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Operation GUNMAN – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015)

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Show HN: Find a co-founder/hacker for your project

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The revolutionary ideas of Thomas Kuhn

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Intel: Meltdown, Spectre silicon fixes coming 2018; 3D XPoint RAM, not so much

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Efficacy of elderberry extract for treatment of influenza a and B virus

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The Human Diagnosis Project is hiring mission-driven software engineers

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FOSDEM 2018 schedule

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What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/reader-center/arctic-winter-night.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16246093 Points: 11 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DHkdHJ via

Data Science at the Command Line

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Fish skin helped bears burned in the Thomas Fire get back on their feet

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Efficacy of elderberry extract for treatment of influenza a and B virus

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The Human Diagnosis Project is hiring mission-driven software engineers

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Data Science at the Command Line

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Alto Restoration Part 18: We Crash Our Disk Drive

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What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch is reportedly set for February 6th

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Nicolas Cage DeepFake

Article URL: http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/170154814961/nicolas-cage-deepfake-redditor-derpfakes-has Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16246021 Points: 12 # Comments: 7 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/2DyGe7h via

Promising Billions to Amazon: Is It a Good Deal for Cities?

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/business/economy/amazon-finalists-incentives.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245077 Points: 10 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2FnwmOp via

Httpie: A modern cURL alternative

Article URL: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243700 Points: 32 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/1j6FrN0 via

The 'Agra Scroll': Agra in the early 19th century

Article URL: http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2018/01/the-agra-scroll-agra-in-the-early-19th-century.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243539 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DQynFK via

FOSDEM 2018 schedule

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Bootstrap 4 Quick Start tutorial for web development beginners

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Fish skin helped bears burned in the Thomas Fire get back on their feet

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How video games demonize fat people

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Httpie: A modern cURL alternative

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Nicolas Cage DeepFake

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch is reportedly set for February 6th

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The 'Agra Scroll': Agra in the early 19th century

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Terraforming 1Password

Article URL: https://blog.agilebits.com/2018/01/25/terraforming-1password/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245817 Points: 26 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2rCu2AZ via

My Delorean runs Perl

Article URL: https://opensource.com/article/18/1/my-delorean-runs-perl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245606 Points: 13 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DoxHDL via

Cavalier collector: how Charles I gained (and lost) some of the world’s best art

Article URL: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/art-design/2018/01/cavalier-collector-how-charles-i-gained-and-lost-some-world-s-best-art Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243795 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DutHWy via

Terraforming 1Password

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My Delorean runs Perl

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Cavalier collector: how Charles I gained (and lost) some of the world’s best art

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Promising Billions to Amazon: Is It a Good Deal for Cities?

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Ted Nelson's (inventor of hypertext) early papers are now online for free

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Using a Dyson hand dryer is like setting off a viral bomb in a bathroom (2016)

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Halmak, the AI designed keyboard layout [video]

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Using a Dyson hand dryer is like setting off a viral bomb in a bathroom (2016)

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60x-more-viruses-most-at-kid-face-height-than-other-dryers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245807 Points: 27 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2q1JMLl via

Halmak, the AI designed keyboard layout [video]

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Ted Nelson's (inventor of hypertext) early papers are now online for free

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/SelectedPapers1977 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245697 Points: 27 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2n1Vqnh via

NonPetya ransomware forced Maersk to reinstall 4000 servers, 45000 PCs

Article URL: http://www.zdnet.com/article/maersk-forced-to-reinstall-4000-servers-45000-pcs-due-to-notpetya-attack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245642 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EcsNLw via

Iris Automation Is Hiring a Back End Engineer – Collision Avoidance for Drones

Article URL: https://boards.greenhouse.io/irisautomation/jobs/4004287002#.WmY59qinGUk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245594 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Efjyu5 via

Iris Automation Is Hiring a Back End Engineer – Collision Avoidance for Drones

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Apple HomePod

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Apple HomePod

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Capitalism is Addiction

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Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble [pdf]

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The Old Taxonomy of the Logical Fallacies

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Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble [pdf]

Article URL: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/mania13.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245284 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2hhacDb via

