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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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Deep Space Network Now: Status of communications with our deep space explorers
120 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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A Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps
120 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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The art of stealing
119 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Cache-Line Aware Data Structures
119 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Computer Virus Cripples Several Taiwan Semiconductor Plants
119 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Show HN: Paperkast
119 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness
119 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Show HN: A parser for electronic component descriptions
119 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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PC-Retro Motherboard Kit: Build a faithful reproduction of the 1982 IBM PC 5150
118 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Why OpenCV uses BGR color space (2015)
118 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Programming War Stories: Connectix
118 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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The Workman Keyboard Layout Philosophy (2010)
118 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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NAFTA: Don’t Trade Away the Internet
118 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Show HN: unicode.style
118 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch
117 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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What happens when a Pacific island upsets China
117 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Functional Bits: Lambda-calculus based algorithmic information theory [pdf]
117 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans
117 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
117 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Thieves escape by motorboat after royal jewels heist in Sweden
117 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Gource – a software version control visualization tool
117 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research
117 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Who needs democracy when you have data?
116 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve whiteboard questions easily?
116 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Cryptocurrency Investors
116 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Path to 2 nm May Not Be Worth It
116 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
116 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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One Year Without AMP
116 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Sonder Raises $135M to Turn Airbnb Apartments into Hotels
116 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Regarding the Most Recent Amazon Mechanical Turk Data Contamination
116 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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(XKCD) Voting software? a terrifying idea
116 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo
116 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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What Does ‘Off the Record’ Really Mean?
116 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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'Intelligent' crows to pick up litter at French theme park
116 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Q3VM – Lightweight, embeddable Quake III Interpreter/Virtual Machine
116 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO
115 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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A little bit of the one-time MacOS version still lingers in ZFS
115 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-income countries
115 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Mum’s a Neanderthal, Dad’s a Denisovan: discovery of an ancient-human hybrid
115 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Decentralising the web: Why is it so hard to achieve?
115 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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On HtDP
115 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong
115 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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How Musicians Make Money, Or Don’t, In 2018
115 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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History of T (2001)
114 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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What Do Happy Teens Do?
114 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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CrypTool Book
114 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (2016)
114 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium
114 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof (2017)
114 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Ecstasy as a Remedy for PTSD? You Probably Have Some Questions
114 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional
114 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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The personal SOS messages the BBC used to send
114 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Lobste.rs
113 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Librem 5 general development report
113 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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The Elm Architecture
113 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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The Math Required for Machine Learning
113 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Tech-support scammers know everything about my computer, Dell customer says
113 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Show HN: Polyhedra Viewer
113 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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From Tokyo to Paris, Parents Tell Americans to Chill
113 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Mini antimatter accelerator could rival the likes of the Large Hadron Collider
112 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Tindallgrams
112 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Actor Model of Computation (2010) [pdf]
112 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges
112 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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India Aims for the World's Biggest Health Care Overhaul
112 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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The pfSense Book
112 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and Guns Using Basic Wifi
112 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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On Software Tooling
112 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Prospecting for Hash Functions
112 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Mechanical Characterization of Structured Sheet Materials
112 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing
112 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing the Play Store
111 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Hacking law firms with abandoned domain names
111 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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How TripAdvisor Changed Travel
111 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Surviving the App Store
111 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents
111 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Fortnite Android Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything
111 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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The Approval Economy
111 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Geometric intuition for digital audio filters
111 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you all deal with lack of motivation?
111 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5
111 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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America is one of the few cultures with insults for smart people?
111 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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The Dark Core of Personality
111 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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U.S. Attorney Moves to Dismiss Murder-For-Hire Charges Against Ross Ulbricht
111 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents
111 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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NetData: monitor your systems and applications, with interactive web dashboards
110 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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How does Hammacher Schlemmer survive in the age of Amazon?
110 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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The End of Employees
110 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Zinc: Introduce minimal cryptography library
110 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Beautiful maths simplification: quaternion from two vectors (2013)
110 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)
110 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment
110 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages
110 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Vue.js Tutorial for beginners
110 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed
110 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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JSON Changelog with SQLite
110 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Johnny-Five v1.0 – JavaScript Robotics and IoT Framework
110 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Elon Musk’s Funding for Tesla Wasn’t So Secure
109 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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First drug to prevent chronic migraines approved by EU
109 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Single-decryption EM-based attack reveals private keys from Android phones [pdf]
109 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Jobs Inside the API
109 points • comment • aug 10, 2018