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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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After Decades of Growth, Colleges Find It’s Survival of the Fittest
77 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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GitHub Fork and Pull Request Workflow - Quick Reference Guide
77 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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FCC Inspector General to Investigate Ajit Pai Over Sinclair Deal
77 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Brainjunk and the killing of the internet mind
77 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Alcohol use disorder largest risk factor for dementia
77 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
77 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption
76 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Excessive DNS queries for NTP pool addresses
76 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Building a Distributed File Sync in Ruby
76 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Predicting Starman’s Return to Earth
76 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Where Dutch directness comes from
76 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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The Gluten Project: A Search Engine for 35K Certified Gluten-Free Products
76 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Taxi deregulation coming to Finland
76 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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The Shape of Ancient Dice Suggests Shifting Beliefs in Fate and Chance
76 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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China sets stage for Xi to stay in office indefinitely
76 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Sequoia Capital plans $8B global fund, eyes China investors
76 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Ivory investigator killed in Kenya
76 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Anthropocene began in 1965, according to signs left in world’s ‘loneliest tree’
76 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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The Parrot Virtual File System
76 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Apple Plans Giant High-End iPhone, Lower-Priced Model
76 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Studies are increasingly clear: Uber, Lyft congest cities
76 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Mazda hopes to achieve 56% thermal efficiency with gasoline engine
76 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd
76 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Sustainable Sources of Competitive Advantage
76 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones
76 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Tesla racing series: Electric cars get the green light – Roadshow
76 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Kotlin/Native v0.6 is Here
75 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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A Tale of Two Columbia Classes
75 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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UK Hacker Won't Be Extradited to the US Because American Prisons Are 'Medieval'
75 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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The Game Designer's Calculator
75 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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A taste of CoreData – A graph framework
75 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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NeuroSAT: Learning a SAT Solver from Single-Bit Supervision
75 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007)
75 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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The American “Empire” Reconsidered
75 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Proofs and Refutations Using Z3
75 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens
75 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Dancing mania
75 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Apple's Middle Age
75 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Unexpected functional programming in Go
75 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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The Circuitry in Our Cells
75 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Professionals need our 4:3 screens
75 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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In Praise of Theory in Design Research: How Levi-Strauss Redefined Workflow
75 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Semantic Import Versioning
75 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Show HN: A Tetris clone written in ES6 using React
74 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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“Loving Your Enemies” (1957)
74 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Double Pendulum Visualization
74 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Startup Fathers Need to Start Taking Parental Leave
74 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Allwinner VPU support for the Linux kernel
74 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’
74 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Rollup now has code-splitting and we need your help
74 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Tesla announces biggest quarterly loss
74 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Why Don't Babies Smile from Birth?
74 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Cryptography: Or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898)
74 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Debussy: the musical genius who erupted out of nowhere
74 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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The crisis of American forensics
74 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Machine learning benchmark: GPU providers
74 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The Bandwagon – Claude Shannon (1956) [pdf]
74 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Monadic I/O and Unix shell programming (2001)
74 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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BitScope: 3000-core Raspberry Pi cluster computer
74 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Does wearing glasses weaken your eyesight? (2014)
74 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Were There Really Arrow Storms?
74 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Redesigning Redux
73 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Tips for successful adoption of machine learning products
73 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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New FreeBSD Code of Conduct
73 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Speed improvements in Python 3.7
73 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Opioid epidemic costs West Virginia $8.8B annually, study says
73 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Rare photographs that changed lives
73 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Mercedes-Benz Confirms It Will Skip Detroit Auto Show in 2019
73 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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The Untold Story of the Pentagon Papers Co-Conspirators
73 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Orange juice exists due to climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago
73 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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DPD courier who was fined for day off to see doctor dies from diabetes
73 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Detroit has outlawed Airbnb for R1 and R2 zoning
73 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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CFTC and SEC Testimony on Cryptocurrencies [pdf]
73 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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How to learn Deep Learning in 6 months
72 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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The oddness of Isaac Newton
72 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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What is an MVP for a B2B startup?
72 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Q1 2018 Funding Announcement
72 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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DLVM: A modern compiler framework for neural network DSLs
72 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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The Exeter Book was used as a cutting board
72 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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A Chinese Finance Giant That’s Secretly an AI Company (2017)
72 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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With ePrivacy looming, German publishers scramble to get users logged in
72 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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The four motivators (2016)
72 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Show HN: git self-blame – Blame yourself for others' mistakes
72 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room
72 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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A man who became immune to snake venom
72 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)
72 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Floating point error is the least of my worries (2011)
72 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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We Are the Threat: Reflections on Near-Term Human Extinction
72 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Germany says its government computers secure after “isolated” hack
71 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley
71 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Show HN: Deploy a Go Lambda to Ping a Site in 20 Seconds
71 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Detecting Consciousness (2017) [pdf]
71 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Microbe Emoji
71 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Rediscovering the Blazingly Bright Colors of Ancient Sculptures
71 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Apple dictates that all new apps must fully support the iPhone X screen
71 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Emacs Lisp Lambda Expressions Are Not Self-Evaluating
71 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Minimal Perfect Hash-Tables in Common Lisp
71 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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HomePod Teardown
71 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Monero Gold integer undeflow scam
71 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Cure53: Browser Security Whitepaper (2017) [pdf]
71 points • comment • feb 18, 2018