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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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WLW: America's 500,000 watt radio station (2015)
94 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Secretive Surveillance Company Is Selling Cops Cameras Hidden in Gravestones
94 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis
94 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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College as an incubator of Girardian terror
94 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Some aspects of memory get better as we age
94 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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MS OS/2 SDK Document Dump
94 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Superhuman and the Productivity Meta-Layer
94 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Sorting Algorithms in C
93 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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The Build is Always Broken
93 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Including Illegal Activity in the U.S. National Economic Accounts [pdf]
93 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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MSL: A New Programming Language for Text Editing and Fact Verification [pdf]
93 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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The sad state of screen sharing on desktop Linux
93 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Amazon Prime video gives amateur how-to’s, conspiracy theories a stage
93 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Show HN: CrossHair – SMT Assisted Testing for Python
93 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Beethoven’s audacious acts of musical risk-taking
93 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Dependent Type Systems as Macros [pdf]
93 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Raw WebGPU
93 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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A History of Silicon Valley
93 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Integrate PWAs into Native Sharing UIs with Workbox
93 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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A Next-Generation Trash Can
93 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Amazon has long ruled the cloud – now it must fend off rivals
92 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Nintendo’s iconic logo escaped an “age-up” remake
92 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances
92 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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The Wuhan Virus
92 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Mach2 – Windows Feature Control Multi-Tool
92 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Unremarkables
92 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Masterminds of Programming: Chuck Moore (2009)
92 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behind recent cyberattacks
92 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Hyundai and Kia back Arrival, a British startup making electric delivery vans
92 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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The Deadlock Empire – Slay Dragons, Master Concurrency (2016)
92 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (1999)
92 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Writing a Chip-8 Emulator with Rust and WebAssembly (2017)
92 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Interactive explanation of a procedural music system
92 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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The Difficulty of Disclosure, Surebet247 and the Streisand Effect
92 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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India Surpassed the USA to Become the 2nd Largest Smartphone Market in the World
91 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Visual Subnet Calculator
91 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Automatic Differentiation via Contour Integration
91 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Google offers certificate to help IT career growth
91 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Locks, Mutexes, and Semaphores: Types of Synchronization Objects (2014)
91 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Panopticon
91 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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You Bet [pdf]
91 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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No Job Is Too Small for Compact Geostationary Satellites
91 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Avast caught selling user data
91 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Lies vs. Statistics: VPN Virtual Server Locations
91 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Amazon takes a swipe at Honey, PayPal’s $4B acquisition
90 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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LPE and RCE in OpenBSD OpenSMTPD
90 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Nine States Face Economic Contraction, Most Since 2009 Crisis
90 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Artificial intelligence will do what we ask, and that's a problem
90 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Concrete Semantics
90 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors
90 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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The FDA Announces Two More Antacid Recalls Due to Cancer Risk
90 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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A surprising new source of attention in the brain
90 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Show HN: Mute.vc – Mute Investors on Twitter
90 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Pharmaceutical Executive Sentenced To 66 Months In Prison In Opioid Trial
90 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Announcing Updated Postman Plans and Pricing
90 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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What Nihilism Is Not
90 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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US Pressed Dutch Gov over ASML Sale
90 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Cartesio – Low-cost Cartesian plotter robot
90 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Difficulty Bomb
89 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri
89 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
89 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too
89 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Show HN: DOME, a framework for making 2D games with Wren
89 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Software is a focus intensive industry
89 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Coq is a Lean Typechecker
89 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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The Lost Caverns of Tsojconth – Gary Gygax’s first published D&D module
89 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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“Like” at Your Own Risk
89 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Telescope captures most detailed pictures yet of the sun
89 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Bio-coal: A renewable and producible fuel from lignocellulosic biomass
89 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Duktape is an embeddable JavaScript engine, with a focus on portability
88 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops?
88 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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OpenWRT remote code execution via MITM due to bug in package manager
88 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Uber to quit Colombia after judge says it doesn’t compete fairly
88 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Those Mythological "Jobs Of Tomorrow"
88 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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UN experts say hacking of Bezos phone suggests effort to influence news coverage
88 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Travelex being held to ransom by hackers
88 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Optacon
88 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Show HN: Set with Friends – A Real-Time multiplayer online card game
88 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Swift as a C Language REPL
87 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate [audio]
87 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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How Tesla's battery costs impact its gross margins
87 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Why Citationsy.com Doesn’t Have a Cookie Notice
87 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Variations on symmetric nearest neighbour smoothing
87 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Introducing Increment subscriptions
87 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on climate, workers say
87 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)
87 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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The Automated Dungeon Master
87 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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The phases product teams go through
86 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Native American tribe insulates itself from CA blackouts with microgrid utility
86 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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A review of the effects of installing air filters in classrooms
86 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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AGPL License
86 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Particle accelerator fits on the head of a pin
86 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Machine Unlearning
86 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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A computer made from DNA can compute the square root of 900
86 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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VidGear: Video processing library for Python lovers
86 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Shenzhen court rules AI-written article has copyright
86 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Beware the Mean
86 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Hacking a job search with fifty dollars of free LinkedIn credit
86 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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FAANG hiring managers share how to answer behavioral interview questions
86 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psychiatry for decades
85 points • comment • jan 26, 2020