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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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Artificial Mountains
33 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Stripe charged me $714 for duplicate transactions within seconds
32 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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OHCHR UN expert says “collective persecution” of Julian Assange must end now
32 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Telegram Founder on WhatsApp Hacks: Backdoors Are Camouflaged as Security Flaws
32 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Freeman Dyson Dies at 96; Wrestled with Questions of Physics and Morality
32 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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How the cancel culture was leveraged against RMS
32 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Show HN: Decentralized Automation Framework in YAML
32 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Exploration into the Origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus (2019-NCoV)
32 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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What Do We Want History to Do to Us?
32 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Detecting manuscripts and publications from paper mills
32 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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WikiLeaks Twitter account has been locked
32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Show HN: Binary delta encoding tools based on bsdiff and HDiffPatch
32 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Mom and pop investors are on a stock buying spree, fueled by free trades
32 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Checksumming in filesystems, and why ZFS is doing it right
32 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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What happens if I don't fill out my census form? (2019)
32 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Notes on Linear Transformations
32 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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J.Bridenstine/NASA: Katherine Johnson passed away this morning at 101 years old.
32 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Six-year-old girl arrested at Florida school
32 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Show HN: Census – Sync your warehouse data to any app
32 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Creator of YOLO and SSD algorithm stopped CV research due to ethical concerns
32 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Surprise for New York Renters: No More Broker Fees
32 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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The United States of Franchising
32 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Fans of George Eliot are celebrating her bicentenary
32 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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High rate of extrapair paternity in a human population
32 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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The Parallelism Blues: when faster code is slower
32 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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What are these 100.x.x.x addresses?
32 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Making a Timelapse of your PCB design in KiCad
32 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Upcoming missions to look for 'biosignatures' in exoplanet atmospheres
32 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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$3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week
32 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Deep linking in React Native
32 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Fun with Decorators, Protobuf and Apache Beam
32 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Study: Soy Protein Decreases DHT/Testosterone in Healthy Young Men
32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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LiveUSB builder with ROS (Robot Operating System) installed
32 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Twitter pro users should enjoy more features and pay monthly fee
32 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Branching Time Iteration
32 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Marketers are panicking over Google's plan to yank cookies from advertising
32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Ask HN: cloud data storage cheaper than AWS S3?
32 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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React v16.13.0
31 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Show HN: There are 100s of similar Monitor Arms so I built this
31 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2
31 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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The Wildness of Maurice Sendak
31 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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What 6 years of bootstrapping a startup has taught me
31 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Extraction of 96% of total O2 and production of metal alloys from lunar regolith
31 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
31 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Bumblebee decline points to mass extinction, according to study
31 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Nintendo Cracked Open Its Secret Game Boy Stash to Help a 95-Year-Old Fan
31 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Every software company giving a take home coding test
31 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Visa Grants Coinbase Power to Issue Bitcoin Debit Cards
31 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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The Great Google Revolt
31 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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ZFS on Linux repo renamed to openzfs/ZFS
31 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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First, Consider No Harmful
31 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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GAN Collaborative Image Inpainting
31 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Our app powered car rental lost cell service and now I'm stuck here
31 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Help Us Avoid .COM Price Increases
31 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Boeing Refuses to Cooperate with New Inquiry into Deadly Crash from 2009
30 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Google Earth Outage: 17 hours and counting
30 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Sex drive-in
30 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Red meat and processed food 'not back on the menu' according to new review
30 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Brace yourself, I’m in an expansive mood (2019)
30 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Tesla recalls 15,000 Model X SUVs for power steering issue in North America
30 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Everybody Lies: FBI Edition
30 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Learning Is More Complex Than We Thought
30 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only known eight-sided pyramid
30 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Working with Strings in Rust
30 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Casper lowers IPO price range, implying valuation of just over $500M
30 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Google admits it sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers
30 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Tech giants have turned San Francisco into a dystopian nightmare
30 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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70% of Americans Support Solar Mandate on New Homes
30 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
30 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Making Sense of Asynchrony in Interactive Data Visualizations (2018)
30 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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You Should Be Eating More Canned Fish
30 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
30 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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When Einstein Was Bohemian
30 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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In 1986 Microsoft advertised Windows was available “except in Nebraska”. Why?
30 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Game-based virtual archaeology field school
29 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Why Aren't More Highly Intelligent People Rich?
29 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Show HN: Pomodoro Calendar: custom printable planners for Pomodoro technique
29 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Antarctica hits its warmest temperature in recorded history
29 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate
29 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Landmark ruling by Dutch court stops government attempts to spy on the poor
29 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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WebAssembly in the Linux Kernel, with Faster-Than-Native Performance
29 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Petrol and diesel car sales ban brought forward to 2035
29 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Opportunities and Challenges of Emerging Technologies for Refugees (2019) [pdf]
29 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Peerd: an AWS VPC peering connection management tool
29 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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You Don't Need Millions of Dollars
29 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Microsoft Teams Now Available for Linux
29 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Commodore LCD Emulator
29 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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SpaceX Starship SN1 experiences an anomaly and explodes
29 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Safari Will Stop Accepting HTTPS Certificates That Last Longer Than 13 Months
29 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Britain’s Productivity Decline Is the Worst in 250 Years
29 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Hong Kong Is Showing Symptoms of a Failed State
29 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Stop Lying About Our Sons
29 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Show HN: Aggregate search DB for arbitration outcomes
29 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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George Steiner has died
29 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD's Hypervisor
29 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Improving Compilation Time of C/C++ Projects
28 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Datastructure APIs in C++
28 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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The Paywalled Garden: iOS Is Adware
28 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Show HN: Hyperdoc - We make code walkthrough guides (Moment.js)
28 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Show HN: Gltfjsx, a tool that turns 3D GLTF files into React components
28 points • comment • feb 03, 2020