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Hacker News (Feb 2018)
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Scalable Bloom Filters (2007) [pdf]
121 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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The Dunedin Study Has Been Studying Aging for 45 Years
121 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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The Fields Medal should return to its roots
121 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Background removal with deep learning
121 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Modernish: a shell moderniser library
121 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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A list of swag opportunities for developers
120 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Launch HN: Substack (YC W18): Paid email newsletters made simple
120 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Writing eBPF tracing tools in Rust
120 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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A Closed-Form Solution to Photorealistic Image Stylization
120 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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A Tribute to John Perry Barlow
120 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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CTTK: Constant-Time Toolkit
119 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data
119 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Is-Vegan – Helps you to find out which food ingredients are vegan
119 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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LMARV-1: A RISC-V processor you can see [video]
119 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Pipenv: One Year Later and a Call for Help
119 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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DragonFFI: C Foreign Function Interface and JIT Using Clang/LLVM
118 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters (2017)
118 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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IOTA: The Brave Little Toaster That Couldn’t
118 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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SpaceX just launched two of its space internet satellites
118 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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Adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour
118 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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The Tyranny of Convenience
118 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?
118 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Cleo Robotics Demonstrates Uniquely Clever Ducted Fan Drone
118 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Show HN: I implemented seamless copy and paste of images, and wrote a tutorial
118 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Feasibility of low-level GPU access on the Web
118 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Oceans and Lakes Are Becoming 'Dead Zones' Again
118 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Zelle users are finding out the hard way there’s no fraud protection
117 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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How inflation swindles the equity investor (1977)
117 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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Stripping CO2 from the air and using it to produce carbon-neutral fuel
117 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM
117 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Number of open faculty positions in CompSci exceeds candidates by a factor of 5
117 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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Please – A Cross-Language Build System
117 points • comment • feb 28, 2018
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'The story of a weird world I was warned never to tell'
117 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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25 Days of ReasonML
116 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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Memory Tagging and how it improves C/C++ memory safety
116 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Return type polymorphism in Haskell
116 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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Show HN: Carbon Doomsday – Graph and API of Earth's Carbon Dioxide
116 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Networked Physics in Virtual Reality
116 points • comment • feb 22, 2018
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ASCIIToSVG: Convert ASCII Diagrams to Beautiful SVGs
116 points • comment • feb 25, 2018
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A first naïve look at Truffle Ruby
116 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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Finding the Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale
116 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Y Combinator Is Launching a “Grad School” for Booming Startups
116 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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The “Oh-My-God Particle”
116 points • comment • feb 27, 2018
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Show HN: Simple Print – Convert web articles into printable PDFs
116 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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How Justin Kan fundraises
116 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT, loss of funds may occur
116 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Revisiting 'Monadic Parsing in Haskell'
116 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time
115 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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How Will I Measure My Life?
115 points • comment • feb 07, 2018
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Elsevier’s profits swell to more than £900M
115 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Skylight, a Ruby profiler, free for open source applications
114 points • comment • feb 09, 2018
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Aura: shipping software that was delayed for 4 years because of patent licensing
114 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Improving the way kids are taught to read
114 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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Toyota develops first neodymium-reduced, heat-resistant magnet for motors
114 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
114 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Torresian crows have learned how to make a meal of cane toads
114 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Reading bits in far too many ways
114 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers
114 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Docker for Data Science
113 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Newly Discovered Form of Water Ice Is ‘Really Strange’
113 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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How NYC’s subway got wireless in the tunnels
113 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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A mutational timer is built into the chemistry of DNA
113 points • comment • feb 01, 2018
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A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology
113 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language
112 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Show HN: Use encrypted passwords in shell scripts signed with your SSH key
112 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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An ‘Iceberg’ of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unreported
112 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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A320-X DRM: What happened
112 points • comment • feb 19, 2018
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Announcing SegWit support
112 points • comment • feb 23, 2018
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Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy
112 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life?
112 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Chip Aging Accelerates
112 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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Launch HN: Supermedium (YC W18) – A full VR browser for web-based VR content
112 points • comment • feb 06, 2018
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Show HN: Online web tools to get your work done faster
112 points • comment • feb 05, 2018
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A Tiny Hedge Fund Made 8,600% on a Vix Bet
112 points • comment • feb 10, 2018
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Face-verify.js: Monitoring who is physically looking at a website
112 points • comment • feb 20, 2018
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Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years–and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix It All
112 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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Nothing Is Cheaper Than Proof of Work (2015)
111 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Being a perfectionist is an obstacle and how to beat it
111 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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Chinese local governments rush to admit fake data
111 points • comment • feb 12, 2018
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The Evolution of Bitcoin Hardware [pdf]
111 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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The Famine Ended 70 Years Ago, but Dutch Genes Still Bear Scars
111 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Childhood intelligence in relation to major causes of death in 68 year follow-up
111 points • comment • feb 24, 2018
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Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Engineer Looking for a Job
111 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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US Senator demands review of loot box policies, citing potential harm
111 points • comment • feb 17, 2018
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Turning a Job Opening into a Dream Job for Top Talent
111 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly from Miners
110 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Chrome extension to play Netflix in 1080p
110 points • comment • feb 11, 2018
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Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photons
110 points • comment • feb 18, 2018
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Search for Lost Hammer Led to Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in UK
109 points • comment • feb 08, 2018
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DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation in the Wild
109 points • comment • feb 02, 2018
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JavaScript Promises Discussion: Make Them Monadic? (2013)
109 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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OpenAI Supporters
109 points • comment • feb 21, 2018
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Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonomous car
109 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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Bringing AMP to Gmail
109 points • comment • feb 13, 2018
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A 3-Year-Old, $50k Bitcoin Puzzle Solved
108 points • comment • feb 04, 2018
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IDEA: A series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions
108 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts
108 points • comment • feb 15, 2018
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JITing PostgreSQL using LLVM [pdf]
108 points • comment • feb 03, 2018
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2600 Accused of Using Unauthorized Ink Splotches (2015)
108 points • comment • feb 16, 2018
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TensorFlow on Mobile: TensorFlow Lite
108 points • comment • feb 04, 2018