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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views
157 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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What the World Can Learn from Hongkong [video]
157 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze
156 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Pointer Authentication
156 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime
156 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Rustysd – A minimal drop-in for a subset of systemd in Rust
156 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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An art dealer disappeared with $50M. 17 years later a documentary crew found him
155 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019
155 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks
155 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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Roguelike Tutorial: Up-to-Date and Literate
155 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Rob Pike on good commit messages (2014)
155 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Offering software for snooping to governments is a booming business
155 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Show HN: Linux driver for the Xbox One wireless dongle
154 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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The Science of Wi-Fi on Airplanes
154 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems
154 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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The Two Kinds of Moderate
154 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Machine Learning Reproducibility Checklist [pdf]
153 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Student Loans a Lot Like the Subprime Mortgage Debacle, Watchdog Says
153 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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I was a drug rep and know how pharma companies pushed opioids
153 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Polytope Model
153 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/await and tokio channels
153 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Use GitHub actions at your own risk
153 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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PGP Encrypted ProtonCalendar from ProtonMail
152 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips
152 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Technology Preview for secure value recovery
152 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Google forbids login with niche Linux browsers
152 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Thoughts On a Year of Exercise
152 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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AirPods Are Becoming a Platform?
152 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
152 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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IBM Stops Server Side Swift Framework Development
152 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Efficient cache for gigabytes of data written in Go
151 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features
151 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (1983)
151 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Discontinued Microsoft Products
151 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Show HN: How to analyse 100 GB of data on your laptop with Python
151 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Caroll Spinney has died
151 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Uncover, Understand, Own – Regaining Control over Your AMD CPU [video]
151 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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German expressions that don’t exist in English
151 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction
150 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The CIVICUS Monitor
150 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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A Personal API
150 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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China Is About to Fire Up Its HL-2M Tokamak
150 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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The Value of Grey Thinking (2016)
149 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B
149 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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User Agent Changes
149 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Show HN: Bash-My-AWS – CLI Commands for AWS
149 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Thoughts on Forth Programming
149 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Get PostgreSQL Database Structure as a Detailed JavaScript Object
149 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Homemade GPS Receiver (2011)
149 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Lenia – Mathematical Life Forms
149 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Neural Network
149 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions
148 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code
148 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Making Games with Kotlin
148 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Stuff I Learnt in 2019
148 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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“Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski
148 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Multics: An Ancestor of Unix
148 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Kurt Gödel and the Mechanization of Mathematics
148 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Amazon Dodges Responsibility for Unsafe Products
148 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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If the universe is 13.8B years old, how can we see 46B light years away? (2018)
147 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Tell HN: 500 unread mails, 2K unread articles, 5K unread posts – I am drowning
147 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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The Inquirer reaches end-of-life
147 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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McDonald's holds communities together (2016)
147 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Americans are retiring to Vietnam
147 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Proxmox VE 6.1 – Open-Source virtualization platform
147 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take
147 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Selling Juicer
147 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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About Bokeh
147 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats
147 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Paean to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (2016)
147 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Electric Cars Threaten the Heart of Germany’s Economy
147 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Wisdom (albatross)
146 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures
146 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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Categories of deep recommendation systems
146 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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Mitigating a DDoS on Mastodon
145 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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LocalStorage or WebSQL unexpectedly cleared
145 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (1973) [pdf]
145 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find
145 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk
145 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over
145 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Show HN: Learn When to Quit
145 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?
145 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down
145 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Coping with Flexbox
145 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Odyssey: Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler
144 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?
144 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Apple’s Activation Lock Will Make It Difficult to Refurbish Macs
144 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020
144 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Video: A Language for Making Movies
144 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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No, that dot in the domain name of the URL is not a mistake (2004)
143 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped
143 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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ABCL – Common Lisp on the JVM
143 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver
143 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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PracticalAI 2.0: A New Platform to Learn ML Using Python, Keras and Tensorflow
142 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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NeurIPS 2019 Notes [pdf]
142 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Warrantless encryption is a first amendment issue
142 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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"I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat."
142 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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How Microbiomes Affect Fear
142 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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The battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age
142 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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What I've learned sending proposals to conferences
142 points • comment • dec 24, 2019