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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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The famous Peter Thiel interview question
69 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Understanding Memory Cards
69 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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GNU Typist (2017)
68 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium?
68 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Australia's severe wildfires were predicted by the government over a decade ago
68 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Noether’s Theorem – A Quick Explanation (2019)
68 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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D for Data Science: Calling R from D
68 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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A Proof of Useful Work for Artificial Intelligence on the Blockchain
68 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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The world is not enough
68 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Ask HN: My Suspicion Regarding “M247 Ltd”
68 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Toronto area sent nuclear alerts by mistake
68 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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SoftBank is still writing big checks
68 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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The DOJ Is Finally Suing US Telecom Providers for Robocalls
68 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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The music moves us, but how? (2018)
68 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new crypto license
68 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Average Denuvo cracking time is now 75 days
68 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Job Tenure and the Myth of Job Hopping
68 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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US feds, states could join forces on Google probes: report
67 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Satellaview
67 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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The other side of technical skill: domain knowledge and long-term vision
67 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Why So Many Londoners Live in 'Two-Up, Two-Down' Housing
67 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Directsum.jl – Abstract tangent bundle vector space type operations
67 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Joining Tailscale: Simplifying Networking, Authentication, and Authorization
67 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Glacier National Park to remove all 'glaciers will be gone by 2020' signs
67 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Comments on the MISRA C coding guidelines (2011)
67 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Gray Matter Volume
67 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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23andMe licenses its own drug compound to Spanish firm Almirall
66 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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DAIN: Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation
66 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake
66 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Announcing RDS/Aurora Snapshot Export to S3
66 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel
66 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Show HN: Pong in 512 bytes (boot sector)
66 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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The Swinging 1660s
66 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Climate Target Update Tracker
66 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Are Daily Scrum meetings worth it?
66 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Show HN: A keyboard shortcut library for React
66 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Green Wave
66 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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The two party system is killing our democracy
65 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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The Qt Company is stopping Qt LTS releases. KDE is going to be fine
65 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Tabula Scripta: A spreadsheet for small data-driven apps
65 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Self_update: In-place updates for Rust executables
65 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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On Composition (2019)
65 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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The Inventor of the Navy's 'UFO Patents'
65 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Kids do program – Experiences from the course
65 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
65 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Privacy implications of the QUIC protocol [pdf]
65 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Kops – Kubernetes Operations
65 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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The Mac Malware of 2019
65 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Boeing Backs Simulator Training for 737 Max Pilots in Reversal
65 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Towards fungal computer (2018)
64 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Balloon Experiments with Amateur Radio
64 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Napoleon’s Vision for a New Imperial Rome
64 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Show HN: Study, research and learn with thinking notebook – MindForger 1.50.0
64 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Doug Tygar, author of Why Johnny Can't Encrypt, has died
64 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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U.S. retailers rush to comply with CCPA
64 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Was Paul Feyerabend Really Science's "Worst Enemy"? (2016)
64 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Glot.io – An open source multi-lang pastebin with runnable snippets and API
64 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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TextCaptcha: Simple Textual Captcha Challenges
64 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness
64 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Nearly half of Americans didn’t go outside for recreation in 2018
63 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Some learning is a whole-brain affair, study shows
63 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Robotic gripper uses acoustic levitation for contact-free manipulation
63 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Study finds dopamine, biological clock link to snacking, overeating and obesity
63 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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I Started a $80K/Month Business Connecting Freelancers with Companies
63 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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There are too many screens, time to go back to gauges
63 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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How did British officers live in the scorching heat of India?
63 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Mount Vesuvius eruption: Extreme heat 'turned man's brain to glass'
63 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Pwning your web server the easy way or why exposing –/.ssh/ is a bad idea
63 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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NIST Releases Version 1.0 of Privacy Framework
62 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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First Node.js-Based Ransomware: Nodera
62 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Comac engineers miscalculated the forces that would be placed on the engines
62 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Playdate – December 2019 Update
62 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Backblaze acknowledges using curl, becomes the new largest single-shot donor
62 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll
62 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Show HN: Sandy – A tiny Sandbox to run untrusted code ️
62 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Von Neumann and Turing's Universal Machine
62 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Reusable vs. Re-editable Code (2018) [pdf]
62 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Barn Find MOS MCS6502 – A Restoration
62 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Practice Fusion to pay $145M for taking kickbacks aimed at increasing opioid use
62 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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More Than 750M Worldwide Would Migrate If They Could
62 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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RedHat urges US Supreme Court to support unrestricted use of software interfaces
62 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate Change
61 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Facebook Financial Results 2019 Q4
61 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Scientists discover 'why stress turns hair white'
61 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Police tracked a terror suspect until his phone went dark after Facebook warning
61 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Five methods for Filtering data with multiple conditions in Python
61 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you curate links/bookmarks?
61 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later
61 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Microsoft had shifted at least $39B in U.S. profits to Puerto Rico
61 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Schöningen Spears
61 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Blazor Mobile, Uno Platform, and WebAssembly
61 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Show HN: I wrote about book about rebasing in Git
61 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Time-Lock Encryption (2011)
61 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Huawei set for limited role in UK 5G networks
61 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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A simple C++11 thread pool implementation
61 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Hackett, a Haskell-Like Lisp in Racket
61 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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The Trapper Keeper (2017)
61 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Polyphonic overtone singing explained visually (2014) [video]
61 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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How the internet helped crack the Astros' sign-stealing case
61 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Technology Will Soon Give Us Precise Control Over Our Brains and Genes?
61 points • comment • jan 06, 2020