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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Visa Buys Plaid
531 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language
530 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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California Attorney General delays .org sale
530 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': report
527 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Firefox Multi-Account Containers
522 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org
519 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
509 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Pandas 1.0
502 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Dive into Deep Learning
502 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of global leaders finds
501 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Am I Unique?
497 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games
494 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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The Internet of Beefs
494 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL
493 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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GNU Recutils
493 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Ask HN: Are books worth it?
491 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse
491 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)
490 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free
490 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Christopher Tolkien has died
486 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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What happened to Mint?
484 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
484 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
483 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
482 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error
482 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'
482 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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SQLite Is Serverless
481 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet
481 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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An ant colony has memories its individual members don’t have (2019)
478 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019
477 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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How I write back ends
473 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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C Compiler from Scratch
472 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online
470 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data
469 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (2012) [pdf]
468 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming
467 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Hard deadlines are not user-first
466 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes
464 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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JetBrains Mono: A free and open-source typeface for developers
462 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)
459 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
458 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
456 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Httpx: A next-generation HTTP client for Python
456 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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What Will Happen in the 2020s
452 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Translating Quake 3 into Rust
449 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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New study: The advertising industry is systematically breaking EU law
449 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology
448 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative
447 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me
443 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Back pain is a problem which is badly treated
443 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Language Learning with Netflix extension
443 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis
442 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction
442 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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How to Invest in Startups
436 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Pantone 448 C
436 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups
436 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Office365 ProPlus installer
433 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia
433 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs
427 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Lessons from six years as a solo consultant
425 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Godot Engine – A decade in retrospective and future
424 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Show HN: Screenshot Hero - iPhone app to make all photos text searchable
424 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
423 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study
422 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)
421 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack
420 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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1195725856 and other mysterious numbers
419 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Microsoft Application Inspector
415 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
414 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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How housing became the world’s biggest asset class
413 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Gary Starkweather died on December 26, 2019
413 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Discovering Millions of Datasets on the Web
412 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework
411 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M
411 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images
410 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10
410 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Show HN: A set of standard document templates
409 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month
409 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
408 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Why Learn Awk? (2016)
407 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit Simulator is now free
407 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s
407 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
406 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives
404 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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The Era of the Trident Engine
404 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web
404 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?
403 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3
402 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Notes on Technical Writing
400 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Medications that change who we are
399 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS
397 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)
396 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet
395 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Authoritarian nations are turning the internet into a weapon
395 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for the first time
394 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Why are some things darker when wet?
394 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Why I Procrastinate (2019)
392 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?
392 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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New Cambridge Analytica Leaks
391 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Ask HN: Are there any openly available software architecture documents?
388 points • comment • jan 10, 2020