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Hacker News (Jul 2018)
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Tuple Spaces – Good Ideas Don't Always Win (2011)
107 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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As Economics Improve, Solar Shines in Rural America
107 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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We need a new model for tech journalism
106 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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Hawaiian Style: The Roots of the Aloha Shirt
106 points • comment • jul 10, 2018
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Exploring .NET Core platform intrinsics: Part 4 – Alignment and pipelining
106 points • comment • jul 21, 2018
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It’s hard to have an unusual name in China
106 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (2016)
106 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Why local US newspapers are sounding the alarm
106 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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Welcome to the New Space Age
105 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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When is a nation not a nation? Somaliland’s dream of independence
105 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler
105 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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SQLite with a Fine-Toothed Comb (2016)
105 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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Launch HN: JITX (YC S18) – Automating Circuit Board Design
105 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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A Fear of Lawsuits Really Does Seem to Result in Extra Medical Tests
105 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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WordTsar – A Wordstar clone
105 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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A Blockchain Analysis of the July 13th Mueller Indictment
105 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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The Jackintosh: A Real GEM – Remembering the Atari ST
105 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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Do Our Questions Create the World?
105 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Conservation of Intent: why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look
105 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Rise of Kotlin: A Programming Language for the Next Generation
105 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Did Qatar pay a billion dollar ransom?
104 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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Cheap FPGA Development Boards
104 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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Announcing Rust 1.27.2
104 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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Sex and Sexuality
104 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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Optimizing a breadth-first search
104 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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As the SpaceX steamroller surges, European rocket industry vows to resist
104 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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The Theory of Interstellar Trade
103 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
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The Failure Mode of Clever (2010)
103 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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Survival of the Richest
103 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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Ask HN: Going to lead a struggling dev team in a different culture, now what?
103 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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Motherhood in the Age of Fear
103 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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U.S. employment conditions compare poorly to the rest of the developed world
103 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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The tasting of surströmming
103 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Slack channels are a waste of time
103 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live streams
103 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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Chrome 68 Released: HTTP Sites Marked as “Not Secure”
103 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone in Sweat
102 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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Perceptrons from memristors
102 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Launch HN: RevenueCat (YC S18) – Simple API for Managing In-App Subscriptions
102 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says
102 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Bringing Blogging to the Fediverse
102 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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Case Studies Where Phase 2 and Phase 3 Trials had Divergent Results [pdf]
102 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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Lunar mystery solved by recovery of lost Apollo mission tapes
102 points • comment • jul 09, 2018
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Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science
102 points • comment • jul 01, 2018
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IBM's Watson recommended 'unsafe and incorrect' cancer treatments
102 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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Review of the Purism Librem 13
102 points • comment • jul 03, 2018
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MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar 2018 Teardown
102 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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An AI system for editing music in videos
101 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock
101 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Why touchscreens in cars don’t work
101 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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SF hospital charged $15K ‘trauma response fee’ for baby that needed no treatment
101 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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Implementing Open Source Container Security, Part 1: Runtime Security
101 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Translation (2017)
101 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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EnclaveDB: A secure database using SGX
101 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Undershoot: Parsing theory in 1965
101 points • comment • jul 09, 2018
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Humidity in New Jersey impeding radio transmissions and slowing stock trades
101 points • comment • jul 03, 2018
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Haskell’s State monad is not a monad (2014)
101 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War [video]
101 points • comment • jul 10, 2018
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CS50, Harvard’s Largest Class Expands Its Line Up of Courses
100 points • comment • jul 03, 2018
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The Shareholder Value Myth (2013)
100 points • comment • jul 14, 2018
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Show HN: A Build System for Packaging Applications in LXC Containers
100 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Smart TVs Track More Than What’s on Tonight
100 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Logic programming courses
100 points • comment • jul 12, 2018
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There was a time when search engines were a thing, and it seems they still are
100 points • comment • jul 01, 2018
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Show HN: Bo, the Swiss army knife of data examination and manipulation
100 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education
100 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Automatic Algorithms Optimization via Fast Matrix Exponentiation (2015)
100 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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Vulnerability in Hangouts Chat: how Electron makes open redirect great again
100 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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Scaling: Ethereum’s make or break challenge [video]
99 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Three Major Physics Discoveries and Counting
99 points • comment • jul 21, 2018
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Causal Inference Book
99 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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Historic Tale Construction Kit – Bayeux
99 points • comment • jul 09, 2018
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Rapidstring: Maybe the fastest string library ever
99 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context
99 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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Steve Ditko Dead: Spider-Man Co-Creator Was 90
98 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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DIRT Protocol raises $3M to build a Wikipedia for structured data
98 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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Interfacing with native methods on Graal VM
98 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Fero – A secure signing server built around the YubiHSM2
98 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Hackers account for 90% of login attempts at online retailers
98 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Advice giving: A subtle pathway to power
98 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Self-Regulated Learning: Beliefs, Techniques, and Illusions [pdf]
98 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Why Do the Biggest Companies Keep Getting Bigger? It’s How They Spend on Tech
98 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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The Entire History of Steel
98 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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The physics of infinity
98 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible
98 points • comment • jul 01, 2018
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OpenBSD in Amsterdam: VMs on vmd(8) servers
98 points • comment • jul 01, 2018
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Liberapay is in trouble
98 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price
98 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country
98 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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A Vigilante Fighting Engine Exhaust
98 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck
97 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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Nagini: A Static Verifier for Python [pdf]
97 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
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Slackware maintainer getting ripped off
97 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Pizza Physics: Why Brick Ovens Bake the Perfect Italian-Style Pie
97 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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Program Synthesis in 2017-18
97 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Writing Iterators in Julia 0.7
97 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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Go Fishing
97 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again
97 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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How thick is the atmosphere? A derivation of the Boltzmann distribution
97 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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A Global Guide to State-Sponsored Trolling
97 points • comment • jul 20, 2018