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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Y2K20 Parking Meter Software Glitch Causes Citywide Snafu
48 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Home Terminals (1999)
48 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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How to Do Code Reviews
48 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?
48 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Android programming, looking for good guides for beginners
48 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Oldest Material on Earth Discovered
48 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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A History of the Wolf
48 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Dependency Drift: A Metric for Software Aging
48 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Why Are Alphabet Letters Arranged How They Are?
48 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Private equity firm wants to buy .org for $1B. Berkeley-based coop:‘not so fast’
48 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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A European Commission proposal to create a single market in data
48 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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A Bright Future for Moore’s Law?
48 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Tracking the Trackers: using machine learning to aid ethical decisions
48 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Postman is now charging 50% more for ~5x less
48 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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How hard can it be to move our developer account to our new not-for-profit?
48 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Real 3D or Fake 3D
48 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Economic Inequality (2016)
48 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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A Painter Resurrects Louisiana’s Vanished Creole Culture
48 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Chinese lab studying world's most dangerous pathogens located in Wuhan
48 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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The Art of Pivoting: How We Built Rainway
47 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Ask HN: Why are jobs gotten via referrals but online blind dating is now normal?
47 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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A curated list of websites for learning college math, higher math and beyond
47 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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The Intentionality of Evil (2005)
47 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Show HN: Realtime Postgres
47 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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The Positive Side of Shame
47 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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The Flute of Shame
47 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Ask HN: Ultrawide monitors, what's your experience been like?
47 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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The Reality of Reuse (2018)
47 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Negative Interest Rates Are Going to Ruin Everything
47 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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If you don't own your OS, you don't own your BTC
47 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Pipeline and chain operators (|| and &&) now in pwsh
47 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Eric and Bret Weinstein: The Prediction and the DISC [audio]
47 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – Automated, Retroactive Alternative to Segment
47 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Using carbon isotopes to fight the rise in fraudulent whisky
46 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Brain-melting Unity demo turns polaroid pics into slices of interactive reality
46 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Cloudflare Argo was down
46 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Another Fired Google Employee Claims They Were Targeted for Labor Organizing
46 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Show HN: API-first referral marketing SDK for web developers
46 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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The 'Spelling Bee Honeycomb' puzzle: efficient computation in R
46 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Tree-walking algorithms: Incremental postorder walk of an N-ary tree
46 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Improving communities through documentation (2019)
46 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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We're Sleepwalking into a Surveillance State
46 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Lambda Tutorial (2016)
46 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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eBooks@Adelaide has now officially closed
46 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Obesity Trends in the U.S.
46 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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What sci-fi can tell us about the future
46 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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The Setup-Cleanup Problem
46 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Airliner Repair, 24/7 (2008)
46 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Mass Evacuation Underway in German City over WWII Bombs
46 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Wealth and Taxes
46 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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The Oregon DMV took in $11.5M last year by selling your information
46 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Brasília – Buliding a City from Scratch
46 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Over 70% of 12- to 14-year-olds in China are short-sighted
46 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Back to the Land: Wendell Berry in the Path of Modernity
46 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Was the containers hype an industry/tech media propaganda?
46 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Musings on the Current Status of High Energy Physics
45 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Ask HN: What would the Dunning-Kruger “test” be for your field?
45 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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The Western Canon by Harold Bloom (2011)
45 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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DoD Wants Help with “Predictive Health” (Scroll Down)
45 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Chrome Is the New IE
45 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Uber's chief of scooters, bikes to depart
45 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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The Billion-Dollar Battle over .Org
45 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
45 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google
45 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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The Surprising Breadth of Harbingers of Failure (2019)
45 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Mathematics Pioneer Ingrid Daubechies Has More Barriers to Break
45 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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How India, the World's Largest Democracy, Shuts Down the Internet
45 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults
45 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Letting tools make choices
45 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Criminals with drones infecting pig farms to manipulate pork commodity prices
45 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Boeing Shares Halted Pending News
45 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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High school starts at 3 p.m. for some Michigan students
45 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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The Director’s Cut: On Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem
45 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide
45 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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I Lost My Life to Airbnb
44 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVII
44 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Bal Des Ardents
44 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Interior Views of the Central Social Institution in Prague, 1937
44 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Apple Acquires Artificial Intelligence Company Xnor.ai
44 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Customizable Tiny Linux OS for Your Development Needs Optimized for Chromebooks
44 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Approval for Hotel Covered in Plants
44 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Trump rolls back US water pollution controls
44 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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VirtualMIDISynth
44 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Spectrum Kills Home Security Business, Refuses Refunds
44 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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How the U.S. military thinks about AI [audio]
44 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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The Rise of Coffee
44 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Cold-Water Swimming
44 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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CASPaxos: Linearizable Databases Without Logs
44 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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German Club St. Pauli Badge on UK Anti-Terrorism Guide Under 'Left Wing Signs'
44 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Germany Phased Out Nuclear Power and Deadly Emissions Spiked
44 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Next.js 9.2
44 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Show HN: Minibatch – Python stream processing
44 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Hyundai Motor to invest $87 bn in future mobility tech by 2025
44 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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1900 NYC colorized by latest and unreleased DeOldify model
44 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Building a self-contained game in C# under 8 kilobytes
44 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Apple's secrecy doesn't work for Apple TV+
44 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Health care veteran tries to upend the system and bring drug prices down
44 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Enumerating Core Undefined Behavior
44 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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How to Avoid Swallowing War Propaganda
44 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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We surveyed 331 remote workers and here's what they say
44 points • comment • jan 17, 2020