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Hacker News (Jan 2018)
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C as an intermediate language (2012)
129 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Why Did a Billionaire Give $75M to a Philosophy Department?
128 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Show HN: Genact – A nonsense activity generator
128 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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What's behind rich people pretending to be self-made?
128 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Resources for Learning about .NET Internals
128 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm
128 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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How to Measure the Working Set Size on Linux
127 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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In China, consumers are becoming more anxious about data privacy
127 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Year in Pixels
127 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Modern human brain organization emerged only recently
127 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Mobile Devices Compromised by Fake Secure Messaging Clients
127 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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If you multitask, so will your team
127 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Optimizing hash tables: hiding the hash code
126 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Printing and binding your own books and manuals (2003)
126 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem
126 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Sh*tcoin vs. buttcoin: a dummies guide to cryptocurrency manipulation
126 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It
126 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Linear regression by hand
126 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Chat app for use when your battery is less than 5%
125 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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How to Emulate a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Jessie) on Mac OS X
125 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Coinbase booked $1B in revenue last year, has told hovering VCs to back off
125 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Network Latencies and Speed of Light
124 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Becoming a Lawyer Without Going to Law School (2015)
124 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Inside Telegram’s ambitious $1.2B ICO to create the next Ethereum
124 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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Show HN: Low cost CO₂ monitoring (your office) with Prometheus and Go
124 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Oil Shell: Success with Aboriginal, Alpine, and Debian Linux
124 points • comment • jan 15, 2018
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A Turkish physicist wrote research papers in prison
124 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Hawaii "button pusher" refusing to cooperate with FCC, internal investigators
124 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Greeks are abandoning cigarettes in record numbers
123 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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The accidental HFT firm
123 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Mechanical Laser Show (2017) [video]
123 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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The perplexing life of Ernő Rubik (1986)
123 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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How America Fractured in 1968
122 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Audio Adversarial Examples
122 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool
122 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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Glassdoor and its effect on workplace culture
122 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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A16z Monthly Newsletter: Good things come in threes
122 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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A Simple Compiler in JavaScript
122 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Allocation is cheap in .NET until it is not
121 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Windows 10 could have synced email, contacts, calendars with all major providers
121 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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TV, retail, advertising and cascading collapses
121 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin
121 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Want to use my wifi? (2013)
121 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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VM escape vulnerabilities patched in VirtualBox
121 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Hans Peter Luhn and the Birth of the Hashing Algorithm
121 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Timescale raises $16M from Benchmark, NEA, Two Sigma Ventures
120 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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“The Problem Child of Seasonal Flu”: Beware This Winter’s Virus
120 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Universities Are Becoming Hedge Funds with Schools Attached (2016)
120 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Classic RAND Papers
120 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Net neutrality bill in CA
120 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch is reportedly set for February 6th
119 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Car insurers accused of discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts
119 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Chemotherapy, Then and Now
119 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems
119 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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North Korea’s fabric made from stone
119 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Do we really need a new BGP?
119 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Subverted Design
119 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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After alleged 'bait and switch,' Nevada DMV cancels $78M IT contract
119 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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United States v. Microsoft Corp
118 points • comment • jan 21, 2018
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Were the Cuban sonic attack victims actually poisoned?
118 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Neopets HTML Guide
118 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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Experiments reveal faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track (2014)
117 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Advice for Aspiring Writers
117 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Isso – a commenting server similar to Disqus
117 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Ursula K. Le Guin has died
117 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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Distribution vs. Innovation
117 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Formula E reveals second-generation car
115 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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How to see a memory
115 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (2002)
115 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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A Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’
114 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Cloudflare Access: Like BeyondCorp, but You Don’t Have to Be at Google to Use It
114 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Clojure Numerics: Orthogonalization and Least Squares
114 points • comment • jan 18, 2018
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China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’ and it seems to be working
114 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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GoPro has discontinued its developer program
113 points • comment • jan 19, 2018
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Google thinks the sun is 15.81 light years from earth
113 points • comment • jan 23, 2018
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TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and copyright infringement
112 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?
112 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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High Sierra broke AFP searching on our server
112 points • comment • jan 30, 2018
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Scammers Using Fake News to Screw with Bitcoin Investors
112 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Online Communities Are the Best Thing About the Internet
112 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known
112 points • comment • jan 26, 2018
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Building blocks of Amazon ECS
111 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered in Israeli Cave
111 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Instruction explosion in Guile
111 points • comment • jan 17, 2018
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Elephants Are Scared of Bees
110 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Speedy Neural Networks for Smart Auto-Cropping of Images
110 points • comment • jan 31, 2018
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Unsafe Zig Is Safer Than Unsafe Rust
110 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Fears grow over Tether ‘printing press’ as auditors part ways
109 points • comment • jan 29, 2018
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Mono and WebAssembly – Updates on Static Compilation
109 points • comment • jan 16, 2018
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Microsoft’s PowerShell Core Offers Cross-Platform Automation
109 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation
109 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Code Less, Think More… Incrementally
109 points • comment • jan 25, 2018
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Progressive web apps are coming to iOS 11.3: Cupertino, we have a problem
109 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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The salacious Middle Ages
108 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Faster R-CNN: Down the rabbit hole of modern object detection
108 points • comment • jan 22, 2018
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About rel=noopener (2016)
108 points • comment • jan 24, 2018
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Tether has “dissolved” relationship with auditor Friedman LLP
108 points • comment • jan 27, 2018
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Claude Shannon built a machine to game roulette (2017)
107 points • comment • jan 28, 2018
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Clinical trial finds blood-plasma infusions for Alzheimer’s safe, promising
107 points • comment • jan 20, 2018
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NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2
107 points • comment • jan 17, 2018