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Hacker News (Feb 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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U.S. Identifies First Coronavirus Case Without Outbreak Ties
114 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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People leave molecular wakes that may give away their secrets
113 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Lumière’s Train in 4K
113 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions
113 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research
113 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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The SILE Typesetter: Simon's Improved Layout Engine
113 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Swift: Announcing ArgumentParser
113 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?
113 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – an automated, retroactive Segment alternative
113 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Combinatris: Tetris with SKI Combinators
113 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year
113 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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F# Pipeline Operator in JavaScript with Babel
112 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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How to Escape from Immoral Mazes
112 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Systems Thinking and Quality
112 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Production-Oriented Development
112 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Wolfram Alpha: {y = Re(sqrt(abs(x)(1-abs(x)))), y = Re(-sqrt(1-sqrt(abs(x))))}
112 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Developer Experience: Fundamentally harder than normal UX
112 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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On Mind, Language and Machines
112 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Modern Data Lakes Overview
111 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day Four
111 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Scientist decries ‘chaotic’ conditions on cruise ship after viral outbreak
111 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misuse of its Autopilot tech
111 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Hidden Champions: Successful but little-known businesses
111 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Fyne: Native Mobile UX in Go
111 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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A quick primer on type traits in modern C++
111 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain
111 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (2009)
111 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI
110 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Mental health websites don't have to sell user data but most still do
110 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (2016)
110 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules
110 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Seattle-Area Patient With Coronavirus Dies
110 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three
110 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity?
110 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Show HN: Fast Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Graphs
110 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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The Business Case for Formal Methods
109 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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DoorDash drivers use arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration
109 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north
109 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
109 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Clang vs. other open-source compilers
109 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Microsoft's Three Browsers
108 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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How to detect web bots?
108 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Cotton Candy (2010)
108 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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WHO: COVID-19 in 29 countries last Monday, now 56
108 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Eiffel programming language
108 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction
107 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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JP Morgan economists warn of 'catastrophic' climate change
107 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Coronavirus and the blindness of authoritarianism
107 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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NanoTritium 20-Year Betavoltaic Battery
107 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Dave Prosser's C Preprocessing Algorithm (2006)
107 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking
107 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Google Earth finally available in browsers other than Chrome
107 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device
107 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Panolens.js: A JavaScript Panorama Viewer
107 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Visa is planning the biggest changes to merchant fees in a decade
107 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Printing tiny, high-precision objects
107 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)
107 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans
107 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Don’t pin the butterfly: not all hobbies need to become hustles
106 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies
106 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Writing a DSL in Lua (2015)
106 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Startups bet that lonely freelancers crave company
106 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch
106 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Did the early internet activists blow it?
106 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Wardian cases and the process of transporting plants
106 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Toy commercials are being replaced by product placement and YouTube influencers
106 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out
106 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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The Shifting State of Remote Work
106 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Data USA: explore, map, compare, and download U.S. data
105 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Video Game Keyboard Diagrams
105 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance 16 to 128 Threads with Threadripper 3990X
105 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018)
105 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Three Types of Data
105 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Launch HN: Probably Genetic (YC W19): At-home DNA testing for every gene
105 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Ancestry lays off 6% of staff
105 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Amazon Dating: The Future of Dating
105 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Model built by researchers suggests coronavirus outbreak began in November
105 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Judge Orders Navy to Release USS Thresher Disaster Documents
105 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Free Illustrations of the Natural World
104 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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An improvised Lego device helped scientists conduct tests at CERN
104 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Amish Hackers (2009)
104 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Facebook uses its ad policies to block apps that compete with its dating service
104 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Activate this ‘bracelet of silence,’ and Alexa can’t eavesdrop
104 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found
104 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Snel: SQL Native Execution for LLVM
104 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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People of Las Vegas
104 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Holes in Bayesian Statistics
104 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11
104 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Advanced usage of Python requests: timeouts, retries, hooks
104 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Show HN: FastComments
104 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development
104 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Ask HN: Schedule of a solo founder?
103 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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How ‘big law’ makes big money
103 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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NetBSD 9.0 Coming Soon with Arm64, Updated ZFS, HW-Accelerated Virtualization
103 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Spore Prototypes (2008)
103 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Mass layoffs reported after Starsky Robotics fails to find buyer, investors
102 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse
102 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)
102 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Debian 10.3
102 points • comment • feb 09, 2020