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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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Plink-plonk.js – hear webpages render with DOM observer and audio API
243 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority
243 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Just 29k Western Monarch butterflies are left in California
242 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now
242 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Coronavirus outbreak likely now ‘gathering steam’
242 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Swift Crypto
242 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)
242 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Flutter and Dart, or how to quickly build a mobile app without losing your hair
241 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech
241 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer
241 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Angular 9.0
240 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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GitHub Discussions Beta
240 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Google is moving EU citizens’ data to US?
240 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Deanonymizing Tor Circuits
239 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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iNaturalist is a social network of people helping each other learn about nature
239 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Securing Firefox with WebAssembly
238 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Show HN: Paperd.Ink – A hackable e-paper display
238 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Google employee diagnosed with coronavirus
238 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps
237 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Undiscoverable UI Madness
237 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone
237 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Chrome deploys deep-linking in latest build despite privacy concerns
236 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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The US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook
236 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Blender GIS
235 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Let’s Build a Compiler (1995)
235 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this?
235 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Ask HN: What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?
234 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial
234 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Wearable Microphone Jamming
234 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google's Titan M chip
234 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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What Happened with Lego
234 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Programming trick questions
233 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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The secret of academic success, or fun filled failure if you prefer
233 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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OCaml 4.10
233 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018)
233 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Show HN: Edtr.io – Intuitive web editor, open source and fully adaptable
232 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?
232 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985
232 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Rust Moving Towards an IDE-Friendly Compiler with Rust Analyzer
232 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Studio Ghibli suddenly makes 38 albums of anime music available for streaming
232 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 home server
232 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command
231 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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The Disneyfication of a University
231 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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A hacker's mom broke into a prison and the warden's computer
231 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Babashka – A Clojure for the grey areas of Bash
230 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (2018)
230 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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PCILeech
229 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why
229 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Intuit to buy Credit Karma for $7B
228 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet
228 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
228 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?
227 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing
227 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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C# Pattern Matching
226 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Just because it's an Internet Draft doesn't mean anything at all (2014)
224 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Firefox turns on DoH as default for US users
223 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages
223 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Vue.js Documentary [video]
223 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral
223 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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The state of full text search in PostgreSQL 12
223 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Blender 2.82
222 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Google Fonts Analytics
222 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Japanese firemen’s coats from the 19th century
221 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Mathematicians prove universal law of turbulence
220 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and best practices
220 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Elliott Management buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey
220 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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5-MeO-DMT: 20-minute psychoactive experience that’s transforming lives
220 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (2015)
220 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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HTTP 402: Payment Required
220 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?
219 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux
219 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month
219 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight
217 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online starting at $1M
217 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Colab Pro
217 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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History of LSD in Czechoslovakia
216 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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How to give a great presentation: advice from a legendary adman (2012)
216 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Morgan Stanley to Buy E-Trade for $13B
216 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a housing crisis
215 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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ThinkPad Mods, Done Right
215 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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IBM's Lost Decade
214 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Important women in CS who aren't Grace Hopper (2018)
214 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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China bans consumption and trade of wild animals
213 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Microsoft Zero and DeepSpeed: Memory Efficient Large Neural Network Training
213 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Second U.S. coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Santa Clara County
212 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Toxic sofas are a secret scandal
211 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Why do incompetent managers get promoted?
211 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Clearview’s App Used by Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, and the NBA
211 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests
211 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Paris Mayor: It's Time for a '15-Minute City'
211 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Visual Introduction to Self Supervised Learning
211 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast?
211 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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PyRobot
210 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Improving my productivity as a working programmer (2017)
210 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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The Rapid Growth of Io_uring
209 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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New Chip Brings Ultra-Low Power Wi-Fi Connectivity to IoT Devices
209 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes
209 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Learning technical writing using the engineering method (2016) [pdf]
209 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army
209 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems
208 points • comment • feb 18, 2020