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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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Emails while commuting 'should count as work'
221 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Secure Secure Shell (2015)
221 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
221 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Two French rivers disappear underground in cracks and sinkholes
220 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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The Tox project
220 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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A spreadsheet of the businesses I've started over the past 15 years
220 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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A Missing Link in Postgres 11: Fast Column Creation with Defaults
219 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago
219 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake (2014)
219 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer
219 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Huawei Caught Faking Smartphone Photo with a DSLR
218 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price
218 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Introduction to OCaml
217 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Australians who won't unlock their phones could face ten years in jail
216 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as Panic Spreads
216 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized, Then They Were Dismissed
216 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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China is detaining a million Uighur muslims in a secret camp
215 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
215 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Is serverless insecure? Let's find out
215 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling
215 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certificates
215 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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I made my own WireGuard VPN server
214 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history
213 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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How to Hire Your First Engineer
213 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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OpenAI bots competing against Humans right now
213 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Intel firmware now unredistributable by OS vendors
213 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Salmon, a Python Mail Server
212 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Parallel Programming with Python
212 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Parents Break Teen Out of Mayo Clinic
212 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
212 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Lego Axle Sorter [video]
212 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Apple Removes Infowars from Podcast Directory
212 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Computational Duplo train track layouts
211 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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The Story of Why I Left Riot Games
211 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling
210 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume
210 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly
210 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js
210 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female
210 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Heavy-handed security searches of hotel rooms at Defcon/Black Hat
209 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Being the editor of a newspaper in Eve Online
209 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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A Web Design Crash Course: From Developer to Developer
208 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher
208 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video]
207 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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How to Architect a Query Compiler, Revisited [pdf]
207 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization
207 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Court has confirmed coordinated raids of Zwiebelfreunde in Germany were illegal
206 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Dev.to is now open source
206 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined
205 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs
205 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead
205 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Dugout Loop
205 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
205 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort
204 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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California governor signs overhaul of bail system
203 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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WireGuarding the mainline
203 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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New attack on WPA using PMKID
203 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women
202 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Redis is not “open core”
202 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Need More Self-Control? Try a Simple Ritual
201 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Thunderbird 60.0 release
201 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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IPOs are expensive and cumbersome – Try a direct listing, like we did at Spotify
201 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Redux vs. The React Context API
200 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
199 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjiang crackdown
199 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Faxploit: Sending Fax Back to the Dark Ages
199 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping
199 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Ask HN: Simple, beginner friendly ETL / Data Engineering project ideas?
199 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Another Expansion of Copyright
199 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-nuclear plants to market
198 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Chess over ActivityPub
198 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals
197 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic
197 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Don’t Shoot Messenger
196 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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China’s Mass Internment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight
196 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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How much countries spend in R&D
196 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Tesla Second Quarter 2018 Update
196 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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A dull, resilient stream processor in Go
195 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site?
195 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
195 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Three Levels of Wealth
194 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Show HN: Windows 95 in an Electron App
194 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Mithril.js – A modern client-side Javascript framework
194 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road
194 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger
194 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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A high bias low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists
193 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress
192 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines
192 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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The tech industry's use of persuasive techniques on children
192 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
192 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
192 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure in US: disease burden and cost analysis
191 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Cost of a Join
191 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Rave.dj – an artificially intelligent mash-up machine
191 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Everything Is Booming Except for Wages
191 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Why U.S. Corporate Boards Don’t Include Workers
191 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings
191 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Memristor – The fictional circuit element
191 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft
191 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Show HN: A Rust macro that parses Java-like syntax and runs it as a Rust program
190 points • comment • aug 10, 2018