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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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The Firefox Browser is a privacy nightmare on desktop and mobile
17 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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500000 server, router, and IoT passwords leaked
17 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2019 Computed from Internet Archive
17 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Video Apparently Showing Flight 572 Missile Strike Geolocated to Iranian Suburb
17 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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A Court Said Au Pairs Deserve Minimum Wage. Some Families Are Protesting
17 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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SoftBank-backed Zume Pizza to lay off up to 80% of its staff
17 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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The Meaning of Margaret Mead
17 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Modelling BBR's interactions with traditional TCP loss-based congestion control
17 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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“Apple Says ‘No ’” and What That Means for the Future of Better Blocker
17 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Show HN: Generating privacy policies for iOS apps from their code
17 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Threatbus: connect open-source threat intelligence tools
17 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Too Tired to Do Everything? How to Live Better Without Burning Out
17 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Top three requirements for OTA software updates for IoT
17 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Show HN: Constraint-Based School Timetabling with Prolog
17 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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A Sense Enhanced Game of Life (2015) [pdf]
17 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains?
17 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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CBP officers seize $900K worth of counterfeit U.S. currency
17 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Dev says game started selling 400% better on Steam after releasing torrent
17 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Aamber Pegasus
17 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Show HN: Craydom – a pure view abstraction in ES6
17 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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US Government Publishing Office Website Defaced
17 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Cool color palette tool for designers (And it's free)
16 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Coronavirus declared global health emergency by WHO
16 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Doing Things That Scale
16 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Bestpetting Cheated
16 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Night rider: 21 years sleeping on a London bus
16 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999)
16 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Git-backed static website powered entirely by AWS
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Denmark sources record 47% of power from wind in 2019
16 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Show HN: Xeroxed Paper Style Portfolio
16 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Mailgun eliminates 'Concept' plan, no longer offering 10000 free emails/mo
16 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Comparisons of Alloy and Spin (2018)
16 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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T.S. Eliot letters show love for muse but poet downplays it
16 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Apple is bullying a security company with a dangerous DMCA lawsuit
16 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Amazon Engineer Leaked Encryption Keys. Analysts Discovered Them in Minutes
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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A study examined coordinated care for the most expensive patients
16 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Hubble detects smallest known dark matter clumps
16 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Major US Telcos Teeter Toward Bankruptcy
16 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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15 Sweet Websites for Free Artwork
16 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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RefBot: Intelligent Software Refactoring Bot
16 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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SpaceX Is Going to Blow Up a Falcon 9 Rocket Just After Launch
16 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Iran offers $80M bounty for POTUS’s head after death of general
16 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Please Don’t Abbreviate the Year ‘2020’ on Checks and Legal Documents
16 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Almost 9 out of 10 Canadians feel food prices are rising faster than income
16 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Ask HN: What benefits of quitting alcohol consumption?
16 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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(A Few) Ops Lessons We All Learn the Hard Way
16 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Odd Job: This teen bought a bunch of vending machines. Now he makes six figures
16 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Brexit will soon cost the UK more than its total payments to the EU
16 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Teen Vogue’s Yanked Facebook Sponsored Content on Election Integrity
16 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Tesla cars are accelerating without warning, prompting government scrutiny
16 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Archaeal Richmond Mine Acidophilic Nanoorganisms
16 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Security on the Internet with Cloudflare for Teams
16 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Compiling Dark to SQL
16 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Ancient never-before-seen viruses discovered locked up in Tibetan glacier
16 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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The Pesticide Industry's Playbook for Poisoning the Earth
16 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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How to evaluate candidates for your first UX hire when you don't know UX
16 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Show HN: SaaS Growth Calculator – Calculate growth using common metrics
16 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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My book, Principles of PM, helps new product managers launch their careers
16 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Vine Relaunches as Byte
16 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Immune cell which kills most cancers discovered by accident
16 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Jamming GPS Signals Is Illegal, Dangerous, Cheap, and Easy (2017)
16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Disciplined People Rarely Need to Use Willpower or Self-Control
16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Don't abbreviate 2020. It's for your own good
16 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Clearview Says Its Software Identified a Terrorism Suspect. Cops Say Otherwise
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Hierarchical JSON with SQLite / RediSQL
16 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Iranian Missiles into Iraq
16 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Public Domain Day 2020
16 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Introducing Yarn 2
16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Ask HN: Strategy for changing your primary email?
16 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Ask HN: I can't specialize, how to differentiate myself?
16 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Booker beware: Airbnb scans your online life to see if you’re a suitable guest
16 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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The Polygons of Another World: Atari ST
15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Freelancer Scams: How to stay wary of dubious freelancers?
15 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Redshirt: Experimental OS where binaries are WASM, run in ring 0
15 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Dijkstra: Philips and I – a few snapshots (2001) [pdf]
15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Facebook closes down 6%, wiping out more than $30B in market value
15 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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RustZone: Writing (ARM) Trusted Applications in Rust
15 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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We sell advertising, not search results
15 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Republic of Zaqistan (2012)
15 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Top JavaScript Frameworks and Topics to Learn in 2020 and the New Decade
15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Re-keying every lock in your house all by yourself
15 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Japanese teachers expel school intruder with the Sasumata
15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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The Road to Reliability Starts with Better Observability
15 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Show HN: Golang AMQP Fluent Interface
15 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Unable to unlock gunman’s iPhones, the FBI (once again) asks for Apple’s help
15 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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NYT: Russian hackers successfully targeted Ukrainian gas company Burisma
15 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Smokejumper
15 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts
15 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Show HN: React Nice Dates
15 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors with Ukrainian Firmware
15 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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GitOps for Node.js and Express.js Using Helm3 and Flux
15 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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The sad truth about our boldest climate target
15 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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The Fall of Trada (2019)
15 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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GDPR: 160k data breaches reported already, so expect the big fines to follow
15 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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One Question You Should Never Ask Your Boss
15 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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The Firefox Browser is a privacy nightmare on desktop and mobile
15 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Observing Your API Traffic with Tyk, Elasticsearch and Kibana
15 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Netflix to Lay Off Employees as It Shifts Marketing Strategy
15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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The World’s Most-Profitable Hedge Fund Is Now a Climate Radical
15 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Judge0 IDE – Free and open-source online code editor
15 points • comment • jan 05, 2020