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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression
266 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Anatomy of a Scam
265 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market
264 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee
264 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Loudness war
264 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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The Infinite Loop That Wasn't
262 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Life Is Driven by Network Effects
262 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Survey of scientists sheds light on reproducibility crisis (2016)
262 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers
261 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Recover HD Using a Magnet
260 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool
260 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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The Unison language
260 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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A harassment campaign on Goodreads
260 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Lumen – Elixir and Erlang in the Browser
260 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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A former Egyptian engineer found the secret to building a big gas-station chain
258 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
258 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team
258 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Dino: An open-source application for XMPP messaging
258 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Porting Quake to the iPod Classic
258 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours
257 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983
256 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Who wants to play the status game?
256 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Progress of anti-aging therapies by clinical trial stage
254 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game
254 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs
254 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Did you ever need to run a piece of C# code on Windows 3.11?
254 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
253 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations
253 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Wine 5.0
253 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
252 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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The most important scientific problems have yet to be solved (1897)
251 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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U.S. Gov Privacy Watchdog Under Pressure to Recommend Facial Recognition Ban
250 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
248 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Google pushed to take action against Android bloatware
248 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?
248 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition
248 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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A 60 GHz phased array for $10
247 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Retiring Internet Explorer
246 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016)
246 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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_NSAKEY
246 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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State of Independent SaaS [pdf]
246 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Show HN: Thinc, a new deep learning library by the makers of spaCy and FastAPI
245 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
245 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall
244 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice
244 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry
244 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing
244 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left
244 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
243 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy
243 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem
243 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raided (2015)
243 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Master of Orion
242 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th
242 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body
242 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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The spine of San Francisco is now car-free
242 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Vine founder launches TikTok competitor
241 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike Footage
241 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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On Privacy versus Freedom
241 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force
240 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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The Light Phone
239 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI [video]
239 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Alone in a Crowded Milky Way
239 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Flashpoint: a webgame preservation project
239 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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How I automate my home
239 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Cello – High Level C
239 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices
239 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math
239 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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The Edge of Emulation
239 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Clojure for the Erlang VM
239 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells
239 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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How to stay private when using Android
238 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if lands on specific runways
238 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)
238 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US
237 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) [pdf]
237 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch
237 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Google App Maker Shutting Down
237 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit
236 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation into the case of Assange
236 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads (2019)
236 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties
235 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Ubuntu Removes the Amazon Web App
235 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Ways of Implementing a System Call
235 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Libc++'s Implementation of std::string
235 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It
235 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history
234 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019)
234 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Fancy Clojure REPL
234 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says
232 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims
232 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines”
232 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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FBI unlocked iPhone 11 Pro via GrayKey, raising more doubts about Pensacola case
231 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Pharo 8.0
231 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
231 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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End-to-end double-ratchet encryption with epoch key exchange
231 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
231 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage
231 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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ACM costs vs. arxiv.org costs
230 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Kodak Alaris warns the TSA's new airport CT scanners can damage undeveloped film
230 points • comment • jan 29, 2020