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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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When Cancer Was Conquerable
99 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Systemisers are better at maths
98 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Go 1.11beta3 is in average 11x faster for crypto/tls benchmarks on ARM64
98 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee for £3.9bn
98 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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They’re Falsely Accused of Shoplifting, but Retailers Demand Penalties
98 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Dynamic Django Models with Model Models
98 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or FB, it’s “surveillance capitalism”
98 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Anbox – A container-based approach to boot full Android on a regular Linux
98 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Man victim of 'vomit fraud,' and his wife found the video to prove it
98 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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'Acoustic attack' report on US diplomats in Cuba is flawed, neurologists say
98 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders
98 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime
98 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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The Dark Reality Behind America’s Greatest Thrift Store Empire
98 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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The Origin of Stimulus JavaScript Framework
98 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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In Praise of Defensive Football
98 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Show HN: Eno – A lightning fast, user-friendly YAML/TOML alternative
97 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Dweb: Building a Resilient Web with WebTorrent
97 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac
97 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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RedHat and SUSE Withdrawing Support for OpenLDAP
97 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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How to make a self-hosted video livestream
97 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis
97 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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New Zealand Passes Law to Crack Down on Foreign Home Buyers
97 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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User guide and WASM demos for nphysics: Rust physics engine with multibodies
97 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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‘Legacy system’ exposed Black Hat 2018 attendees’ contact information
97 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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The Art of Not Dying: the First Emperor’s Pursuit of Immortality
97 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Paradise Lost: How Tourists Are Destroying the Places They Love
97 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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CMU Engineers Find Innovative Way to Make a Low-Cost 3D Bioprinter
97 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes with a Philanthropic Loophole
97 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Overnight Brain Stimulation Improves Memory
97 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go
97 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Data Engineering Patterns with Apache Airflow [video]
96 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Ransom: Routing Around Nation-States
96 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports
96 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Understand what AI sees
96 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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An update on state-sponsored activity
96 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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V.S. Naipaul has died
96 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Why We Should Watch Less News
96 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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V8 release v6.9
96 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Apple was overtaken by Huawei in global smartphone sales
96 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Show HN: FreshJobs – An aggregator of junior and entry-level jobs
96 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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iOS 12 uses Lua code downloaded from Apple's servers
95 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Study finds flaw in emergent gravity
95 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Irony Alert: Disney About 'Overzealous Copyright Holders'
95 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Systemd's DynamicUser feature is currently dangerous
95 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Life lessons from differential equations (2015)
95 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?
95 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Cubans cheer as internet goes nationwide for a day
95 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Publii – open source static CMS for everyone
95 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Let’s all go back to Tumblr
95 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Ask HN: Software development after 40, how do you keep the fire?
95 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability
94 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Y Combinator Learns Basic Income Is Not So Basic After All
94 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Giant shipload of soybeans drifts off China, victim of trade war with US
94 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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JSCPP, a simple C++ interpreter written in JavaScript
94 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Assertions in Production Code? (2008)
94 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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The PowerPC 600 series, part 1: Introduction
94 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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How to Read an RFC
94 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5%
94 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Japanese fleet catches 177 whales in latest hunt
94 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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What I've learned since quitting Elm
94 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Bitcoin, Ether Sink as ‘Sense of Panic’ Grips Crypto Investors
94 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Show HN: HugeGraph – An open source fast and highly scalable graph database
94 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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History of Lisp (1979) [pdf]
94 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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The Nuclear Power Plant of the Future May Be Floating Near Russia
94 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Hydrogen derived from ammonia could open up new export market for Australia
93 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Databot: High-performance Python data-driven programming framework
93 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Ask HN: How to find contract work in Bay Area?
93 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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A collection of sysadmin test questions and answers for interviews/exams
93 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Kernels, a free hosted Jupyter notebook environment with GPUs
93 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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The VU Meter and How It Got That Way
93 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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You could have invented that Bluetooth attack
93 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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On the uses and misuses of panics in Go
93 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Handling of U.S. trade dispute causes rift in Chinese leadership: sources
93 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Using John Varney's rhythm wheel to differentiate 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures
93 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Australian draft law requires tech companies to hand over encrypted messages
93 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work?
93 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Startup Had ‘Masturbation’ Zone, Exec Who Took Off Pants in Meeting: Lawsuit
93 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Show HN: Wikipedia2Vec – A tool for learning embeddings of words and entities
92 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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A tweet storm explaining the history and state of Ethereum's Casper research
92 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Show HN: A Go implementation of TensorFlow's streaming quantiles estimator
92 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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An Ultrahot Exoplanet Has Metallic Skies
92 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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The Places in America Where Most Income Goes to Rent
92 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier
92 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Middle-aged men for rent in Japan
92 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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The Linux Documentation Project Guides
92 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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To Fix Back Pain, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit
91 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Introducing the Tink cryptographic software library
91 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Getting Deep into EVM: How Ethereum Works Backstage
91 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Hyperledger – Linux’s open source approach to blockchain building
91 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Search Engine for Web Page Source Code with 300M Sites Indexed
91 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by (2007)
91 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive
91 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine
91 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Clover: 4-Bit Quantized Linear Algebra
91 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Taking an Ancestry Test Could Make It Harder to Buy Life Insurance
91 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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The TTY demystified (2008)
91 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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What stable kernel should I use?
90 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Life on the Internet Is Hard When Your Last Name Is 'Butts'
90 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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The Discord Store Beta
90 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Sex, Steroids, and Arnold: The Story of the Gym That Shaped America
90 points • comment • aug 26, 2018