hackerNews

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The dystopian world of software engineering interviews (www.jarednelsen.dev)

915 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021700 734 comments

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Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses (www.wired.com)

615 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021803 384 comments

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18 years old, built with Frontpage, personal website still updated (www.fmboschetto.it)

511 points first seen 2020021500 last seen 2020021706 462 comments

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Google Cuts Jobs at Cloud-Computing Group (www.wsj.com)

502 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021800 312 comments

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Brown: color is weird [video] (www.youtube.com)

484 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021621 136 comments

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Apple Edge Cache (https://cache.edge.apple)

476 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021706 210 comments

3

A Map of Mathematics (www.quantamagazine.org)

388 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021703 53 comments

2

ActivityPub – The Secret Weapon of the Fediverse (homehack.nl)

365 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021800 188 comments

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Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information? (item?id=22325975)

364 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021600 168 comments

13

How I made my own PCBs with a 3D printer (www.stavros.io)

283 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021806 144 comments

17

Flow-Charts of Programming Language Constructs (www.progsbase.com)

244 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021621 84 comments

7

The US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook (www.dicebreaker.com)

236 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021700 76 comments

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Show HN: A Firefox extension to add latency to distracting webpages (addons.mozilla.org)

222 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021621 49 comments

5

What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast? (cpldcpu.wordpress.com)

211 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021809 99 comments

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Why Do Incompetent Managers Get Promoted? (medium.com)

209 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021603 125 comments

6

Facebook to allow paid political messages that are not ads (techxplore.com)

208 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021700 321 comments

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Self-driving cars turned out to be harder than expected (www.vox.com)

197 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021621 268 comments

7

Introduction to Clifford Algebra (www.av8n.com)

181 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021609 62 comments

4

HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through (techcrunch.com)

178 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021700 93 comments

3

The Cancer Industry: Hype vs. Reality (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

172 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021615 116 comments

10

Millions of Tiny Databases [pdf] (assets.amazon.science)

162 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021609 10 comments

8

AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding (netflixtechblog.com)

155 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020031109 73 comments

14

Founders share the challenges of running a tech business (www.indiehackers.com)

151 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021609 46 comments

6

Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support (ivanceras.github.io)

146 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021606 31 comments

6

RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India (www.cbc.ca)

139 points first seen 2020021515 last seen 2020021700 60 comments

20

Corona Labs is shutting down, will open-source everything under MIT (coronalabs.com)

135 points first seen 2020021500 last seen 2020021521 27 comments

21

Why do so many developers get DRY wrong? (changelog.com)

129 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021609 145 comments

8

A 7KB AWS lambda Node.js library with zero runtime dependencies (www.npmjs.com)

119 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021621 56 comments

25

Product managers think in terms of problems, not solutions (2018) (ben.balter.com)

114 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021603 40 comments

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Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research (theconversation.com)

113 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021606 99 comments

16

Printing tiny, high-precision objects (actu.epfl.ch)

107 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021606 23 comments

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Google redraws disputed borders, depending on who’s looking (www.washingtonpost.com)

107 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021703 64 comments

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Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out (www.vox.com)

104 points first seen 2020021500 last seen 2020021606 139 comments

31

Crystal 0.33 (crystal-lang.org)

91 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021600 34 comments

7

Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search (www.bbc.co.uk)

87 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021618 95 comments

33

Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC? (item?id=22330459)

86 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021603 93 comments

6

Gossiping Commons – “don't tell alike” and “no author, please” open licenses (gossipingcommons.org)

81 points first seen 2020021500 last seen 2020021600 11 comments

42

Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015) (hraf.yale.edu)

80 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021603 62 comments

14

Exploring the Web Speech API (www.voorhoede.nl)

74 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021615 9 comments

15

NYC Active Major Construction (www1.nyc.gov)

73 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021603 34 comments

13

Data in SwiftUI, Part 2: Views as a Function of Data (sarunw.com)

71 points first seen 2020021500 last seen 2020021521 26 comments

20

Designing the most performant row-level security schema in Postgres (2018) (medium.com)

66 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021606 7 comments

23

How HTTPS works – Explained in layman terms (medium.com)

