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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Elixir lang 1.10.0-rc0
229 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)
229 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Injecting the flu vaccine into a tumor gets the immune system to attack it
229 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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UBC study links living near highways to risk of neurological disorders
229 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you manage logs for your backend services?
229 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance
228 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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How the CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy in Four Days in 1953 (2019)
228 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Boltzmann Brain
228 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
228 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop
228 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign
228 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety, depression for years
227 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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How scientists across three continents produced an Ebola vaccine
227 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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A guide to freelancing in Finland
226 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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C++ coroutines: Initial implementation pushed to master
226 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday
226 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Online speech recognition with wav2letter anywhere
225 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
225 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Towards a Rust Foundation
225 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous
225 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Umbra: an ACID-compliant database built for in-memory analytics speed
223 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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It costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise
223 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Facebook forcing moderators to log every second of day
223 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Xiaomi camera playing on Google home hub sends stills from other people's homes
223 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Show HN: 1.5kb Microkernel for Ben Eater's 6502 Computer
223 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?
222 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015)
221 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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How to Download Live Images from Government Weather Satellites (2018)
221 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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The 'Race to 5G' Is Lobbyist Nonsense
221 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Vermont’s DMV has been selling personal data to private companies since 2004
221 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says
220 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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The Rust Compilation Model Calamity
220 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (2005) [pdf]
220 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop
220 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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What to do if you’re stopped by the police
220 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz
219 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Make resilient Go servers using timeouts, deadlines and context cancellation
219 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Calculate the day of the week for any date in your head
219 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Tanka: Our way of deploying to Kubernetes
219 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Haskell Problems for a New Decade
219 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Security Architecture Anti-Patterns
219 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund
218 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Things that I think will be important in the next decade
218 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Show HN: Postgresqlco.nf: PostgreSQL Configuration for Humans
218 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
218 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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SapphireDb – Open-Source Alternative to Firebase
218 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server
218 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate
218 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Lungs heal damage from smoking
218 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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An idea from physics helps AI see in higher dimensions
218 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates
217 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029
217 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Miscarriage can lead to 'long-term post-traumatic stress'
216 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers
216 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy
216 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python
215 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go
215 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Sheetfu – Python library to interact with Google Sheets V4 API
215 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Jepsen: Etcd 3.4.3
215 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
215 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Show HN: Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with React
215 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Comma Two Devkit
215 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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The End of the Bonus Culture Is Coming to Wall Street?
214 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Show HN: Cantools – an extensive set of CAN bus tools
214 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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US pressured Dutch Safety Board to downplay tech faults in 2009 Boeing 737 crash
214 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Desert
214 points • comment • jan 11, 2020
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Mozilla says a new Firefox security bug is under active attack
213 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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All Sonos products will continue to work past May
212 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Show HN: Terminal Phase – Terminal-based space shooter
212 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you process payments?
212 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup while on payroll
211 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?
211 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch
210 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Ring fired employees for watching customer videos
209 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Building a walkie-talkie for remote work
209 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Impossible Pork
209 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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ClickHouse cost-efficiency in action: analyzing 500B rows on an Intel NUC
209 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast
208 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (1999)
208 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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A Sick Giant
208 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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All ProtonVPN apps are now open source and audited
208 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Report on the Bezos Phone Hack [pdf]
207 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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CalTech wins $1.1B jury verdict in patent case against Apple, Broadcom
206 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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U.S. to let airlines limit service animals on planes
206 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Talking to myself: how I trained GPT2-1.5b for rubber ducking using my chat data
206 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Gamedev Tutorial: Dot Product, Rulers, and Bouncing Balls
206 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Cable Haunt: A critical vulnerability found in cable modems
205 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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San Diego Awarded GE Mass Surveillance Contract Without Oversight
205 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket
205 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030
205 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Let the Compiler Do the Work
204 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Coronavirus Real Time Map
203 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism
203 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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U.S. bill to exempt small virtual currency transactions from CGT [pdf]
203 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competition bites
203 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle
203 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Show HN: Train a language model to talk like you
202 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013)
202 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Hello World
201 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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SEO lessons learned by writing a blog post every day for two years
201 points • comment • jan 29, 2020