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Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?

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Maze solving algorithm implemented in sed

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Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal

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PostgreSQL: The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale

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Coolest Things I Learned in 2018

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Flipping the economics of paying for education, because they're upside down

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Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement

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Measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge (2018)

Article URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17498430.2018.1555927 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853992 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FeFQzA via

PostgreSQL: The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale

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Coolest Things I Learned in 2018

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Measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge (2018)

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Open-source and crowd-sourced book listing

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Flipping the economics of paying for education, because they're upside down

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Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement

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Master NPM in Under 10 Minutes

Article URL: https://hashnode.com/post/master-npm-in-under-10-minutes-or-get-your-money-back-cjqmak392001i7vs2ufdlvcqb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855503 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2C6y5HN via

Autonomous Robot Hit and ‘Killed’ by Self-Driving Tesla

Article URL: https://www.unilad.co.uk/technology/autonomous-robot-hit-and-killed-by-self-driving-tesla/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855500 Points: 6 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Rdw8nk via

Books that every developer must read (open-source)

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Track daily tasks using Google Assistant, IFTTT and Spreadsheet

Article URL: https://www.mathieupassenaud.fr/task-tracker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18854498 Points: 15 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2C5UULL via

Best of Show: PDP-7 and PDP-11/40 emulation

Article URL: https://www.ioccc.org/2018/mills/hint.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18848062 Points: 15 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Rg2v4S via

Adding Glue to a Desktop Environment

Article URL: https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2019/01/07/win-automation.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18847920 Points: 39 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CUzSRP via

Best of Show: PDP-7 and PDP-11/40 emulation

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Track your daily tasks using Google Assistant, IFTTT and Spreadsheet

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Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual maps

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Adding Glue to a Desktop Environment

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Hyundai's Elevate robotic walking car steps out of the shadows

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Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual maps

Article URL: http://maxplanck.nautil.us/article/351/orientation-without-a-master-plan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18854838 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2saJ7Hr via

Hyundai's Elevate robotic walking car steps out of the shadows

Article URL: https://newatlas.com/hyundai-elevate-robotic-walking-car/57922/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18854817 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Ci1cbp via

Show HN: The worst ANSI renderer, except for all the others

Article URL: https://hpjansson.org/blag/2019/01/07/the-worst-ansi-renderer-except-for-all-the-others/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18847738 Points: 30 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Rye5HT via

A rocker’s guide to management

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Ask HN: Is web dev still a viable career choice?

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Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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TypeScript Roadmap 2019

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Show HN: The worst ANSI renderer, except for all the others

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Launch HN: CSPA (YC S18) – SAT for Software Engineers

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Politicians cannot block social media foes: U.S. appeals court

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Launch HN: CSPA (YC S18) – SAT for Software Engineers

Hi HN! We're James and Angel, the founders of CSPA ( https://cspa.io ). The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment (CSPA) is a standardized assessment for software engineers. We find software engineers to take our exam, and then share the assessment results with employers, who can then hire these candidates for free. James was the founder of Crunchyroll and oversaw product and engineering. Angel also worked at Crunchyroll. We decided to start CSPA because: 1. There are many self-taught programmers out there who are really really good, but don't get a fair chance because they don’t have a degree. We want to give these people an equal opportunity to pursue their career. That's why there are no eligibility requirements to take the CSPA. You can come from any background, and if you get a high CSPA score, you’ll stand out. 2. As hiring managers at Crunchyroll, it was challenging to find great software developers. We wanted a service that quantitatively compares job applic

Politicians cannot block social media foes: U.S. appeals court

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-facebook-decision/politicians-cannot-block-social-media-foes-u-s-appeals-court-idUSKCN1P11SC Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18850265 Points: 142 # Comments: 108 from Hacker News: Front Page https://reut.rs/2GZKKSA via

Announcing unlimited free private repos

Article URL: https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18847043 Points: 2550 # Comments: 613 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TtOaym via

Blub Paradox

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Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Tails – simplified installation method

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Tails – simplified installation method

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Asciidoctor – A fast, open-source text processor and publishing toolchain

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Relational inductive biases, deep learning, and graph networks

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Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc

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How LinkedIn detects browser extensions

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Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Full-Time Remote Coaches

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MIT Deep Learning Tutorial Repository

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Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M

Article URL: https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/alibaba-acquires-berlin-based-data-artisans-for-103m-report-116452/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853189 Points: 25 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Qunxrh via

Graph Neural Networks: A Review of Methods and Applications (2018-2019)

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Bash 5.0 released

Article URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00063.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18852523 Points: 242 # Comments: 137 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Qt9YIA via

Toyota Lifts the Veil on Its Guardian Driver-Assist System

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/ces-toyota-lifts-veil-from-driver-assist-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18852256 Points: 67 # Comments: 55 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TzJeI6 via

Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an invisible beam

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The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins

Article URL: https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/us-health-care-spending-highest-among-developed-countries.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18851823 Points: 468 # Comments: 321 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Axoc60 via

Study Offers Clues to Racial Differences in Alzheimer's Disease

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/01/07/682036486/study-suggests-alzheimer-s-disease-may-work-differently-in-african-americans Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18851801 Points: 34 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://n.pr/2SBJpTg via

How to architect a Qt/C++ Application

Article URL: https://www.cleanqt.io/blog/crash-course-in-qt-for-c%2B%2B-developers,-part-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18851507 Points: 48 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2AzFm2Z via

C++ Headers are Expensive

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Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog? (2013)

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We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic

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Tales from the Xenix Crypt (2017)

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Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation (2007)

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Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue

Article URL: https://blog.geteventbot.com/2019/01/06/how-we-support-open-source-software.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18848534 Points: 286 # Comments: 48 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ReSeFR via

Digitized Books from 1923 Now Available at the Internet Archive

Article URL: http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/11000-digitized-books-from-1923-are-now-available-online-at-the-internet-archive.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18848270 Points: 296 # Comments: 55 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Vw7Jbg via

How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an Investor

Article URL: https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-startup-to-work-for Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18847856 Points: 248 # Comments: 133 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FdLHFd via

New best story on Hacker News: The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins

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New best story on Hacker News: We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic

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New best story on Hacker News: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost

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New best story on Hacker News: The Hand Licking Incident

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How LinkedIn detects browser extensions

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Announcing unlimited free private repos

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MIT Deep Learning Tutorial Repository

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Bash 5.0 released

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Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?

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Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc

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A rocker’s guide to management

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The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins

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Graph Neural Networks: A Review of Methods and Applications (2018-2019)

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Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue

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Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M

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Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog? (2013)

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At the Blackboard: Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (2005)

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How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an Investor

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Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2017)

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C++ Headers are Expensive

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Study Offers Clues to Racial Differences in Alzheimer's Disease

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Toyota Lifts the Veil on Its Guardian Driver-Assist System

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Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation (2007)

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MONIAC – Monetary National Income Analogue Computer

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We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic

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How to architect a Qt/C++ Application

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Either bifunctor

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Relationship Hero (YC S17) Is Hiring Full-Time Remote Coaches

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Asciidoctor – A fast, open-source text processor and publishing toolchain

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Data alignment: Straighten up and fly right (2005)

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Digitized Books from 1923 Now Available at the Internet Archive

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The Water Computer (2016)

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Tales from the Xenix Crypt (2017)

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