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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. Google Chrome’s new Meltdown and Spectre safeguard is a memory hog

    66 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  2. Email encryption is here – use STARTTLS everywhere

    66 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  3. Larry Page is quietly amassing a ‘flying car’ empire

    66 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  4. The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: anticipation and deletion

    66 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  5. What Is a Blazar? It’s Like Staring Down the Barrel of a Black Hole

    66 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  6. The “Boring Software” manifesto

    66 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  7. Making calls to WebAssembly fast and implementing anyref

    66 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  8. India: Google engineer latest victim of mob lynchings fueled by WhatsApp rumors

    66 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  9. Show HN: Telepost – Create a blog from a Telegram channel

    66 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  10. Farewell for Now

    66 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  11. Journey on the Trans-Siberian: St Petersburg

    66 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  12. Cargo bikes as symbolic markers of egalitarian gender roles

    65 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  13. In Unix Everything Is a File

    65 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  14. From shallow to deep learning in fraud

    65 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  15. Niantic, developer of Pokémon Go, has acquired Seismic Games

    65 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  16. Trout Tickling

    65 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  17. Darwin comes to town: how cities are creating new species

    65 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  18. Functional Typelevel Programming in Scala

    65 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  19. How playing an instrument benefits the brain

    65 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  20. Intel Custom Foundry’s 10nm meltdown is crushing a $20+B market cap tech giant

    65 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  21. British cave diver considering legal action after 'pedo' attack by Elon Musk

    65 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  22. Eating for Peace: How cuisine bridges cultures

    65 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  23. New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas

    65 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  24. How Snow Leopard became synonymous with reliability

    65 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  25. Telescript programming language

    65 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  26. Lyft and Uber Won’t Be Happy Until They’re Your One-Stop Transit Guide

    65 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  27. What’s up with the mysterious inc bp in prologues of 16-bit code? (2011)

    64 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  28. Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression

    64 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  29. DDG: Google uses bizarre tactics to dominate rivals and confuse their customers

    64 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  30. U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials

    64 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  31. Breastfeeding: it's bad for business

    64 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  32. A Chicken Farmer Spy Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day

    64 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  33. Ask HN: What should I do to prepare for a meeting about my annual raise?

    64 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  34. Taking apart a double zero-day sample discovered in joint hunt with ESET

    64 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  35. Indian warrior king's rocket cache found in abandoned well

    64 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  36. Guy in Charge of EU Copyright Directive, Evasive About His Own Use of Images

    64 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  37. Richard Milner on a new U.S. particle accelerator

    64 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  38. A brief history of the peace symbol

    64 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  39. Into the Cave of Chile’s Witches (2013)

    64 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  40. The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001)

    64 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  41. WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

    63 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  42. Privacy risks with Facebook’s PII-based targeting: auditing a data broker

    63 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  43. CRAM: Efficient Hardware-Based Memory Compression for Bandwidth Enhancement

    63 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  44. White House earmarks over $1B for quantum technology research

    63 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  45. The Manual – How to have a number one the easy way (1988)

    63 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  46. College Rejection Threat Highlights Social Credit Blacklists

    63 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  47. Show HN: Glycemic load calculator

    63 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  48. Homo sapiens evolved within a set of interlinked groups living across Africa

    63 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  49. The Mythos of Model Interpretability in Machine Learning

    63 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  50. Altair 8800 Simulator

    63 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  51. PipesFS: Fast Linux I/O in the Unix Tradition (2008)

    63 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  52. Ask HN: How do you organise and discover your team's internal scripts?

    63 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  53. Python exercises to practice skills

    63 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  54. The structure of the Milky Way

    63 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  55. Designing a Quantum Computing Board Game

    63 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  56. A Correction; Welcome to 51,254 (2000)

    62 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  57. What a Russian Smile Means

    62 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  58. Google Ventures uses algorithms to approve or kill VC investments

    62 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  59. Show HN: Announce and discover GitHub repos

    62 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  60. 24% of Tesla Model 3 orders have been canceled, analyst says

    62 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  61. The problem with programming and how to fix it

    62 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  62. Seriously, Juice Is Not Healthy

    62 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  63. Elephant Clock

    62 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  64. Why are libraries destroying books? (2002)

    62 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  65. Ask HN: Anyone rather just be alone during work day?

    62 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  66. 3M Russian troll tweets

    62 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  67. Rubylike Frontend [video]

    62 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  68. Slack client for Commodore 64 (2016)

    62 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  69. Doing Windows, Part 3: A Pair of Strike-Outs

    62 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  70. Mystery Languages

    62 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  71. What Stays on Facebook and What Goes? The Social Network Cannot Answer

    62 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  72. The Truth About Terahertz (2012)

    62 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  73. Webpack 4 course: What is Webpack?

    61 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  74. Bridging the Gap Between Programming Languages and Hardware Weak Memory Models

    61 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  75. Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month

    61 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  76. What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue

    61 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  77. The Lost Dogs of the Americas

    61 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  78. Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?

    61 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  79. Google attempting to patent a compression technique in the public domain

    61 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  80. An update on uBlock

    61 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  81. Practical Attacks on Face Recognition with Infrared [pdf]

    61 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  82. The Emacs Widget Library

    61 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  83. Japan Tests Silicon for Exascale Computing in 2021

    61 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  84. Falling Short: An analysis of the reporting of UK drone strikes by the MoD

    61 points • comment • jul 12, 2018

  85. Show HN: Amatino – A double-entry accounting API

    61 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  86. Chip Hall of Fame: Nvidia NV20

    61 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  87. Cloud9Trader – Simple, powerful platform for algorithmic trading

    60 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  88. Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from coffee waste

    60 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  89. Sabre (computer system)

    60 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  90. Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the countryside?

    60 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  91. MacBook Pro 15 (2018) – Beware the Core i9

    60 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  92. Remains of the murdered Romanovs 'authentic'

    60 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  93. Mellite: an environment for creating experimental computer-based music

    60 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  94. Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale (2011) [pdf]

    60 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  95. Newly digitized recordings offer a glimpse of the Ukrainian-Jewish past

    60 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  96. Intel Begins EOL Plan for Xeon Phi 7200-Series ‘Knights Landing’ Host Processors

    60 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  97. Intel Power Gadget

    60 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  98. A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into oncoming traffic

    60 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  99. California High Court Rules Starbucks Must Pay for Off-The-Clock Work

    60 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  100. Aum: The Cult at the End of the World (1996)

    60 points • comment • jul 06, 2018