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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First
261 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml
261 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Just Read the Book Already
258 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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The terrible 'what if': how OCD makes every day a matter of life or death
257 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously
257 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Show HN: A side project in medical devices
257 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Show HN: Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams
256 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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A2Z: A computer designed and built from scratch. Custom CPU on FPGA (2017)
255 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout
255 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans
255 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Firefox removes RSS support
254 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed
253 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Babel 7 Released
253 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Generating random points inside a sphere
252 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Leo Editor
252 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life
252 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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How to Hire
252 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18
249 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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One man designed and built the ultimate bush plane
249 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Introduction to Go Modules
248 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly
248 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
247 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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FCC sides with Google Fiber over Comcast with new pro-competition rule
247 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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How I slashed a SQL query's runtime with two Unix commands
246 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Should computer science researchers disclose negative social consequences?
246 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation
245 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games
245 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Photography Composition
245 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Show HN: Find recommendations from good people
245 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time
245 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned
244 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Personal Information
244 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Notes Nearing Ninety: Learning to Write Less
243 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform
243 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Loss aversion is not supported by the evidence
243 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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GitLab is now running on GCP
243 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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24-core CPU and I can’t type an email – part two
242 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Pixelblaze V2 – An advanced LED pattern development engine and controller
242 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Show HN: Curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL
242 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Elusive mitochondrial connection to inflammation uncovered
241 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN
241 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Python Fire – Generates CLIs from any Python object
241 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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OpenPGPjs has passed an independent security audit
241 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Spotify GDPR data export: user receives 250MB containing every interaction
240 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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The Orange Juice Test (1985)
239 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Why Love Generative Art?
239 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Frink
238 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers
237 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes
237 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs
237 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
237 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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C compiler with support for structs written in Assembly
236 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Internet Archive, decentralized
236 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature is dangerous
236 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Introduction to Computer Organization with X86-64 Assembly Language and Linux
236 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Go 1.11 released
235 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Tinder founders sue parent companies Match and IAC for at least $2B
235 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
234 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him
234 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation
234 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money
234 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire
232 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Ask HN: Best way to publish papers as a non-scholar?
232 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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AMD Creates Quad Core Zen SoC with 24 Vega CUs for Chinese Consoles
231 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network
231 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Google Refuses to Remove the Pirate Bay's Homepage
231 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Introduction to Data Mining – Second Edition
230 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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The Xi Text Engine CRDT
230 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Prediction Markets: When Do They Work?
230 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Black Design – Design tools for early stage startup founders
229 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams
228 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Freeing the Web from the Browser
228 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX
228 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Show HN: NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC
228 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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FxSolver – A solver for engineering and scientific equations
228 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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SQLite – The “server-process-edition” branch
228 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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IncludeOS – A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services
228 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything
227 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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The world is losing the war against climate change
227 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Slow leak detected aboard Space Station
227 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Potato paradox
226 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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GE Engineer Linked to China Stole Power Plant Technology, FBI Says
226 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey
226 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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CodeSandbox
225 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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When Security Compromises Security – The Caesars/Defcon debacle
225 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk
225 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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What they don’t tell you about event sourcing
224 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years
224 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Show HN: Rb – Turns Ruby into a command line utility
224 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?
224 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Inside the die of Intel's 8087 coprocessor chip, root of modern floating point
224 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Bumper Sticker Computer Science (1985) [pdf]
224 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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SpiderOak removes its warrant canary
224 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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France bans smartphone use in schools
223 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Xinu – A small, elegant operating system
223 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial
223 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Blackened Buildings of Manchester Before the Clean Air Act
223 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine for China
222 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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People start hating their jobs at 35
222 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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A study of musical scales (2017)
222 points • comment • aug 22, 2018