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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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Nelson woman delighted after Apple unlocks iPhone of late husband
82 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Linus Torvalds on Wireguard
82 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Shortage of charging stations to become a bottleneck to mass adoption of EVs?
82 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists
82 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Where did the Microsoft tech stack disappear?
82 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Researchers Move Closer to Completely Optical Artificial Neural Network
82 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Barnes and Noble says books on anxiety are soaring
81 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund
81 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Leibniz's Explanation of Binary Arithmetic (1701)
81 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Optimizing is-multiple checks with modular arithmetic
81 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Federated Learning
81 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Trump Accuses Google of Burying Conservative News in Search Results
81 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Music and Machine Learning
81 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Why is a Java guy so excited about Node.js and JavaScript?
81 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Collective awareness, or the models that we use to understand the world
80 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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The Eno notation language
80 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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The neglected benefits of the commute
80 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser
80 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Ask HN: How's the Paris startup scene?
80 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Video game crash of 1983
80 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Japanese Medical School Deducted Points from Exam Scores of Female Applicants
80 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Unsupervised machine translation
80 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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A new form of carbon, schwartzites, has been created
80 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Snapchat Source Code GitHub Leak Caused by Bad iOS Update
80 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Going Serverless: From Common Lisp and CGI to AWS Lambda and API Gateway
79 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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US companies giving in to pressure from China
79 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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PowerShell and Markdown
79 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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DeepTAM: Deep Tracking and Mapping
79 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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How the First World War Transformed Art
79 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras
79 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Typed Clojure in Theory and Practice [pdf]
79 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag
79 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Manners in Early Modern England
79 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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The rise and rise of JSON (2017)
79 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction?
79 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Lifeguard Drone Rescues Swimmer in Spain
79 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2
79 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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GUIs Considered Harmful (1992)
79 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?
78 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes (2017)
78 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics
78 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Unimania: I Need Your Facebook Data, Location, and Your Browsing History
78 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Evenly distributing points on a sphere
78 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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The Mopeds Are Coming
78 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Show HN: De-sk, modular office desk system
78 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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How We Made Joins Faster, Part Three
78 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Methodologies for measuring open source project health
78 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Apple confirms TV series order of Asimov’s Foundation
78 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Open-guides/og-aws:Amazon Web Services – a practical guide
78 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final passage
78 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Sarcasm Analysis Using Conversation Context
77 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Firefox Offers Recommendations with Latest Test Pilot Experiment: Advance
77 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Nimbus, An Ethereum 2.0 Sharding Client
77 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)
77 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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The greatest paper map of the United States, made by one guy in Oregon (2012)
77 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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The Fall of Schlitz: How Milwaukee’s Famous Beer Became Infamous (2010)
77 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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California Is Deteriorating into a Feudal Society of Inherited Land Wealth
77 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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An open-source standards and software project for intimate hardware (maybe NSFW)
77 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Ronald Wayne, the third co-founder of Apple
77 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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China’s Consumption Downgrade: Skip Avocados, Cocktails and Kids
77 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods
77 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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How and Why We Designed Lucida (2014)
77 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Greek island to run on wind, solar power
77 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Security Chasms of WASM [pdf]
77 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Yuval Noah Harari extract: ‘Humans are a post-truth species’
76 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Symantec Distrust in Firefox Nightly 63
76 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Passport queues vex airlines
76 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Detailed articles on the avionics of NASA’s space shuttle
76 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Benzodiazepines: Our Other Prescription Drug Problem
76 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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The rise (and rise) of the healthcare administrator
76 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Geospatial indexing on Hilbert curves
76 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Algorithm and Blues: The Tyranny of the Coming Smart-Tech Utopia
76 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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A walkthrough the AcridRain password stealer
76 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible
76 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Is Lisp Still Unique? Or at Least Different? (2002)
76 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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The Story of an American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave
76 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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What the Luddites Really Fought Against (2011)
76 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)
76 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Most Millennials are not on track when it comes to saving for retirement
76 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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A more realistic route to autonomous driving
76 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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A visual history of the future (2014) [pdf]
76 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Kitten Programming Language
76 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Fast Multiplication with Slow Additions
76 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Thorium power has a protactinium problem
76 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads
76 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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The Spy Who Drove Me
76 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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The FMV Pipeline of “Full Throttle Remastered”
75 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Deprecating the Observer Pattern (2010) [pdf]
75 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Aerial photos reveal the stark divide between rich and poor
75 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (2013) [pdf]
75 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Vkvg: Vulkan vector drawing, trying to stay close to Cairo API
75 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Angst Swells as Australian Population Nears 25M
75 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Dear Venmo: Update Your Privacy Settings
75 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Face detection – An overview and comparison of different solutions
75 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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The Revolution Against the Revolution: Looking Back on Shays’ Rebellion
75 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
75 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech
75 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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“Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (1986) [pdf]
75 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Show HN: BetterSlack – A Chrome extension to make Slack better
75 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Earth at risk of becoming 'hothouse' if tipping point reached, report warns
75 points • comment • aug 07, 2018