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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)
102 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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MIDI 2.0 Specifications Available for Download
102 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Iowa Caucus App Error
102 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse
102 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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If cash gets damaged, this Treasury team will make sure it’s not a lost cause
101 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance
101 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Turtleocracy
101 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Companies flooding Kenya with apps offering high-interest loans
101 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom
101 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Show HN: Discover the World of Mathematics
101 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Coding Flaw Exposes Voter Details for 6.5M Israelis
101 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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The Museum of Arts and Crafts in Paris is a trove of cunning inventions
100 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Inkjet Printing of High Performance Transistors (2017)
100 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything
100 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Implementing Raft: Part 2: Commands and Log Replication
100 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Show HN: FounderPhone – make customer support personal with SMS
100 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Compiling a Functional Language Using C++, Part 9 – Garbage Collection
100 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Royal Mail's new video game stamp set
100 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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How to Make a Memex
100 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation
100 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Samsung accidentally sends 'Find My Mobile' notifications to Galaxy phones
100 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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A Human's Guide to Words (2010)
100 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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The Slippery Slope of Docker Dev Environments
100 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Rust: Zero-Cost Abstraction in Action
99 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Fiber – Express inspired web framework written in Go
99 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012)
99 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Plotinus – A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application
99 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Why Business Is So Difficult and Unpredictable
99 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Ask HN: Were you in a computer user group, back in their heyday?
99 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Pathfinding Demystified (2014)
99 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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DBLog: A Change-Data-Capture Framework
99 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Larry Tesler cut and pasted from this mortal coil
98 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Bootstrap Treeview
98 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Betelgeuse Remains Steadfast in the Infrared
98 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Why has progress stalled?
98 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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First, Do No Harm
98 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Project Euler 001 the Hard Way
97 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Internet in a Box
97 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Riot OS – Real-Time, MMU optional and threads
97 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Twinkle Notes: Cross-platform encrypted notes app
97 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Flow Fields
97 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Lightbeam: A Highly-Optimising Streaming WebAssembly Compiler (2019) [video]
97 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Decoding evolution and transmissions of novel pneumonia coronavirus
97 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Colorado voters are set to decide if wolves should be reintroduced to the state
97 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Japanese woman confirmed as coronavirus case for second time
97 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some example of low tech improving your life?
97 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Paper Clay Air Humidifier
97 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Companies that buy data derived from scraping the contents of email
96 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
96 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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SpaceX’s Starship SN1 prototype blows up during pressure test on its Texas pad
96 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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CSS Containment Specification
96 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019)
96 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Send me your privacy abuse tipoffs
96 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning
96 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Richard P. Feynman on the Distinction Between Past and Future
96 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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The Law of Conservation of Complexity
96 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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A Practical Guide to Watchdogs for Embedded Systems
96 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Brandless has shut down
96 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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The cup-of-coffee pricing fallacy
96 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Why I’m Leaving San Francisco: Meta study
96 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them for Not Having Licenses
96 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Little Ideas
96 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Show HN: Broxy – An HTTP/HTTPS intercept proxy written in Go
96 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Haiku Alpha 1: Rebirth of legend
95 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant
95 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Show HN: A 2D game engine in under 1000 lines of C
95 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Explore ancient Athens online in 3D models
95 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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311 years ago, Alexander Selkirk was rescued on a desert island
94 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
94 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Writing a triple polyglot script
94 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Ask HN: What are your war stories for converting teams to remote?
94 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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San Francisco declares state of emergency to prepare for coronavirus
94 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Show HN: Codeflow – Understand a codebase quicker with PowerPoint-like tutorials
94 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Analyzing the attacks on my website
94 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Pitch Drop Experiment
94 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Getting started on Twitter as a scientist
94 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Show HN: Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading
93 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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LibreTaxi 2 published, open-source Uber PoC
93 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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A backup rotation filter for the Unix shell
93 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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WHO Director-General: “We may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg”
93 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC
93 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Crystal 0.33
93 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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“If you leave, we'll smash all your digital purchases into oblivion.”
93 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Seattle Tech Employees Earn 56% More Than NYC Finance Workers
93 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Mitigations are attack surface, too
93 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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‘McMillions’: ex-cop orchestrated $24M McDonald’s Monopoly scam
93 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Bloomberg U.S. Startups Barometer
93 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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We’re Not Ready for the Next Epidemic (2015)
93 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Facebook URLs Dataset Now Available for Academic Research
93 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Thought Experiment: An Introductory Compilers Class
92 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Show HN: IRedis: CLI for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting
92 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Coronavirus Mortality Rate
92 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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BBC: How to generate random numbers in 1971 [video]
92 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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A Brief History of California’s Housing Crisis
92 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement
92 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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How might the coronavirus change our world?
92 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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European parliament says it will not use facial recognition tech
92 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regulatory action
92 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Math Keeps Changing
92 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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The Age of Instagram Face
91 points • comment • feb 19, 2020