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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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Valve’s “Steam Play” Uses Vulkan to Bring More Windows Games to Linux
51 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Joy (programming language) interpreter in Prolog
51 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Bitcoin key mechanism and elliptic curves over finite fields
51 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Automatic conversion between simplified and traditional Chinese
51 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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In Praise of Karel Capek
51 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Microsoft’s Cloud Service Leaves a Lot to be Desired
51 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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What Men and Women Consider Hardcore Gaming Are Not The Same
51 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Higher Quality 2D Text Rendering (2013)
51 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Inside the haywire world of Beirut’s electricity brokers
51 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Introducing Project Paper Cuts
51 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Schrödinger’s cat among biology’s pigeons: 75 years of What Is Life?
51 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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The 5 Stages of YAML
50 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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From Harlem to Herrang: An Original Lindy Hopper Blooms in Sweden
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Apple's Board Says Tim Cook Has to Fly Private from Now On (2017)
50 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Complex numbers in JavaScript
50 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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DeepDribble: Simulating Basketball with AI
50 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Pygmy: Open-source URL shortener in Python
50 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Anatomy of a Random Number Generator
50 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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APL Quotations and Anecdotes
50 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Silicon Inquiry: A personal inquiry into the tech industry
50 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Ask HN: Is it possible to get pigeonholed to certain company sizes/cultures?
50 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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My_basic: Lighweight BASIC interpreter written in standard C
50 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Linux Kernel TCP Vulnerability
50 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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GPU Headaches: Notes on Installing CUDA, CuDNN and Tensorflow on Manjaro
50 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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GitHub will now tell you if your password has been pwned
50 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Ice confirmed at the Moon's poles
50 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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String.hashCode() is plenty unique
50 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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How the U.S. Saved the World from Financial Ruin
50 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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GitHub Classroom report predicts positive student learning outcomes
50 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Miner's “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” (1956)
50 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Fast strongly universal 64-bit hashing everywhere
49 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Too Many Jobs Feel Meaningless Because They Are
49 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Punctuation that failed to make its mark
49 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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The Usefulness of Abstracting Over Time
49 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Wall Street analysts were blown away by Model 3's next-gen, military-grade tech
49 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Dataspace 0: Those Memex dreams again
49 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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BuzzFeed News Asks Readers to Chip in with Donations
49 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Primality Testing Under Adversarial Conditions
49 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Eden: a Lua-based scripting language in Clojure
49 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Anatomy of Tik Tok, the Viral Video App from China's Bytedance
49 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Code Inflation (2015) [pdf]
49 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Expressive Temperature
49 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Building a simple static site generator in 100 lines
49 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Survival Of The Sluggish: Scientists Find An Upside To A Low Metabolism
49 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death
49 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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M. Hashimoto(Hashicorp CEO) loses access to Google account, asks help on Twitter
49 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Hume the Humane
49 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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End of Greek Aid Package as Country Faces Demographic Crisis
49 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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AMD once again have a top performance crown
49 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Building a Tetris Game using TypeScript and Angular (2017)
49 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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BuBBLE: A Lisp Dialect DSL Written in Haskell
49 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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The Museum of RetroTechnology
49 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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The World’s Fastest Man (2014)
48 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Byteconf React – free React.js conf streamed on Twitch, live right now
48 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks
48 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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A Linux Auditd Rule Set Mapped to MITRE's Attack Framework
48 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Apple Kills the App Store Affiliate Program, and I Have No Idea What to Do
48 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Extreme temperatures 'especially likely for next four years'
48 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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‘Functional Fingerprint’ May Identify Brains Over a Lifetime
48 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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The Joy programming language
48 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study
48 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Jigsolved: Computer Vision to Solve Jigsaw Puzzles
48 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Guide to Python Import Statements
48 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Meet YC This Fall
48 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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pH7Builder: An Open Source Social Dating CMS
48 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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What's in a Production Web Application?
48 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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A Rare E.R. that Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand
48 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Show HN: A single command terminal configuration installer
48 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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The Quorum Programming Language
48 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Launch HN: MAC'D (YC S18) – Fast-Casual, Build-Your-own Mac and Cheese
48 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Microsoft to partners: If you want to work with us, offer paid family leave
48 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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When China Rules the Web
48 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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In Search of a Bigger Boom (2012)
47 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Tell HN: Braintree is no longer startup-friendly
47 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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1968 Created the 'Ultimate' Anti-Sport Sport
47 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Show HN: Create a restaurant website in one click
47 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Reddit Experiencing Elevated Error Rates
47 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Electric scooters are illegal in the UK because of 1835 law
47 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Confirmation Bias – Why nobody is allowed to be successful on the internet
47 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Ann Arbor's Duo Security sold for $2B: What it teaches us
47 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Why Mistranslation Matters
47 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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The Computer Chronicles – Microchip Technology (1983) [video]
47 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Walk Monster (2012)
47 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Silver Coins Lead to One of the Earliest Roman Sites in Yorkshire
47 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Announcing FoundationDB Summit
47 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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VS Code Can Do That?
47 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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OpenAI plays DOTA against former professionals in an hour
47 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Where does logical language come from? The social bootstrapping hypothesis
47 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Facebook is down
47 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Tries as the evolution of nothing
47 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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The islands with a flourishing 'third gender'
47 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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How can I avoid just making rich people richer?
47 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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No Amount of Alcohol Use Is Safe, Analysis of Studies Finds
46 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Theranos: Blitzscaling, Blitzfailing, or Blitzfrauding?
46 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Visual UI Regression Testing with WebAssembly and the Kantu Selenium IDE
46 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go
46 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Tech's most egregious violations of user privacy
46 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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The Chinese Typewriter: A History
46 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Knight TV resurrection
46 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Solitude appears to have an image problem in Japan
46 points • comment • aug 11, 2018