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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?
297 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Performant Front-End Architecture
296 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Vue.js: The Documentary (Trailer) [video]
295 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video]
294 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Where Sci-Hub Is
294 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side
294 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position
293 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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No ‘carmageddon’ on auto-free Market Street: study shows bikes and buses benefit
293 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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The Bash Hackers Wiki
292 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps
291 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Hard negotiations: why a softer approach yields better outcomes
291 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android
290 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Maryam Mirzakhani
290 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications
289 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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State of Clojure 2020
288 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output
287 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Year Without a Summer
287 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Li Wenliang
286 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Twitter is suspending pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
286 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Fuchsia Programming Language Policy
285 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data
285 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove
285 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergencies
284 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Seneca on The Shortness of Time (2017)
284 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”
284 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Should you self-host Google Fonts?
283 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers
283 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality
283 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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I made my own PCBs with a 3D printer
283 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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GitHub was down
282 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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How to take smart notes with Org mode
281 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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On Resigning from Google
279 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Spain builds submarine 70 tons too heavy due to wrong decimal (2013)
279 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it
279 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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7k-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered
279 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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The specification for native image lazy-loading is merged into HTML standard
278 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Costco Capitalism
275 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8280 in benchmark leak
274 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Dopamine and Temporal Difference Learning
273 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)
273 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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The Shadow Inc. app that failed in Iowa last night
272 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
272 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Launch HN: PostHog (YC W20) – open-source product analytics
271 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM
271 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art
269 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources
269 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the ‘punishing signal’
268 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)
268 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75
268 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Telecoms say they have a First Amendment right to sell private data
268 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
267 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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The Problem with Palm Oil
267 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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How Spotify ran a large Google Dataflow job for Wrapped 2019
266 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born
265 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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The outsize influence of middle-school friends
265 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Show HN: My ML applications book, which HN helped me write (sample chapter) [pdf]
264 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Levels of Seniority
264 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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I Was Wrong about Nix
263 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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John Carmack talks about “antifragile” idea generation (2015) [video]
262 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
261 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages
261 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3 (2018)
260 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016)
260 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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CouchDB 3.0
260 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse
259 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Environmental lawyer who won a judgment against Chevron lost everything
259 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (2012)
259 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math
258 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Instagram took down private unofficial APIs via DMCA
258 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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I Worked for a Criminal Organization
258 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
257 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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ZZ is a modern formally provable dialect of C
257 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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An Astronaut’s Guide to Mental Models
256 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?
255 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Fast Differentiable Sorting and Ranking
255 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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GDC 2020 has been postponed
255 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
255 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks
255 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Goodbye Joyent
254 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Selfie – Tiny self-compiling C compiler, RISC-V emulator and hypervisor
254 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront
252 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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64 bit OS Raspberry Pi4 Benchmarks
251 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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The war on food waste is a waste of time
250 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Don’t use the word ‘did’ or dumb anti-piracy company will delete you from Google
249 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation [video]
249 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation
249 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Lockdown: Open-source firewall that blocks app tracking, ads, snooping
248 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Functional Programming in OCaml
248 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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JWT is Awesome
248 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max
247 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Things about the new Firefox browser for Android
247 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Tips from Poland on Old-School Zero Waste (2019)
246 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
246 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web
246 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Ask HN: What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?
246 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Home Office tells man, 101, his parents must confirm ID
245 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning
245 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Flowcharts of programming language constructs
244 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality
244 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research
244 points • comment • feb 03, 2020