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Hacker News (Jul 2018)
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Google Chrome’s new Meltdown and Spectre safeguard is a memory hog
66 points • comment • jul 14, 2018
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Email encryption is here – use STARTTLS everywhere
66 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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Larry Page is quietly amassing a ‘flying car’ empire
66 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: anticipation and deletion
66 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
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What Is a Blazar? It’s Like Staring Down the Barrel of a Black Hole
66 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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The “Boring Software” manifesto
66 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Making calls to WebAssembly fast and implementing anyref
66 points • comment • jul 04, 2018
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India: Google engineer latest victim of mob lynchings fueled by WhatsApp rumors
66 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
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Show HN: Telepost – Create a blog from a Telegram channel
66 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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Farewell for Now
66 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Journey on the Trans-Siberian: St Petersburg
66 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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Cargo bikes as symbolic markers of egalitarian gender roles
65 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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In Unix Everything Is a File
65 points • comment • jul 21, 2018
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From shallow to deep learning in fraud
65 points • comment • jul 09, 2018
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Niantic, developer of Pokémon Go, has acquired Seismic Games
65 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Trout Tickling
65 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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Darwin comes to town: how cities are creating new species
65 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Functional Typelevel Programming in Scala
65 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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How playing an instrument benefits the brain
65 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Intel Custom Foundry’s 10nm meltdown is crushing a $20+B market cap tech giant
65 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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British cave diver considering legal action after 'pedo' attack by Elon Musk
65 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Eating for Peace: How cuisine bridges cultures
65 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas
65 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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How Snow Leopard became synonymous with reliability
65 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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Telescript programming language
65 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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Lyft and Uber Won’t Be Happy Until They’re Your One-Stop Transit Guide
65 points • comment • jul 03, 2018
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What’s up with the mysterious inc bp in prologues of 16-bit code? (2011)
64 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression
64 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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DDG: Google uses bizarre tactics to dominate rivals and confuse their customers
64 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
64 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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Breastfeeding: it's bad for business
64 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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A Chicken Farmer Spy Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
64 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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Ask HN: What should I do to prepare for a meeting about my annual raise?
64 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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Taking apart a double zero-day sample discovered in joint hunt with ESET
64 points • comment • jul 04, 2018
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Indian warrior king's rocket cache found in abandoned well
64 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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Guy in Charge of EU Copyright Directive, Evasive About His Own Use of Images
64 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Richard Milner on a new U.S. particle accelerator
64 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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A brief history of the peace symbol
64 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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Into the Cave of Chile’s Witches (2013)
64 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001)
64 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat
63 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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Privacy risks with Facebook’s PII-based targeting: auditing a data broker
63 points • comment • jul 03, 2018
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CRAM: Efficient Hardware-Based Memory Compression for Bandwidth Enhancement
63 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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White House earmarks over $1B for quantum technology research
63 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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The Manual – How to have a number one the easy way (1988)
63 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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College Rejection Threat Highlights Social Credit Blacklists
63 points • comment • jul 21, 2018
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Show HN: Glycemic load calculator
63 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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Homo sapiens evolved within a set of interlinked groups living across Africa
63 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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The Mythos of Model Interpretability in Machine Learning
63 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Altair 8800 Simulator
63 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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PipesFS: Fast Linux I/O in the Unix Tradition (2008)
63 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you organise and discover your team's internal scripts?
63 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Python exercises to practice skills
63 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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The structure of the Milky Way
63 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Designing a Quantum Computing Board Game
63 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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A Correction; Welcome to 51,254 (2000)
62 points • comment • jul 14, 2018
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What a Russian Smile Means
62 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Google Ventures uses algorithms to approve or kill VC investments
62 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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Show HN: Announce and discover GitHub repos
62 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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24% of Tesla Model 3 orders have been canceled, analyst says
62 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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The problem with programming and how to fix it
62 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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Seriously, Juice Is Not Healthy
62 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Elephant Clock
62 points • comment • jul 12, 2018
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Why are libraries destroying books? (2002)
62 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Ask HN: Anyone rather just be alone during work day?
62 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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3M Russian troll tweets
62 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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Rubylike Frontend [video]
62 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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Slack client for Commodore 64 (2016)
62 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Doing Windows, Part 3: A Pair of Strike-Outs
62 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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Mystery Languages
62 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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What Stays on Facebook and What Goes? The Social Network Cannot Answer
62 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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The Truth About Terahertz (2012)
62 points • comment • jul 03, 2018
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Webpack 4 course: What is Webpack?
61 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Bridging the Gap Between Programming Languages and Hardware Weak Memory Models
61 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month
61 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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What Elon Musk Should Learn from the Thailand Cave Rescue
61 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
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The Lost Dogs of the Americas
61 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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Ask HN: Who is using Common Lisp?
61 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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Google attempting to patent a compression technique in the public domain
61 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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An update on uBlock
61 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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Practical Attacks on Face Recognition with Infrared [pdf]
61 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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The Emacs Widget Library
61 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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Japan Tests Silicon for Exascale Computing in 2021
61 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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Falling Short: An analysis of the reporting of UK drone strikes by the MoD
61 points • comment • jul 12, 2018
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Show HN: Amatino – A double-entry accounting API
61 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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Chip Hall of Fame: Nvidia NV20
61 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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Cloud9Trader – Simple, powerful platform for algorithmic trading
60 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from coffee waste
60 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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Sabre (computer system)
60 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the countryside?
60 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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MacBook Pro 15 (2018) – Beware the Core i9
60 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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Remains of the murdered Romanovs 'authentic'
60 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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Mellite: an environment for creating experimental computer-based music
60 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale (2011) [pdf]
60 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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Newly digitized recordings offer a glimpse of the Ukrainian-Jewish past
60 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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Intel Begins EOL Plan for Xeon Phi 7200-Series ‘Knights Landing’ Host Processors
60 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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Intel Power Gadget
60 points • comment • jul 21, 2018
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A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into oncoming traffic
60 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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California High Court Rules Starbucks Must Pay for Off-The-Clock Work
60 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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Aum: The Cult at the End of the World (1996)
60 points • comment • jul 06, 2018