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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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What Made Lisp Different (2002)
176 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011)
176 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe?
175 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt
175 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals
175 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress
175 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Telegram has raised an initial $850M for its billion-dollar ICO
174 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Linux'izing your Windows PC into a dev machine
174 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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We looked at how a thousand college students performed in technical interviews
174 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Programming ARM μC in Rust at four different levels of abstraction
174 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Waymo granted a permit to operate as a Transportation Network Company in Arizona
174 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST)
173 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Home-made drones now threaten conventional armed forces
173 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong
173 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Ad Companies Love Google’s Ad Blocker, but Hate Apple’s Privacy Features
172 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Introduction to Functional Programming (1988) [pdf]
172 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp
172 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Are Monads a Waste of Time?
172 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Writing space invaders with Go
172 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Lime: Explaining the predictions of any machine learning classifier
171 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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How Exercise May Help the Memory Grow Stronger
171 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick
171 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed
170 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with the Real World
170 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Show HN: Generating GraphQL servers for Go
170 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Google Calendar should prevent spam by default
170 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Telegram Login for Websites
169 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around $4B last year
169 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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We should welcome the advances that are making hospitals less important
169 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Startup Won't Give in to Motivational Health Messaging's $35k Patent Demand
169 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Ariane RISC-V CPU
168 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Project: 2ine – OS/2 emulator for Linux
168 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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The cost of forsaking C
167 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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GrubHub Drivers Ruled Contractors
167 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Usenet, authentication, and engineering: early design decisions for Usenet
167 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Ask HN: How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project?
167 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Tech takes over: New York is the sector's second city
167 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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An Argument Against Quantum Computers
167 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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WxPython 4.0.0 Released
167 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Ruby 2.6.0-preview1 Released
167 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Go 1.10 is released
166 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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CS 522: Machine Learning Approaches to Decode the Human Genome
166 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Containers Will Not Fix a Broken Culture
165 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Ad network uses advanced malware technique to conceal CPU-draining mining ads
165 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles
165 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Why does drug resistance easily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
165 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Making Light of the “Dark Web”
165 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US
164 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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I Wrote Down Everything I Learned While Programming for a Month
164 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Retiring Wave
163 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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E-Mail Leaves an Evidence Trail
163 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Show HN: Headless Chrome Crawler
163 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (2017) [pdf]
163 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook
162 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Poor fitness linked to weaker brain fiber, higher dementia risk
162 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets
161 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Ask HN: Best project management practices in 2018?
161 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Reasoning with Types in Rust
161 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2001)
161 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Foxconn unit to cut over 10k jobs as robotics take over
160 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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I.MX7 M4 Atomic Cache Bug
160 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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REPL-Driven Development (2017)
160 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (2013)
160 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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Pineapple Fund Drops $1M on the Sustainable Ocean Alliance
160 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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A Chinese Casino company has set out to take over the U.S. island of Saipan
160 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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DigiCert Statement on Trustico Certificate Revocation
160 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012)
159 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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SaaS Pricing: Lessons from Changes
159 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Should you Rust in embedded yet?
159 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Safari Password Generation
159 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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What people actually do at WeWork
159 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence
159 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers
159 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds
158 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Spectre Mitigations in Microsoft's C/C++ Compiler
158 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Udash – Scala and Scala.js Reactive Web Framework
158 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android
158 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have
158 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Abusing Python exceptions to turn a recursive function iterative
158 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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When to bring in the heavy hitters
158 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Reasons to think that, in terms of influence if not wealth, Facebook has peaked
157 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you overcome the problems of task switching?
157 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Google Hangouts Chat
157 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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OpenSCHUFA – Reverse-engineering the algorithm of the German credit score agency
157 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Advanced SQL window function quiz
157 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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How to Replace Google's AMP Without Slowing It Down
157 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Flyover video of Jupiter’s Europa
157 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Escaping Data from Faraday-Caged, Air-Gapped Computers via Magnetic Fields
157 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Rainbow Deployments with Kubernetes
156 points • comment • feb 14, 2018
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Opening the code of our X-Pack features
156 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Apple's Failure to Check Kill Syscall Privilege “Not a Security Issue”
156 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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How black people still need to outwit racists in rural America
156 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India
156 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Visual Studio Live Share Preview
156 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Show HN: Jumprock.co – HTML Forms for Static Sites
155 points • comment • feb 26, 2018
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How Isaac Asimov shaped robotics and space exploration and predicted the Internet
155 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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Minimodem – General-purpose software audio FSK modem (2016)
155 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Common combinators in JavaScript
155 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?
154 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Bill Ackman Surrenders in His Five-Year War Against Herbalife
154 points • comment • feb 28, 2018