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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)
208 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems
208 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Algo Deck: an open-source collection of 200 cards on algorithms
208 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks
208 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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A video game that lets you make video games
208 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Ancient Roman Valves (2013)
208 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Does my data fit in RAM?
207 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Ask HN: How to explain job gaps on the resume?
207 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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i3 4.18
207 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Multicore OCaml: Feb 2020 update
206 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Launch HN: Motion (YC W20) – defense against online distractions and addictions
206 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Principles of Icon Design
206 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App
206 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid' and 'utm'
206 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Show HN: Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats
206 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law
205 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the world's population (2017)
205 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Facebook tax court trial begins over Ireland offshore deal
205 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate
205 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?
204 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Board Games of the Ancient World
204 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially
203 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Nintendo Play Station Super NES CD-ROM Prototype
203 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning
203 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps
203 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity
203 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization
202 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to Huawei
202 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Java 14 Feature Spotlight: Records
202 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Math is an insurance policy
202 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Google ditches its free WiFi service in South Africa, three months after launch
201 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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The coming IP war over facts derived from books
201 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Safari will no longer trust certs valid for more than 13 months
201 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have repeating patterns (2015)
201 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing (2016)
201 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Walmart Gets Into Health Care
201 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis
201 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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The mysteries of aerodynamic lift
200 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
200 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Apple wont let bad guys use iPhones in movies, director says
200 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Mutable Instruments' Eurorack Modules
199 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Servers for an Accelerated Future
199 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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German banks are hoarding so many euros they need more vaults
199 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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GitLab Handbook
199 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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Show HN: Goodreads Data Pipeline
199 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack
199 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones
199 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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What happened to Google's effort to scan university library books? (2017)
198 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Where Have All the Schematics Gone?
198 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected
198 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Linux Kernel Runtime Guard
197 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants
197 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Using BPF to Transform SSH Sessions into Structured Events
197 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Barclays scraps 'Big Brother' staff tracking system within one week
196 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups
196 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Bastion – Highly-available distributed fault-tolerant runtime
195 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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SurfingAttack: attack on voice assistants using ultrasonic guided wave
194 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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How to grip a pen?
194 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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USB 4.0 [pdf]
192 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Apple Just Disabled Clearview AI's iPhone App for Breaking Rules on Distribution
192 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra (2019) [video]
192 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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MusicKit JS
192 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Contextualise: Manage your knowledge
192 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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The limits of high-speed rail
192 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed
191 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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In Britain, even jails have a class system
191 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Website data leaks pose greater risks than most people realize
191 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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System76 Launches Threadripper Workstations
191 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Show HN: Open-source, configurable HDMI output for FPGAs
191 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Sled: Embedded Database Written in Rust
190 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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The Art of Powerful Questions (2003) [pdf]
190 points • comment • feb 16, 2020
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Implement with types, not your brain (2019)
190 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic
190 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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SQL query to generate the Mandelbrot set as ASCII art
190 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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My Second Phone Is in the Cloud
189 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 [video]
189 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Tech salaries are risk premiums
189 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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U.S. Signs Peace Deal with Taliban
189 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Unofficial Winamp Web Site
188 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Miranda released as free software
188 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage
187 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
187 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Musicians algorithmically generate melodies, release them to public domain
186 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Exploit custom codecs to write inline C in Python
186 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]
185 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Sarah Connor, in hiding before the war
185 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Quarter of all tweets about climate change produced by bots
185 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Second Sock Syndrome
185 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Introduction to Clifford Algebra (2006)
185 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Is a Dataframe Just a Table? (2019) [pdf]
185 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Postgresqlco.nf: a PostgreSQL configuration guide
185 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack
185 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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SoftBank’s $375M bet on pizza went bad fast
184 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Want to call C from Python? Use D
184 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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An interview with Paul Graham on writing
184 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Show HN: Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium
183 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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You’re better off using Exceptions
183 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful
182 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Ask HN: How do I learn JavaScript?
182 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Spreadsheet Horror Stories
182 points • comment • feb 27, 2020