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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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This improbable membrane can trap flies in a jar–and odor in a toilet
9 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Unveils Turing, Bringing Ray-Tracing to Real Time
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Michael Cohen paid a tech company $50,000 'in connection with' Trump's campaign
9 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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(Deliberate) practice makes perfect: how to become an expert in anything
9 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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GlobalEntry.gov has invalid SSL certificate
9 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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ROM sites are falling, but a legal loophole could save game emulation
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Go checkout Andrew Moore's slides on statistics
9 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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General Magic: The Movie
9 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Tesla 'to be probed by regulators' over privatisation plan
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Pioneer: A home for ambitious outsiders
9 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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An Android Spy App Left 1.7M Passwords and Nude Photos Exposed to Hackers
9 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 and Von Neuman
9 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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The peppered moth and melanism: testing an iconic example of evolution in action
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Android Sucks Ten Times More Private Data Than iPhone, Study Says
9 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Bezos Parents May Be Worth Billions
9 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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AR superhuman ability: displaying object trajectory
9 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Too Late to Protect the 2018 Elections. Here’s How the US Can Prepare for 2020
9 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime
9 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Google One launches with cheaper cloud storage plans – The Verge
9 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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DIY medical kit that just needs water could help millions in remote communities
9 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Democrats Must Reclaim the Center by Moving Hard Left
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Pentagon Rolls Out Major Cyber, AI Strategies This Summer
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Ask HN: Anyone else have troubles with Facebook's app review process?
9 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Elon Musk Has Some Fun with Tesla
9 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Securing web sites with HTTPS made them less accessible
9 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Yuval Noah Harari on what the year 2050 has in store for humankind
9 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
9 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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SF “poop patrolers earn $71,760 a year; $184,678 with mandated benefits.”
9 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Leonardo the Enigma
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Instagram users are reporting the same bizarre hack
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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The 99% Is a Myth– How It Breaks Down
9 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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The greedy ways Apple got to $1 trillion
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Microsoft Widens Lead Over Amazon in Cloud Revenue
9 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Facebook will remove 5,000 ad targeting categories to limit discrimination
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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The terrible crisis of North America's murdered and missing women
9 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Show HN: Create sketchy, hand-drawn version of image in browser with WebAssembly
9 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
9 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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SQL Tip: JSONB_AGG in PostgreSQL for simple one-to-many joins
9 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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The freelance writer of Sing Sing
9 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Retraction Watch Leaderboard
9 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat
9 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment
9 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Ask HN: Downvotes on HN is killing me. How about you?
9 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
9 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?
9 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Chrome Bug Lets Attackers Steal Web Secrets via Audio or Video HTML Tags
9 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Why Can't European Startups Do Tech?
9 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Apple shuts App Store affiliate program, imperiling recommendation sites
9 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Conneticut exhibition: see some of the world's earliest photographs [video]
9 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Ask HN: Pure mathematical route to intelligence?
9 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Davidson Desktop Doohickeys: Puzzle Cubes
9 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Apple Pushes Ads in Safari Web Browser
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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These 5 tech myths need to die in a giant fire “Everyone is a designer”
8 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Norm Kerth’s Safety Poll
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Components in Harsh Environments: Defining “Harsh”
8 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Independent consultant sued over Tesla Model 3 teardown
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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FireHOL Language (& a program to run it) which builds secure stateful firewalls
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Extended Text Mode on the C64
8 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Bribes, Backdoor Deals, and Pay to Play: How Bad Rosé Took Over
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Google maps is now a sphere
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Ask HN: Should I put my portfolio and blog under my real name, or a Psuedonym?
8 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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CSS single-file stylesheets that you can drop into an HTML5 document
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Bees and the World-Wide Farming Web
8 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Why it's not OK to hate men
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Ask HN: What are you reading?
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Life expectancy declining in high-income countries
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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A Wild Alaskan Island That Inspired a Lost Classic
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Touring a county with 'special energy' using a 1939 guidebook
8 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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On average, men pick up on visual motion significantly faster than women do
8 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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A computer model could help save sharks and whales from extinction
8 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Machinery: an asynchronous task/job queue based on distributed message passing
8 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Types of Values – Crafting Interpreters
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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‘I know the secret’: Men in affluent neighborhoods receive shakedown letters
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Despite Comey Assurances, Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails Were Never Examined
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Dept of Veterans Affairs built most important medical computer system in history
8 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Audacious 3.10 released
8 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Now the Trump administration wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants
8 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Show HN: Weekend Project – My first blockchain wallet. Comments welcome
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Is this food keto? Does it raise my insulin?
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Chrome now using native Windows 10 notifications, Action Center
8 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Codesigning certificate revokation can be a major hurdle
8 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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HomeStarRunner
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Mozilla files arguments against the FCC – latest step to save net neutrality
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Google Cloud Launches Tesla V100 GPUs
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Tech Firms Surrender Their Crucial Billion-Dollar Tax Deductions
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Show HN: View random tweets from the Russian “trolls”
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Pioneer – A home for the ambitious outsiders of the world
8 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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The MIT license (with personal exceptions)
8 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Ask HN: Has Cold Contacting Investors Ever Worked for You?
8 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Ternary Trouble in Perl
8 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Judge in AT&T Case Ignored ‘Economics and Common Sense,’ Government Says
8 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Ask HN: Help me find an online hangout for freelancers and remote people?
8 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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This is Google’s Titan security key
8 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Tesla stock jumps on Musk's tweet that he is considering taking company private
8 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Ask HN: Why do you like to tinker?
8 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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V.S. Naipaul, Poet of the Displaced
8 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Jack Ma wants to share users' social credit with Malaysian immigration body
8 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Austria’s far-right ordered a raid on its own intelligence service
8 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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AAPL hits $1T market cap according to Apple’s own Stocks app, but it is wrong
8 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Google Cloud grants $9M in credits for the operation of the Kubernetes project
8 points • comment • aug 29, 2018