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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It
438 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Grid Down
438 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Redis will remain BSD licensed
437 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
437 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
436 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy
434 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git
433 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers
432 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle
432 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales
429 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?
421 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Google tracks users who turn off location history
421 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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What did Earth look like X million years ago?
412 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Who Left Open The Cookie Jar?
406 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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My bag of tricks – loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb
405 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Write – A word processor for handwriting
405 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
404 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal
403 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?
401 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Where Vim Came From
399 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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California Moves to Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045
398 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?
398 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research
396 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow
394 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
393 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
393 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap
388 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers
385 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Google tracks your movements, like it or not
385 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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How Does Mastodon Work?
385 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
383 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?
383 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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How the Dutch created a casual biking culture
380 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes
379 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation
374 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
374 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
373 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do
372 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Paul Graham on SICP (2000)
369 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes
368 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Gerald M. Weinberg has died
367 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace
367 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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In Pursuit of Production Minimalism
366 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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The 10:1 rule of writing and programming
365 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production
361 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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I know why rejection emails suck – I write them
360 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on multi-terabyte heaps
359 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Bing.com now runs on .NET Core
358 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10k
356 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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The Secret API of Banks
355 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
355 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, Location Data Exposed
354 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
352 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Traveler sues US Customs and Border Protection over iPhone search and seizure
351 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?
351 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development
351 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Conference call simulator
351 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100M
350 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
350 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
349 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Real world SSD wearout
349 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?
348 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Fidelity Introduces Zero Expense Ratio Index Funds
348 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Ask HN: Have you built a house?
347 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD
346 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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YC China and Qi Lu
345 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon
341 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Google, but for colors
341 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers
339 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source
338 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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LiteTree: SQLite with Branches
338 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative
337 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks
336 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Seaweed could be scrubbing more carbon from the atmosphere than expected (2017)
335 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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We are rewriting CodeMirror
332 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Startup School 2018 – Curriculum
332 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Be kind (2016)
331 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support
331 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C
331 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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The scientists who starved to death surrounded by food
331 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Introduction to A* (1997)
329 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine
329 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter
328 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
328 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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A Road to Common Lisp
328 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Panic Attacks
328 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Google Maps is no longer a flat map
328 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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IRC turns thirty
328 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages
327 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Understanding L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow: What You Need to Know
325 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime (2017)
325 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Traveling the World on a Third World Passport
324 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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The BASIC Engine
323 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (2014)
323 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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SQLite Release 3.25.0 adds support for window functions
322 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime
322 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Why Static Websites Need HTTPS
320 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C
320 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
318 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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The Stock Market Is Shrinking
317 points • comment • aug 05, 2018