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New best story on Hacker News: European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannual clock change

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New best story on Hacker News: Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

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New best story on Hacker News: Crushed wood is stronger than steel

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New best story on Hacker News: Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts

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Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbon Dioxide

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Air Force Strike Takes Out SpaceX's Floating GovSat Booster

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The rise and fall of 18F

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Citus Data Is Hiring a Technical Solutions Engineer

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A scikit-learn pipeline in Wallaroo

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Ask HN: I'm a CTO for a startup and want to protect my projects

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European Parliament approves proposal to end bi-annual clock change

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What is an MVP for a B2B startup?

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Miniature Norwegian enclosed velomobile could replace cars

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Ask HN: What is your company's maximum vacation (at one time) policy?

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Twitter Posts First Real Profit, Sending Shares Soaring

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Torresian crows have learned how to make a meal of cane toads

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The Kubernetes Effect

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Twitter Posts First Real Profit, Sending Shares Soaring

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/twitter-posts-surprise-sales-gain-monthly-user-growth-stagnates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16331886 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2GYT7d3 via

Julia Lang v0.7

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Crushed wood is stronger than steel

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01600-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16331375 Points: 68 # Comments: 36 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2FXGtd3 via

Clojurists Together Q1 2018 Funding Announcement

Article URL: https://clojuriststogether.org/news/q1-2018-funding-announcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16331057 Points: 18 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BiKjOW via

Julia Lang v0.7

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Clojurists Together Q1 2018 Funding Announcement

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The Curiously Elastic Limits of Endurance

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How New Zealand Made Edmund Hillary, the Man Who Conquered Everest

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Calculating Tupper’s Self-Referential Formula with SQL

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Crushed wood is stronger than steel

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Assessing a startup’s culture before joining

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Underground Cellar (YC W15) Seeks Customer Relationship Manager (San Francisco)

Article URL: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/fbh/6488120635.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16331249 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nSTFZh via

Tribute to Vladimir Arnold (2012) [pdf]

Article URL: http://www.ams.org/notices/201203/rtx120300378p.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330925 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/1pzNQex via

Study Sheds New Light on Antibiotics Produced by Ants

Article URL: https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/02/antibiotics-ants-2018/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16328873 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EralBe via

Charles Sprawson wrote a celebrated book, then vanished

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Study Sheds New Light on Antibiotics Produced by Ants

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How Facebook Is Killing Comedy

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Underground Cellar (YC W15) Seeks Customer Relationship Manager (San Francisco)

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Tribute to Vladimir Arnold [pdf, 2012]

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The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd

Article URL: https://aeon.co/amp/ideas/the-red-and-green-specialists-why-human-colour-vision-is-so-odd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330910 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nKZ5Gx via

HP EliteBook: A friend to the User

Article URL: https://ifixit.org/blog/9641/hp-elitebook-a-friend-to-the-user/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330839 Points: 22 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nRflon via

The Conqueror Who Longed for Melons (2017)

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The Conqueror Who Longed for Melons (2017)

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HP EliteBook: A friend to the User

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The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd

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Qt Creator 4.6 Beta Released

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Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

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Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs

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From 0 to 100 K in seconds: instant scale with AWS Lambda

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/from-0-to-100-k-in-seconds-instant-scale-with-aws-lambda/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330709 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nUbHtE via

From 0 to 100 K in seconds: instant scale with AWS Lambda

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New best story on Hacker News: John Perry Barlow has died

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New best story on Hacker News: Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

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Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in 'Biggest Leak in History'

Article URL: https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/a34g9j/iphone-source-code-iboot-ios-leak?__twitter_impression=true Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330835 Points: 7 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2C48Ofk via

An Exhaustive Guide to Writing Dockerfiles for Node.js Web Apps

Article URL: https://blog.hasura.io/an-exhaustive-guide-to-writing-dockerfiles-for-node-js-web-apps-bbee6bd2f3c4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330793 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2E4gzUf via

