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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
386 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy
384 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’
384 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Health-records software pushed opioids to doctors in secret deal with drugmaker
383 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
382 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler
382 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips
381 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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FreeBSD is an amazing operating system
380 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline
378 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
378 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”
375 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers
374 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
372 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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I2C in a Nutshell
369 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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“Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“
366 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make
366 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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How to Corrupt a SQLite Database File
365 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (2015)
365 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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What’s wrong with computational notebooks?
365 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust
365 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Linode launches free DDoS protection
365 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Coding Stories: Me vs. the VNC Guy
365 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house?
363 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Boeing employees mocked FAA in internal messages before 737 Max disasters
362 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige
362 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Dynamic type systems are not inherently more open
362 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used
362 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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A Graph of Related Subreddits
362 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?
362 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks
361 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Wine 5.0
359 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment
356 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Godot 3.2
356 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’
356 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Elixir v1.10
355 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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The “No Code” Delusion
354 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
354 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant structures (2019)
353 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig
353 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Guide to speaking at tech conferences
353 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on government cell phones
353 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Russia blocks ProtonMail
352 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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BMW Connected Apps Protocol
352 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally
352 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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My story as a self-taught AI researcher
352 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Boeing Fought Lion Air on Proposed Max Simulator Training Requirement
351 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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DevDegree: Work at Shopify and get a free CS degree in parallel
351 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Banning facial recognition is missing the point
350 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Images Created from Prime Numbers
350 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Disk Prices on Amazon
349 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Why I Quit Using Google
349 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
349 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience
349 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmetrical speed like fiber?
347 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?
347 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you ever contact people who have had a positive impact on you?
347 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Facebook's PR feels broken
345 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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A billion medical images are exposed online
344 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Clearview AI helps law enforcement match photos of people to their online images
344 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video]
344 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Bug #915: Solved
343 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Why are we using black box models in AI when we don’t need to? (2019)
343 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China
342 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Everything I Know About SSDs
342 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Let's Destroy C
341 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
340 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song
339 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Cutting Google out of your life (2019)
338 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler
338 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Just Build the Product
337 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation
336 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Startup Ideas 2020
336 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to the Young: “Learn to Be Alone” (2015)
336 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Managing my personal knowledge base
335 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf]
334 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Starlink Is a Big Deal
333 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Sun's surface seen in new detail
333 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs
332 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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A small DIY air purifier
332 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Lego ISS
331 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Programming Language Checklist
331 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil
330 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and makers
328 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Please make your products work with URLs
327 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop
327 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Show HN: The best technology podcast episodes
327 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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War Is a Racket (1933)
326 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent
325 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)
325 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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I Was Tortured for Days at Guantanamo Bay
321 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks
320 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec
320 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Harvard scientist is arrested, accused of lying about ties to China
319 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Adult site leaks data of cam models
318 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Working for someone vs. doing your own thing
317 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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I'm not feeling the async pressure
317 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development
315 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Actix project postmortem
315 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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The Cruise Origin
314 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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U.S. surveillance laws have proven ineffective at countering terrorism
314 points • comment • jan 22, 2020