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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) [pdf]
126 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Guide to the London Startup Ecosystem
126 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Proxyman – native HTTP/HTTPS requests observation and manipulation app
126 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Switzerland Federal Council bans large-scale events
125 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Cloture: Clojure in Common Lisp
125 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Terminal V2 – Build, deploy, and host websites and apps on IPFS
125 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Show HN: Managing SSH Access to AWS EC2 Instances Using SSM
125 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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'Ghost ship' washes up on Irish coast
125 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Leila Janah, CEO and entrepreneur who wanted to end global poverty, dies at 37
125 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Show HN: Heimdall – Self-managed email alias/forwarding service
125 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Launch HN: API Tracker (YC W20) – Track and manage the APIs you use
125 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Scroll: Ad-free subscription for news sites
124 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007)
124 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Langserver.org – A community-driven source for Language Server implementations
124 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Say Goodbye to CoreOS
124 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Boeing finds debris left in new 737 MAXes, now in storage
124 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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A Mathematician’s Apology
124 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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James Lovelock: 'I Would Not Waste My Fortune on Colonizing Mars'
124 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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All the current trees in Barcelona
124 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2020)
124 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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IOTA being shut off is the latest chapter in an absurdist history
123 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (2006)
123 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Max/MSP: A visual programming language for music and multimedia
123 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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“Abrupt thaw” of Arctic permafrost releasing more CO2 than predicted
122 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Beware of criminals pretending to be WHO
122 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Ask HN: Where do you find software development freelance work?
122 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Microsoft cut off game maker's revenue stream, so he built his own replacement
122 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports
122 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Why Susan Fowler blew the whistle on sexism at Uber
122 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Famicom Party: Making NES Games in Assembly
122 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Who Was Sun Tzu’s Napoleon?
122 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Crates.io incident report for 2020-02-20
122 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW
121 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations
121 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Why I Like Math [pdf]
121 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Airports for the Supersonic Age
121 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Copyrighting melodies to avoid accidental infringement [video]
121 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle
121 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Don’t stage off Starship
121 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Big Ball of Mud (1999)
121 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Launch HN: Syndetic (YC W20) – Software for explaining datasets
121 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Using Python and Selenium for automated visual regression testing
121 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Beer Waste Saves Montana Town $1M on Water Treatment
121 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Attacking Ruby on Rails applications (2016)
121 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities
120 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you do home surveillance?
120 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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How Bezos built his data machine
120 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Measuring Latency in Linux (2014)
120 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Physicists captured individual atoms and observed them merge into a molecule
120 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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The man who discovered umami
120 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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What’s New in Swift 5.2
120 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Tesla teardown finds electronics ahead of Toyota and VW
119 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Myst: the Drawbacks to Success
119 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft
119 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install
119 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Building a command line tool to design a farm layout in Stardew Valley
119 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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A 7KB AWS lambda Node.js library with zero runtime dependencies
119 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
119 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned
119 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different
119 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo
118 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Ex-CIA Software Engineer Goes on Trial for Vault 7 Leak
118 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)
118 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Diffing Coronaviruses
118 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Why operators are useful (2019)
117 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Proton 5.0, a package to run Windows games on Linux
117 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Kicks Condor
117 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Show HN: Everlook – Find and list remote job opportunities
117 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change
117 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors
117 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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McDonald's app bug let people order for free in France
116 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Stepping Feet Illusion
116 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse
116 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Dispatch – Open-source release of Netflix's crisis management framework
116 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Show HN: VRWorkout – A VR calisthenics rhythm game made with Godot
116 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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McClatchy files bankruptcy
116 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Physicists grab individual atoms in groundbreaking experiment
116 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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NASA images show China pollution clear amid slowdown
116 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Applying Mypy to real-world projects
116 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Loading NumPy arrays from disk: mmap() vs. Zarr/HDF5
116 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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The History of Git
116 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)
116 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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OpenSSH 8.2
116 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice
115 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech
115 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's official HOSTS.TXT (2004)
115 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
115 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang confirmed dead of coronavirus at 34
115 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Honeybee brains seem to use alpha waves similarly to primate brains
115 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Redneck Bank
115 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Jeff Bezos pledges $10b to launch Earth Fund for combating climate change
114 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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A repository of beautiful photos and images
114 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Seeing the Smoke
114 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Problems, not solutions (2018)
114 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic for programming (2014)
114 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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A False Economy Powered by Ads and Lies
114 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Tesla X parts that had to be replaced after 400k miles
114 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Domain Logic and SQL (2003)
114 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Move, simply
114 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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FAA faces dilemma over 737 Max wiring flaw that Boeing missed
114 points • comment • feb 16, 2020