hackerNews

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Medications that change who we are (www.bbc.com)

395 points first seen 2020011200 last seen 2020011400 270 comments

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HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience (www.twilio.com)

347 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011403 78 comments

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Why I Quit Using Google (www.kylepiira.com)

346 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011312 158 comments

4

A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings (techcrunch.com)

339 points first seen 2020011200 last seen 2020011400 187 comments

4

A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song (marker.medium.com)

335 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011321 221 comments

5

How to make roguelike games in Rust (bfnightly.bracketproductions.com)

288 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011321 58 comments

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Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’ (www.theverge.com)

275 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011403 269 comments

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Goodbye, Clean Code (overreacted.io)

253 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2021111712 200 comments

5

OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR (undeadly.org)

244 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011400 315 comments

8

A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math (kary.us)

238 points first seen 2020011212 last seen 2020011400 78 comments

6

Pijul: a distributed version control system (written in Rust) (nest.pijul.com)

233 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011321 117 comments

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Injecting the flu vaccine into a tumor gets the immune system to attack it (arstechnica.com)

228 points first seen 2020011212 last seen 2020011315 41 comments

8

Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Desert (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)

214 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011318 84 comments

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We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers now (www.theguardian.com)

214 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011321 228 comments

3

The Case for Bayesian Deep Learning (cims.nyu.edu)

196 points first seen 2020011212 last seen 2020011400 51 comments

4

Blake3 is 10 times faster than SHA-2 (nextjournal.com)

195 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011315 157 comments

10

Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery (2013) (www.bmj.com)

186 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011306 79 comments

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Tech giants have as much money and influence as nations (members.tortoisemedia.com)

159 points first seen 2020011221 last seen 2020011315 147 comments

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Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi (www.themarshallproject.org)

152 points first seen 2020011215 last seen 2020011303 107 comments

4

Scheme: R7RS versus R6RS (weinholt.se)

130 points first seen 2020011212 last seen 2020011321 46 comments

13

Autonomous Rust Unikernels in Google Cloud (nanovms.com)

119 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011315 18 comments

9

Climatescape.org – Mapping the global landscape of climate-saving organizations (climatescape.org)

118 points first seen 2020011221 last seen 2020011321 32 comments

11

Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant (www.leidinger.net)

113 points first seen 2020011221 last seen 2020011315 135 comments

11

Zeta: Functional Neural Networks in Ocaml (github.com)

109 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011306 9 comments

25

FBI Surveillance Vendor Threatens to Sue Tech Reporters for Crime of Journalism (gizmodo.com)

106 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011300 36 comments

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Paging Dr. Google: How the Tech Giant Is Laying Claim to Health Data (www.wsj.com)

97 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011306 74 comments

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Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4B acquisition (arstechnica.com)

90 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011315 47 comments

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Raw WebGPU (alain.xyz)

90 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011309 40 comments

12

Show HN: Algoviz, Interactive a* Pathfinding Visualization (algoviz.njanjo.com)

83 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011312 29 comments

0

Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism (2008) (blog.codinghorror.com)

78 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011209 24 comments

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A teenager discovered a new planet on the third day of his NASA internship (m.sfgate.com)

77 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011218 25 comments

22

Two women quietly reading books in an SF bar started an introvert revolution (www.sfgate.com)

76 points first seen 2020011215 last seen 2020011306 66 comments

9

Petmate – C64 Petscii Editor (nurpax.github.io)

75 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011306 8 comments

14

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Gray Matter Volume (www.mayoclinicproceedings.org)

67 points first seen 2020011200 last seen 2020011221 12 comments

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Sometimes all functions are continuous (2006) (math.andrej.com)

57 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011306 35 comments

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How to Learn How to Surf [video] (youtu.be)

50 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011215 24 comments

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Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets (www.city-journal.org)

49 points first seen 2020011215 last seen 2020011306 58 comments

25

Who’s Behind Those Mystery Drone Swarms? An Investigation (nymag.com)

48 points first seen 2020011218 last seen 2020011306 32 comments

23

What sci-fi can tell us about the future (www.economist.com)

46 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011306 35 comments

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Customizable Tiny Linux OS for Your Development Needs Optimized for Chromebooks (github.com)

43 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011300 13 comments

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Spectrum Kills Home Security Business, Refuses Refunds for Worthless Equipment (gizmodo.com)

43 points first seen 2020011221 last seen 2020011306 11 comments

14

Hot Chips Symposium – Keynotes (2019) [video] (www.hotchips.org)

