hackerNews

5

Big list of 1 On 1 Meeting Questions (github.com)

1005 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020022000 294 comments

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I Learned French in 12 Months (www.runwes.com)

716 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021903 303 comments

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How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

663 points first seen 2020021721 last seen 2020022003 55 comments

9

South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux (www.fosslinux.com)

424 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021809 193 comments

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How to Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking (praxis.fortelabs.co)

414 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021803 101 comments

2

What 8 years of side projects have taught me (2019) (www.junglecoder.com)

394 points first seen 2020021715 last seen 2020021903 87 comments

9

Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities? (item?id=22345150)

353 points first seen 2020021715 last seen 2020021809 200 comments

1

Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning (github.com)

352 points first seen 2020021715 last seen 2020021903 48 comments

2

Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8 (www.lexaloffle.com)

298 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021812 68 comments

10

Hacking my arm prosthesis so it plugs into a synth: thought-controlled music (www.youtube.com)

284 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021812 46 comments

6

Show HN: Explore an infinite stream of AI generated art (art42.net)

266 points first seen 2020021712 last seen 2020021806 178 comments

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Don’t Use the Word ‘Did’ or Dumb Anti-Piracy Company Will Delete You from Google (torrentfreak.com)

242 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021712 101 comments

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Show HN: Paperd.Ink – A hackable e-paper display (paperd.ink)

233 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021806 79 comments

2

Let's Build a Compiler, by Jack Crenshaw (compilers.iecc.com)

233 points first seen 2020021721 last seen 2020021903 39 comments

4

GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization (github.com)

201 points first seen 2020021721 last seen 2020021900 57 comments

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Google ditches its free WiFi service in South Africa – three months after launch (www.businessinsider.co.za)

200 points first seen 2020021712 last seen 2020021809 143 comments

19

Apollo: A beautiful Reddit app built for power and speed (iOS) (apolloapp.io)

190 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021721 124 comments

11

The Art of powerful questions [pdf] (umanitoba.ca)

189 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021809 14 comments

6

Dreamcast Emulator Redream 1.5.0 Progress Report (redream.io)

181 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021812 46 comments

8

Graph Neural Networks – An Overview (theaisummer.com)

178 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021812 25 comments

2

An app can be a home-cooked meal (www.robinsloan.com)

177 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2022091500 34 comments

4

Writing Grant Applications (billwadge.wordpress.com)

156 points first seen 2020021715 last seen 2020021818 48 comments

15

Screens Are Bad for Young Brains (parentology.com)

149 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021803 198 comments

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An SSH server that knows who you are (twitter.com)

146 points first seen 2020021718 last seen 2020021806 50 comments

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Google to Samsung: Stop messing with Linux kernel code. It's hurting Android (www.zdnet.com)

145 points first seen 2020021712 last seen 2020021809 64 comments

15

Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record (blog.timothymullican.com)

134 points first seen 2020021718 last seen 2020021809 73 comments

8

Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations (www.blameless.com)

121 points first seen 2020021721 last seen 2020021900 48 comments

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FAA faces dilemma over 737 Max wiring flaw that Boeing missed (www.seattletimes.com)

113 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021803 95 comments

7

Demystifying Differentiable Programming (2018) (arxiv.org)

105 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021809 41 comments

13

Video Game Keyboard Diagrams (isometricland.net)

103 points first seen 2020021721 last seen 2020021812 26 comments

10

Spore Prototypes (2008) (www.spore.com)

102 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021809 36 comments

13

Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom (aeon.co)

101 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021803 24 comments

11

Math Keeps Changing (macwright.org)

92 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021806 67 comments

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Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work (hbr.org)

88 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021803 18 comments

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Ask HN: What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for? (item?id=22343370)

85 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021721 41 comments

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A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python (archive.org)

81 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021721 20 comments

11

Container-Native Multi-Cluster Global Load Balancing with Cloud Armor on GCP (blog.jetstack.io)

74 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021718 45 comments

12

Fdaaa Tracker – Tracks failures to report results of clinical trials (fdaaa.trialstracker.net)

74 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021806 18 comments

14

Compiling PHP's Eval() to .NET (www.peachpie.io)

73 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021803 9 comments

13

Meme (Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment): Multiuser Forth VR (1994) (web.archive.org)

73 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021900 20 comments

21

Japan’s Lost-and-Found System Is Insanely Good (www.citylab.com)

73 points first seen 2020021712 last seen 2020021803 55 comments

26

Reading and debugging other programmers’ code (freelancemag.blogspot.com)

72 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021800 25 comments

21

Escaping the Chrome Sandbox with RIDL (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)

72 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021800 31 comments

9

Keeping Secrets in Memfd Areas (lwn.net)

69 points first seen 2020021721 last seen 2020021812 4 comments

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Transpiling between any programming languages (2019) (engineering.mongodb.com)

68 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021800 44 comments

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The SSH server that knows who you are (twitter.com)

64 points first seen 2020021715 last seen 2020021715 8 comments

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The Battle for Rust Knowledge Supremacy (rustbattle.net)

62 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021703 7 comments

16

Magic and Software Design (1993) (www.asktog.com)

59 points first seen 2020021715 last seen 2020021806 7 comments

19

A Paper Algorithm Notation (2014) (canonical.org)

58 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021806 25 comments

12

Barbara Newhall Follett (en.wikipedia.org)

58 points first seen 2020021715 last seen 2020021806 11 comments

24

Alan Turing in America (medium.com)

