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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Clear and Present Leadership
144 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Ignore Sunk Costs (2009)
144 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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A Modern Introduction to Online Learning
144 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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KeePassXC 2.5.2
143 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Google Sheets was down
143 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Realm of Racket
143 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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US Department of Justice Argues Assange Has No First Amendment Rights
143 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
143 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (2010)
142 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky
142 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company's climate failures
142 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it explodes
142 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Worrydream Refs
142 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Actix Web – Project Future
141 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Neumorphism in User Interfaces
141 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Machine Learning Can't Handle Long-Term Time-Series Data
141 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads
141 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Analyzing churn rates, free trials, and other metrics
141 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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The Polygons of Another World: IBM PC
141 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Rolling Stones tracks posted briefly on YouTube in attempt to extend copyright
141 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Unremovable malware found preinstalled on low-end smartphone sold in the US
141 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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When to Overcommunicate
141 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Scientists identify pathways that extend nematode worm lifespan fivefold
141 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Firefox 72 – our first song of 2020
141 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift
141 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect (2018)
141 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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U.S. cancer death rate drops by largest annual margin ever, report says
140 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Simple Tiny Compiler in C
140 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Cryptocurrency in the 2020s
140 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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How to Write a Book in Emacs (2015)
140 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Equinix is acquiring Packet
140 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Why so many things cost exactly zero
139 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Rat had 'no brain' and somehow lived a normal life
139 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Restack: Full-Stack ReasonML
139 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Detroit's salt mine: City beneath the city
138 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Better technology means higher expectations, which creates more work
138 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Show HN: A self-hosted email engine
138 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Boeing docs show staffers discussing ways to manipulate regulators on 737 Max
138 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS
138 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation
137 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Fixing Google Map Transit Feed Mistakes in Taiwan
137 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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F# Data Type Providers in .Net Core (2018)
137 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built
137 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Age-Partitioned Bloom Filters
137 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better
137 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London
137 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation
136 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Papyrus, a Rust REPL
136 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Pinscreen Deepfake Live Prototype [video]
136 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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New 10.3″ Waveshare E Ink Monitor
136 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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On Pair Programming
136 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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A game in a pure language (part 1): introduction and problems with Idris
136 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging job can give them PTSD
136 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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African grey parrots spontaneously 'lend a wing'
136 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session
135 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Things and Stuff of 2019
135 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Pattern Matching in Ruby 2.7 (2019)
135 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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State of SaaS Product Onboarding
135 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Bubble talk (2015)
134 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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'Patient zero' in cyberattack on UN aviation agency was official's son (2019)
134 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
134 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax
134 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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A note on reading big, difficult books
134 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done
134 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Ending Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins
134 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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OpenSK: a fully open-source security key implementation
134 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU and memory profiler for Python
133 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices
133 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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A new obstacle to landing a job after college: getting approved by AI
133 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
133 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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AlphaFold: Using AI for Scientific Discovery
133 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Bay Area Regional GTFS Feed: 31 transit agency feeds together in one API
133 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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The Shapes of Code
133 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Glial brain cells, long in neurons’ shadow, reveal hidden powers
133 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Google YOLO clickjacking (2018)
132 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics
132 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong
132 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Clearview AI is struggling to address complaints as its legal issues mount
132 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Viaweb's First Business Plan (1995)
132 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Space Invaders
132 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout
132 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Database containing details of 56M US residents found on the public internet
131 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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FFmpeg libav tutorial – from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more
131 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Hopefully fair performance reviews for software developers
131 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Apple is suing iOS virtualization vendor Corellium for violating DMCA
131 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Stripe Atlas Vendor Leaked SSNs
131 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Using OpenAI Gym to train an open-source 3D printed robot
131 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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AT&T lied about everything it promised to do if it got a tax cut
131 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Grindr and OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says
130 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade
130 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Wc in D: 712 Characters Without a Single Branch
130 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows
130 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly
130 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future
130 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase
130 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy
130 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white
130 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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The Hunt for the Fastest Zero
130 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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R7RS versus R6RS (2018)
130 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Microsoft urged: Open-source Windows 7 to 'undo past wrongs'
130 points • comment • jan 28, 2020