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Hacker News (Jul 2018)

  1. An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem

    203 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  2. NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training

    203 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  3. Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork

    202 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  4. The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (1852)

    202 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  5. The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow

    202 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  6. Interactive demos on network theory, game theory, trust etc

    202 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  7. iPhone crashing bug likely caused by code added to appease Chinese government

    201 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  8. Why Intel will never let owners control the ME

    201 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  9. Hawaii moves to ban sale of sunscreens with coral-harming chemicals

    201 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  10. Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena

    200 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  11. Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters

    200 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  12. Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet

    200 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  13. What Can I Do About Bufferbloat?

    200 points • comment • jul 03, 2018

  14. With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster

    199 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  15. A drug for smallpox has been approved, even though the disease no longer exists

    199 points • comment • jul 21, 2018

  16. Making an emperor bed

    198 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  17. C2rust vs. Corrode

    198 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  18. Non-PhotoRealistic Quake (2002)

    198 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  19. Parinfer – Simpler Lisp Editing

    198 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  20. The Electric Flight of Spiders

    198 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  21. Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting

    197 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  22. Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor

    197 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  23. Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe

    197 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  24. Machine Learning in Google Bigquery

    196 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  25. Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016)

    196 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  26. Faust: Stream Processing for Python

    196 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  27. The Absolute Denial of Shit

    196 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  28. What Economists Still Don’t Get About the 2008 Crisis

    196 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  29. Fast.com now measures latency and upload speed

    195 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  30. Show HN: Video Hub App – like YouTube for videos on your computer

    195 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  31. Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math?

    195 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  32. How Reddit plans to make money through advertising

    194 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  33. After the Fall: Ten Years After the Crash

    194 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  34. Hello World on z/OS

    194 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  35. One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report

    194 points • comment • jul 09, 2018

  36. Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic

    193 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  37. Ernst Dickmanns, a German scientist who developed self-driving cars in the 1980s

    192 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  38. J.C. Bose: 60 GHz in the 1890s

    192 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  39. Ask HN: As a CTO, what is your most frustrating problem with technical debt?

    192 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  40. Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 'very troubling'

    191 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  41. Lisp and Haskell (2017)

    191 points • comment • jul 15, 2018

  42. A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research

    191 points • comment • jul 04, 2018

  43. Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell

    191 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  44. Show HN: Compare benefits of second passport based on the one you have

    190 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  45. Dear-GitHub: Host Github by itself as an open source project

    190 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  46. Bandit Algorithms Book [pdf]

    190 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  47. SEC Charges Failed Fyre Festival Founder and Others with $27.4M Offering Fraud

    189 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  48. Books found in dumpster belonged to Thomas Jefferson

    189 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  49. SpaceX lands Falcon 9 booster on Just Read the Instructions drone ship

    189 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  50. Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem'

    189 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  51. The Shipping Forecast

    189 points • comment • jul 25, 2018

  52. Penti Chorded Keyboard

    188 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  53. Secure Boot and the 2018 MacBook Pro

    188 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  54. Turbo Button

    188 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  55. How to drop 10M packets per second

    188 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  56. Shedding Too Much Light on a Microcontroller's Firmware Protection (2017)

    188 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  57. Augmenting Long-term Memory

    188 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  58. Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

    188 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  59. How SSH port became 22

    188 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  60. TSA screeners win immunity from flier abuse claims: U.S. appeals court

    188 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  61. 11% of Americans don’t use the internet

    188 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  62. Introducing plotly.py 3.0.0

    187 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  63. The internals of testing in Rust in 2018

    187 points • comment • jul 23, 2018

  64. How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load Data

    187 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  65. Dissolving the Fermi Paradox

    187 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  66. Spotify hits 83M paying subscribers, more than double Apple Music’s 40M

    186 points • comment • jul 26, 2018

  67. Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator

    186 points • comment • jul 14, 2018

  68. We discovered three poisonous books in our university library

    186 points • comment • jul 01, 2018

  69. Dads Pass on More Than Genetics in Their Sperm

    185 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  70. What OpenStreetMap can be

    185 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  71. What cracking open a Sonos One tells us about the Sonos IPO

    184 points • comment • jul 08, 2018

  72. How two strangers set up Dropbox and made billions

    184 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  73. Dozens of PC games drop tracking software after surveillance fears

    183 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  74. Dark Side of the Mac: Appearance and Materials

    183 points • comment • jul 05, 2018

  75. City street orientations around the world

    183 points • comment • jul 13, 2018

  76. If monads are the solution, what is the problem?

    183 points • comment • jul 30, 2018

  77. Sounding the Alarm: Now Is the Time to Be a Cockroach

    182 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  78. How the Car Keeps Americans Apart

    182 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  79. Lean Testing or Why Unit Tests Are Worse Than You Think

    182 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  80. Lwan: A high-performance and scalable web server

    182 points • comment • jul 16, 2018

  81. GitLab Direction

    182 points • comment • jul 22, 2018

  82. Interview with Sam Altman from the High Growth Handbook

    181 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  83. A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random pics to other people

    180 points • comment • jul 02, 2018

  84. Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About Customers

    180 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  85. What is Rust 2018?

    180 points • comment • jul 27, 2018

  86. Gamifying propositional logic: QED, an interactive textbook

    180 points • comment • jul 29, 2018

  87. Python post-Guido

    180 points • comment • jul 19, 2018

  88. Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed Electric Propulsion

    179 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  89. Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

    179 points • comment • jul 31, 2018

  90. PayPal told customer her death breached its rules

    179 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  91. Launch HN: Optic (YC S18) – Automate Routine Programming

    178 points • comment • jul 18, 2018

  92. Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract

    178 points • comment • jul 28, 2018

  93. Introducing the Python Language Server

    178 points • comment • jul 20, 2018

  94. Bulletproofs – Short zero-knowledge arguments of knowledge

    177 points • comment • jul 11, 2018

  95. The Horrors of Upgrading Etcd Beneath Kubernetes

    177 points • comment • jul 06, 2018

  96. US breaks up IRS phone scam operation

    177 points • comment • jul 24, 2018

  97. Use of AI in the fashion industry

    176 points • comment • jul 07, 2018

  98. Suspend for the X1 Carbon 2018 on Linux

    176 points • comment • jul 17, 2018

  99. The Case Against Patents (2013)

    175 points • comment • jul 10, 2018

  100. Research-backed strategies for better learning

    175 points • comment • jul 09, 2018