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Hacker News (Mar 2018)
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Bolton paid Cambridge Analytica to make Facebook users more favorable to war
167 points • comment • mar 23, 2018
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FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks
167 points • comment • mar 27, 2018
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The NSA Worked to “Track Down” Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
167 points • comment • mar 20, 2018
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APFS encrypted plaintext password found in another log file
167 points • comment • mar 31, 2018
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Operating Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips as Arbitrary Signal Transmitters, Like SDRs
167 points • comment • mar 15, 2018
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Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath (2014)
167 points • comment • mar 14, 2018
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I Built a Stable Planetary System with 416 Planets in the Habitable Zone
167 points • comment • mar 01, 2018
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Void Linux: Into the Void
167 points • comment • mar 25, 2018
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Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub account suspended
166 points • comment • mar 08, 2018
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California's other drought: a major earthquake is overdue
166 points • comment • mar 14, 2018
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Linux Raw Sockets
166 points • comment • mar 18, 2018
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AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
165 points • comment • mar 10, 2018
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Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer
165 points • comment • mar 04, 2018
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Stateful Experiments on AWS Lambda
165 points • comment • mar 10, 2018
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Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression
165 points • comment • mar 11, 2018
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"Sonic attack" may have been two ultrasonic signals accidentally interfering
165 points • comment • mar 04, 2018
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Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones to Sinaloa Drug Cartel
165 points • comment • mar 10, 2018
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Building my own 64GB memory card with a $6 eMMC chip (2016)
165 points • comment • mar 28, 2018
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Why Cities Boom While Towns Struggle
164 points • comment • mar 18, 2018
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Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to Unlock Phones
164 points • comment • mar 24, 2018
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The risk of nitrites and nitrates in bacon
163 points • comment • mar 03, 2018
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Stratechery 4.0
163 points • comment • mar 27, 2018
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Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem (2015)
163 points • comment • mar 04, 2018
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AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code
163 points • comment • mar 02, 2018
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Memory efficiency of parallel IO operations in Python
163 points • comment • mar 13, 2018
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Memoirs of an Ass
163 points • comment • mar 15, 2018
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The Amiga Consciousness
163 points • comment • mar 14, 2018
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TensorFlow 1.7.0 released
163 points • comment • mar 29, 2018
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“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civility of conversation”
162 points • comment • mar 02, 2018
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Google-Landmarks: A New Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition
162 points • comment • mar 02, 2018
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Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go
162 points • comment • mar 04, 2018
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Do we need to move away from Elm?
162 points • comment • mar 03, 2018
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The making of Dark Castle
162 points • comment • mar 23, 2018
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Sl: a mirror version of ls
162 points • comment • mar 30, 2018
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New Orleans ends its relationship with tech firm Palantir
161 points • comment • mar 15, 2018
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Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference
161 points • comment • mar 24, 2018
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Hack everything without fear
161 points • comment • mar 17, 2018
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Peer review: the end of an error?
160 points • comment • mar 21, 2018
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Problems coming for online publishing
160 points • comment • mar 24, 2018
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Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in its recent election
160 points • comment • mar 19, 2018
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Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media
160 points • comment • mar 25, 2018
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Possible interaction between baryons and dark-matter particles revealed
160 points • comment • mar 01, 2018
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A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world
160 points • comment • mar 06, 2018
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Who will steal Android from Google?
160 points • comment • mar 12, 2018
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What is Mastodon? [video]
160 points • comment • mar 23, 2018
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Netflix Sans, a new custom typeface
160 points • comment • mar 21, 2018
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Show HN: Wishminer – Mining social media for app ideas, my weekend project
159 points • comment • mar 25, 2018
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Let’s Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech
159 points • comment • mar 06, 2018
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Writing an OS in Rust, Second Edition
159 points • comment • mar 10, 2018
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Tesla issues its largest recall ever over faulty Model S steering
159 points • comment • mar 29, 2018
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A dietary supplement makes old mice youthful, but will it work in people?
