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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information?
373 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close
372 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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What happens to a mail-order mattress after you return it
372 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets
371 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business
369 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL
368 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Why are we so bad at software engineering?
367 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Game AI Pro
367 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Burnoutindex.org
367 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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I've screwed up plenty of things too
367 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Cursed Adapters
366 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers
366 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs
366 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse
365 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen
363 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Assange Hearing Day 2
363 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol
362 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
362 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets
361 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
359 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Educated Fools
359 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
359 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy
359 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders
358 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model
358 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death
357 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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To become a good C programmer (2011)
357 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax
357 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Report to local authority in the UK if you see a kid using Tor, VMs, Linux etc.
356 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming Language
353 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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BlurHash: Algorithm to generate compact representation of an image placeholder
353 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning
353 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned
350 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”
347 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Hard Drive Stats for 2019
346 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit
345 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM
344 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Using neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality
342 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions
342 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings
341 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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ESbuild – A fast JavaScript bundler and minifier in Go
341 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Routed Gothic Font
340 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
340 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password
340 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras
338 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls
338 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android
338 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate
335 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
335 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support
334 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam
332 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
332 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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QEMU for iOS
331 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD
331 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)
331 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)
329 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study
329 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Pwn.college
328 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
328 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated
327 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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My Startup Failed, So We Open-Sourced the Tech
326 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care
325 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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CBS gets YouTube review of 'Picard' taken down for using 26 seconds
325 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech
325 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?
325 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build
324 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb
321 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe
318 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad
318 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Learn Authentication the Hard Way: Part Three
318 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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M3DB, a distributed timeseries database
317 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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New in PHP 8
317 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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My Covid-19 Story in Brooklyn
316 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter
315 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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OK Doomer
315 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
313 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Living without a SIM card
312 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine
312 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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On Voice Coding
312 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Cards Against Humanity buys Clickhole, turning it into an employee-owned company
311 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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The Zen of Go
309 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
309 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN
307 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good
306 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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This person does not exist
306 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church
305 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Quadsort: a stable non-recursive merge sort
304 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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2020 Leap Day Bugs
304 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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The U.S. is charging Huawei with racketeering
303 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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CS246: Mining Massive Data Sets
303 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)
302 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Learn TLA+ (2018)
302 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8
301 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Later school start times are associated with more sleep and better performance
300 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck
300 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Google's Abandoned Android Authenticator App
300 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming
300 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Ask HN: How to find work while homeless?
300 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Create a First-Person Shooter In Godot
299 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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COVID-19 Supply Chain Update
297 points • comment • feb 28, 2020