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New best story on Hacker News: FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up

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New best story on Hacker News: A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet

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New best story on Hacker News: H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads

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New best story on Hacker News: Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard

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New best story on Hacker News: Oslo made its city center basically car-free

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New best story on Hacker News: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019

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Cloudflare's open source QUIC implementation in Rust

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Apple supplier shifts away from China

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Show HN: Draftss – Design and Code on Monthly Subscription

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Findjars: a gradle plugin to debug classpath issues

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New best story on Hacker News: What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail

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Dropbox snares HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M

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Parmigiano-Reggiano: Italy's 'practically perfect' food

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A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’

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The “.ro” Gold Rush (2018)

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The Fleecing of Millennials

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A JavaScript(canvas) spreadsheet for web

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Dubai held a 'gender balance' awards, and every single winner is a man

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A Child’s Puzzle Helped Uncover How Magnets Really Work

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Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?

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Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging

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Scientists bring new insight into how animals see

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Outperforming everything with anything: Python? Sure, why not?

Article URL: https://wordsandbuttons.online/outperforming_everything_with_anything.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19012369 Points: 286 # Comments: 80 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2AQ4y5i via

The personal toll of whistle-blowing

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A novel approach to onboarding

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Ask HN: What kind of information do you look for before learning/using new tech?

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Iran to Launch State-Backed Cryptocurrency to Counter SWIFT and US Regulations

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Future of digital journalism as BuzzFeed and HuffPost lay off 1,000

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Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)

Article URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016399 Points: 28 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1rObp6K via

The subscription-pocalypse

Article URL: http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/12/the-subscription-pocalypse-is-about-to-hit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016388 Points: 32 # Comments: 33 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RtIhUl via

Luggage found stuffed with 5,000 leeches

Article URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/airport-luggage-stuffed-with-leeches/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016324 Points: 9 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://on.natgeo.com/2B9nqfE via

Ask HN: Do you enjoy working in a coworking space?

Coworkings are still on the rise and people from startups, freelancers, and corporates are moving in. To all my fellow coworkers - do you actually like working there? Why/ why not? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016316 Points: 21 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2MBzX0b via

New Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+

Article URL: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-3-on-sale-now-from-25/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016100 Points: 16 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2HzX8ZD via

GDPR complaint claims Google and IAB ad category lists leak intimate data

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/27/google-and-iab-ad-category-lists-show-massive-leakage-of-highly-intimate-data-gdpr-complaint-claims/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016049 Points: 73 # Comments: 25 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2UhwhTC via

The subscription-pocalypse

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Most Published Research Findings Are False

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Ask HN: Do you enjoy working in a coworking space?

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Luggage found stuffed with 5,000 leeches

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New Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+

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Duke University professor removed over 'Speak English' email

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Netflix Flexes

Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2019/netflix-flexes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19013069 Points: 154 # Comments: 135 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FWiPB1 via

Smoothsort Demystified (2011)

Article URL: http://www.keithschwarz.com/smoothsort/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19012936 Points: 82 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/uDajUX via

HTTP/3: from root to tip

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-3-from-root-to-tip/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19012705 Points: 268 # Comments: 61 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2MuFIwx via

What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail

Article URL: https://thehustle.co/bionic-boot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19012237 Points: 551 # Comments: 157 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2B3tIh6 via

Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker

Article URL: http://watchesbysjx.com/2017/05/portrait-masahiro-kikuno-japanese-watchmaker.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19011880 Points: 137 # Comments: 65 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2sqIE4Y via

Jiggle syphon

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiggle_syphon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010600 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2sOha8P via

Flower Power: Hamilton’s Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature

Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/2019/01/24/flower-power-hamiltons-doctor-and-the-healing-power-of-nature/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010544 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2MuzQDv via

Google accused of ongoing “massive leakage of highly intimate data”

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Jiggle syphon

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Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon – free textbook

Article URL: http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19013189 Points: 247 # Comments: 33 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1nPRxK2 via

How to Setup Your Own PaaS with Dokku and Node and React and Mongodb and Nginx

Article URL: http://www.albertgao.xyz/2019/01/28/how-to-setup-your-own-paas-with-dokku-node-react-mongodb-nginx/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015504 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RTBB37 via

How to Setup Your Own PaaS with Dokku and Node and React and Mongodb and Nginx

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Flower Power: Hamilton’s Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature

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Abusing Exchange: One API call away from Domain Admin