64 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021612 25 comments

40

How to find and delete data Google keeps about you (www.cnet.com)

63 points first seen 2020021500 last seen 2020021509 39 comments

20

Security recommendations for any device that depends on random numbers (2013) (www.av8n.com)

60 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021603 8 comments

47

From Tokyo to Wakayama to Okinawa, Japan on Edge as Covid-19 Spreads (www.japantimes.co.jp)

56 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021603 50 comments

30

Understanding the Neural Tangent Kernel (rajatvd.github.io)

55 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021515 0 comments

41

Show HN: Hacker UI – a React design system for developers (hacker-ui.com)

54 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021518 8 comments

27

Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media (www.gwern.net)

48 points first seen 2020021500 last seen 2020021512 9 comments

19

Donald Brown’s List of Human Universals (condor.depaul.edu)

48 points first seen 2020021515 last seen 2020021606 11 comments

24

An airdrop that preserves recipient privacy [pdf] (fc20.ifca.ai)

44 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021518 43 comments

73

Printing Money (neal.fun)

43 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021521 15 comments

18

Gentzen's Rules for Natural Deduction (blog.plover.com)

43 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021609 13 comments

34

Yuval Noah Harari’s History of Everyone (www.newyorker.com)

43 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021609 11 comments

20

Ask HN: How to donate 1000$ to Open Source? (item?id=22325625)

42 points first seen 2020021500 last seen 2020021518 38 comments

17

The geology and geophysics of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth (science.sciencemag.org)

39 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021606 2 comments

39

Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X (www.phoronix.com)

37 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021515 5 comments

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Los Angeles moves to dismiss 66,000 marijuana convictions after legalization (www.theguardian.com)

35 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021521 0 comments

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Brooklyn Queens Connector streetcar could be a transit equalizer (brooklyneagle.com)

33 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021603 26 comments

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Why Aren't More Highly Intelligent People Rich? (www.inc.com)

28 points first seen 2020021500 last seen 2020021500 68 comments

27

The Zambian “Afronaut” who wanted to join the space race (2017) (www.newyorker.com)

27 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021518 3 comments

40

Using Ptrace for Fun and Profit (2016) (eklitzke.org)

26 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021606 0 comments

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Perlwm – a window manager written entirely in Perl (perlwm.sourceforge.net)

22 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021503 4 comments

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Cops can seize Oregon woman’s $354k home following meth dealing conviction (www.oregonlive.com)

22 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021600 3 comments

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New process for preserving lumber could offer advantages over pressure treating (phys.org)

22 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021618 8 comments

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Blockstack created fake users to unlock investments (medium.com)

21 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021515 2 comments

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Miguel de Icaza on Windows 10x (twitter.com)

20 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021515 2 comments

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Thanks to Linux, Google and Valve Are Bringing Steam to Chromebooks (www.linux-magazine.com)

19 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021515 0 comments

41

Monkeys wake from anaesthetic when region linked to consciousness is stimulated (www.sciencealert.com)

19 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021603 2 comments

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Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes (apnews.com)

18 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021512 2 comments

56

Show HN: The largest Node.js CLI Apps best practices list (github.com)

18 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021518 0 comments

50

EKS vs. GKE vs. AKS – Evaluating Kubernetes in the Cloud (www.stackrox.com)

18 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021606 0 comments

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Married co-founders are a startup’s secret weapon (techcrunch.com)

17 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021603 5 comments

66

The Guy Selling Wireless Tech to Steal Luxury Cars (www.vice.com)

16 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021506 7 comments

53

HQ Trivia, the once-popular mobile game, is shutting down (www.cnn.com)

15 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021515 0 comments

72

Show HN: Business Structure Calculator (tjcx.me)

15 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021521 0 comments

54

Kubernetes clicked when I learned about Deployments and Services (ljvmiranda921.github.io)

15 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021609 0 comments

68

William Gibson: the prophet of cyberspace talks AI and climate collapse (www.ft.com)

14 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021506 3 comments

78

OpenJDK project considering move to Git and GitHub (openjdk.java.net)

