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Top stories
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Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
2292
2
Joe Armstrong has died
1928
3
We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
1289
4
Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist
1036
5
Goodbye Joe
875
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I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs
826
7
Microsimulation of Traffic Flow
752
8
Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
747
9
Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
705
10
Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
700
Top Ask HN
1
What is your money-making side project outside programming?
1134
2
One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
752
3
What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
740
4
What does your ML pipeline look like?
318
5
Machine learning resources for audio processing
252
6
Will there ever be a resurgence of interest in symbolic AI?
225
7
How do I improve our data infrastructure?
163
8
I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?
142
9
How do you secure your Mac?
137
10
How do you secure your Windows PC?
76
Top Show HN
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Should you buy a house and rent it out?
353
2
I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement
218
3
Mockit – Open-source app to create and configure HTTP mocked endpoints
158
4
Tetris Implemented in ClojureScript
135
5
Sortraits, Portraits of Sorting Algorithms
132
6
hncynic – Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles
114
7
BepuPhysics – 3D real-time physics simulation library in C#
108
8
Talks from successful founders, curated every day
95
9
Procedural Character Animation with Machine Learning in Three.js
94
10
Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases
89
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation
333
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China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media
324
3
Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author
301
4
The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
299
5
Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype
262
6
EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database
258
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Scribd taking down the Mueller Report is the future the EU has voted for
246
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Facebook asks users for email passwords, then “accidentally” uploads contacts
240
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Why the Instagram founders really quit
227
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Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter
213
News [?]
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Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist
1036
2
Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
525
3
Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns
461
4
EU gives 'high-level' protection to whistleblowers
437
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Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire
420
6
Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population, Researcher Says
416
7
First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus
406
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Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years
402
9
Popular Google Play store apps are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud
388
10
The Healing Power of Gardens
349
Scientific publications [?]
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The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index
548
2
How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer
528
3
Fooling surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection
148
4
From Theory to Systems: A Grounded Approach to Programming Language Education
130
5
How Amazon's Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine
78
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Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make Mistakes
77
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Privacy Loss in Apple’s Implementation of Differential Privacy (2017)
59
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Steganography: An Art of Hiding Data (2009) [pdf]
53
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Nasa Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater Than Losses (2015)
52
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Elusive molecule, first in Universe, detected in space
51
Dev Blogs [?]
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We’re asking Apple to change the advertising ID for each iPhone every month
222
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Announcing AMP Real URL
190
3
How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach
184
4
The End of Scientific Linux
91
5
How to Train Your OpenAI Five
87
6
Positional-only Parameters for Python
76
7
Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms
75
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An Introduction to the BPF Compiler Collection (2017)
65
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Linux 5.2 Is Introducing the Fieldbus Subsystem
22
10
Blazor Now in Official Preview
22
Tech blogs [?]
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5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
668
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The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway
327
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The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame
134
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Google's Sensorvault Can Tell Police Where You've Been
26
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Facebook Wants Access to Your Banking Data
23
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Landmark research creates “universal” stem cells using CRISPR gene editing
19
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Apple loses legal battle with Swatch, this time over ‘one more thing’ trademark
15
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Virginia Judge Finds That Local Police Use of ALPR Violates the State’s Data Act
11
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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Leveraged User Data to Help Friends and Punish Rivals
11
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Four Steps Facebook Should Take to Counter Police Sock Puppets
8
FAANG+ [?]
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Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation
471
2
Bosque Programming Language
123
3
Leslie Lamport: Thinking Above the Code (2014)
5
4
Amplify Framework Announces Aurora Serverless, GraphQL Transform Features
2
5
Microsoft Digital Whiteboard for $9K
2
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Microsoft ends Windows 7's support on Jan 14, 2020
2
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Broad-Based Side-Channel Defenses for Modern Processor Architectures
1
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Apple tops clean energy goal with new supplier commitments
1
9
Rabbit Mouse Giveaway
1
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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World's tallest tropical tree discovered and climbed in Malaysian Borneo
111
2
The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person
103
3
When Doctors Thought ‘Wanderlust’ Was a Psychological Condition
90
4
Andy Grove's Paranoia: Universal Lessons (1996)
72
5
The History of Vanilla
50
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Fact Checking Tesla's “Impact Report”
40
7
Art in the Electric Age (1969)
13
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Demonoid Founder 'Deimos' Is Believed to Have Passed Away – TorrentFreak
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Tesla unveils 'Robotaxi' plan for self-driving ride-sharing network next year
3
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Disney and the Future of TV
3
Science News [?]
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Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates
253
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Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind
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After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking
186
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Planet’s ocean-plastics problem detailed in 60-year data set
171
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Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)
153
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Ways to Lie with Charts (2014)
109
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How much can forests fight climate change?
107
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Working memory revived in older adults by synchronizing rhythmic brain circuits
100
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Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags foreign ties
99
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How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle
84
Social [?]
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Joe Armstrong has died
1928
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“I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
640
3
Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source
387
4
Sleep quality and stress level matter more than languages or practices
244
5
Webcam in a Favicon
225
6
Erlang: The Movie [video]
209
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Sinclair ZX81 1KB Chess vs. Stockfish Chess Engine (2018) [video]
160
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NLP on Mueller Report
132
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“Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
84
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Microsoft Helped Build China’s Surveillance [video]
83
Github repos and gists [?]
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Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
705
2
PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again
675
3
Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos
669
4
Joe the office mate
495
5
Commit messages guide
385
6
Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust
319
7
Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library
301
8
A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science
286
9
Linux Network Queues Overview
250
10
Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python (2018)
234
Wikipedia [?]
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Janet Airlines
180
2
Phantom OS, a Russian OS where “everything is an object”
72
3
Sharp X68000
64
4
Combinatorial Explosion
61
5
Extreme Learning Machine
50
6
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
49
7
Polybius (Urban Legend)
48
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Ark II
46
9
Tony Buzan, Inventor of the “Mind Map”, Has Died
33
10
Utility Fog
17
Blogs [?]
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Claude Shannon’s “Creative Thinking” Speech (2017)
188
2
Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate
170
3
What can we learn from the matrix.org compromise?
84
4
GenX Are a Retirement Time Bomb for the American Economy
62
5
I Quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself
31
6
Nice Rust libraries you should try
27
7
The World According to the 1580s
20
8
Brushable Histogram – An open-source data visualization react component
20
9
Simplify Your Life with These 9 Principles
17
10
Mark Zuckerberg Should Be Held Accountable
13
Stackoverflow [?]
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What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2008)
3
2
What's the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values?
2
3
Erlang's 99.9999999% (nine nines) reliability
2
4
Unable-to-source-a-simple-bash-script
1
5
Linear Regression with Postgres
1
Substack [?]
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Is everything an MLM
352
2
An Introduction to René Girard
73
3
Service Oriented What Again?
4
4
The Sensenet Data Leak – What Happened
3
5
Everything I learned reading Uber’s IPO filing
1
6
Taking Care of Others as Self-Care
1
7
Respectable Racism
1