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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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The Stock Market Is Shrinking
317 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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JPL Open-Source Rover Project Based on the Rovers on Mars
316 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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The Book “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” is now open source
316 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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A friendly guide to colours in data visualisation
316 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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What to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number
315 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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A Brief History of the BEAM Compiler
315 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen
314 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
313 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Nvidia Unveils Quadro RTX, a Raytracing GPU
313 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets
312 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Apple becomes the first $1T company
312 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Jason's Machine Learning 101
312 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Introducing Ghost 2.0
311 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on social acceptance
311 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021
311 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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A Map of Wireless Passwords from Airports and Lounges
310 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming
309 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact
309 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (2015)
308 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone
307 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes
306 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Six Months at Riot Games
306 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack
306 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Announcing Rust 1.28
306 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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What Was the Microsoft Network?
306 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (2013) [pdf]
306 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak
305 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely
305 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders
305 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]
305 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?
305 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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More Americans report near-constant cannabis use
303 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Magic Leap One Teardown
302 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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The Apocalyptic Architecture of One 1970s Retail Chain
302 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust
301 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion
301 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
301 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment
300 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Why you should, and shouldn’t, join a startup
300 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22
299 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19
298 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake
298 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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The Making of Prince of Persia (2011) [pdf]
297 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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The Hacker News Habit
297 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Is Rails still relevant in 2018?
296 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Twitter's Secret “Guest Mode”
296 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Osx-kvm: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM
295 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)
294 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port
293 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Django 2.1 released
293 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from being homeless?
293 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Reddit Security Incident
292 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer
292 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours
291 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Taking Tesla Private
291 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Google Boots Open-Source Anti-Censorship Tool "Ahoy" from Chrome Store
290 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Supreme Court Should Say No to Patents That Take Old Ideas Away from the Public
290 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of guilt or threat
288 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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JupyterCon: I don't like Notebooks [slides]
288 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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DoD: Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS
287 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)
285 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Programming in the Adult Entertainment Industry Is Broken
283 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos
282 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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My Own Car System, Rear Camera, Offline Maps and Routing with Go
282 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube?
281 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs
280 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Unix Syscalls
279 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies
279 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence: study
277 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture
277 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results
277 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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React Fire: Modernizing React DOM
275 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should
275 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU?
274 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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U.S. states reconsider confidential deals in workplace harassment
273 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source dependencies
272 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Introducing the Dweb
272 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu
271 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Eerie Skyglow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science
271 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable
271 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Financial Modeling for Startups: An Introduction
271 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents
270 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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BYTE Magazine
270 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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What Data Scientists Really Do, According to Data Scientists
270 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer
269 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment
268 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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What the f*** is the edge?
268 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost
268 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night
267 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Elm 0.19 Broke Us
267 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig
267 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year
266 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer
266 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
264 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show
264 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Lubuntu is taking a new direction
264 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing
264 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses
263 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream (2016)
263 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found
262 points • comment • aug 13, 2018