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Hacker News (Jan 2020)
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Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (2012)
182 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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The Political History of Pad Thai
181 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go (2016)
181 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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What I Learned About SaaS at Buildium
181 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (2014)
181 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Video Gaming Will Take Over
181 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
181 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace
181 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Tesla Q4 2019 Vehicle Production and Deliveries
180 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Dealing with Loneliness
180 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Scripting tmux
180 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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CursedFS – Disk image that is simultaneously ext2 and FAT
180 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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What is music? A unified theory of music and dreaming
179 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Launch HN: Deviceplane (YC W20) – Update and Manage Devices Running Linux
179 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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A Croatian fisherman caught a new NASA device while fishing
179 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Show HN: Lucidity – an interactive program-state visualizer
179 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Show HN: Gter – A terminal for GUI apps
179 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Education and Men without Work
179 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Jupyter notebooks in the IDE: VS Code vs. PyCharm
178 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience
178 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Anna Wiener and “Uncanny Valley”
178 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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How the Digg team was acquihired
178 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Normalization of Deviance (2015)
178 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Luhmann's Zettelkasten
178 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Mir: A lightweight JIT compiler project
177 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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The case for cities where you’re a sensor, not a thing to be sensed
177 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Dad takes son to Mongolia to get him off his phone
177 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Finding Time to Invest in Yourself
176 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Problems with TypeScript
176 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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NOBUS (Nobody but Us)
176 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Ask HN: Are compiler engineers still in demand, and what do they work on?
176 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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Visa, Plaid, networks, and jobs
175 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2013)
175 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Microsoft Edge (Chromium) – Elevation of Privilege to Potential RCE
175 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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How Much Does a Mile of Road Cost?
174 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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My C code works with -O3 but not with -O0
174 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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E-bikes could be the electric revolution cities need
173 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Why I use R
173 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Want to make good business decisions? Learn causality
173 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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The deepest hole we have ever dug
172 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Which Machines Do Computer Architects Admire? (2013)
172 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Measure code execution time accurately in Python
172 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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How to start a blog using Hugo
172 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Ontology for the life sciences: genes, proteins, diseases, all expressed in OWL
172 points • comment • jan 20, 2020
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A Guide to Minimalist Web Design (2017)
171 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
171 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Ask HN: What landing page do you love?
171 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Ask HN: Courses/resources to improve my self-esteem and believe in myself more?
171 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Retailers are turning to facial recognition software (2018)
170 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Show HN: Parsr – A toolchain to transform documents into usable structured text
170 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Quindar Tones: the beeps heard in recordings of astronauts in space
170 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Photo of a suspended, glowing single atom wins photography prize
170 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Work on these things
169 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at increasing rate (2019)
169 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Show HN: Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++
168 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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The Failure of the iPad
168 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Hachikō
168 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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How Shopify implemented its secure authentication service
167 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Pinebook Pro – First Impressions and Setup Tips
167 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view
167 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
167 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Why We Terminated Our Partnership with Microsoft
167 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Chime – A Go Editor for macOS
167 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Interactive Vim Tutorial
167 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Porn site to pay $12.7M to women who didn't know videos would be posted
167 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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uLisp – ARM Assembler in Lisp
167 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Why numbering should start at zero (1982)
166 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Being a Solo Founder: Pros, Cons, Tips and Tricks (2017)
166 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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25-Hour Digital Myst Clock/Chronometer
166 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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New suction-cup system spins water to stick to rough surfaces
166 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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“Unprecedented” locust invasion threatens crops in East Africa
166 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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SoftICE
166 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Getting a 787 back in the air after a diversion
166 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Sci-Hub users cost ASA journals thousands of downloads
166 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on board
165 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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“Customer support at Tesla is even worse than I claimed last time”
165 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases
165 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Event Sourcing (2017)
165 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Specification for the D Programming Language
165 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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The Disturbing Power of Information Pollution
165 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Show HN: HuggingFace – Fast tokenization library for deep-learning NLP pipelines
164 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Accelerating Photosynthesis
164 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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Barr’s Encryption Push Is Decades in the Making
164 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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What kind of data is my new car collecting?
164 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Ring doorbell 'gives Facebook and Google user data'
164 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Software certifications; a waste of time and money (2018)
164 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Lisp Symbolics Macivory 3 with loaded software
163 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Show HN: Self-Published Book – “Data Science in Production”
163 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Amazon to ramp up counterfeit reporting to law enforcement
163 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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How to be successful (at your career, Twitter edition)
163 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3
163 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Learn to write a simple OS kernel with keyboard/screen support (2014)
163 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Atrium lays off lawyers, pivots to tools
163 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Philosophy as a public service
163 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Hundreds of surveillance experiments along the U.S.-Mexico border
162 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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The Myth of Self-Reliance: An encounter with Emerson’s essays
162 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois
162 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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What Happened in the 2010s
162 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Germany is moving beyond nuclear power, but at what cost?
162 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Show HN: Store your luggage in local shops
162 points • comment • jan 18, 2020