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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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The guy who knew Nintendo’s Switch surprise has pled guilty to hacking
16 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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February Service Disruptions
16 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Today I Learned That Not Everyone Has an Internal Monologue
16 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Feature Interaction Bugs
16 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Senior Engineers need more than just “8 years of experience”
16 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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CoronaNotify – Get Notified When the Coronavirus Is Near
16 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Uber is testing out a new 1-800 number for people who don’t use apps
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Walmart is quietly working on an Amazon Prime competitor called Walmart+
16 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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ICE has access to use facial recognition on Maryland driver’s license records
16 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Show HN: Runnaroo – A new web search engine
16 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Dead Ends: Investigating a murder without a body in an archive marked by absence
16 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Show HN: React-UFO – A simple React hook to help you with data fetching
16 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Germany’s overdose of renewable energy
16 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: The U.S. Needs a Data Protection Agency
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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HopSkipDrive raises $22M to focus on school transportation
16 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Tesla’s Stock Is Up 40% in Two Days. What’s Going On?
16 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Climate change is drying up the Colorado River
16 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Bezos Says He’ll Commit $10B to Fight Climate Change
16 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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The Paywalled Garden: iOS Is Adware
16 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Clearview AI, Facial Recognition Company, Says Client List Was Stolen
16 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Distributed cache and K/V store in Go. Embeddable or independent service
16 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Israel Bars Palestinians from Exporting Produce via Jordan
16 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Preparing for Coronavirus to Strike the U.S.
16 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Troy Price, Iowa Democratic Party Leader, Resigns over Caucas Debacle
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Creating a virtual traffic jam on Google Maps with 99 phones and a wagon
16 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Ask HN: Do you think Dropbox is expensive?
16 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Mac Pro Technology Overview [pdf]
16 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Ask HN: What kind of scoring algorithms exist?
15 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths
15 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Show HN: Turbo Boost Disable for macOS
15 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Health officials worry as untraceable virus clusters emerge
15 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Rule of Three (Computer Programming)
15 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Hacker Makes $360k ETH from a Flash Loan Single Transaction
15 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Red Teaming Toolkit Collection – 0xsp
15 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Carlo Urbani (2003)
15 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Society Desperately Needs an Alternative Web
15 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Ask HN: What are less-known best practices for email deliverability?
15 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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BigSudo extreme devops: hacking operations
15 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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The Case Fatality Ratio of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
15 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Vulkan is coming to Raspberry Pi: first triangle
15 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Why homes in the Bay Area are unaffordable
15 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Object-Oriented Programming – The Trillion Dollar Disaster
15 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Ask HN: Is Let's Encrypt the new swiss crypto ag?
15 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Parkinson's disease may start before birth
15 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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iOS Screen Time setting blocks searches for “Asian”
15 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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The editorial boards are failing on climate
15 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Katherine Johnson, ‘hidden figure’ at NASA, dies at 101
15 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Scientists supersize quantum mechanics: Largest ever object put in quantum state
15 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Why Cruise Ships Are a Bad Place to Quarantine Coronavirus Patients
15 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Show HN: An independent and unbiased database for high-quality products
15 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Protecting users from insecure downloads in Google Chrome
15 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Which Search Engine Has the Best Results
15 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Irish drug dealer loses £46m Bitcoin codes he hid in fishing rod case
15 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Cybersecurity is a government game
15 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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California Auditor's Damning Report About Automated License Plate Readers
15 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Raytheon engineer arrested for taking US missile defense secrets to China
15 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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The Doctor and the Doc
15 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Ciphers and sympathetic ink: secret love letters in the Granville papers
15 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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How the CIA read the communications of allies and adversaries for decades
15 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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50B Restores and Counting
15 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Sugary drink consumption plunges in Chile after new food laws
15 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Scandinavia Got Great by Educating the “Whole Person”
15 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Coronavirus: Largest study suggests elderly and sick are most at risk
15 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Uses This: Bram Moolenaar
15 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Google Podcasts
15 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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An expert’s case for nuclear power
15 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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The T2D3 Path to SaaS Growth and $1B Valuation
15 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Spoiled by the Web
15 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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NFL Has a GitHub Page
15 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Demystifying Post-Global Financial Crisis Economics
15 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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The Sextortion Scams: The Numbers Show We Have A Failure of Education
15 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Trump 'offered Assange pardon for Russia denial'
15 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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How to Learn Python: Top Sites and Courses, from Beginner to Pro
15 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Show HN: Business Structure Calculator
15 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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For-profit firm seeking to run .org names makes concessions
15 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Deadly 1918 flu pandemic’s lessons ignored in coronavirus response
15 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Consider Controlled Infection (Re: Coronavirus)
15 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Python Tutorial: Learn Python for Free
15 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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The careful process behind Fyne’s simplicity
15 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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iPhone is swimming in the Indian Ocean waiting to be rescued
15 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Teach Yourself Logic 2020:A Study Guide [pdf]
15 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Coronavirus research breakthrough has Toronto roots
15 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Gitlab is down
15 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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ERPNext: A 100% Open Source Alternative to SAP
15 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Exit the Haunted Forest
15 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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James Joyce’s grandson and the death of the stubborn literary executor
15 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Tiny area of the brain may enable consciousness
14 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Community Transmission of Covid-19 in Santa Clara County
14 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Twitter is testing new ways to fight misinformation
14 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3C
14 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Git for Node.js and the browser using libgit2 compiled to WebAssembly
14 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Open Source Rotary Cellphone
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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What is O(log n)? Learn Big O Logarithmic Time Complexity
14 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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KASLR: Break It, Fix It, Repeat (2020) [pdf]
14 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Show HN: Epictopus, a Collaborative Writing Platform
14 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Platypus: Create native applications from command line scripts
14 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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After failing training, an Army PFC stole helo and landed it at the White House
14 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Boing 737-800 at Istanbul overran runway, impacted wall, broke up
14 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Driver stranded after connected rental car can’t call home
14 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Corona: Free Cross-Platform 2D Game Engine
14 points • comment • feb 28, 2020