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Sound and fury: how pronunciation provokes passionate reactions

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Flexport is hiring software engineers

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Captain Wellby and his 1,000-mile march (2017)

Article URL: http://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2017/11/captain-wellby-and-his-1000-mile-march.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202799 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2zvo1Gx via

Flexport is hiring software engineers

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Captain Wellby and his 1,000-mile march (2017)

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How a single line of computer code put thousands of innocent Turks in jail

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Fourier transforms of images (2017)

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How a single line of computer code put thousands of innocent Turks in jail

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Fourier transforms of images (2017)

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Fourier transforms of images (2017)

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New best story on Hacker News: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

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How to tame the tech titans

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Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate

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Leonardo da Vinci on the Moon

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6 alternative (and better) uses for blockchain

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Hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track

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How to tame the tech titans

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Hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track

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6 alternative (and better) uses for blockchain

Article URL: http://www.dtcollective.org.au/resources/6-alternative-and-better-uses-for-blockchain?_lrsc=a6cfc609-e795-418a-a0f9-4f2417834815 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201007 Points: 20 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Dv54sQ via

Leonardo da Vinci on the Moon

Article URL: http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/01/leonardo-da-vinci-on-the-moon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16200342 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 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/2EI2agz via

Leonardo da Vinci on the Moon

Article URL: http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/01/leonardo-da-vinci-on-the-moon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16200342 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 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/2EI2agz via

Leonardo da Vinci on the Moon

Article URL: http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/01/leonardo-da-vinci-on-the-moon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16200342 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 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/2EI2agz via

Horrible doors on British trains (2010)

Article URL: https://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/horrible-doors-on-british-trains/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16203307 Points: 28 # Comments: 35 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DusFK9 via

Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate

Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/putting-ancient-recipes-plate-classical-recipes-cooking Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202198 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BfLWsK via

High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets in the world

Article URL: https://qz.com/103091/high-end-art-is-one-of-the-most-manipulated-markets-in-the-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16200100 Points: 11 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Dx2UIl via

Why are doors on British trains so difficult to open?

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How to talk to angry people: the CLARA method of de-escalation

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High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets in the world

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The Melancholy of Don Bluth (2017)

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George Washington at the Siamese Court (2016)

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The Joys of Victimhood (1989)

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Show HN: Peer-to-peer chat example built with JavaScript IPFS

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The Melancholy of Don Bluth (2017)

Article URL: https://filmschoolrejects.com/the-melancholy-of-don-bluth-1be72847b858/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201011 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2q8U1O3 via

Show HN: Peer-to-peer chat example built with JavaScript IPFS

Article URL: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVUvLMxTEaVBpiQBiBBdnv7ZTwt7pv8BxNhpPCMixuRBT/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16200928 Points: 18 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DTBzxL via

How to talk to angry people: the CLARA method of de-escalation

Article URL: https://calimac.dreamwidth.org/798770.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16200202 Points: 9 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Dv24wq via

George Washington at the Siamese Court (2016)

Article URL: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/04/21/george-washington-at-the-siamese-court/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202949 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/1NDSaCK via

Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News

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A Handmade Executable File (2015)

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Linus speaks his mind on the Intel Spectre patches

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Linux Torvads calls Intel patches 'complete and utter garbage'

Article URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/18/01/22/0648227/linus-torvalds-calls-intel-patches-complete-and-utter-garbage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202599 Points: 19 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DuoCNP via

Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/technology/facebook-news-feed.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201478 Points: 24 # Comments: 63 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Du2GBF via

New best story on Hacker News: The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

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New best story on Hacker News: Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)

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New best story on Hacker News: Laws of UX

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Ask HN: Providing cheaper EdTech tools for rural zones

We are building a company ( http://www.keedo.tn ) to reduce the gap in education accessibility between urban and rural zones and private/public systems. We provide web apps and learning tools (we already started developing some tools like a virtual piano, body anatomy viewer, maps for geographic subjects, stories reader and so on) and we are fully cloud based, so everything is accessible and shared over the network. Our big challenge is to provide a cheap computer with internet connection, (wifi/3G) support and acceptable performance. For information, the family income for our first clients in such regions, is on average $130 per month. We love the OLPC_XO http://laptop.org/en/laptop/ project idea (worldreader.org also) but their price is still high for our target clients and we try to avoid donations as much as possible. First we thought about low cost white label tablets (most are china ODM/OEM providers), but from experience and reviews, they seems to be less performing with inten...

