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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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N26 will be leaving the UK
516 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Turning Off Autoplaying Previews
515 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%
510 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
507 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects
507 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
502 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects
502 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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1k True Fans? Try 100
496 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Simple, solar-powered water desalination
494 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android
494 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Does memory leak? (1995)
493 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)
493 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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MSPaint in JavaScript
489 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Draft of the Fast.ai Book
489 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing
487 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
486 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Brown: color is weird [video]
485 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Reviving Sandstorm
484 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Guide to Equity Compensation
481 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice
481 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
478 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Apple Edge Cache
477 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M
475 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
474 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths
473 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?
473 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca
470 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter
469 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements
467 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Stop Using Encrypted Email
467 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020
457 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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A new hash algorithm for Git
455 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
453 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Our first patent troll
450 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Free OpenStreetMap tile library: watercolor, black and white, terrain
449 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI
443 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015)
441 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece
440 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU
440 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Scientists use ML to find an antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice
434 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic
432 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data
432 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Swift Playgrounds for macOS
432 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet
431 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash iron is hot
430 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Captcha.nsa.gov
430 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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C4: C in Four Functions (2014)
429 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Mondragon Corporation
429 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug
427 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux
426 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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How to Take Smart Notes
426 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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TeamViewer stores user passwords in registry, encrypted with hard-coded key
426 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?
425 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Court rules that people can't be locked up indefinitely for refusing to decrypt
424 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Poolside.fm
421 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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95th percentile isn't that hard to reach
417 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
416 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)
416 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running
412 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Mini projects built with VanillaJS. No frameworks or libraries
407 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video
405 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
404 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra
404 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market
404 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and Twitter verified it
404 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019)
402 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Ask HN: What are some examples of good database schema designs?
400 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own advisory council
399 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend
398 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf
397 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
395 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
395 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina
395 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale
393 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Chinese military personnel charged for hacking into Equifax
392 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Things I Believe About Software Engineering
392 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference
391 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers
390 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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A Map of Mathematics
390 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (2016)
390 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded
388 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications
388 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it
388 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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YC’s new guide to raising a Series A
386 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Lambda School’s Misleading Promises
384 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada
384 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for browser automation
384 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Haven: turn old Android phones into security cameras
382 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Learn Rust with entirely too many linked lists (2019)
381 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971)
380 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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"This community is available in the app"
380 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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TV Backlight Compensation
380 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me
379 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Old book illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries: an online database
378 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
378 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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CDC declined to test new coronavirus patient for days, California hospital says
376 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Monobloc chair
374 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland
374 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise (2019)
374 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software
373 points • comment • feb 18, 2020