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Hacker News (Feb 2020)
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Show HN: Configurable Route Planning – Avoid left turns, areas and more
139 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
139 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers
139 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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FDA agrees to expanded access program for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD
139 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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The Navy SEAL and His Doctor: An experimental brain treatment blows up two lives
138 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Hallucinogenic Fish
138 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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An optimization to help code compilation times on big CPUs
138 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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You don't need to work on hard problems
138 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Twitter Thread: Experience at Lambda School for UX
138 points • comment • feb 22, 2020
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Ken Allen
138 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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When did Americans lose their British accents?
138 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The Chrome bug of suffering
138 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Waymo’s Hiring Binge
138 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Flashsort
138 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners (2014) [pdf]
137 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Fork Bomb
137 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Brothels of Ancient Pompeii
137 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Handling 350k Requests for $3 using Lambda
137 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Critical PayPal Security Hack: Multiple Thefts Now Reported–Check Your Settings
137 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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USB armory: an open-source hardware design, flash-drive sized computer
137 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Latest EU data shows that in the Netherlands 14% of employees work from home
137 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Corporate buzzwords are how workers pretend to be adults
137 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles
137 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Dictionary union (PEP 584) is merged
137 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Plasma 5.18
136 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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Jonathan Blow on Rust
136 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian Police for speech violation
136 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index
136 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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AI thinks like a corporation (2018)
136 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Dolphin Progress Report: December 2019 and January 2020
136 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Corona Labs is shutting down, will open-source everything under MIT
136 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
136 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Stranded after driving out of cellphone range in app-powered smart car
136 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot
136 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Benford's Law
136 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Manuals and guides for startups
136 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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YaCy: Decentralized Web Search
135 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program
135 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Stop adding email tracking links to phone numbers
135 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Unix System Programming with Standard ML (2001) [pdf]
135 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Makani’s time as an “other bet” comes to an end
135 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record
135 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Allocator Designs
134 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Registrars raise alarm over proposal for big .com fee hikes
134 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Inertial Locking Box (2013)
134 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies (2019)
133 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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Database Lab – Full-size staging databases as a service
133 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Flight Simulator 2020 – New Development Footage
133 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Interview with Scott Aaronson about philosophy and quantum computing [video]
133 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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How to Tell a Mathematician You Love Them (2017)
133 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Storm Ciara helps plane beat transatlantic flight record
133 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it debuted in 1995 (2017)
133 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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A list of companies using Elm in production
133 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Simple text editor has over 15k monthly users
133 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try (2010)
133 points • comment • feb 26, 2020
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FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit
133 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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Show HN: Hacker News Trends
133 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Flang: The Fortran frontend of LLVM [video]
133 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Single div Sierpinski triangle
133 points • comment • feb 09, 2020
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Persisting React State in LocalStorage
132 points • comment • feb 28, 2020
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Building a neural network from scratch in Haskell
132 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Ballerina Programing Language
132 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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Systemd Home Directories
132 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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Unix as IDE (2012)
132 points • comment • feb 27, 2020
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How to Respond to COVID-19
132 points • comment • feb 29, 2020
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Prepared statements and their surprising performance implications
132 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
132 points • comment • feb 12, 2020
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Null Values in SQL Queries
132 points • comment • feb 03, 2020
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Pointer Compression in V8
132 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy first
132 points • comment • feb 24, 2020
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These Lyrics Do Not Exist
131 points • comment • feb 15, 2020
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Streaming: a skill gap?
131 points • comment • feb 02, 2020
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Ontario's new license plates have a problem: you can't read them
131 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Writing Runbook Documentation When You’re an SRE
131 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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Racket-on-Chez Status
131 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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HyperCard: What Could Have Been (2002)
131 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Dell Sells RSA to Private Equity Firm for $2B
131 points • comment • feb 19, 2020
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Why do so many developers get DRY wrong?
130 points • comment • feb 14, 2020
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Beyond Bézier Curves (2013)
130 points • comment • feb 21, 2020
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Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches
130 points • comment • feb 01, 2020
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The mysterious disappearance of Google's click metric
130 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks U.S. Attorney General
130 points • comment • feb 20, 2020
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How to reduce 'attention residue'
129 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Software-dependent devices: do they now need expiration dates?
129 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app Ikaria
129 points • comment • feb 18, 2020
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Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus
129 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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Drop.lol – copy files over the network with WebRTC or TURN relays
128 points • comment • feb 08, 2020
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HiPlot: High-dimensional interactive plots made easy
128 points • comment • feb 07, 2020
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Questions to ask before adopting microservices
128 points • comment • feb 13, 2020
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Learn X in Y minutes Where X=Prolog
128 points • comment • feb 04, 2020
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Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019
128 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves
128 points • comment • feb 05, 2020
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Apple’s independent repair program is invasive to shops and their customers
128 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Fax on the beach: The audacious, visionary, calamitous iPad of the 90s
128 points • comment • feb 10, 2020
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The Economics of Clean Code
127 points • comment • feb 11, 2020
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SEC proposes changes to “accredited investor” definition
127 points • comment • feb 17, 2020
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Was Knuth Really Framed?
127 points • comment • feb 25, 2020
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Signs of cancer can appear long before diagnosis, study shows
127 points • comment • feb 06, 2020
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Proxyman – native HTTP/HTTPS requests observation and manipulation app
126 points • comment • feb 23, 2020
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Manufacturing plant fire threatens worldwide vinyl record supply
126 points • comment • feb 08, 2020