The Old Taxonomy of the Logical Fallacies

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New best story on Hacker News: How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)

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An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense

Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deep-roots-italian-song-sounds-like-english-american-medieval-comedy-nonsense Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245142 Points: 47 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2natq07 via

New Story (nonprofit S15) Is Hiring Impact Data Analyst

Article URL: https://newstorycharity.org/careers/data-analyst/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245113 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nhFigL via

Python 1.0.0 is out (1994)

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If you watch closely enough, everything is a speaker

Article URL: https://kottke.org/18/01/if-you-watch-closely-enough-everything-is-a-speaker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16244835 Points: 24 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2n8uvWM via

New population of one of world's rarest fish found off Tasmania

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/26/580977484/one-of-the-world-s-rarest-fish-is-a-little-less-rare-than-we-thought Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16244827 Points: 27 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Gk27cs via

Show HN: A blockchain alternative to Airbnb

Article URL: https://www.cryptocribs.com/?refer=producthunt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16244668 Points: 15 # Comments: 12 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/2C4YmbH via

VM escape vulnerabilities discovered in VirtualBox

Article URL: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-new-vm-escape-vulnerabilities-discovered-in-virtualbox/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16244580 Points: 58 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2n9Hg3C via

USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise

Article URL: http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17987/usaf-is-jamming-gps-in-the-western-u-s-for-largest-ever-red-flag-air-war-exercise Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16244298 Points: 115 # Comments: 67 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DH535m via

Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-floodgates-are-open-increased-network-bandwidth-for-ec2-instances/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16244194 Points: 30 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nhcDIJ via

Postgres indexes under the hood

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Study produces 3D images that float

Article URL: https://news.byu.edu/news/better-hologram-byu-study-produces-3d-images-float-thin-air Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243276 Points: 105 # Comments: 45 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/2n7lAFa via

Apple in 2017: Report Card

Article URL: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/01/apple-in-2017-the-six-colors-report-card/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243223 Points: 72 # Comments: 55 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2E8d5RB via

Linux Driver Management 1.0 Released

Article URL: https://solus-project.com/2018/01/26/linux-driver-management-1-0-released/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16243207 Points: 112 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2DAmwIh via

Moving efficiently in the CLI

Article URL: https://clementc.github.io/blog/2018/01/25/moving_cli/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16242955 Points: 316 # Comments: 117 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Gl66W9 via

U.S trade body backs Bombardier against Boeing

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-itc-ruling/u-s-trade-body-backs-canadas-bombardier-over-boeing-in-tariff-spat-idUSKBN1FF2MB?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social&__twitter_impression=true Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16242506 Points: 68 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Fiup5y via

Extensions in Firefox 59

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01/26/extensions-firefox-59/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16242336 Points: 357 # Comments: 162 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/2ncedMK via

Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting users watch videos

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/now-even-youtube-serves-ads-with-cpu-draining-cryptocurrency-miners Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16242293 Points: 207 # Comments: 131 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2neEZTW via

Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever

Article URL: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/beyond-biohazard-danger-symbols-cant-last-forever/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16242060 Points: 69 # Comments: 87 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2rFFUlV via

Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization

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An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense

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USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise

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Extensions in Firefox 59

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New population of one of world's rarest fish found off Tasmania

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Postgres indexes under the hood

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If you watch closely enough, everything is a speaker

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Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locations for stargazing

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Study produces 3D images that float

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Python 1.0.0 is out (1994)

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You Can’t Fire Equifax, but Your Employer Can

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Linux Driver Management 1.0 Released

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U.S trade body backs Bombardier against Boeing

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Show HN: A blockchain alternative to Airbnb

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Interactive GPU Programming, Part 1: Hello CUDA

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Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances

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New Story (nonprofit S15) Is Hiring Impact Data Analyst

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Moving efficiently in the CLI

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How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (2009)

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VM escape vulnerabilities discovered in VirtualBox

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Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

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Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever

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'It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room'

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Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization

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Ad campaign runs cryptocurrency miners while unwitting users watch videos

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Privacy-preserving sentence semantic similarity

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Apple in 2017: Report Card

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You Can’t Fire Equifax, but Your Employer Can

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