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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Let me give you a list of the top scams coding bootcamps use to steal your money
313 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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How is search so bad? A case study
312 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains
312 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month
310 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code
310 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City
309 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
307 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System
307 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste
306 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Hacker News Classics (2018)
305 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Lisping at JPL (2002)
304 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Bash $* and $@ (2017)
304 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Haters
304 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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CollegeHumor shuts down
304 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Electrical Ground Current Event Detected in Norway
304 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S.
304 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust
304 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex
303 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams
303 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it
303 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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RStudio becomes a public benefit corporation
302 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from Citi nearly ended me
302 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
302 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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NOAA Satellites Helped Save a Record 421 Lives in 2019
301 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
301 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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How Popular Is “Sign in with Apple”?
301 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations
300 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Rough.js v4.0 – hand-drawn, sketchy graphics
300 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Tin Found in Israel from 3k Years Ago Comes from Cornwall
300 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Show HN: Simple 2D car physics with JavaScript
298 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Coding Interview Problems with Detailed Solutions, Test Cases, Program Analysis
298 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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3D Buzz is shutting down
297 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace
297 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam
296 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Machine learning is fundamentally conservative
296 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger
295 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
295 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Why build this blog, or anything, on IPFS?
294 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Design Tips for Developers
292 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Academic Torrents
291 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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How to Find New Music
291 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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How to make roguelike games in Rust
291 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support
288 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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California's housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate
288 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
287 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age
287 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Rete: JavaScript framework for visual programming and creating node editor
287 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation”
286 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Thunderbird’s New Home
286 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)
285 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law
285 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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MirageJS: An API mocking library for frontend development
284 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, research suggests
284 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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KnightOS was an interesting operating system
283 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property
282 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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How I make $400/month with my technical eBook
282 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?
282 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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iOS 13's Music App Sucks
281 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
281 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English
280 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?
280 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds
280 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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The BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function
279 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Remote iPhone exploitation part 2: a remote ASLR bypass
279 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov [pdf]
277 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Ask HN: I think I’ve burnt out. What should I do?
277 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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How strong is your knot?
277 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript
276 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years
276 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Suit
276 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo
276 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’
275 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete
274 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon
274 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says
274 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue
274 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (2015)
273 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets
273 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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HTTP static server one-liners
273 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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PHP in 2020
273 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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A list of places to post about your startup/launch
273 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)
273 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Layoffs hit Quora
272 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN in Los Angeles this Friday Jan 24
272 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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A Tour of Standard ML
272 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Happy New Year HN!
271 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Show HN: Binarysearch.io – Learn Algorithms Together
271 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube
271 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP Instant Ink
270 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Ted versus The Media Lab [video]
270 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It
270 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
270 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs
269 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Aussie firefighters save world's only groves of prehistoric Wollemi pines
269 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?
269 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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What is Rust and why is it so popular?
268 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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State Farm uses payment signature for HIPAA disclosure authorization
268 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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MIT 6.004: Computation Structures
268 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Bruce Schneier: Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough
267 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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SpiderFoot: OSINT collection and reconnaissance tool
267 points • comment • jan 31, 2020