Article URL: https://dirkjanm.io/abusing-exchange-one-api-call-away-from-domain-admin/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015799 Points: 4 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DqEhMH via

Money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money

Article URL: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/27/cz-edwards.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015501 Points: 40 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CKwSpU via

ClearTax (YC S14) Is Hiring Product Managers in Bangalore

ClearTax is simplifying the financial lives of millions of Indian consumers & businesses. Read about our products and roles: https://goo.gl/QcvweW Our products for consumer taxes, investments and GST are #1 in India and used by millions of consumers, businesses & accountants. As part of the product & engineering teams, you will solve complex problems that haven't been solved before. You will design and engineer rich data-driven experiences to change how people approach and deal with their finances. You'll work directly with founders and the core teams. Interested? Write directly to srivatsan@cleartax.in (co-founder) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015465 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UnBbic via

The Missing History of the Explorer 1 Satellite

Article URL: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/missing-history-explorer-1-satellite Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015358 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://s.si.edu/2WqhF6e via

A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/been-kim-is-building-a-translator-for-artificial-intelligence-20190110/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015093 Points: 36 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VD2HK1 via

Singapore Weighs Fate of Its Brutalist Buildings

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/world/asia/singapore-brutalist-buildings.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015087 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2G51IwA via

C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival

Article URL: https://vector-of-bool.github.io/2019/01/27/modules-doa.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015079 Points: 95 # Comments: 37 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RRJV33 via

Julia v1.1 Release Notes

Article URL: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.1.0/NEWS.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015070 Points: 41 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2HBe7ep via

Rustic Shelters Called Bothies

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/travel/in-search-of-britains-bothies.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19015027 Points: 30 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2HBe4zh via

When FP? And When OOP? (2013)

Article URL: http://raganwald.com/2013/04/08/functional-vs-OOP.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19014962 Points: 30 # Comments: 25 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/173Q615 via

Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

Article URL: https://github.com/kevinschaich/mintable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19014820 Points: 19 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2B9AvWp via

Hacking PostgreSQL [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2018/sessions/session/2058/slides/96/hackingpg-present.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19014665 Points: 92 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ThQIQz via

RFIDler – An Open Source Software Defined RFID Reader/Writer/Emulator (2013)

Article URL: http://adamsblog.aperturelabs.com/2013/08/rfidler-open-source-software-defined.html?m=0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19014618 Points: 23 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RizAID via

One Hundred Users in Two Weeks

Article URL: https://joecmarshall.com/posts/one-hundred-users-in-two-weeks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19014575 Points: 35 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Dnr86U via

Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer

Article URL: https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19014278 Points: 62 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EJtA9c via

Embedded Rust Experiments: Is My STM32 MCU Running Fast?

Article URL: https://nercury.github.io/rust/embedded/experiments/2019/01/27/rust-embedded-02-measuring-the-clock.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19014271 Points: 34 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UhxDxO via

Compile Ruby into WebAssembly

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Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age (2017)

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/business/best-buy-amazon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19013980 Points: 89 # Comments: 85 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2wr6yAX via

Most People With Addiction Grow Out of It (2014)

Article URL: https://psmag.com/social-justice/people-addiction-simply-grow-widely-denied-91605 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19013480 Points: 33 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RP1LE5 via

Show HN: Notepin – Extremely simple blogging platform

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KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++

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Abusing Exchange: One API call away from Domain Admin

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C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival

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Hacking PostgreSQL [pdf]

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Most People With Addiction Grow Out of It (2014)

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Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon – free textbook

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A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think

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HTTP/3: from root to tip

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Rustic Shelters Called Bothies

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When FP? And When OOP? (2013)

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Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age (2017)

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The Missing History of the Explorer 1 Satellite

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Netflix Flexes

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Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer

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Show HN: Notepin – Extremely simple blogging platform

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Money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money

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Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker

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Compile Ruby into WebAssembly

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What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail

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RFIDler – An Open Source Software Defined RFID Reader/Writer/Emulator (2013)

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The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot (2004)

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How to write code in modern Fortran (2011) [pdf]

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Singapore Weighs Fate of Its Brutalist Buildings

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Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

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One Hundred Users in Two Weeks

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ClearTax (YC S14) Is Hiring Product Managers in Bangalore

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Smoothsort Demystified (2011)

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Embedded Rust Experiments: Is My STM32 MCU Running Fast?

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Julia v1.1 Release Notes

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Outperforming everything with anything: Python? Sure, why not?

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New best story on Hacker News: KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++

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New best story on Hacker News: When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)

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