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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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T-Mobile Database Breach Exposes 2M Customers' Data
109 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Goodbye VSCode, Hello Emacs Again
109 points • comment • aug 28, 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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Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming automation crisis
109 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Tracking collars reveal just how extreme a wild cheetah’s movements can be
108 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Briar Project
108 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA
108 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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WaveDrom Editor – Digital timing diagram rendering engine
108 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Cognitive Dissonance in Programming
108 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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How Numba and Cython speed up Python code
108 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Hackers at convention to ferret out election system bugs
108 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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The City Born in a Day: The Origin Story of Oklahoma City
107 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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How intermittent breaks in interaction improve collective intelligence
107 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Postgres data types you should consider using
107 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform WebAssembly VM in Go
107 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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PIN number analysis (2012)
107 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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TorrentFreak Is Blocked as a Pirate Site and Hacking Resource
107 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
107 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Creating the alien writing in Infinifactory (2015)
107 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Pocket’s 30M Users Are Great for Publishers
107 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)
107 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Setting up a second keyboard for more shortcuts in Emacs
107 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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The financial mistakes behind why a startup laid off 400 employees overnight
107 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries
106 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help?
106 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Iterative methods done right (life's too short to write for-loops)
106 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Amazon Aurora Serverless
106 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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An EPYC NixOS Build Farm
106 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Going FLOSS-only on Android
106 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years
106 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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MkDocs 1.0
106 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners
106 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Bluetooth Low Energy Swiss-Army Knife
105 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned
105 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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What does genius look like in math? Where does it come? Dandelin spheres [video]
105 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Schism: A library of CRDT implementations of Clojure’s core data types
105 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves (2017) [video]
105 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Man Who Stole Plane Near Seattle Raises Troubling Security Question
105 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling
105 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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'Coerced into tipping'? How apps are changing the culture of tipping in SF
105 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Border between Belgium and the Netherlands at Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau (2017)
104 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Ajit Pai grilled by lawmakers on why FCC spread “myth” of DDoS attack
104 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Causal Models
104 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap
104 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Magic Leap One now available for $2295
104 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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MoviePass keeps plan at $10, but limits subscribers to three movies a month
104 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Shavian alphabet
104 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state
104 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Machine learning links brain connectivity patterns with psychiatric symptoms
104 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Turkish Grammar by Predicate Logic
104 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Indigenous community built a DIY drone to fight off illegal loggers (2016)
104 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Fred Turner: Silicon Valley Thinks Politics Doesn’t Exist
103 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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CCleaner v5.45 Introduces Data Collection with No Way to Opt-Out
103 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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History of editors for Lisp
103 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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How a tiny hospital used AI to lower costs and improve patient outcomes
103 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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LaTeX TikZ for Cryptographers
103 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Walmart stumbles with its 'last mile' package delivery plan
103 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows
103 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Consider applying for grad school
103 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Dear Ad Networks
103 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Google Assistant’s latest feature: “Tell me something good”
103 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Blogging with Emacs org-mode
102 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Hackers sell data of 130M Chinese hotel guests on dark web for 8 Bitcoin
102 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries
102 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Evaluating Vax Lisp 3.1
102 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Deploying TLS 1.3 at scale with Fizz, a performant open source TLS library
102 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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‘Lies My Teacher Told Me’ and America’s Post-Truth Era
102 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash
102 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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PyTorch for Scientific Computing: Quantum Mechanics Example Part 2
102 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Amiga Graphics Archive
102 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Taking on a Patent Troll: Caveat Troglodytarum
102 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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DuckDuckGo's bang
102 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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TKVDB: radix tree persistent key/value storage engine written in ANSI C
102 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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The International 2018: Results
102 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Newly Discovered 'Rose Hip' Neurons May Be Unique To Humans
102 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?
102 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Crystal 0.26.0 released
101 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Vectorized processing for Apache Arrow
101 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Systems Neuroscience Is About to Get Bonkers
101 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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MinUnit – A minimal unit testing framework for C (2002)
101 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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The Peter Principle is a joke taken seriously. Is it true?
101 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Solving Spectre and Meltdown may ultimately require a new type of processor
101 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Vue CLI 3: A Game Changer for Front End Development?
100 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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'It's Enrico Pallazzo': The inside Story of 'The Naked Gun' Baseball Game
100 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Yagni (2015)
100 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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A Haskell Compiler – Slides on GHC Implementation (2013)
100 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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AssemblyAI: speech-to-text API
100 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape (2008)
100 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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China’s Re-education Camps
100 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Deep learning beginner to expert: techniques from Fast.ai
100 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office politics
100 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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LI2: Lego Institute for Lego Investigation
100 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Show HN: Ledger-analytics – Analytics for ledger-cli
100 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system
100 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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The fightback against the Bitcoin energy guzzlers has begun
100 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Colaboratory, a free cloud based Jupyter notebook environment requires no setup
100 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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My Haskell Journey from C#
99 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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When Cancer Was Conquerable
99 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Why GE Digital Failed
99 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform
99 points • comment • aug 04, 2018