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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Every Google result now looks like an ad
3582 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Thank HN: You helped me get a new job
2392 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
2270 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Goodbye, Clean Code
1642 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
1605 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Which Emoji Scissors Close?
1498 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
1434 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
1343 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
1306 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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A Sad Day for Rust
1195 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Not everyone has an internal monologue
1153 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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How to Exit Vim
1101 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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My Second Year as a Solo Developer
1039 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Monoliths Are the Future
1009 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
993 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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WireGuard is now in Linus' tree
978 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
955 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
923 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Mozilla lays off 70
900 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
896 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Software Disenchantment (2018)
889 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now
862 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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SMS is not 2FA-secure
856 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019
837 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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My FOSS Story
821 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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DigitalOcean is laying off staff
812 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
807 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V
789 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?
783 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
777 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
773 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Products I Wish Existed
772 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month
771 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
758 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Firefox 72.0
752 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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I Was Google’s Head of International Relations
736 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
727 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)
718 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data
717 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level
715 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration
715 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]
711 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
704 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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When good ideas make bad business
704 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
698 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
695 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Unofficial Apple Archive
693 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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The Polygons of Another World
693 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?
689 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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DuckDuckGo Traffic
689 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers
676 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Off-Facebook activity
673 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
667 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
664 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
659 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years
656 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go
654 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Terry Jones has died
644 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
644 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Reverse engineering course
640 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
640 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Float Toy
634 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
634 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next
624 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine (2018)
622 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
619 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages
614 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Responsive Pixel Art
610 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
608 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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The EARN IT Act: how to ban end-to-end encryption without banning it
604 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions
602 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
602 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment
601 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Clayton Christensen has died
600 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Hipmunk Says Goodbye
600 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Google backtracks on search results design
594 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
593 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Why I Keep a Research Blog
591 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware
590 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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13.3" full color ePaper display
589 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
588 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
587 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Bug #915: Please help
587 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Being a Noob
586 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit
584 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
579 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
579 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces
575 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
574 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server
569 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
566 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
555 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
549 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study
549 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
549 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average
543 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
540 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Linus: Don't Use ZFS
539 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?
538 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation)
533 points • comment • jan 05, 2020