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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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The Afsluitdijk
237 points • comment • dec 19, 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
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Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly
236 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Open Hardware on Its Own Doesn’t Solve the Trust Problem
236 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Chinese telecoms must use "AI and other technical means" to identify phone users
236 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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How to rewrite it in Rust
236 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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First all-electric seaplane takes flight in B.C.
236 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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“I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”
235 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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How Radar Works
235 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Scientists Likely Found Way to Grow New Teeth for Patients
235 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat [pdf]
234 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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FTC rules 5-0 that Cambridge Analytica engaged in deceptive practices [pdf]
234 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Paid Cerberus 'lifetime' licenses are expiring
233 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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German BSI withholds Truecrypt security report
232 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
232 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Transputer
232 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar
231 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
231 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mandarin Pronunciation
230 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used for Ads
230 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Who Was the Buddha?
230 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Far Cry
230 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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CDC Confirms a THC Additive, Vitamin E Acetate, Is Culprit in Most Vaping Deaths
229 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
229 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Shopping Sucks Now
228 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Key practices for achieving large professional goals
228 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs
227 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Show HN: CoreUI Icons – open-source icons with marks in SVG, Webfont and raster
226 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Judge dismisses Wikimedia case against NSA over Upstream surveillance
226 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen
226 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Browser-based climate change simulation
226 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Consumers who sought cash settlement from Equifax probably won't get full $125
225 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup Got Acquired
225 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Things everyone in ML should know about belief formation in humans [video]
224 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Apprenticeships Beat Classrooms
224 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Booking.com agrees to EU demands to change travel offers
224 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Learn Rust the Dangerous Way
223 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Facebook fired an employee who was paid bribes to reactivate banned ad accounts
223 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Many Japanese children refuse to go to school
222 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Immortal Game
222 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Machine Learning Crash Course
222 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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A Guide to Distributed Teams
221 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Stories (2018)
221 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Game Critic Uses Workaround for YouTube's Copyright System (2016)
221 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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China's ambassador threatened Faroese prime minister to sign Huawei 5G deal
221 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Coolest Things I Learned in 2019
220 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Still Why No HTTPS?
220 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books
219 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
219 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
218 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Reducing the Performance Gap of Intel's MKL on AMD Threadripper
218 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Using Clojure for Web Apps
218 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Crafting Interpreters: Classes and Instances
218 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Show HN: Version Control for Databases
218 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
217 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams
217 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Introduction to Web Development (2018)
217 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared
217 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software
216 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground
216 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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KafkaHQ
215 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America
215 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Learning from OpenBSD can make computers marginally less horrible
215 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Ffmpeg-Python: Python bindings for FFmpeg – with complex filtering support
214 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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We Just Got a Rare Look at US National Security Surveillance
214 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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The “security.txt” proposal reached last step in the IETF process
214 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Pedestrian routing that offers pleasant alternatives to the shortest route
214 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes
214 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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FreeDB Is Shutting Down
213 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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The Feds Get Permission to Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits
213 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Protobuffers Are Wrong
213 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Craigslist releases new mobile app for iOS and Android
213 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Eller’s Algorithm (2012)
212 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet experiment
212 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Guerilla Gardening (2015)
212 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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How to play with people who are better than you
212 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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A Failed SaaS Postmortem
212 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown
212 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Pedestrian fatally crushed between two parked cars after one started remotely
212 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
211 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Tell HN: Merry Christmas
211 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Google bans niche browsers from Gmail?
210 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer’s proves safe in early human trial
210 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List
210 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Post-Mortem for Bra Theory
210 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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A Breakthrough in Graph Theory [video]
210 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Amateur Radio
209 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection
209 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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The Air Force of the Knights Hospitaller
209 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Bill Atkinson: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple
208 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video]
208 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Busyness leads to bad decisions
207 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Giving every IPv6 address a name
207 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed
207 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Radeon Open Compute 3.0
207 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: 10 years of Ceph
206 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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You Suck at Excel (2015) [video]
206 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Tips I use to avoid burnout
206 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
206 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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MIT lecture series on deep learning in January 2020
205 points • comment • dec 26, 2019