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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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737 Max: Debris found in new planes' fuel tanks
47 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police
47 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Removing people from complex backgrounds in real time using TensorFlow.js
47 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Holy Panda Keyswitch
47 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Infield top-aligned labels beat floating labels on forms
47 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Digital publishing is beginning to make money
47 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark (2018)
46 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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On Emulation
46 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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U.S. deploys 'more survivable' submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon
46 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Demonstration of the Xerox PARC Cedar integrated environment (2019) [video]
46 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Erdős–Bacon number
46 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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The ‘consciousness causes quantum collapse’ hypothesis (2017)
46 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Ironsides DNS Server in Ada Spark
46 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Dutch went from shortest to tallest in Europe through sexual selection
46 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Practical file system design with the Be File System (1999) [pdf]
46 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Narrowing the gap between serverless and state with storage functions (2019) [pdf]
46 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Wayfair growth stops; Layoffs start
46 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Social Credit Systems, coming soon to a democracy near you
46 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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How to Respond to Coronavirus by Bill Gates
46 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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No More Pink Mustache
46 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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GNU-FSF Cooperation Update
46 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Bjarne Stroustrup – The Essence of C++ (2014) [video]
46 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Cocktail of flu, HIV drugs appears to help fight coronavirus: Thai doctors
46 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles
46 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Millions of vehicles have unexpected, dangerous front blind zone
45 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Show HN: Subscription Score – A browser ext that identifies bad mailing lists
45 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Next stop, hydrogen-powered trains
45 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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My First AWS “Free Tier” Hosting Bill Was $990
45 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Modern Database Engineering with Io_uring
45 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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“How do you talk to 'I have nothing to hide' people?”
45 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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KDE’s Plasma Mobile Is Shaping Up Nicely on the PinePhone
45 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Covid19info
45 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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The optimal way of folding a bond notebook page into a bookmark
45 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Ribbons (2007)
45 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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V
45 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO
45 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Criminal Assets Bureau seizes 6k bitcoin, sale impossible without access codes
45 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Fixng Nginx 502 Gateway Timeout with proxy_pass During Deployments
45 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Can an Economy Feel Joy?
45 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Deutschland AG rethinks workers’ role in management
45 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Using symbolic regression to predict rare events
45 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Sorted – a new web extension to organize bookmarks for Firefox
45 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Printing Money
45 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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No One Gets Rich by Shunning New Cars and Lattes
45 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Jason Scott: “Here's some thoughts, before Patreon dies.”
45 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)
45 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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The worlds worst IoT idea is almost fully funded
44 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Datsville – a Lego-inspired city started in 1999 by LUGNET using the LDraw CAD
44 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Collecting stamps from countries that don’t exist
44 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Canada Invests in Ontario’s Electric Vehicle Network
44 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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No City Hates Its Landlords Like Berlin Does
44 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Plans to Advance Diversity
44 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Yuval Noah Harari’s History of Everyone
44 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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The Aloha point-of-sale system
44 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Iowa Democrats Should Have Known Better Than to Use an App
44 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Google Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Chrome
44 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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OpenSMTPD advisory dissected
44 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Deepfake version of Travis Scott
44 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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A Tutorial on Countable Ordinals (2010) [pdf]
44 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Headlinese
44 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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EMM386 and VDS: Not Quite Working
44 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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A disk scheduling algorithm based on ant colony optimization (2009) [pdf]
44 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?
44 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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I Spoke Out Against Sexual Harassment at Uber
44 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Shake.ttf: A Typeface with Parkinson's
44 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Gitlab Saleswomen “told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'”
44 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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The Plight of the Platypus
44 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought'
44 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Researchers study how birds retweet news
44 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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An airdrop that preserves recipient privacy [pdf]
44 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Never Use Floats for Money (2016)
44 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Huawei Charged in Racketeering Conspiracy and Conspiracy to Steal Trade Secrets
44 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Flywheel owners found out that their bikes were bricked through Peloton
44 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Rotary Cellphone
43 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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In the 1970s, NYC Dabbled in Carpeted Subway Trains
43 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Reading Between the Lines: SEC, Telegram, and Rule 144
43 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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We’ll Be $1Trillion in the Red in 2020. No Big Deal
43 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Tesla stock explodes higher again, topping $900 per share
43 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Ask HN: How to donate $1k to open source?
43 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Reading a book a week for your career
43 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Kava: Fiji’s psychoactive brew
43 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Format Python Code Using YAPF
43 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Show HN: Waymark – Roadmaps for product presentations
43 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Arnold Schoenberg: Beauty and horror
43 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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The Race to Build the First Sustainable Supersonic Jet
43 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Our critique of Behringer's proposed TD-3 variant with Devil Fish functions
43 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Gentzen's Rules for Natural Deduction
43 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on MWC barcelona 2020)
42 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Coronavirus: Iran's deputy health minister tests positive as outbreak worsens
42 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Louis Nirenberg, ‘one of the great mathematicians,’ dies at 94
42 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Quantifying Independently Reproducible Machine Learning
42 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Show HN: Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
42 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Financial Times 404 Page
42 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Ancient-Classroom-Approved Pig Latin: The Testamentum Porcelli
42 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Bill Kentstravaganza
42 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Artists who paint with their feet have unique brain patterns
42 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Handwritten PDP-6 hardware log from the Stanford AI Laboratory (1967) [pdf]
42 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Coronavirus – The Outlook Has Worsened
42 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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New Neanderthal remains associated with the ‘flower burial’ at Shanidar Cave
42 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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The Wall Street Journal’s Fake and Distorted News
42 points • comment • feb 03, 2020