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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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Ask HN: Is There a Hacker News Equivalent for Politics?
21 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Can Line Arrays Form Cylindrical Waves? A Line Array Theory Q&A (2005)
21 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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We underestimate the threat of facial recognition technology at our peril
21 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley
20 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Plain old untrendy troubles and emotions (2008)
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Self-Driving Car Makers Prepare to Blame “Jaywalkers”
20 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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How Shogun (YC W18) Got to 1000 Positive Reviews in the Shopify App Store
20 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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So, could programmers convince society not to use software-only voting systems?
20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Product Evaluation of the Zilog Z80-CTC (1979) [pdf]
20 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Categorifying cardinal arithmetic [pdf]
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Alex Jones is a crackpot–but banning him from Facebook might be a bad idea
20 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Redis: This is not the license change you are looking for
20 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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EU taking another look at phone chargers because they’re still not standardized
20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Lerna adds clause to MIT license blocking certain companies from using it
20 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Google Store warranty horror story: what to do next?
20 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Pragmatics (2015)
20 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Two-thirds of users in Indonesia and Nigeria think FB is the Internet (2015)
20 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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New Attack Recovers RSA Encryption Keys from EM Waves Within Seconds
20 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Ask HN: How much of your career has been building vs. maintaining?
20 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Tesla short sellers are sitting on a paper loss of nearly $2B after rally
20 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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US invaded by savage tick that sucks animals dry, spawns without mating
20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Data-Parallel Rank-Select Bit-String construction
20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Vivaldi Co-Founder: Competing with Google Isn’t Scary When You’ve Done It Before
20 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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BlackRock voted for proposal to replace Tesla’s Musk with independent chairman
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Your Android phone pings Google a lot more then you might think
20 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Researchers Find Downside to Sleeping More Than 8 Hours a Day
20 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Venezuela President Maduro survives 'drone assassination attempt'
20 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Ask HN: Why was the Aretha Franklin post removed?
20 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Slack is down
20 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Patreon Acquires Memberful
20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Organized Resources for Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing
20 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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NEC unveils facial recognition system for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
20 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Beyond the Doctor: The Remarkable Verity Lambert
20 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Ask HN: How can I generate side income?
20 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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The Generator Functions of Existential Risks
20 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Magic Leap One: Creator Edition
20 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Ask HN: Has Intellectual Ventures Gone Dark?
20 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Why do millions of Chinese people want to be 'spiritually Finnish'?
20 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Colonising Mars is unlikely and a bad idea
20 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Escape from the Mayo Clinic: Teen accuses hospital of 'medical kidnapping'
20 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack
20 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 and Von Neumann
20 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Bumper Falls Off Brand New Tesla Model 3 After 30 Minutes and Some Rain
19 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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The Cost of JavaScript in 2018
19 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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PDF Embedding Attacks
19 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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U.S. wage growth is getting wiped out by inflation
19 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Parallel Haskell Manifesto (1993)
19 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Do teens use Facebook? It depends on their family’s income
19 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Elon Musk faces investor lawsuit
19 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Satanic Temple Protests Ten Commandments Monument with Goat-Headed Statue
19 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Tesla Receives Subpoena Over Musk's Take-Private Tweet
19 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Google is rolling out a new Chrome design across all OSs next month
19 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’, and it seems to be working
19 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ Bitfi wallet got hacked again
19 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Unprivileged filesystem mounts, 2018 edition
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Bitcoin and Ethereum Fall Substantially in $18B Crypto Market Wipeout
19 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Coalition of 40+ Tech Companies Endorse MANRS Routing Security Actions
19 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Firefox axes add-ons, developer pushes back
19 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Sharing on Social Media: How Twitter Replies Contribute to Emotional Intensity
19 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Turkey’s Financial Crisis Surprised Many. Except This Analyst
19 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme: Hex-Core, GTX 1050 Ti, 64GB RAM, Under 4 Pounds
19 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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ROCA vs. ROBOT: An Eternal Golden Braid
19 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Low-carb diets could shorten life, study suggests
19 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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The JPEG Committee Is “exploring Blockchain” to Put DRM into JPEG
19 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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SIMPLOT: an antique animal movement simulator (2013)
19 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Future elections may be swayed by chatbots
19 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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MongoDB: How to Use the JSON Schema Validator
19 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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The Dangers of Key Reuse: Practical Attacks on IPsec IKE [pdf]
19 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Small Dogs Pee Higher to Lie About Their Size
19 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Smartphones backdoor using AT command allowing full control via USB cable
19 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Companies dropping college degree as hiring requirement
19 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Homemade synthetic aperture radar – Henrik's Blog
19 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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The science behind non-Newtonian noodles (2014)
19 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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The Story of Shmetty (1999)
19 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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The origins of the TV remote
19 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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WhatsApp warns that Google Drive backups are not encrypted
19 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Ask HN: What types of knowledge are worth knowing?
19 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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When Science Was Big (2017)
19 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Lenovo Thinkpad P1 (2018)
19 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Show HN: Telegram is the new IRC – list of communities, bots and channels
19 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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The sugar conspiracy (2016)
19 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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On Boredom (1975)
19 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Ask HN: Side income while still highly invested in full time job?
19 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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US plane wreck to be cleared from Swiss Alps after 70 years
19 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Extinct tech you forgot existed
19 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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California's resurrected net neutrality bill just passed a hurdle
19 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Deepfakes for dancing: AI to fake those dance moves you always wanted
19 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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MIT-created programming language Julia 1.0 debuts
18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Bayer stock plunges after jury awards man $289M in Roundup cancer trial
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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China’s patriotism drive risks ostracising its intellectuals
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Ask HN: Any good books on system design interviews?
18 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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The Making of Future Man: On Hugo Gernsback (2017)
18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Ask HN: How to learn to sleep on your back?
18 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Novel optics for ultrafast cameras create new possibilities for imaging
18 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Amazon now pays the lowest taxes ever
18 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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That XKCD on voting machine software security is wrong
18 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis on a Relativistic Turing Machine
18 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Software authors have professional discipline of cute puppy compared to aviation
18 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Go 1.11 Beta 3 is released
18 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Suffering on Stack Overflow
18 points • comment • aug 10, 2018