14 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021509 0 comments

84

Tiny area of the brain may enable consciousness (inverse.com)

14 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021509 5 comments

0

Parkinson's disease may start before birth (www.sciencedaily.com)

13 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021503 2 comments

79

500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users (arstechnica.com)

13 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021506 0 comments

74

Scandinavia Got Great by Educating the “Whole Person” (www.nytimes.com)

13 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021512 0 comments

72

Consider Controlled Infection (Re: Coronavirus) (www.overcomingbias.com)

13 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021600 4 comments

39

Hamap as SPARQL rules–A portable annotation pipeline for genomes and proteomes (academic.oup.com)

12 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021603 0 comments

75

Windows 10x runs Win32 applications (www.osnews.com)

12 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021521 0 comments

0

FastoTV first native crossplatform open source IPTV player (github.com)

10 points first seen 2020021500 last seen 2020021500 0 comments

56

The Programmer's Game (www.ariel.com.au)

10 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021515 0 comments

0

Survey of Historical Stock Advice (2013) (www.jefftk.com)

9 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021503 0 comments

78

Dimming Betelgeuse is now also bent out of shape, new surface images show (astronomy.com)

9 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021509 0 comments

55

Top technical machine learning YouTube channel to follow (gdcoder.com)

9 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021518 0 comments

83

Show HN: Auto Formatter for File Structures (github.com)

8 points first seen 2020021512 last seen 2020021518 0 comments

0

After Attending a Trump Rally, I Realized Democrats Are Not Ready for 2020 (gen.medium.com)

8 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021518 2 comments

0

Privacy Experts Skeptical of Proposed Data Protection Agency (threatpost.com)

7 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021503 0 comments

76

Stratified Design over Layered Design (medium.com)

7 points first seen 2020021503 last seen 2020021506 0 comments

0

Researchers entangle quantum memory at facilities over 50km apart (arstechnica.com)

7 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021506 0 comments

0

MIT Hacks (wiki.mitadmissions.org)

7 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021509 0 comments

0

Building software with deep learning isn't hard anymore (towardsdatascience.com)

7 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021509 0 comments

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Scientists accidentally create universal all-purpose computer vision algorithm (tass.com)

7 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021600 2 comments

86

Blender 2.82 (www.blender.org)

7 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021603 0 comments

0

A new spin on 3D printing can produce an object in seconds (arstechnica.com)

6 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021509 0 comments

0

PEP 614 – Relaxing Grammar Restrictions on Decorators (www.python.org)

6 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021509 0 comments

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Bats’ immune defenses may be why their viruses can be so deadly to people (www.sciencenews.org)

5 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021512 0 comments

47

Core Data Lab, a Full-Featured Core Data Viewer (betamagic.nl)

5 points first seen 2020021515 last seen 2020021600 0 comments

76

Angular 9: Top New Features and How to Upgrade (morioh.com)

5 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021600 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What volume (in dollars) of materials is discarded/burned every year? (item?id=22327444)

4 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021506 3 comments

0

Astronomers to sweep entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life (www.theguardian.com)

4 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2020021518 0 comments

82

Why Desalinating Water Is Hard – and Why We Might Need to Anyway (www.discovermagazine.com)

4 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021600 0 comments

84

Show HN: TypeScript lib to build functions that do not allow parallel executions (github.com)

3 points first seen 2020021509 last seen 2020021512 0 comments

0

Politicians Fooled the World into Believing in Nations (www.vice.com)

3 points first seen 2020021515 last seen 2020021515 0 comments

13

The Future of Fossil Fuels (rhsfinancial.com)

3 points first seen 2020021518 last seen 2022081803 0 comments

0

Seed: South Korea's home-grown block cipher (en.wikipedia.org)

3 points first seen 2020021521 last seen 2020021521 0 comments

29

Kraftful (YC S19) Is Hiring First Engineer (Full-Stack) + Account Executive (angel.co)

0 points first seen 2020021506 last seen 2020021512 0 comments

0

Join Dover (YC S19) – building a modern recruiting agency (dover.io)

0 points first seen 2020021515 last seen 2020021515 N/A comments