Qt Creator 4.6 Beta Rolls Out with C++17 Features, Navigation Improvements

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Creator-4.6-Beta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330741 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2shXiNB via

We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source

Article URL: http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2004_2_15_71552_7795.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330637 Points: 7 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BNlyeD via

Triplebyte (YC S15) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Manager

Article URL: https://jobs.lever.co/triplebyte/abd5cc4b-9760-4f49-b689-5ea721065c8f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330573 Points: 1 # 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/2nNVAz1 via

On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language

Article URL: https://theoutline.com/post/3242/greece-sfyria-whistling-language Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330254 Points: 23 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EkZ9pI via

Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online

Article URL: https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/a34g9j/iphone-source-code-iboot-ios-leak Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330228 Points: 106 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2C3iIhc via

Scientists find massive reserves of mercury in permafrost

Article URL: https://news.agu.org/press-release/scientists-find-massive-reserves-of-mercury-hidden-in-permafrost/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330219 Points: 72 # Comments: 32 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2E0Wi1R via

North Korea’s Hacker Army

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-07/inside-kim-jong-un-s-hacker-army Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16329885 Points: 36 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2BJppt2 via

Chinese police don high-tech glasses to nab suspects

Article URL: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/02/08/black-mirror-technology-chinese-police-don-high-tech-glasses-nab-suspects/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16329783 Points: 85 # Comments: 76 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2EahVgt via

A todo list for new ASP.NET Core projects

Article URL: https://biarity.gitlab.io/2018/02/08/asp-net-core-todo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16329691 Points: 42 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2GUzdzX via

Intense laser experiments provide evidence that light can stop electrons

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An Update to Our Event Ticket Reseller Policy

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Progress Continues on Firmware Updates

Article URL: https://newsroom.intel.com/news/security-issue-update-progress-continues-firmware-updates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16329506 Points: 20 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2FVR0W8 via

Adding Context to CockroachDB’s Article “Your Database Should Work Like a CDN”

Article URL: https://danielcompton.net/2018/02/08/add-context-cockroachdb-databases-acting-like-cdns Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16329196 Points: 40 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2E8i5Jk via

John Perry Barlow has died

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16328546 Points: 873 # Comments: 84 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2Eoj1IS via

Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/sports/olympics/curling-smart-broom.html?hpw&rref=sports&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16328262 Points: 39 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://ift.tt/2nPSOsn via

LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS

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Repairing the card reader for a 1960s mainframe: cams, relays and a clutch

Article URL: http://www.righto.com/2018/02/repairing-card-reader-for-1960s.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327797 Points: 120 # Comments: 50 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/2EOckO4 via

Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US

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John Perry Barlow has died

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Scientists find massive reserves of mercury in permafrost

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An Exhaustive Guide to Writing Dockerfiles for Node.js Web Apps

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On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language

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Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom

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LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS

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Chinese police don high-tech glasses to nab suspects

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We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source

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Intense laser experiments provide evidence that light can stop electrons

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Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online

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Repairing the card reader for a 1960s mainframe: cams, relays and a clutch

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A todo list for new ASP.NET Core projects

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Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning

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Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US

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An Argument Against Quantum Computers

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The cpu_features library

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Triplebyte (YC S15) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Manager

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Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in 'Biggest Leak in History'

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Qt Creator 4.6 Beta Rolls Out with C++17 Features, Navigation Improvements

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Adding Context to CockroachDB’s Article “Your Database Should Work Like a CDN”

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Discovering types for entity disambiguation

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Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts

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Show HN: Dotmesh – A git-like CLI for application states

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North Korea’s Hacker Army

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Launch HN: Substack (YC W18): Paid email newsletters made simple

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An Update to Our Event Ticket Reseller Policy

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WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel

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A photographer capturing subcultures that refuse to die

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Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team

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New best story on Hacker News: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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