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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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Fireflies facing extinction due to habitat loss, pesticides and artificial light
59 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Show HN: Static website hosting with auto optimization
59 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Chopping books in half
59 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Mapping Income Inequality in the US Using IRS SOI Data
59 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Twitter lists for YC 2017, YC 2018, YC 2019 companies
59 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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TTY-Exit: terminal exit codes for humans and machines
59 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Magic and Software Design (1993)
59 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Show HN: Bob – A GUI for DNS Record Management and Name Auctions on Handshake
59 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Clearing up some myths around e-cigarettes
59 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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The Wheels on the new Mac Pro don't have locks. They cost $550
59 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Uber blocks drivers who picked up coronavirus-infected man
59 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Let's Build a Simple Database
59 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Thousands of workers jobs cut as former boss walks away with $62M
58 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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‘Radical change’ needed after latest neutron star collision
58 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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The Hunting of Billie Holiday (2015)
58 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Taika Waititi Slams Apple's MacBook Keyboards After Winning Oscar
58 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Romu – Fine random number generators
58 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Volume of a Sphere
58 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Transparent 3D maps of human organs
58 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Open Peeps, a hand-drawn illustration library
58 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens
58 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Fungi that eats radiation found inside Chernobyl reactor
58 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Intro To Pattern Matching – Covers C# 9
58 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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SLEEF Vectorized Math Library
58 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Ericsson pulls out of major Barcelona conference over coronavirus
58 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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HOPL IV: History of Programming Languages – Accepted Papers
58 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Socratic vs. Euclidean Forms of API Documentation
58 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Arthur Conan Doyle and the Boer War
58 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Paramedical Tattoos
58 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Announcing Our New ISA Financing Blueprint and $100M in New Financing
58 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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A Paper Algorithm Notation (2014)
58 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Some unique aspects in US which make risks of COVID19 higher than Europe
58 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Barbara Newhall Follett
58 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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A proactive approach to e-scooter safety
57 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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One of the earliest victims of internet bullying
57 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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The Compact Merkle Multiproof
57 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Swiss crypto company backdoored by CIA for decades
57 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Ex-MS engineer convicted of 18 felonies after stealing $10M in digital currency
57 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Apache Flink 1.10
57 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Chinese companies say they can’t afford to pay workers now
57 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Living Hell
57 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Collected Papers of Alexander A. Stepanov
57 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Gitea 1.11.0 Is Released
57 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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You don't need libraries for internationalization of dates
57 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Where’s _why? (2012)
57 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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To create a new category, name a new game
57 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Show HN: Hacker UI – a React design system for developers
57 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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The AI delusion: why humans trump machines
57 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Oracle VP: Data would be safer if most OSS distributed databases didn't exist
57 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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An EPYC trip to Rome: AMD is Cloudflare's 10th-generation Edge server CPU
56 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Is Recycling a Waste of Time?
56 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Rubberduck – COM add-in that enables IDE features in the Visual Basic Editor
56 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Private Internet Access VPN Open Source Repository
56 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rises in Japan
56 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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GitHub Outage
56 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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The Dever Ransomware Experience
56 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Understanding the Neural Tangent Kernel
56 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Robotic submarine snaps images at foundation of Antarctic glacier
55 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Bose–Einstein Condensate
55 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Europe’s solar orbiter begins its journey to the Sun tonight
55 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled, so they’re piling up in landfills
55 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Basecamp to launch email competitor
55 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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New Bill Would Give Nearly Every Californian $1,000/Month
55 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Complex-step differentiation and automatic differentiation (2001) [pdf]
55 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Global warming is speeding up Earth‘s ocean currents
55 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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ARM Launches Cortex M55 and Ethos-U55
55 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Ask HN: How do you maintain your medical record?
55 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Alan Turing in America
55 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Perennial philosophy
55 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Show HN: Magit for VSCode (Alpha)
55 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Creating haptic feedback in iOS 13
55 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Tests Should be Specific [video]
55 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Rackspace terminates FOSS support without notification, charging fees
55 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Let ICANN know if you support .com price hikes
55 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Does anyone have celiac disease and how do you deal with that?
54 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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The Effect of Pipe Capacity on Unix Pipeline Performance
54 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Occam programming language
54 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Windows 10 Warning: Anger at Microsoft Rises with Serious New Failure
54 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Design: the key to writing and advising a one-draft thesis (2002) [pdf]
54 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Why I'm open sourcing the financial side of my business
54 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Fake Goods Sold by AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Wish
54 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram's tracking algorithm
54 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Leaving Google
54 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Ask HN: What's your way to keep being productive day by day?
54 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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PostgreSQL for Those Who Can’t Even
54 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Tinygo is now officially a Google sponsored project
54 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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There’s no homunculus in our brain who guides us
53 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Kessler Syndrome
53 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Babashka: A quick example
53 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Lithophone
53 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Bernie's plan to hike taxes on some startup employees
53 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Show HN: Tagx.io – Create/share video highlights and annotations
53 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Effects of “The Work” meditation on symptoms and quality of life (2015)
53 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Wood wide web: Trees' social networks are mapped (2019)
53 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Slavery in Early Austin: The Stringer’s Hotel and Urban Slavery
53 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Why and how to search two years back in your Elastic search logs [pdf]
53 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Learning Synths
53 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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RSA Algorithm
53 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Deploying front-end websites to S3 with CloudFront
53 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Coinbase Billionaire Brian Armstrong’s Plan to Make Crypto Safe for All
53 points • comment • feb 20, 2020