55 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021800 18 comments

41

Private Internet Access VPN Open Source Repository (github.com)

54 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021721 10 comments

14

A Brief Introduction to Ice-Penetrating Radar (2015) (lindzey.github.io)

49 points first seen 2020021715 last seen 2020021809 0 comments

15

The Fantastic Mr. Dahl (2016) (www.smithsonianmag.com)

48 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021806 20 comments

20

Ironsides DNS Server in Ada Spark (ironsides.martincarlisle.com)

46 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021718 13 comments

18

Datsville – a Lego-inspired city started in 1999 by LUGNET using the LDraw CAD (github.com)

44 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021803 14 comments

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Handwritten PDP-6 hardware log from the Stanford AI Laboratory (1967) [pdf] (stacks.stanford.edu)

42 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021800 11 comments

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US Congress Starts Review on Possible Modernization of the DMCA (torrentfreak.com)

41 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021706 5 comments

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A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health (lareviewofbooks.org)

37 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021703 42 comments

20

The IX Multilevel-Secure Unix System (1992) (www.cs.dartmouth.edu)

36 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021721 5 comments

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Apple Sidecar on Unsupported iPads and Macs (github.com)

36 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021806 13 comments

19

The Astor Place Opera House Riot of 1849 (theoutline.com)

35 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021800 5 comments

27

Aviation industry tries to go green (phys.org)

34 points first seen 2020021712 last seen 2020021806 98 comments

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Susan Fowler: Why I Wrote the Uber Memo (www.nytimes.com)

33 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021712 10 comments

26

Comma Free Codes (2015) (xtoinfinity.com)

33 points first seen 2020021721 last seen 2020021900 0 comments

10

Implementing Function Overloading in Python (arpitbhayani.me)

31 points first seen 2020021718 last seen 2020032703 28 comments

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The Wildness of Maurice Sendak (catapult.co)

30 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021803 2 comments

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Exploration into the Origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus (2019-NCoV) (harvardtothebighouse.com)

29 points first seen 2020021712 last seen 2020021712 18 comments

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Crossflashing the Fujitsu D2607 (marcan.st)

27 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021718 0 comments

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JWT tokens authenticate the client, not the user (blog.moodio.co.uk)

26 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021706 17 comments

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Ask HN: Bad user experience angers and depresses me – what can I do about it? (item?id=22342317)

25 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021709 36 comments

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Welcome to the Era of Fake Products (thewirecutter.com)

22 points first seen 2020021715 last seen 2020021800 5 comments

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Ask HN: Personal Dashboard? (item?id=22344099)

21 points first seen 2020021712 last seen 2020021718 12 comments

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AI Algorithms Intended to Catch Welfare Fraud Often Punish the Poor Instead (truthout.org)

20 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021712 0 comments

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Facebook's fail is going to be epic (2008) (www.theregister.co.uk)

20 points first seen 2020021718 last seen 2020021803 8 comments

24

Comparing PNG compression ratios (2015) (blog.gibson.sh)

19 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021721 2 comments

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MyPaint v2.0.0 Released (mypaint.org)

18 points first seen 2020021712 last seen 2020021721 0 comments

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Dependent Type Systems as Macros [pdf] (www.ccs.neu.edu)

17 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021715 0 comments

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Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out (99percentinvisible.org)

16 points first seen 2020021721 last seen 2020021806 0 comments

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Facebook was repeatedly warned of flaw that led to its biggest data breach (www.telegraph.co.uk)

13 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021712 0 comments

0

Study: Soy Protein Decreases DHT/Testosterone in Healthy Young Men (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

13 points first seen 2020021712 last seen 2020021712 0 comments

51

The COVID-19 coronavirus and its economic impact (www.capitaleconomics.com)

12 points first seen 2020021715 last seen 2020021800 5 comments

61

Good reasons not to use TypeScript (medium.com)

12 points first seen 2020021718 last seen 2020021800 9 comments

55

Show HN: Play Tetris in Your CLI (github.com)

11 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021718 3 comments

58

Occupational Outlook Handbook (www.bls.gov)

10 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021715 2 comments

0

The worst of time64 breakage (ewontfix.com)

10 points first seen 2020021718 last seen 2020021718 0 comments

0

N26 customers feel betrayed by the German digital bank’s decision to quit the UK (www.cnbc.com)

7 points first seen 2020021721 last seen 2020021721 18 comments

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Wandering ship becomes “best cruise ever” despite coronavirus fears (news.yahoo.com)

6 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021703 4 comments

0

Cut TTFB in 1/2: FPC to CDN POP locations (haydenjames.io)

5 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021703 0 comments

0

Ask HN: Which browser is your default, and why? (item?id=22341337)

5 points first seen 2020021706 last seen 2020021706 10 comments

0

Bill Atkinson Presents HyperCard (1987) (vimeo.com)

5 points first seen 2020021709 last seen 2020021709 0 comments

0

Writing Effective, Scalable, Dynamic, and Error-Resistant Terraform (medium.com)

4 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021700 0 comments

0

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica review – would you eat roast human? (www.thetimes.co.uk)

4 points first seen 2020021703 last seen 2020021703 0 comments

0

Huawei Official Acknowledges Ability to Clandestinely Access Mobile Networks (www.lawfareblog.com)

4 points first seen 2020021712 last seen 2020021712 0 comments

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Neutrino Nonsense (kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)

3 points first seen 2020021700 last seen 2020021700 0 comments