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Hacker News (Aug 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
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A Guide to Python's Magic Methods (2012)
189 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Patrick Stewart Returns as Jean-Luc Picard for a New Star Trek Series
189 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation
189 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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A Ray-Tracing Pioneer Explains How He Stumbled into Global Illumination
189 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Solve Less General Problems
188 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do to Your Brain?
188 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target
187 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Rainway takes a game running on one system and streams it to another device
187 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer
187 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation
187 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Why Prosperity Has Increased but Happiness Has Not
186 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay?
186 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Cracking WPA-2 Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
186 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Telco lobbyists accidentally send their talking points
186 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
185 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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From GNU social to Mastodon
185 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor
185 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Ask HN: What are your go-to blogs and books on building business applications?
184 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens
184 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s
184 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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The Mind: Most polarizing card game of the year?
184 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017)
183 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out
183 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Portability benchmark of Dota2 on MacOS
183 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
183 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?
183 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
183 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Duke Team Finds Missing Immune Cells That Could Fight Lethal Brain Tumors
182 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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From developer to entrepreneur: Learning to build an indie startup
182 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Leaked white paper proposes U.S. Congressional regulation of social media
182 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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VuePress: a static site generator that excels at working with documentation
182 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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A satellite engineer explains the basics of space electronics
181 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution
181 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?
181 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition
181 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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US elections remain 'dangerously vulnerable' to cyber-attacks
181 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime
181 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Go 1.11 and Beyond
181 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Luna Studio – Visual and textual functional programming language
181 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Privatizing Poverty
181 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Show HN: I trained a neural network to learn Arabic morphology
180 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Advocates say paper ballots are safest
180 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Why use GraphQL, good and bad reasons
180 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Jepsen: Dgraph 1.0.2
180 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Wikipedia bans agenda-driven editor, but punishes the messenger too
179 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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ATtention Spanned: Comprehensive Android Vulnerability Analysis of AT Commands
179 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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One-Process Programming Notes
179 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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The Twilio API for WhatsApp
179 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Beta release of PHP 7.2 in the Google App Engine standard environment
179 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Fusion.js: A Plugin-Based Universal Web Framework
178 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
178 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
178 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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False Advertising for College Is Pretty Much the Norm
178 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?
178 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars
177 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming
176 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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How to explain infinity to kids
176 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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A deep dive into the Go memory allocator and garbage collector
176 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser
175 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Why HP Fell
175 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Why You Should Build a Hackintosh
175 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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SpaceX set to re-fly a Block 5 rocket for the first time tonight
174 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem
174 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Idempotence: What is it and why should I care?
174 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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SEC Charges Rothenberg Ventures in Fraudulent Scheme
174 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break the Trust Tech Depends On
174 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Google Titan Security Key now available
174 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Advice for Haskell beginners (2017)
174 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
173 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Code review review is the manager’s job
173 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion (2014)
173 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Shamir's Secret Sharing
173 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Markdeep markup language
173 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Magic Leap One Creator's Edition First Look
172 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Show HN: Remote jobs for people with disabilities
172 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
172 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Build a VM step by step with Rust
172 points • comment • aug 04, 2018
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Show HN: TinyGo – LLVM-based Go compiler for microcontrollers
171 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Python Pandas: Tricks and Features
171 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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What happens when we work non-stop
171 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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Show HN: Toy – A thin C++ game engine
171 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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For $450, a Japanese Company Will Quit Your Job for You
171 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64
170 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (2009)
170 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lotus Notes system
170 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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“I Used AI to Clone My Voice and Trick My Mom into Thinking It Was Me”
170 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: built differently for time-series data
169 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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The Python scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly
169 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016)
169 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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The Oldest Building in Every US State
169 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Nim partners with Status.im
169 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is the New Summer Job
169 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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How did you get it to run on a Gameboy?
169 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Java is still available at zero-cost
168 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Intel Responds to Complaints About Microcode Benchmarking Ban
168 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler
167 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Cherry MX History
167 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Kofi Annan has died
167 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one
167 points • comment • aug 21, 2018