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Hacker News (Jul 2018)
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An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem
203 points • comment • jul 14, 2018
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NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training
203 points • comment • jul 09, 2018
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Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork
202 points • comment • jul 03, 2018
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The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (1852)
202 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow
202 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Interactive demos on network theory, game theory, trust etc
202 points • comment • jul 21, 2018
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iPhone crashing bug likely caused by code added to appease Chinese government
201 points • comment • jul 10, 2018
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Why Intel will never let owners control the ME
201 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Hawaii moves to ban sale of sunscreens with coral-harming chemicals
201 points • comment • jul 04, 2018
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Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena
200 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters
200 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet
200 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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What Can I Do About Bufferbloat?
200 points • comment • jul 03, 2018
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With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster
199 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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A drug for smallpox has been approved, even though the disease no longer exists
199 points • comment • jul 21, 2018
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Making an emperor bed
198 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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C2rust vs. Corrode
198 points • comment • jul 01, 2018
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Non-PhotoRealistic Quake (2002)
198 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Parinfer – Simpler Lisp Editing
198 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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The Electric Flight of Spiders
198 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
197 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor
197 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe
197 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Machine Learning in Google Bigquery
196 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016)
196 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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Faust: Stream Processing for Python
196 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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The Absolute Denial of Shit
196 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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What Economists Still Don’t Get About the 2008 Crisis
196 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Fast.com now measures latency and upload speed
195 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Show HN: Video Hub App – like YouTube for videos on your computer
195 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math?
195 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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How Reddit plans to make money through advertising
194 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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After the Fall: Ten Years After the Crash
194 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Hello World on z/OS
194 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report
194 points • comment • jul 09, 2018
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Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic
193 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Ernst Dickmanns, a German scientist who developed self-driving cars in the 1980s
192 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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J.C. Bose: 60 GHz in the 1890s
192 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
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Ask HN: As a CTO, what is your most frustrating problem with technical debt?
192 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 'very troubling'
191 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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Lisp and Haskell (2017)
191 points • comment • jul 15, 2018
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A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research
191 points • comment • jul 04, 2018
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Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell
191 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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Show HN: Compare benefits of second passport based on the one you have
190 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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Dear-GitHub: Host Github by itself as an open source project
190 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Bandit Algorithms Book [pdf]
190 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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SEC Charges Failed Fyre Festival Founder and Others with $27.4M Offering Fraud
189 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Books found in dumpster belonged to Thomas Jefferson
189 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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SpaceX lands Falcon 9 booster on Just Read the Instructions drone ship
189 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem'
189 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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The Shipping Forecast
189 points • comment • jul 25, 2018
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Penti Chorded Keyboard
188 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Secure Boot and the 2018 MacBook Pro
188 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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Turbo Button
188 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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How to drop 10M packets per second
188 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Shedding Too Much Light on a Microcontroller's Firmware Protection (2017)
188 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Augmenting Long-term Memory
188 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform
188 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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How SSH port became 22
188 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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TSA screeners win immunity from flier abuse claims: U.S. appeals court
188 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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11% of Americans don’t use the internet
188 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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Introducing plotly.py 3.0.0
187 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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The internals of testing in Rust in 2018
187 points • comment • jul 23, 2018
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How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load Data
187 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
187 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Spotify hits 83M paying subscribers, more than double Apple Music’s 40M
186 points • comment • jul 26, 2018
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Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator
186 points • comment • jul 14, 2018
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We discovered three poisonous books in our university library
186 points • comment • jul 01, 2018
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Dads Pass on More Than Genetics in Their Sperm
185 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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What OpenStreetMap can be
185 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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What cracking open a Sonos One tells us about the Sonos IPO
184 points • comment • jul 08, 2018
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How two strangers set up Dropbox and made billions
184 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Dozens of PC games drop tracking software after surveillance fears
183 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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Dark Side of the Mac: Appearance and Materials
183 points • comment • jul 05, 2018
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City street orientations around the world
183 points • comment • jul 13, 2018
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If monads are the solution, what is the problem?
183 points • comment • jul 30, 2018
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Sounding the Alarm: Now Is the Time to Be a Cockroach
182 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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How the Car Keeps Americans Apart
182 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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Lean Testing or Why Unit Tests Are Worse Than You Think
182 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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Lwan: A high-performance and scalable web server
182 points • comment • jul 16, 2018
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GitLab Direction
182 points • comment • jul 22, 2018
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Interview with Sam Altman from the High Growth Handbook
181 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random pics to other people
180 points • comment • jul 02, 2018
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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About Customers
180 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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What is Rust 2018?
180 points • comment • jul 27, 2018
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Gamifying propositional logic: QED, an interactive textbook
180 points • comment • jul 29, 2018
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Python post-Guido
180 points • comment • jul 19, 2018
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Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed Electric Propulsion
179 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)
179 points • comment • jul 31, 2018
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PayPal told customer her death breached its rules
179 points • comment • jul 10, 2018
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Launch HN: Optic (YC S18) – Automate Routine Programming
178 points • comment • jul 18, 2018
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Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract
178 points • comment • jul 28, 2018
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Introducing the Python Language Server
178 points • comment • jul 20, 2018
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Bulletproofs – Short zero-knowledge arguments of knowledge
177 points • comment • jul 11, 2018
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The Horrors of Upgrading Etcd Beneath Kubernetes
177 points • comment • jul 06, 2018
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US breaks up IRS phone scam operation
177 points • comment • jul 24, 2018
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Use of AI in the fashion industry
176 points • comment • jul 07, 2018
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Suspend for the X1 Carbon 2018 on Linux
176 points • comment • jul 17, 2018
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The Case Against Patents (2013)
175 points • comment • jul 10, 2018
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Research-backed strategies for better learning
175 points • comment • jul 09, 2018