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Hacker News (Jul 2018)
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The Fast Meme Transform: Convert Audio into Linux Commands
60 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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The lack of security guarantees of Spectre-V1 mitigations
60 points • comment • jul 02, 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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Mellite: an environment for creating experimental computer-based music
60 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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Inside the Paper: Build Systems a La Carte
59 points • comment • jul 09, 2018
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Selfie: new book explores how we became so self-obsessed
59 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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Street dogs in Moscow learn to ride the subway
59 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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To Explain or to Predict? (2010) [pdf]
59 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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All EFF’d Up
59 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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New Study Confirms That American Workers Are Getting Ripped Off
59 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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Unique brain “fingerprint” can predict drug effectiveness
59 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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The Tragedy at Tofino, B.C.: Inside the Sinking of Leviathan II
59 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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The Book Is a Time Machine
59 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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Eric Weinstein on the crisis of late capitalism
59 points • comment • jul 04, 2018
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Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote
59 points • comment • jul 21, 2018
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Thousands of Americans Will Be Denied a Passport Because of Unpaid Taxes
59 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Temporal side-channels and you: Understanding TLBleed
59 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Swimming with Sharks: Navy Physician Remembers the Indianapolis Disaster
59 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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The Source of Dr Seuss’ Lorax?
59 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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UK unveils new Tempest fighter jet
58 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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A Radical New Scheme to Prevent Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise
58 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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Custom mechanical keyboards
58 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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What's the Deepest Hole Ever Dug?
58 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Patreon mistakenly shut down successfully funded project Armory3D
58 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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PS4 5.05 BPF Double Free Kernel Exploit Writeup
58 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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Steps Toward Super Intelligence Part I: How We Got Here
58 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
58 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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Why is history always about humans?
58 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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When does white space matter in HTML? (2016)
58 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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Researchers Mount Successful GPS Spoofing Attack Against Road Navigation Systems
58 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Facebook finds Declaration of Independence 'racist'
58 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 39% to $52.9B
58 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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The Transformative Power of Suffering
58 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Two scientists are changing the way the world looks at mist
58 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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No Shirt, No Swipe, No Service
57 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves
57 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Competition
57 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Adversarial childhood events are associated with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
57 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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Earhart’s last calls: Research suggests dozens heard radioed cries for help
57 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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SF hospital charged $15K ‘trauma response fee’ for baby that needed no treatment
57 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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Playtesting Tabletop Games
57 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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Why the world should adopt a basic income
57 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Amazon Lumberyard: A Scream of Anguish
57 points • comment • jul 09, 2018
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Thailand cave rescue relied on talent, luck, and on sticking to the rules
57 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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Out of the frying pan and into the fire
57 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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The Computer and the Brain (1958) [pdf]
57 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Discord does not allow 3rd party clients
56 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Show HN: Brutal.js – a small framework for building brutalist web applications
56 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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Complicating the Narratives
56 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Under GDPR, Data Breach Reports in UK Have Quadrupled
56 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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Ask HN: Is software engineering really a dead-end job after 35-40?
56 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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Using achievement stats to estimate sales on Steam
56 points • comment • jul 03, 2018
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My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader
56 points • comment • jul 21, 2018
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UK spaceport proposed for Sutherland site
56 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Differential Synchronization (2009)
56 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
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SF’s appalling street life repels residents – now it’s driven away a convention
56 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Why Are Young Billionaires So Boring?
56 points • comment • jul 09, 2018
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Mathematical Metaphysics (2015) [pdf]
56 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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V8n – Fluent validation library for JavaScript
56 points • comment • jul 14, 2018
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China’s Planning to Partially Lift Web Censorship in Hainan
56 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Cassava crisis: the deadly food that doubles as a vital Venezuelan crop (2017)
56 points • comment • jul 12, 2018
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Push to Weaken U.S. Endangered Species Act Runs into Roadblocks
56 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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Snow – Conceal messages in ASCII text (2013)
56 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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What We Learned from Analyzing 100M Bugs
56 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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Flaws in diamonds might hold the key to a new type of secure communications
55 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Wrongfully convicted Isaac Wright Jr returns to courtroom as an attorney (2017)
55 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pros are now available, and the top specs are much faster
55 points • comment • jul 12, 2018
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Commodore 64 SID replacement using a Teensy 3.6
55 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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The Bugs in Our Mindware (2016)
55 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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From Filesystems to CRUD and Beyond
55 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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Cancer and mobile phones
55 points • comment • jul 14, 2018
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Dawn of the Microcomputer: The Altair 8800
55 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)
55 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Up to Two-Thirds of Bitcoin Transactions Have No Economic Value
55 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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Researcher says careers should be longer but have more breaks along the way
55 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Do I need to pay for Java now?
55 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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British Airways shows how not to GDPR
55 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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Easter Island statues may have 'walked' out of quarry (2012)
55 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
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Ultrasound can cause anomalies in the Xiaomi MI5S Plus gyroscope
55 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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A peek into China’s top ‘bodyguard factories’
55 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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South Korean cam-hunter squads conduct electronic sweeps of public spaces
55 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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Opera Limited files for a $115M US IPO
55 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Are Kilian Jornet's Speed Records Too Good to Be True?
55 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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GDPR-Compliant EU Version of USA Today Website
55 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Long Live WebGL (2013)
55 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Blue Origin plans to charge at least $200K for space rides
54 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Phantom traffic jams, and why lane expansion isn’t really successful
54 points • comment • jul 01, 2018
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Show HN: Anansi – a NoWeb-inspired literate programming preprocessor
54 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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Income mobility has been rising fastest in Britain
54 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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How Browsers’ Explanations Impact Misconceptions About Private Browsing [pdf]
54 points • comment • jul 04, 2018
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Systems Languages: An Experience Report
54 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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Use of drugs by people seeking to boost mental performance is rising worldwide
54 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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A Social History of Jello Salad
54 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Monks Who Play Punk (2007)
54 points • comment • jul 03, 2018
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Morocco's nutty, decadent spread is made from the prized oil of the argan tree
54 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course
54 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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I'm bored, what do I do?
54 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Apple's iPhones Trail Samsung, Google Devices in Internet Speeds
54 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Vim.wasm: Vim Ported to WebAssembly
54 points • comment • jul 09, 2018
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Yes you can use challenging vocabulary in a picture book
54 points • comment • jul 02, 2018