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Boris Johnson proposes a 22-mile bridge across the Channel

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Tovala (YC W16) Hiring React and Full-Stack Eng

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Building a Website with C++

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New best story on Hacker News: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Building a Website with C++

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2017 Homicide Rates in Latin America and the Carribean

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Tovala (YC W16) Hiring React and Full-Stack Eng

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2017 Homicide Rates in Latin America and the Carribean

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Paul Bocuse, Celebrated French Chef, Dies at 91

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Linear regression by hand

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Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool

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Fees calculation in Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) explained

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Paul Bocuse, Celebrated French Chef, Dies at 91

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/obituaries/paul-bocuse-dead.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16193455 Points: 14 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DSLx2E via

What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

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Fees calculation in Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) explained

Article URL: https://medium.com/@smith.garg/fees-calculation-in-bitcoin-and-other-cryptocurrencies-explained-ef2f9ca35320 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16193415 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Du1tvj via

Best ways to kill your startup

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Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool

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Linear regression by hand

Article URL: https://dsgazette.com/2018/01/10/linear-regression-by-hand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16193131 Points: 10 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BgkwTu via

Best ways to kill your startup

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Google releases rejoiner: unified GraphQL schema from gRPC microservices

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How Uber almost killed me

Article URL: https://medium.com/@ronandelacroix/how-%C3%BCber-almost-killed-me-995183cf8229 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16193235 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2mULESZ via

British 15yo gained access to intelligence by pretending to be head of CIA

Article URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/19/british-15-year-old-gained-access-intelligence-operations-afghanistan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16193019 Points: 49 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DsvEmo via

Show HN: Pay-per-minute video/audio calls with WebRTC

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Google releases rejoiner: unified GraphQL schema from gRPC microservices

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The Ethical Deployment of Marine Sensors [audio]

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Teenager gained access to secret operations by pretending to be head of CIA

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British 15yo gained access to intelligence by pretending to be head of CIA

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Show HN: Pay-per-minute video/audio calls with WebRTC

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British teen gained access to intel ops by pretending to be head of CIA

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Mobile Devices Compromised by Fake Secure Messaging Clients

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-and-lookout-uncover-new-malware-espionage-campaign-infecting-thousands-around Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16187370 Points: 112 # Comments: 29 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DpyiJP via

Going Global with Your Startup

Article URL: http://blog.ycombinator.com/going-global-with-your-startup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16187126 Points: 226 # Comments: 79 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2mVJNOx via

Mail-Order Magazines Did More Than Just Sell Things

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/helping-shut-ins-sisterly-advice-mail-order-magazines-did-more-just-sell-things-180967857/?no-ist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185046 Points: 48 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DNXaYz via

What Flannery O’Connor taught me about chronic illness

Article URL: https://electricliterature.com/what-flannery-oconnor-taught-me-about-chronic-illness-5dd75130df15 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184959 Points: 45 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DJ9VmY via

Learn FFmpeg the hard way

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Human Dx is hiring a product (React, React Native) engineer

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The curious star appeal of Jordan Peterson

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JS things I never knew existed

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The curious star appeal of Jordan Peterson

Article URL: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/the-curious-star-appeal-of-jordan-peterson/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192906 Points: 12 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Du5vmg via

JS things I never knew existed

Article URL: https://air.ghost.io/js-things-i-never-knew-existed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192891 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Cj7vhC via

Learn FFmpeg the hard way

Article URL: https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial#learn-ffmpeg-libav-the-hard-way Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192813 Points: 20 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2yBZoH1 via

New best story on Hacker News: Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes

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Human Dx is hiring a product (React, React Native) engineer

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A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/7qpfls/does_there_exist_a_prime_number_whose/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192608 Points: 15 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2FIPw1V via

Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems (Spring 2018)

Article URL: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs525/sp2018/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192458 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BfNF1m via

Michael Phelps Says He Contemplated Suicide After 2012 Olympics

Article URL: https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/01/19/michael-phelps-anxiety-depression-suicide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16191516 Points: 8 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2FULSSY via

