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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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Gears
2723 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
2275 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Wacom tablets track every app you open
1586 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
1552 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
1538 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
1502 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Google Maps Hacks
1399 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Larry Tesler Has Died
1343 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Freeman Dyson Has Died
1228 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner
1208 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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What's SAP?
1196 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
1150 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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The missing semester of CS education
1113 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
1108 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu
1020 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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1-on-1 meeting questions
1007 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Old CSS, New CSS
1004 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)
986 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Tailwind UI
966 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
949 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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“We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”
941 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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More bosses give four-day workweek a try
922 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
921 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Kickstarter employees vote to unionize
905 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
887 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Explorabl.es
874 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
874 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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A half-hour to learn Rust
865 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
842 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
822 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Reasons not to become famous
819 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell
813 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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How to Write Usefully
806 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits
800 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
796 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
773 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?
753 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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“We already store data. In a database. It works well”
748 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian
741 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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I Learned French in 12 Months
731 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?
730 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Python dicts are now ordered
728 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Hard Startups
721 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Palindrome Day 20200202
719 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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To get good, go after the metagame
708 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him
705 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binwalk
704 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years
704 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Don't touch my clipboard
700 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)
698 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records
693 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin
689 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
689 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
684 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Time.gov was upgraded today
683 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas
679 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly
678 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format
677 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Bert Sutherland Has Died
677 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height
677 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Guide to running Elasticsearch in production
672 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)
667 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
661 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
661 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]
657 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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GitHub CLI is now in beta
654 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
640 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Scaling to 100k Users
628 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
628 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Suspicious Discontinuities
626 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Firefox 73
617 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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How to brainstorm great business ideas
616 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
615 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Ultimate Electronics
609 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Donald Knuth was framed
609 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment
605 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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OpenChakra is an open-source visual editor for React
597 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot
597 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions
594 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained
591 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)
583 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Rotary Cellphone
562 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Surveillance on UK council websites [pdf]
558 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
558 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers
551 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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An app can be a home-cooked meal
549 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Why Google Did Android
548 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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I found a WhatsApp security flaw that allowed hackers to read the file system
546 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983
544 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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The Simpsons in CSS
543 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Where are all the animated SVGs?
542 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)
535 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle
533 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
528 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Debt is coming to the tech industry
522 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi
521 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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The boss who put everyone on 70K
520 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
519 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101
518 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated
516 points • comment • feb 14, 2020