Donald Knuth turns 80, seeks problem-solvers for The Art of Computer Programming

Article URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/01/21/1853236/donald-knuth-turns-80-seeks-problem-solvers-for-taocp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16199719 Points: 163 # Comments: 32 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DAYb8N via

Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store

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Linux Torvads calls Intel patches 'complete and utter garbage'

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82% of Wealth Created in 2017 Went to the top 1%, says Oxfam

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20 Years of LWN.net

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“Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

Article URL: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/04628.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202205 Points: 249 # Comments: 35 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2G00YXb via

Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease (2016)

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/12/sugar-industry-paid-research-heart-disease-jama-report Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202171 Points: 42 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2cmgyym via

How to Study: A Brief Guide

Article URL: https://www.cse.buffalo.edu//~rapaport/howtostudy.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202123 Points: 44 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2yqUkFo via

Why is rust difficult?

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SpaceX can't test fire its Falcon Heavy rocket due to the government shutdown

Article URL: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2018/01/21/spacex-unable-test-fire-falcon-heavy-rocket-ksc-due-government-shutdown/1052438001/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202013 Points: 82 # Comments: 54 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2rrjMeZ via

Decades of movie poster history go online

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Your Candy Wrappers Are Listening (2014)

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Inside Amazon's surveillance-powered convenience store

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The Eastern Corner of Siberia Is the Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth

Article URL: https://earther.com/why-the-eastern-corner-of-siberia-is-the-coldest-inhabi-1822160684 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201152 Points: 38 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2mRz2wQ via

New Zealand startup successfully launches rocket

Article URL: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-22/new-zealand-successfully-launches-first-rocket-into-space/9347886 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201047 Points: 124 # Comments: 56 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DUJZ88 via

Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs

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Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria in guts

Article URL: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoe-stt011118.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16200714 Points: 121 # Comments: 47 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/2DuTU45 via

The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

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Year in Pixels

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The Anti-Bamboozler: Early writings of H. L. Mencken

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The reviewer’s fallacy: when critics aren’t critical enough

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Yacob and Amo: African precursors to Enlightenment thinkers

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/yacob-and-amo-africas-precursors-to-locke-hume-and-kant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16199733 Points: 129 # Comments: 42 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Bik0bS via

SpaceX can't test fire its Falcon Heavy rocket due to the government shutdown

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Why is Rust difficult?

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The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

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20 Years of LWN.net

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“Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

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Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria in guts

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How to Study: A Brief Guide

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Help Recover Climate Data from Old Ship Logs

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Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease (2016)

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Dvxk: A Vulkan-Based D3D11 Implementation for Linux with Wine

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Your Candy Wrappers Are Listening (2014)

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Show HN: On-disk B+ tree for Python 3

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Decades of movie poster history go online

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The reviewer’s fallacy: when critics aren’t critical enough

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The Rise of German Board Games

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To help model financial systems, some economists are turning to biology

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The Anti-Bamboozler: Early writings of H. L. Mencken

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Linear Regression A Tale of a Transform

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Inside Amazon Go

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Canary Releases in Practice

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New Zealand startup successfully launches rocket

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Nuclio: Serverless for Real-Time and Data-Driven Applications

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Year in Pixels

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Choosing between programming in the kernel or in user space

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The Eastern Corner of Siberia Is the Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth

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Code alignment issues

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Donald Knuth turns 80, seeks problem-solvers for The Art of Computer Programming

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Yacob and Amo: African precursors to Enlightenment thinkers

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Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from

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Ask HN: Providing cheaper EdTech tools for rural zones

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Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from

Article URL: https://lianza.org/blog/2018/01/21/fellow-engineers-this-is-where-your-money-comes-from/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16199593 Points: 285 # Comments: 121 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DWCrlk via