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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.0
205 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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MIT lecture series on deep learning in January 2020
205 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Arcade Game Typography
205 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
205 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality
205 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Preventing Tracking Prevention Tracking
204 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Four fired workers file charges against Google
204 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Click Here to Kill
204 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Hyperscan: High-performance multiple regex matching library from Intel
204 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Experiments in Constraint-Based Graphic Design
203 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Some things every C programmer should know about C (2002)
203 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years
203 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Informer: A bot library that allows masquerading as real users on Telegram
203 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Million WebSockets and Go (2017)
202 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler
202 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Ohio gas well blowout leaked more than many countries do in a year
201 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Paul Volcker has died
200 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log?
200 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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What's new in Java 12, 13 and 14
200 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Bloomberg just bought CityLab and put half its reporters out of a job
200 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919)
200 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don’t disrupt astronomy
199 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Yoga Effects on Brain Health: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature
199 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Basics of Compiler Design (2000) [pdf]
199 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?
198 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1
198 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you
197 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Born in a Garage
197 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Why introductory chemistry is boring: a long-term historical perspective
197 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Meet Dash O’Pepper
196 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year
196 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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I spent way too much effort to win a game show on Dutch national TV
196 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale
196 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
195 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video]
195 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Firefox 71
195 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games
195 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
194 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Computational photography from selfies to black holes
194 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Google under investigation for ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings, discouraging unions
193 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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How a Chinese Company Built a $250M Search Hijacking Empire
193 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service
193 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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A Tesla Valve
192 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages
192 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Windows 10 Desktop: Physically building and photographing the logos (2015)
192 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy
192 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Take action to save .org and prosecute those who sold out the internet
192 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users
192 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (2009)
192 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example
192 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Amazon is now delivering half its own packages, rivaling FedEx and UPS
191 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Reject Google Nest or Amazon Ring Corp Surveillance and a Dystopic Future
191 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Quadratic Payments: A Primer
190 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999)
190 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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We 30x'd our Node parallelism
190 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen
190 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
190 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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New Features in ES2019
189 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Why Child Care Is So Expensive
189 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP
189 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End
189 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Taking ML to production with Rust
189 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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An example of exploiting two fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox on Windows
188 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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A walk through the Magit interface
188 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)
188 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
188 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Layout 101
187 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming
187 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse
187 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments
187 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors
187 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Show HN: I'm building a robot that performs haircuts [video]
186 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Show HN: A guitar tab viewer that listens
186 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person
185 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Ask HN: How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?
185 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Git from the Inside Out (2015)
185 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering [pdf]
185 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C
185 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig
185 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky
184 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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The Eternal Novice Trap
184 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Doctors are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training
184 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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E-scooter company goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads
184 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll
184 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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What's Next for R?
184 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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A cool way to explain logic gates with water [video]
183 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Breast cancer detection in mammography using deep learning approach
183 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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My Experience as a Remote Worker
183 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Navy’s flawed technology set the USS John McCain up for disaster
182 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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The man who made Wolfenstein
182 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Ask HN: What is your financial “setup”?
182 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%?
182 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
182 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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SoftRAM 95 (1996)
182 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet
181 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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When an SQL Database Makes a Great Pub/Sub
181 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Libcamera – A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS
181 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics
181 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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The Difference Between CI and CD
181 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm
180 points • comment • dec 11, 2019