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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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The Pentagon Says It Will Not Bomb Iranian Art Sites
19 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Reddit's /etc/passwd (joke)
19 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Microsoft will patch Windows 10 after NSA told it about a major vulnerability
19 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Bose is closing all of its retail stores N America, Europe, Japan, and Australia
19 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Intra-EU Disinformation: the French website managed by Polish far-right network
19 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Doomsday Clock Now at 100 Seconds to Midnight
19 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Show HN: Serverless 2020 in ASCII
19 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Speech-disrupting brain disease reflects patients' native tongue
19 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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A rectal surgeon says bidets are way healthier than toilet paper
19 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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List of Nuclear Close Calls
19 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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In about 20 years, half the population will live in eight states (2018)
19 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Hero programmers do exist, do all the work, do chat a lot
19 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Apple and Broadcom ordered to pay $1.1B to Caltech over patents
19 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Our Thoughts on P=NP
19 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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New Safety Risks Under Scrutiny on Boeing’s 737 Max
19 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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The Dweetabase
19 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Brazil prosecutes Glenn Greenwald in “attack on press freedom”
19 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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No one is ready for California’s new consumer privacy law
19 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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New PSU standard to launch this year
19 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Outcome Over Output: Also Impact and Effort
19 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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A repeating fast radio burst source localized to nearby spiral galaxy
19 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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US Military Needs Right-to-Repair Legislation to Fix Its Own Broken Equipment
19 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Sharing an SQLite database across containers is surprisingly brilliant
19 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says Tiobe
19 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Ask HN: Parents of HN, what are the things you wish you knew before having kids?
19 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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NSA found a dangerous MS software flaw and alerted the firm
19 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Ask HN: Idea for a minimal desktop email client – would you use this?
19 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Wearable gadgets that can read your mind
19 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Microsoft Will Be Carbon Negative by 2030
19 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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UniFi routers will send performance data back to Ubiquiti automatically
18 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Dark Patterns in Telsa App
18 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Facebook Says It Won’t Back Down from Allowing Lies in Political Ads
18 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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The Sex Wars
18 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Pause and Effect: The past and future of punctuation marks
18 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Amazon S3, you're out of order
18 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Should I move in with my co-founder?
18 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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First Earth-Size World in the 'Habitable Zone' Found
18 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web?
18 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Synthesizing Loop-Free Programs with Rust and Z3
18 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Screen – a CSS for desktops, tablets, & phones
18 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Mis-fitted USB ports, an epidemic
18 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean's tech debt tale
18 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Coronavirus: Death toll climbs to 106 as China tightens measures
18 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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How to Generate Sales Without a Marketing Team
18 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Steps Down, Arvind Krishna to Take Over
18 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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The Case for Buying a House with Friends
18 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Harvard’s Chemistry Chair Charged on Alleged Undisclosed Ties to China
18 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Both Hazard and Opportunity: On the Coromantees Enslaved in Jamaica
18 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Why do so many bad drivers have luxury cars? A new study blames disagreeable men
18 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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The Throw Keyword Was a Mistake
18 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Browser Functions: A serverless platform using Web Browser execution engines
18 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Kali Linux 2020.1 Released – Non-Root by Default
18 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Are the BSDs dying? Some security researchers think so
18 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Startup Trends to Watch in 2020
18 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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The Dark Side of Expertise
18 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Wuhan to build special hospital in six days to receive patients
18 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Are We There Yet? – A deconstruction of object-oriented time (2009)
18 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Just Read the Transcript
18 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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I broke Giant’s handheld scanner system by only buying two things
18 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Wait for User to Stop Typing, in JavaScript
18 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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I Started a $100K/Month Blog About Personal Finance
18 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Avicenna: The Leading Sage
18 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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The Mechanical Muse
18 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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English Hedges
18 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Recording Miracles in Renaissance Italy (2016)
18 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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The US relaxed its meat safety rules at the wrong time
18 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Norway Sees Warmest January Day on Record
18 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Google working on biz messaging app that unifies Gmail/Hangouts Chat/Meet, more
18 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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How to Achieve a 3 Day Work Week
18 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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EFF Statement on Glenn Greenwald Charges – Electronic Frontier Foundation
18 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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How to Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes or Less
18 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Setting PostgreSQL Configuration Parameters
18 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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My tech lead is an idiot
17 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Cryptocurrencies: They Will All Die
17 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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No Rational System Would Value Tesla at $100B
17 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Tips to be more productive with Kubernetes
17 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Why Historical Analogy Matters
17 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Magnetic Explosions Observed on Sun – Unlike Anything Seen Before [video]
17 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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An Auspicious Date in Comics History
17 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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New Plugin – Wordpress to Gatsby Exporter
17 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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The Deployment Age (2015)
17 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Customs police seized $900k in counterfeit money – all in $1 bills
17 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatchers
17 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Create GIFs Using Python
17 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Open Syllabus 2.0
17 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Cloudflare for Teams
17 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Tool: The right way to email a Git repository – Brian Graham
17 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Scientists discover 2 HIV genes in coronavirus DNA
17 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Lenses: A Realistic Architecture Towards Decentralizing Twitter
17 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Show HN: Kanye West Quotes API (Kanye as a Service)
17 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki
17 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Startup Visas Around the World
17 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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ActiveState Komodo IDE Now Free
17 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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A Multi-Model Abstract Data Type and Economic Engine [pdf]
17 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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1918 Flu Pandemic
17 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Free Software Foundation Asks Microsoft to Open Source Windows 7
17 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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LLVM Founder Chris Lattner Joins SiFive to Lead Platform Engineering
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Tim Sweeney: Eliminating C++ exceptions gave 15% speedup
17 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Ask HN: How to deal with big existing code base when you are new to the team
17 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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My web app died from performance bankruptcy
17 points • comment • jan 04, 2020