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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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19 Machine Translation engines compared for 48 language pairs
18 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Microsoft's undersea datacenter has live webcams now
18 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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TxFS: Leveraging File-System Crash Consistency to Provide Transactions [pdf]
18 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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AMD ROCm GPU Support for TensorFlow
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Show HN: BountyGraph: Crowdfunded Bug Bounties and Security Audits
18 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Structure (2013)
18 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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California passes strongest net neutrality law in the country
18 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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The Utter Failure of Fictional Time Travel
18 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Google, Apple and 13 others no longer require employees to have a college degree
18 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Ask HN: How to learn to communicate clearly?
18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Amazon applies a restocking fee of 25% of the item price
18 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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The Tragedy of Systemd
18 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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The Case for the Fat Startup (2010)
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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The Patient Change Agent
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Let's Stop Pretending Facebook and Twitter's CEOs Can't Fix This Mess
18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Show HN: A DNS over HTTPS proxy in 80 lines of Golang
18 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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The New Science of Seeing Around Corners
18 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Human Rights Groups Tell Google to Cancel Its China Censorship Plan
18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Musical.ly shutting down after $1B acquisition
18 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Tesla likely to face SEC investigation following Musk tweets
18 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Machine learning environment setup within 10 minutes
18 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Remote Code Execution on packagist.org
18 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Ask HN: Where's the downvote button?
18 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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West Virginia to introduce mobile phone voting for midterm elections
18 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Ask HN: What are some of the best text-only websites?
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Nvidia Reinvents Computer Graphics with Turing Architecture
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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A modest proposal for optional methods in Swift protocols
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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The Fictional Foods We Wish Were Real
18 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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CAPPORT Architecture
18 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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The Super Bowl of Beekeeping
18 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Wikileaks: Google is not what it seems (2014)
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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MIT Blockchain Systems Consortium: Scalable AI and Blockchain for Humanity
18 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Projecting the globe onto regular solids
18 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland
18 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Princeton Blockchain Reading Group
17 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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How did Tim Cook fix Apple's broken supply chain?
17 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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I Moved To The Bay Area From Belgium A Month Ago. Here Are My First Impressions.
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Arris made the first product to support the open Wi-Fi mesh networking standard
17 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Things I learned on the way from Walmart cashier to 6-figure web developer
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Interpretations of Probability
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Being average at more than 1 thing is more valuable than being great in 1 only
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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What Follows the End of History? Identity Politics
17 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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One potential vulnerability per 4 KLOC of Android С++ source code
17 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Open source cryptography takes a step forward with the release of OpenPGPjs 4.0
17 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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iOS 12 Relies on Downloaded Lua Code
17 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Apple delays FaceTime group chats from iOS 12 to a ‘future software update’
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Tesla Is Seeking a Wide Investor Pool for Its Take-Private Plan
17 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Show HN: GitAuthors – A GitHub contributors page for the command line
17 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Show HN: A parser for sqlite databases to implement full ALTER TABLE support
17 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Darpa Subterranean Challenge
17 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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How to deal with a psychopath
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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LeBron James funds a new STEM-focused public school for at-risk kids
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Pilotless Emergency Services Helicopters Coming to Silicon Valley
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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11-year-old changed election results on replica Florida website in under 10 mins
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Researchers from Harvard, Yale and Stanford Published in Fake Academic Journals
17 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Amazon Ending Prime 20% Off Games Discount
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Ask HN: Is Google Chrome's autotranslate feature a huge vulnerability?
17 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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NASA doesn’t have the funds to get to Mars alone, Ted Cruz says
17 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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How China Is Quickly Becoming an AI Superpower
17 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Twitter is wrong: facts are not enough to combat conspiracy theories
17 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Sol-R – A CUDA/OpenCL-based realtime ray-tracer
17 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness
17 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Trust Me I'm Lying: A Summary and Review
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Teachers Are Using Airbnb and Uber to Supplement Pay
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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The world is a terrible place right now, largely because it is what we make it
17 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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How smallpox claimed its final victim
17 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Special caution is warranted for branded combination nootropics (2017)
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Have elite US colleges lost their moral purpose altogether?
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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“Monster Hunter World” game spends 25% of CPU time switching between threads
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch at 500 fps
17 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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We’re in a new age of obesity. How did it happen?
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Stars memorize rebirth of our home galaxy
17 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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L-R Beauty is in the ear of the beholder
17 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Ask HN: Which cloud behemoth is best for individual learning?
17 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Ask HN: What is your favorite gym motivation video?
17 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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When the Mac mini goes pro, will the pros get Mac minis?
17 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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A surprising campus free speech problem: left-wingers fired for their opinions
17 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Labor Board Backs Startup Engineers Fired for Unionizing
16 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Intel’s SGX blown wide open by, you guessed it, a speculative execution attack
16 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Yes, You Can Put a Price on a T-Rex (2015)
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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How encrypted communications apps failed to protect Michael Cohen
16 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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A legal push to revive US net neutrality rules is gaining momentum
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Brace yourself: This is how much America’s 1% has saved
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Platforms Are Not Publishers
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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One.one.one.one a record is 1.1.1.1 (and reverse)
16 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Cats, Doris Lessing, and Me
16 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Work on Paper Batteries Charged by Bacteria
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Bernie Sanders’ problem with Amazon
16 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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The World of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is as Crazy in Real Life
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Why Are Record Companies Dumping Their Spotify Stock? – Office of Copyright
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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WeChat shutdown cryptocurrency and blockchain accounts
16 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community (2016)
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Say Hello to the New WordPress Editor
16 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Enterprise programming language
16 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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The Engineer/Manager pendulum (2017)
16 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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My wonderful world of macOS
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views
16 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Fighting the vanilla thieves of Madagascar
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Show HN: Lumie, an opinionated NPM module to create better apps and ship faster
16 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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A 16-year-old hacked Apple and stole 90GB of secure files
16 points • comment • aug 17, 2018