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Hacker News (Jan 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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Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI
162 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Rust DataBase Connectivity (RDBC)
161 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Developing GHC for a Living
161 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp
161 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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How a Cruise Ship Makes 30k Meals Every Day [video]
161 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral
161 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Forced migration to Google Sheets API v4
161 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years
160 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Preliminary analysis of 11 Novel Coronavirus genomes from the Wuhan outbreak
160 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Lessons Learned from Writing the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide
160 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growing chorus
160 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal
160 points • comment • jan 30, 2020
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Vulkan 1.2
159 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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India’s about to hand people data Americans can only dream of
159 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Tech giants have as much money and influence as nations
159 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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An Opinionated Guide to Machine Learning Research
159 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Pursuing a Business I'll Love
158 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier
158 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit
158 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Installing air filters in classrooms has large educational benefits?
157 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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An update to 37-year-old MIDI
157 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Writing Software to Last 50 Years
156 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Vaping-related lung injuries primarily linked to black-market products
156 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Amiga Java
156 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Why Do American Houses Have So Many Bathrooms?
156 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
156 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore
156 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio
155 points • comment • jan 18, 2020
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Contractors use shell games to hide owners, cheat taxpayers
155 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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EU: Call to introduce common charger for all mobile phones
155 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo
155 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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PandaPy has the speed of NumPy and the usability of Pandas
154 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Training GPT-2 to Play Chess
154 points • comment • jan 07, 2020
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Rush Drummer Neil Peart Dead at 67
154 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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I'm building an open, crowdsourced database of ML models
154 points • comment • jan 21, 2020
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Fascia encases tissues and organs and may have widespread effects (2019)
154 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Web of Documents (2019)
154 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Show HN: Screentop.gg – a platform for tabletop games
154 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as part of trade deal
153 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?
153 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Peer-to-Peer Based Social Networks: A Comprehensive Survey
153 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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JobFunnel, a job website search aggregator
152 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Avro Arrow blueprints on display after sitting in man's home for decades
152 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Who Says Tcl Rules?
152 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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Staff emails claim Boeing 777X ‘shares Max problem’
152 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy
152 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale
151 points • comment • jan 04, 2020
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Social perception bias might be an emergent property of our social networks
151 points • comment • jan 05, 2020
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Effectively Using Materialized Views in Ruby on Rails
151 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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A fitness watch that measures blood pressure
151 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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The Status of HTTP/3
151 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Proposals for Go 1.15
151 points • comment • jan 29, 2020
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'Megafire' in Australia Engulfs 1.5M Acres
151 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Professors create free research-backed games to train your brain
150 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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The word “mafia” is never heard in The Godfather
150 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Frank Abagnale on the death of the con artist and the rise of cybercrime
150 points • comment • jan 14, 2020
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Reformer, the Efficient Transformer
150 points • comment • jan 19, 2020
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Nursing Homes in the US Overmedicate People with Dementia (2018)
150 points • comment • jan 09, 2020
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What Unix Cost Us [video]
149 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'
149 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online
149 points • comment • jan 15, 2020
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Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS (2018)
149 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Scammers registering date-based domain names
149 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Table Detection and Extraction Using Deep Learning
149 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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One of biggest frauds in U.S. farm history
148 points • comment • jan 25, 2020
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Bees are essential to the almond industry, and billions are dying in the process
148 points • comment • jan 12, 2020
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CleverCSV: A Drop-In Replacement for Python's CSV Module
148 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Tesla races past $100B in market valuation
148 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Show HN: I combined Milligram, Skeleton, and Normalize into a single CSS project
148 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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Three New Longevity Startups
148 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons
148 points • comment • jan 16, 2020
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Teen Vogue published and then deleted an uncritical story about Facebook
148 points • comment • jan 08, 2020
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Tradition Is Smarter (2018)
147 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers
147 points • comment • jan 28, 2020
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Chrome OS has stalled out
147 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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DuckDuckGo Lite
147 points • comment • jan 17, 2020
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Show HN: Phoenix – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
147 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Nestur: NES Emulator in Rust
147 points • comment • jan 06, 2020
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LInQer – C# Integrated Queries ported to Javascript
146 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia
146 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Trust Is at the Core of Software Marketing
146 points • comment • jan 27, 2020
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Milvus – An Open-Source Vector Similarity Search Engine
146 points • comment • jan 10, 2020
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Air-Traffic Control Is in the Midst of a Major Change from Radar to GPS
146 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Sir Ian McKellen's Lord of the Rings Production Blogs
146 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Schema.org v6.0
146 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Why does the Wuhan coronavirus genome end in 33 A’s?
146 points • comment • jan 26, 2020
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Information Leaks via Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention
145 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Florida joins U.S. government in probing foreign ties of researchers
145 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Second Travel-Related Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Detected in United States
145 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Ending Support for macOS and Linux
145 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you protect your parents from tech scammers?
145 points • comment • jan 02, 2020
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Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'war cloud'
145 points • comment • jan 23, 2020
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The strange properties of the infinite power tower
145 points • comment • jan 22, 2020
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Decentralize Messaging
145 points • comment • jan 31, 2020
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Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?
145 points • comment • jan 13, 2020
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Clear and Present Leadership
144 points • comment • jan 03, 2020
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A Modern Introduction to Online Learning
144 points • comment • jan 01, 2020
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Tech’s Next Revolution Might Be Open Source Semiconductors
144 points • comment • jan 24, 2020
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Alan Turing’s stolen OBE, doctorate recovered in Colorado
144 points • comment • jan 20, 2020