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The case for vanilla front-end development

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An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor

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'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes

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Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere into the Center of the World Economy?

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Ending our Medium integration

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When Your Memory Allocator Hides Security Bugs

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Zucked

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Facebook has had its enterprise certificates revoked by Apple

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Can a Machine Learning Model Predict the SP500 by Looking at Candlesticks?

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When Your Memory Allocator Hides Security Bugs

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'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes

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Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere into the Center of the World Economy?

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New best story on Hacker News: Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch

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Ending our Medium integration

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5,000 Pages of Verdi’s Drafts, Long Hidden, Will Be Made Public

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Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript Works with Amiga Mod and FastTracker XM Files

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Lock-Free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019

Article URL: https://stjepang.github.io/2019/01/29/lock-free-rust-crossbeam-in-2019.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19034247 Points: 16 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Ba8fmJ via

Tor's Open Research Topics (2018)

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Royalty Free No Copyright Music for All Your Projects

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Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript Works with Amiga Mod and FastTracker XM Files

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Lock-Free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019

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Tor's Open Research Topics (2018)

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Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer's Core Memory

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Faire (YC W17) Is Looking for a Biz Ops Associate

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Microsoft Dev Implores Mozilla to Surrender and Bring Firefox to Chromium

Article URL: https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-dev-implores-mozilla-surrender-bring-firefox-chromium Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19033943 Points: 17 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Tl9aaW via

Exclusive Design

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Exclusive Design

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Faire (YC W17) Is Looking for a Biz Ops Associate

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Microsoft Dev Implores Mozilla to Surrender and Bring Firefox to Chromium

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Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999)

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Royalty Free No Copyright Music for All Your Projects

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A new genetic technology that can quickly change entire populations gets broader

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Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released

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Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released

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Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/facebook/2019/1/30/18203349/facebook-research-app-apple-shutdown Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19033451 Points: 13 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Gc45Oj via

Pwn the LIFX Mini white

Article URL: https://limitedresults.com/2019/01/pwn-the-lifx-mini-white/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19033334 Points: 9 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RYEdwA via

The Golden Age of Hollywood Tax Avoidance

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-29/hollywood-stars-didn-t-pay-90-percent-tax-they-created-loopholes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031135 Points: 45 # Comments: 50 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2UmxpW4 via

Pwn the LIFX Mini white

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The Golden Age of Hollywood Tax Avoidance

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Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS

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AresDB: Uber’s GPU-Powered Open-Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine

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The Man Who Invented Information Theory (2017)

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Which American accent do you have? (2007)

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Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

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Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch

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Office 365 global authentication outage

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How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel (2015)

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Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week

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AresDB: Uber’s GPU-Powered Open-Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine

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Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL

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Advice to new programmers

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Show HN: Deep Learning GUI to Create, Train and Visualize Models in a Browser

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Israeli scientists claim to have found cure for cancer

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Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++

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GoLorry (YC W16) Is Hiring a Full-Time Software Engineer in Hyderabad, India

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Down the Rabbit Hole – Part I: A Journey into the UEFI Land

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The heroes of the Thai cave rescue

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Show HN: Serve Static GitHub Pages Locally

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Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

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Nasa Used Art to Shape Our Vision of the Future

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Writing Apps in Go and Swift

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Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?

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Building a “Simple” Distributed System – Formal Verification

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The Kubernetes Kustomize KEP Kerfuffle

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Maze Design (2005)

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Reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex

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A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum

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PG&E files for bankruptcy

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San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city

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Apache Flink

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Advanced Tor Browser Fingerprinting (2016)

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The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Neural Network Perspective (1993) [pdf]

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My journey applying AI to horse racing

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GoLorry (YC W16) Is Hiring a Full-Time Software Engineer in Hyderabad, India

A bit about us: GoLorry is consolidating the fragmented Indian trucking market into a single service provider. We provide India’s first truly instant pricing on any route. Clients can book any number of trucks, manage future orders, and track trucks en route, all in our app without any phone calls. We’re dedicated to technology, digitizing payments, records, and paperwork whenever possible, but we know that real-world work often requires a human touch and so we bring the best combination of both. Our ultimate goal is to be the first company in India to deploy self-driving (autonomous) trucks. What you’ll do: Work with the front end and operations teams to design new features and improve business logic. Develop our business platform in Python and the Django Rest Framework. Shape our engineering culture, decide on engineering processes, and share your knowledge. For that reason, we're primarily looking for on-site over remote candidates. If you are interested or know someone wh

Israeli scientists claim to have found cure for cancer

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Show HN: Serve Static GitHub Pages Locally

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Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++

Article URL: https://tylerayoung.com/2019/01/29/benchmarks-of-cache-friendly-data-structures-in-c/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19032293 Points: 37 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Ga4z7J via

How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel (2015)

Article URL: https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/how_i_ended_up_writing_my_own_kernel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19032083 Points: 91 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2iaFtYo via

Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch

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Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?

It’s pointless to block every single spam number that can call in. If we can’t end spam calls, why don’t phones let you at least block all except numbers in your contact list? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031711 Points: 145 # Comments: 140 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RVDR9T via

Reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex

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Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-kill-url-first-steps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031237 Points: 177 # Comments: 103 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RnXn9V via

Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19031055 Points: 940 # Comments: 300 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2ShtT1W via

San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18202602/san-francisco-facial-recognition-ban-proposal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19030617 Points: 153 # Comments: 45 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FXne7u via

The Kubernetes Kustomize KEP Kerfuffle

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The heroes of the Thai cave rescue

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Office 365 global authentication outage

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Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

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Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week

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PG&E files for bankruptcy

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Advice to new programmers

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Writing Apps in Go and Swift

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Maze Design (2005)

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New best story on Hacker News: Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

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New best story on Hacker News: Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

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New best story on Hacker News: Firefox 65.0 released

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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

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