39 points first seen 2020011218 last seen 2020011315 5 comments

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A Bottom-Up View of Kotlin Coroutines (www.infoq.com)

38 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011221 3 comments

25

Tips for Hiring a Data Scientist into a Tech Company (blog.infer.systems)

36 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011215 19 comments

34

An 18-carat gold nugget made of plastic (ethz.ch)

34 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011209 19 comments

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World's largest radio telescope starts formal operation (www.xinhuanet.com)

32 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011212 10 comments

24

Japan’s Sacred Island (www.archaeology.org)

32 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011215 3 comments

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Telegram tries to appease the SEC – no Gram tokens in Messenger (davidgerard.co.uk)

27 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011209 14 comments

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KDE FreeBSD 2020.1 (euroquis.nl)

27 points first seen 2020011212 last seen 2020011312 3 comments

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Why Boredom Is an Entrepreneur's Superpower (anthonydike.substack.com)

26 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011221 3 comments

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William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was' (www.theguardian.com)

26 points first seen 2020011215 last seen 2020011303 5 comments

35

systemE, a lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp (github.com)

22 points first seen 2020011212 last seen 2020011300 5 comments

37

Rain Follows the Plow (en.wikipedia.org)

21 points first seen 2020011218 last seen 2020011315 0 comments

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2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says Tiobe (rss.slashdot.org)

19 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011212 6 comments

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SpaceX Is Going to Blow Up a Falcon 9 Rocket Just After Launch (futurism.com)

16 points first seen 2020011212 last seen 2020011221 11 comments

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Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake (www.infoq.com)

13 points first seen 2020011200 last seen 2022031903 6 comments

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Study Confirms Climate Models Are Getting Future Warming Projections Right (climate.nasa.gov)

12 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2021110500 0 comments

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Our Restless Tides (co-ops.nos.noaa.gov)

12 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011303 0 comments

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Hacker defaces some Iranian gov sites and puts victims names there as memorial (old.reddit.com)

12 points first seen 2020011215 last seen 2020011221 2 comments

51

Lessons from self-publishing a technical eBook (twitter.com)

12 points first seen 2020011221 last seen 2020011403 0 comments

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Man kills himself after Police falsely said he critically injured woman in crash (www.nbcnews.com)

11 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011209 0 comments

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Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences (aeon.co)

8 points first seen 2020011200 last seen 2020011203 16 comments

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Should restaurants donate excess food? The answer is not so simple (newfoodeconomy.org)

7 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011203 0 comments

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Black Shark 5G Will Be the World’s First Phone with 16GB RAM (alugy.com)

6 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011203 0 comments

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Show HN: A search engine for jobs from lever.co (www.voorjob.com)

6 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011300 2 comments

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China reports first death from 'new type of coronavirus' (www.cbc.ca)

5 points first seen 2020011200 last seen 2020011203 0 comments

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Iran plane crash: Ukrainian jet was 'unintentionally' shot down (www.bbc.com)

5 points first seen 2020011203 last seen 2020011203 0 comments

0

Khodynka Tragedy (en.wikipedia.org)

5 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011209 2 comments

0

Dependency-Free JavaScript (magnushoff.com)

5 points first seen 2020011212 last seen 2020011212 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How does one get started in Product Management? (item?id=22024804)

5 points first seen 2020011218 last seen 2020011218 0 comments

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Show HN: Slacky, the first open-source Slack selfbot in Python (github.com)

4 points first seen 2020011206 last seen 2020011206 0 comments

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Negative Interest Rates Are Going to Ruin Everything (prestonbyrne.com)

4 points first seen 2020011215 last seen 2020011215 0 comments

0

Ask HN: downsides of using Wikipedia as a source? (item?id=22023225)

4 points first seen 2020011215 last seen 2020011215 6 comments

0

The Academic Apocalypse (www.nytimes.com)

4 points first seen 2020011218 last seen 2020011218 0 comments

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TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo (arstechnica.com)

3 points first seen 2020011209 last seen 2020011209 0 comments

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Ticking Stick [video] (www.youtube.com)

3 points first seen 2020011212 last seen 2020011212 0 comments

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Tesla cars will soon “talk to” pedestrians (twitter.com)

3 points first seen 2020011218 last seen 2020011218 0 comments

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New deadline for Yahoo Groups data request (twitter.com)

3 points first seen 2020011218 last seen 2020011218 0 comments