158 points • comment • mar 25, 2018
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Booting Windows NT 4 on a DEC Multia
158 points • comment • mar 18, 2018
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Using Technical Debt in Your Favor
158 points • comment • mar 22, 2018
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Shaderoo: realtime ballpoint effect
158 points • comment • mar 12, 2018
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Michał Zalewski, Director Information Security Engineering, leaves Google
157 points • comment • mar 21, 2018
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Facebook tracks your private calls
157 points • comment • mar 24, 2018
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Coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition
157 points • comment • mar 12, 2018
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Monero Is Less Untraceable Than It Seems
157 points • comment • mar 27, 2018
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Fordlandia
156 points • comment • mar 07, 2018
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Linux beats legal threat from one of its own developers
156 points • comment • mar 11, 2018
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A Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg About Data Privacy
156 points • comment • mar 22, 2018
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Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes
156 points • comment • mar 07, 2018
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A Glimpse into the Bureaucratic Hell of Denying Health Insurance Claims
156 points • comment • mar 25, 2018
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How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google
156 points • comment • mar 24, 2018
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Airborn: Create and edit files online, securely
156 points • comment • mar 21, 2018
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LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision floating point numbers
156 points • comment • mar 06, 2018
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Why Apple and Microsoft Are Healthier Than Facebook
156 points • comment • mar 31, 2018
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The Worsening Cosmic Ray Situation
155 points • comment • mar 07, 2018
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Startups not status: Japan's top grads rethink success
155 points • comment • mar 31, 2018
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Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006)
155 points • comment • mar 04, 2018
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Talent, luck and success: simulating meritocracy and inequality
155 points • comment • mar 19, 2018
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The US Army’s costly quest for the perfect radio
154 points • comment • mar 20, 2018
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GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP
154 points • comment • mar 31, 2018
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Cluster and app management services in Docker Cloud are shutting down on May 21
154 points • comment • mar 24, 2018
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How we built Hamiltix.net for less than $1 a month on AWS
154 points • comment • mar 01, 2018
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GIMP Convolution Matrix
154 points • comment • mar 17, 2018
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Lessons for Building AI-Driven Products
154 points • comment • mar 23, 2018
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Launch HN: SafetyWing (YC W18) – A Global Safety Net for Digital Nomads
153 points • comment • mar 09, 2018
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Urn: A Lisp implementation for Lua
153 points • comment • mar 12, 2018
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Pilot.com raises $15M to bring bookkeeping into the modern era
153 points • comment • mar 14, 2018
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Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities
153 points • comment • mar 20, 2018
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The great Pacific garbage patch is largely abandoned fishing gear
152 points • comment • mar 23, 2018
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Into the Breach’s interface was a nightmare to make and the key to its greatness
152 points • comment • mar 08, 2018
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The Unnerving Existence of Teen Boss
152 points • comment • mar 29, 2018
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Scientists suspect a link between the digestive system and problems with sleep
152 points • comment • mar 20, 2018
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Into the Forbidden Zone: Varosha, Ghost City of Cyprus
152 points • comment • mar 31, 2018
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Facebook lost more than Tesla's market cap
151 points • comment • mar 21, 2018
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Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour
151 points • comment • mar 23, 2018
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Pitching Your Startup
151 points • comment • mar 06, 2018
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Kottke.org is 20 years old today
151 points • comment • mar 14, 2018
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Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting on Kubernetes
151 points • comment • mar 13, 2018
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Profiling Go Applications with Flamegraphs
151 points • comment • mar 11, 2018
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Lossy GIF compressor
150 points • comment • mar 13, 2018
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CSS: The bad bits and how to avoid them
150 points • comment • mar 19, 2018
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Prove you are not an evil corporate person
150 points • comment • mar 09, 2018
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Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac
150 points • comment • mar 10, 2018
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Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Free Speech and Privacy
149 points • comment • mar 05, 2018
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Newly-discovered human organ may help explain how cancer spreads
149 points • comment • mar 27, 2018
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Proposal: Non-cooperative goroutine preemption
149 points • comment • mar 29, 2018
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Landfills – a future source of raw materials
149 points • comment • mar 25, 2018