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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source analytics for WordPress
180 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Boeing Weighs Cutting or Halting 737 Max Production
180 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm
180 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014)
179 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices
179 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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How to Be a Statistical Detective
179 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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The soul of a new computer company
179 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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“Breathability” Comparison of Commercial Outerwear Shell Layers (2018) [pdf]
179 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Business Models
178 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (2017)
178 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines
178 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster
178 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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The Siege of Carrie Lam
177 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Is Leaving the Company’s Board of Directors
177 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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The next professional network will not look like LinkedIn
177 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018)
177 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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U.S. government removes detailed pollution map from internet
177 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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A Better Qt Because of Open Source and KDE
177 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Structuring Your Project
177 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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India builds detention camps for up to 1.9m people not on citizens register
176 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info
176 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars
176 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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The Road to Scala 3
175 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Python Type Hints
175 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)
174 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Kill Sticky Headers (2013)
174 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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BBC Sound Effects
174 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Bushfires in Australia so big they generate pyrocumulonimbus starting more fires
173 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Killersheep – Silly game to show off the new features of Vim 8.2
173 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping
173 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D
173 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Must and Must Not: On writing documentation
173 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Returned online purchases often sent to landfill
172 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Ember.js Octane Edition
172 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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'Shockingly High' Number of Injuries at Amazon's Staten Island Warehouse
172 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Show HN: Krabby – A keyboard interface to the web, inspired by Kakoune
172 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Functional programming design patterns (2015) [video]
171 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Ask HN: Ex-Employer gossiping I “hacked” their platform – what to do?
171 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Java's URL.equals() Performs DNS Resolution
171 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Jeff Dean interview: Machine learning trends in 2020
171 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse
171 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Boeing astronaut capsule for NASA stalls in orbit
171 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Twitter to decentralize something
171 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Tract: A Hugo theme for ambitious documentation projects
170 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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An industrious mouse tidies up a retired electrician’s tool shed each night
169 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online
169 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID
169 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Man Loses Home After Failing to Pay $8.41 in Property Taxes
169 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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On Linux's Random Number Generation
169 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Datamining Bandersnatch
169 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Apple has a secret team working on internet satellites
169 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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A new way to make quadratic equations easy
168 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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A hiring test I'd like to run
168 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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We need to adopt a no-commute culture
168 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552
168 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines
168 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Processes
167 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Write Junior Code
167 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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The Principles of Versioning in Go
167 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater
166 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Linux 3.8 introduced unprivileged user namespaces [pdf]
166 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD
166 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow
166 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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A New Search Engine
166 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Too Much Crypto [pdf]
166 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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The Pineapple Fund donated $55M in nonprofit Bitcoin grants
165 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Global Wave of Debt Is Largest, Fastest in 50 Years
165 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in Insider Trading Ring
165 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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“Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers
165 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Man sentenced to prison after assault of domain name owner who refused to sell
165 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Changes to accessing and using Geolite2 databases
165 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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New disclosures to our archive of state-backed information operations
165 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized
164 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Files Are Hard (2015)
164 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Thieves Are Using Bluetooth to Target Vehicle Break-Ins
164 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling barring prosecution for sleeping in public
164 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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SuperShuttle is going out of business
164 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook
163 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Incident: Wizz Air and Air Europa Planes in Near Collision over Spain
163 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel
162 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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What were the creepiest declassified documents of the last decade?
162 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Software Library: MS-DOS Games
162 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Sand Theft
162 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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How a preventable disaster killed six marines
162 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Ask HN: Best ways to volunteer?
162 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF (2018)
162 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Books on Thinking About Thinking
161 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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How to Make Python Wait
161 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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A Good Year for “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”
160 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Climate change and nutrient pollution are depleting oxygen from oceans: study
160 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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How to Make Remote a Success
159 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Lisp Macros by Example
158 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029
158 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
158 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Visualising the amount of microplastic we eat
158 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race
158 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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How Smartphones Betray Democracy
158 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Conclusions from analyzing Y Combinator’s investing history
158 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Bazel 2.0
158 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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What the World Can Learn from Hongkong [video]
157 points • comment • dec 29, 2019