OCaml's garbage collection (2011)
5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Apple New Mac Pro Desktop Costs $52,000. Without $400 Wheels
5 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Prime Power: How Amazon Squeezes the Businesses Behind Its Store
5 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Apple's Independent Repair Program Is a Useless PR Stunt
5 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Ask HN: Who Owns Atmosphere of Earth?
5 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Ask HN: do you ever clean your email marketing db from inactives?
5 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Fast Cloudfront Log Queries Using AWS Athena and Serverless
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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An Interview with Drew DeVault
5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Goals vs. objectives and why you got it wrong
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Elon's Cybertruck Reveal Was So Bad It Merited Him a Garbage Pail Kid Card
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Elon Musk wins defamation trial over 'pedo guy' tweet
5 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Radiation breaks connections in the brain
5 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Keynes foresaw the chaos that would follow from the Versailles peace treaty
5 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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iPhone 11’s U1 chip necessitates constant geolocation checks, Apple says
5 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Ask HN: Moonlight without violating employment contract?
5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Mobile industry has stifled eSIM–and the DOJ is demanding change
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Magic Leap’s next-generation headset is reportedly ‘years away from launch’
5 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Bayesian inference explains human choices in group decision-making
5 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Why data centres are the new frontier in the fight against climate change
5 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Practical DevOps #2: On shaming and blaming
5 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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AWS Nitro Enclaves
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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JavaScript Promise combinators: race, all, allSettled, any
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Is psychopathy untreatable? Why researchers are starting to change their minds
5 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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China produces 95% of world's gallium, used in 5G base station chipsets
5 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Can we lose Space for decades due to space debris?
5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Cdcontainers – library of data containers and data structures for C
5 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Bringing On-Prem Kubernetes to Cloud Parity
5 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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The most influential games of the decade
5 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Taiwan loses 3k chip engineers to 'Made in China 2025'
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Austin Is the No. 1 Tech Town in the U.S. for IT Pros
5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Putting pigs in the shade: the radical farming system banking on trees
5 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Password Generator
5 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Lidar Camera L515 – Intel RealSense Depth and Tracking Cameras
5 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Henry Finn Built $2M/Year Video Production Company
5 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Ask HN: HN Holiday Theme
5 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Ask HN: Good strategies for finding jobs with companies in specific fields?
5 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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How the Immigrant Dream Died in an Automotive Shantytown
5 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Write Dumb Code – Advice from Four Leading Java Developers
5 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Dynamic Periodic Table
5 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Why People Pretend to Talk as Their Pets
5 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Solutions to the tiny window manager challenge – Julia Evans' Blog
5 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Thanks for inspiring a generation of pointless gadgets, Keurig
5 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Choose Your Docker Base Image Wisely
5 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Golfer Embraces Fan with Down Syndrome Whose Yell Caused Miss on Crucial Shot
5 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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New York's high-rise jails: what could go wrong?
5 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Show HN: Navattic – A Visual Content Management Platform for Pre-Sales Demos
5 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Five Card Nancy (1999)
5 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Ask HN: What personal blogs would you recommend?
5 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Room to Breathe: My Quest for Clean Indoor Air
5 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Tesla Proved the Haters Wrong
5 points • comment • dec 23, 2019