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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Cost of a 51% attack for different cryptocurrencies?
105 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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The Email Zuckerberg Sent to Cut His Cofounder Out of Facebook (2012)
105 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Who’s Watching Your Porch?
104 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Emacs Lisp Animations
104 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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A biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops
104 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on random walks
104 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Mazda made its first EV artificially slower 'to feel more like a gas car'
104 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Store the proof of a webpage saved with SingleFile in Bitcoin
104 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Benchmarking shell pipelines and the Unix “tools” philosophy
104 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Amazon soars after earnings beat
103 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Time Series
103 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems (2015) [pdf]
103 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Waterfalls of the Great Lakes Region and Beyond
103 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Google vs. Oracle: The Supreme Court will decide software development’s future?
103 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Confessions of a lotus-eater
103 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon Valley (2016)
103 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Browser Games Aren't an Easy Target
103 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot
103 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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What people get wrong about Bertrand Russell
103 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Show HN: HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News
102 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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De-Anonymization via Clickjacking in 2019
102 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO
102 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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The Eccentric Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (2019)
102 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Shifting Careers to Autonomous Vehicles
102 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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API Security Best Practices
102 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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The lazy way to being outstanding: go after hard things
102 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen
102 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown
101 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Ukrainian plane was 'unintentionally' shot down, Iran state TV says
101 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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The Astonishing Prescience of Nam June Paik
101 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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A Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft
101 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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The military is building long-range facial recognition that works in the dark
101 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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It's too late to collect sand
101 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Shenzhen’s economy under strain: blame the trade war?
101 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
101 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Finnish PM Marin calls for 4-day-week and 6-hours working day in the country
101 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Ishikawa diagram
101 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Windows disk space requirements (log-log scale)
101 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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A billionaire retailer whose shops had no stock
100 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Telega.el: GNU Emacs Telegram client (unofficial)
100 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Gustav III of Sweden's Coffee Experiment
100 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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I quit contracting 6 months ago
100 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Why “Gradient” Descent?
100 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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What Makes a Successful Founder?
100 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Kubernaughty: A collection of documentation, how-tos, tools for K8s
100 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases
100 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
99 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Catching SQL errors at build time
99 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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'Universal memory' research passes new milestone
99 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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The Y2K bug is back, causing headaches for developers again
99 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Snowflake: Graphical SFTP client and terminal emulator with helpful utilities
99 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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American fuzzy lop – a security-oriented fuzzer
99 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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WinWorld: online museum of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software
99 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Language as an intellectual tool: From hieroglyphics to APL (1991)
98 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Better-initramfs: initramfs supporting SSH, lvm, luks, raid, uswsusp and more
98 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem
98 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk?
98 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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WebAssembly is easy – a hello world example
98 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Lidar Company Velodyne Debuts $100 Auto Safety Sensor
98 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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To replace the additive BPA, a chemical company teams up with unlikely allies
98 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Tree rings show the Americas are prone to catastrophic, simultaneous droughts
98 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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FDA approves first US phage therapy trial (2019)
98 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Reiser5
98 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Pilecki's Report
98 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Hidden Dangers of the Great Index Fund Takeover
98 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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ACLU: ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays. We’re Suing
97 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Airlines scour the world for scarce 737 Max simulators
97 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Paging Dr. Google: How the Tech Giant Is Laying Claim to Health Data
97 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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How to Read Self-Help
97 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you currently solve authentication?
97 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)
97 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Show HN: Neural networks tutorial series with code
97 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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En svensk tiger
97 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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How to Make a Secret Phone Call (2015)
97 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Using neural networks to solve advanced mathematics equations
97 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Why should bottlepy stick to a file?
96 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Are you contracting on the side (while working full time)?
96 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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How to Allocate Memory (2016)
96 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks
96 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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An unidentifiable mechanism that helps bypass the Great Firewall of China
96 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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ONiO.zero: ultra-low-power wireless MCU using energy harvesting technology
96 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Which are the best resources to learn software architecture?
96 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function without a physical office
96 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Highlights from Git 2.25
96 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 72.0.1 and ESR 68.4.1
96 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Revolution Pi – The Industrial Raspberry Pi
96 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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How Carlos Ghosn Was Smuggled Out of Japan
95 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for algorithm learning
95 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Gravity: Upstream Kubernetes packaging tools
95 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Show HN: Vusic – A Simple Web Player for Apple Music Built with Vue and Vuex
95 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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15ft tumbleweeds trap drivers and force Washington state road closure
95 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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MDatePickerView – Quick and Easy iOS Date Picker
95 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics
95 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
95 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Clues That Neanderthals Didn't Know How to Make Fire (2017)
95 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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What Is Color Management?
95 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Stack-Oriented Programming
95 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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World’s Shortest Wavelength Laser Diode Emits Deep UV Light at Room Temperature
95 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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100 years ago, prohibition went into effect
95 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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LISP I Programmer's Manual (1960) [pdf]
94 points • comment • jan 18, 2020