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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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Reducing Storage Requirements of Mobile Games via Predictive Streaming (2019) [pdf]
21 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Another 85 Ideas for Computing
21 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Feeding Plants Artificial Sweeteners (2010)
21 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Can You Use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020?
21 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Citroën unveils the Ami, a super-cheap electric car you can buy for $6,600
21 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Why String Theory Is Both a Dream and a Nightmare
21 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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C++ 20 Is Done
21 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Israeli soldiers duped by Hamas 'fake women' phone ruse
21 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Gini coefficient
21 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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App Automatically Cancels and Sues Robocallers
21 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? (1998)
21 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Swift Soars Ever Higher
21 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Facebook would have to pay $3.50 per month to U.S. users for contact info: study
21 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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New SoftBank tech fund falls far short of $108B fundraising goal
21 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Jebbit's Tom Coburn on getting big customers [video]
21 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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A Link to the Shadow Inc. App That Blew Up the Iowa Caucus
21 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Estimated car cost as a predictor of driver yielding behaviors for pedestrians
21 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Ask HN: How to take your privacy back?
21 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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At least 500 Wuhan medical staff infected with coronavirus
21 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Laughing OnLine (2019)
21 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Show HN: Py package to collect normalized news from (almost) any website
21 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Ask HN: What is the most underrated skill software engineers should learn?
21 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Harvard professor’s arrest shows Chinese spying via US universities
21 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Gradually, by word of mouth
21 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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We still see the world like the mathematician and poet who first mapped it
21 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Flash in 2020 (and Beyond)
21 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Boomers got houses and good jobs. Doomers get AGI
21 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Ask HN: How does your company approach hiring diversity?
21 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Face ID compatible respirator masks
21 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Amazon finally closes above $1t
21 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Multicluster Kubernetes with Service Mirroring
21 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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The Little-Known History of Palestine's First Rock Band
21 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Want Unlimited Clean Energy? Just Drill the World's Hottest Well
21 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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John le Carré: Why we should learn German (2017)
21 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Which milk alternative should we be drinking?
21 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Transitioning to a sustainable economy is fiscally conservative. Why can't we?
21 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Why Docker Was Written in Go
20 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Stanford's free course on higher mathematical thinking is about to start soon
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Xkcd Smearing Clock
20 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Lunar Programming Language
20 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Hand-optimized interpreter loop in LuaJIT2 (2011)
20 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Facebook's fail is going to be epic (2008)
20 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Scaling Software Development
20 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Brain-melting Unity demo becoming reality-creating puzzle game
20 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Seagulls prefer food previously touched by humans to untouched items
20 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out
20 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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AI Algorithms Intended to Catch Welfare Fraud Often Punish the Poor Instead
20 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Becoming a blockchain developer
20 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Scientists Sue FCC for Ignoring Cell Phone Radiation Risk
20 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Utah sends employees to Mexico for lower prescription prices
20 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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No, a vaccine or antiviral therapy won’t save us from the first wave of Covid-19
20 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Monkeys wake from anaesthetic when region linked to consciousness is stimulated
20 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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A trashed Italian manuscript got sewn into a sweet silk purse
20 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020
20 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Garbage Language Why do corporations speak the way they do?
20 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Show HN: Airsite – a mobile app for building simple websites
20 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Mobile app errors could delay Iowa Caucus results
20 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Former USAF drone operator says he killed innocents
20 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Far-UVC Lights Deactive Majority of Airborne Pathogens
20 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Utah sponsors employee travel to Mexico to buy medicines in cheap
20 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Show HN: Machine Wisdom – Generated Inspiration from Deep Learning (GPT-2)
20 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Four Ballads of USS Thresher (2013)
20 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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In 2000, Blockbuster with 7700 stores declined to buy Netflix for $50M
20 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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YouTube Copyright Strike Took Down Livestream Before It Even Started
20 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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The Body Shop will start hiring the first person who applies for any retail job
20 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Microsoft Open Sources the Biggest Language Model in Human History
20 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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A plan to make artificial meteor showers (2019)
20 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Tip: Don't record laser tattoo removal (2019)
20 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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NYPD video warning about leaks to the media is leaked to the media
20 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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OpenJDK project considering move to Git and GitHub
20 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Ask HN: What can I do with extra electricity?
19 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Teaching honeybees to do arithmetic
19 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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The future of work looks like staying out of the office
19 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Second Unexplained [Coronavirus] Case Found in California, Santa Clara County
19 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) Overview for Startup Founders
19 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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DrDrunkenstein’s (Magnus Carlsen) Reign of Terror
19 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Thanks to Linux, Google and Valve Are Bringing Steam to Chromebooks
19 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Show HN: Simple JavaScript VPN detection using timezones
19 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Rural America Doesn’t Have to Starve to Death
19 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users
19 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Trump Jr. Is a Poacher After Illegally Killing an Endangered Species
19 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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‘The Whole System Collapsed’: The Music Industry’s Ongoing Distribution Crisis
19 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Reposurgeon Defeats All Monsters
19 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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U.S. sees first coronavirus case of unknown origin in Bay Area
19 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Rackspace reverses course, revoking open source discounts again
19 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Mining coronavirus genomes for clues to the outbreak’s origins
19 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Nouriel Roubini: “This crisis will spill over and result in a disaster”
19 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Answering your questions on Huawei devices and Google services
19 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu
19 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Tesla Is Slowly Pushing Germany into Recession
19 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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On Computers: First Rule on Updating Software – Don’t
19 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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What ruins can teach us about beauty and decay
19 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build
19 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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DHS skirting Supreme Court order by using purchased location data
19 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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The Shadow Inc. App That Failed in Iowa Last Night
19 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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The world's first Bitcoin-settled index futures
19 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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After 2 years, couple sells tiny home without ever living in it
19 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Developing Embodied Familiarity with Hyperphysical Phenomena (2019)
19 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Show HN: The largest Node.js CLI Apps best practices list
19 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Entrepreneurship is a spectrum so why did we forget to support its social side?
19 points • comment • feb 08, 2020