A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe

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Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems (Spring 2018)

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Michael Phelps Says He Contemplated Suicide After 2012 Olympics

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New best story on Hacker News: LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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New best story on Hacker News: Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

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Hardware Engineer at Iris Automation – Real-Time Collision Avoidance for Drones

Article URL: https://boards.greenhouse.io/irisautomation/jobs/4004289002#.WllSSainGUk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192388 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DltsJr via

Raft and RocksDB power the feeds for 300M users

Article URL: https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-over-300-million-end-users Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192188 Points: 18 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Dnx0Pp via

C as an intermediate language (2012)

Article URL: https://yosefk.com/blog/c-as-an-intermediate-language.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192071 Points: 23 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BgAwoy via

NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/19/nsa-deletes-surveillance-data-351730 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192018 Points: 91 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2mTlsrV via

I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant

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California Police Chiefs Misrepresent License Plate Privacy Bill

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/california-police-chiefs-misrepresent-license-plate-privacy-bill Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16191949 Points: 25 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BdGmag via

Blockchains from a distributed computing perspective [pdf]

Article URL: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci2952-a/papers/perspective.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16191506 Points: 93 # Comments: 20 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Bf8KJl via

Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece

Article URL: https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/01/19/atari-tempest-dave-theurers-masterpiece/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16191039 Points: 109 # Comments: 33 hnrss is a labor of love, but if the project has made your job or hobby project easier and you want to show some gratitude, donations are very much appreciated . Thanks! from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2mVII9M via

The Untreatable: The Spanish Flu of 1918

Article URL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n02/gavin-francis/the-untreatable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16190479 Points: 63 # Comments: 73 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DciG8g via

Fermented Shark, Anyone?

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Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on Leave

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/media/los-angeles-times-union.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16190093 Points: 145 # Comments: 227 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2mUtOzN via

The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/16/why-does-it-cost-32093-just-to-give-birth-in-america Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16189976 Points: 132 # Comments: 168 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2mIAAsN via

QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics

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GoPro has discontinued its developer program

Article URL: https://developer.gopro.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16189633 Points: 68 # Comments: 52 hnrss is a labor of love, but if the project has made your job or hobby project easier and you want to show some gratitude, donations are very much appreciated . Thanks! from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2b9u8IX via

Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages

Article URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-employees-reveal-why-stores-are-facing-a-crisis-of-food-shortages-2018-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16189432 Points: 204 # Comments: 242 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DfsVso via

JEP 325: Switch Expressions

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Embedded in Rust: Brave new I/O

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Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using subrequests

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The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from Living Descendants

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/hans-jonatan-iceland-genome-reconstructed/550667/?single_page=true Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16188715 Points: 65 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DRPHYn via

How Slack Stays Secure During Hyper Growth

Article URL: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-secure-developer/ep-14-how-slack-stays-secure-during-hyper-growth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16188527 Points: 110 # Comments: 81 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EWjONK via

LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

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Blockchains from a distributed computing perspective [pdf]

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C as an intermediate language (2012)

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Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksDB and Raft

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Embedded in Rust: Brave new I/O

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Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece

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NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve

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The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from Living Descendants

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QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics

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Mobile Devices Compromised by Fake Secure Messaging Clients

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The Untreatable: The Spanish Flu of 1918

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I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant

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JEP 325: Switch Expressions

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GoPro has discontinued its developer program

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Hardware Engineer at Iris Automation – Real-Time Collision Avoidance for Drones

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Mail-Order Magazines Did More Than Just Sell Things

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Fermented Shark, Anyone?

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New best story on Hacker News: Is it time for open processors?

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How Slack Stays Secure During Hyper Growth

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Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages

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What Flannery O’Connor taught me about chronic illness

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Going Global with Your Startup

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California Police Chiefs Misrepresent License Plate Privacy Bill

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The US is the most expensive nation in which to have a baby

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Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?

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Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on Leave

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Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using subrequests

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