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UUIDs in MySQL are really not random

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Ask HN: Did offering a money-back guarantee help your business?

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HTTP3 Explained

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Journalism generated by machine is on the rise

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John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar

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Not Long Ago, Lenses Were Much Lighter

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Ketamine Could Soon Be Used to Treat Suicidal Ideation

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Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking

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Hiring Mechanical/Materials engineer with biochemical background

Athelas ( https://athelas.com ) is a fast-growing biotech company based in Mountain View, CA. We are looking for an engineer with a background in mechanical engineering and/or materials science. Work with microfluidics, chemistry, coating technologies, and biotech products is a bonus! Please send resumes to founders [at] athelas.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084824 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UHGsRA via

Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation

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Hiring Mechanical/Materials engineer with biochemical background

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Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize 'magic mushrooms'

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Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation

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Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two

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Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two

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Why Has No One Heard of the World's First Poet? (2017)

Article URL: https://lithub.com/why-has-no-one-ever-heard-of-the-worlds-first-poet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19079358 Points: 4 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2G9zhyr via

Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better

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The Zipper Rule on German Roads

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Why Has No One Heard of the World's First Poet? (2017)

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Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us

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Stop reading news (2013)

Article URL: https://fs.blog/2013/12/stop-reading-news/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084099 Points: 44 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QJvbCP via

RetDec: open-source machine-code decompiler based on LLVM

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Stop reading news (2013)

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Mastodon for Metal heads

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What It Takes to Be in the 1% Around the World

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RetDec: open-source machine-code decompiler based on LLVM

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Mastodon for Metal heads

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What It Takes to Be in the 1% Around the World

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Article 13 Back: Germany Caves to France, EU Pushes Forward on Ruining Internet

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190204/09090341521/article-13-is-back-germany-caves-to-france-as-eu-pushes-forward-ruining-internet.shtml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19083886 Points: 29 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Tx6aYW via

Show HN: Gitin – a minimal commit/branch/workdir explorer for Git

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Article 13 Back: Germany Caves to France, EU Pushes Forward on Ruining Internet

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A Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness (2014)

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Lectures in Quantitative Economics as Python and Julia Notebooks

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ClearTax (YC S14) Is Hiring Product Managers in Bangalore

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Lectures in Quantitative Economics as Python and Julia Notebooks

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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 widely loved and used by millions of consumers, businesses & accountants. We're one of the few companies where the PM has the ability to make users successful end-to-end. As a PM, this is what you'll get at ClearTax: - Complex problems being solved for the first time in India - Scale & Impact - You'll make a difference to Indian lives - Data & Tech - Use data and tech to change finance 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=19083817 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.l...

A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions

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Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results

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Transformer-XL: Unleashing the Potential of Attention Models

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Leap Spins out of YC

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Language Design with Brian Kernighan (2016) [audio]

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Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

Article URL: https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/trust-busting-as-the-unsexy-answer-to-google-and-facebook/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19079526 Points: 286 # Comments: 168 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2HDQMIU via

Transformer-XL: Unleashing the Potential of Attention Models

Article URL: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/01/transformer-xl-unleashing-potential-of.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19079343 Points: 67 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2sVsBvb via

Leap Spins out of YC

Article URL: https://blog.ycombinator.com/leap-spins-out-of-yc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19078098 Points: 95 # Comments: 50 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DirNph via

Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds

Article URL: https://www.neh.gov/article/ursula-k-le-guin-was-creator-worlds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19083275 Points: 7 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2t7pb8K via

New best story on Hacker News: “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

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New best story on Hacker News: MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

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New best story on Hacker News: If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source

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New best story on Hacker News: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

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She Thought Her Husband Was Being Treated for the Wrong Disease. She Was Right

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/magazine/the-patients-wife-thought-her-husband-was-being-treated-for-the-wrong-disease-she-was-right.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19083208 Points: 24 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2WBTnq3 via

BuildZoom (marketplace for construction) is hiring engineers

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How long will a 64 bit Transaction-ID last in PostgreSQL?

Article URL: https://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/970-How-long-will-a-64-bit-Transaction-ID-last-in-PostgreSQL.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19082944 Points: 27 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2S9kGtj via

Data Structure Visualizations

Article URL: https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19082943 Points: 57 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1fgTLeX via

Model Metropolis

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The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience

Article URL: https://thewalrus.ca/the-bleak-reality-of-the-instagram-experience/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19082626 Points: 15 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2FZV4IN via

Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Matrix at Fosdem 2019

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“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

Article URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/06/coreos_kubernetes_v_world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19080875 Points: 481 # Comments: 241 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2h8oh62 via

Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results

Article URL: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2018Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=adc3b38 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19080742 Points: 139 # Comments: 91 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2WDmg5v via

Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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A Humility Training Exercise for Technical Interviewers

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Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public

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MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

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If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source

Article URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/if-software-funded-public-source-its-code-should-be-open-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19077913 Points: 931 # Comments: 231 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GsRgzx via

Z.lua – A new cd command that navigates faster by learning your habits

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Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe

Article URL: https://qz.com/1541380/the-cheapest-chinese-electric-cars-are-coming-to-the-us-and-europe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19077700 Points: 276 # Comments: 215 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BkD4Fk via

Tesla to Buy Energy Storage Firm Maxwell Tech at $4.75 a Share

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-04/tesla-to-buy-energy-storage-firm-maxwell-tech-at-4-75-shr-value Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19077648 Points: 242 # Comments: 131 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2S8kSZR via

Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/firefox-66-to-block-automatically-playing-audible-video-and-audio/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19077548 Points: 1325 # Comments: 331 from Hacker News: Front Page https://mzl.la/2GnuqZU via

MyBrandNewLogo – A 3-step Logo Generator

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“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

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Model Metropolis

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Data Structure Visualizations

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MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

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Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public

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Matrix at Fosdem 2019

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If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source

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How long will a 64 bit Transaction-ID last in PostgreSQL?

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Our Language Affects What We See

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Electron v5.0 Timeline

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MyBrandNewLogo – A 3-step Logo Generator

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A Humility Training Exercise for Technical Interviewers

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Show HN: Gitin – a minimal commit/branch/workdir explorer for Git

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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

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Shooting Dr. Tourette

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Tesla to Buy Energy Storage Firm Maxwell Tech at $4.75 a Share

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Fiberbots: Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system

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Pijul for Git users

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She Thought Her Husband Was Being Treated for the Wrong Disease. She Was Right

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Hatari: An Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe

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Z.lua – A new cd command that navigates faster by learning your habits

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Bringing black and white photos to life using Colourise.sg

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The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience

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Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds

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BuildZoom (marketplace for construction) is hiring engineers

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SAT/SMT by Example [pdf]

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JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms

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Unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide

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A new predictive model for more accurate electrical grid mapping

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