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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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Kofi Annan has died
167 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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The 1970s calculator race
167 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Malaysia Resists China’s Investments, Fearing ‘Colonialism’
167 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent researchers
166 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? (2017)
166 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Solo – Open-source FIDO2 security key
166 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses
166 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Aretha Franklin has died
165 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Housing market has hit a ‘significant slowdown’ in recent weeks, Redfin CEO says
165 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Visual Cheatsheet for CSS Grid Layout
165 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Reversing the effects of long programming sessions
165 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (2016)
165 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Always-on Alibaba office app fuels backlash among Chinese workers
165 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (2014)
164 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Jorge Luis Borges Interview (1977)
164 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Fraud in superconductor physics
164 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Convincing engineers to join your team
164 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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How to print an electric motor
164 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf]
163 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Gear Review: Wahoo Elemnt Bolt
163 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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People Hacks for Technical Leads
163 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (2017)
163 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Alcubierre drive
162 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Pseudo-bandlimited pixel art filtering in 3D: A mathematical derivation
162 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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The magic of asyncio explained
162 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Introducing Electron Fiddle
162 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work
162 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its Website
161 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Ask HN: Which types of tech jobs are best for people that can't handle stress?
161 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery
161 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’
161 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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PgModeler – PostgreSQL Database Modeler
160 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt
160 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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LibreOffice 6.1 released
160 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week?
160 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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The Ugly Truth of Ugly Produce
160 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Mod and remainder are not the same
160 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Go Memory Management
160 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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The Billionaires and The Guru: How an Indian Family Burned Through $2B
160 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man
160 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited types in Rust
159 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Agner Fog
159 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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What happens if you mistakenly apply for British citizenship?
159 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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TLS 1.3 Is an Opportunity for Amazon, Google and Microsoft to End Censorship
159 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED Lighting
159 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Oops, I Wrote a C++ Compiler
158 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO
158 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Public by Default: Venmo Stories of 2017
158 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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The Chinese were solving 14th degree polynomials in 1303. Why?
157 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Consumer startups that said no to investor money
157 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Meteor showers from space
157 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Cryptocurrency investor robbed via his cellphone account sues AT&T for $224M
157 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Basic Income caused crime to drop by 40% and strengthened workforce?
157 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time
156 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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In horrific detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches
156 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Upwork Freelancers Who Want Guaranteed Pay Have to Opt in to Tracking Software
156 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Crying in H Mart
156 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH
155 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Transmuting Low-Value Programmer Cred into High-Value Status Illegibility
155 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Warner Music Group Sells Entire Stake in Spotify
155 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027
155 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Salt not as damaging to health as previously thought, says study
155 points • comment • aug 12, 2018
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Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up in four days
155 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M
155 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance
155 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
154 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Show HN: SVG 3D Builder – Build 3D Models with SVG
154 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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For progress to be by accumulation and not random walk, read great books (2010)
154 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring US citizens’: report
154 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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From Google to the world: the Kubernetes origin story
154 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Farmers in Niger are nurturing gao trees to drive environmental change in Africa
154 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Bulma – Flexbox CSS framework
153 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Zero-copy deserialization in Julia
153 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Show HN: Trackerjacker – Map and track wifi networks you're not connected to
153 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility
153 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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My Experience and Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning: Which GPU to get
153 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization (2013)
153 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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G Suite Happy Ending
153 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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A map of publicly available fruit trees, mostly in Slovakia
153 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Instructions from Facebook not to touch the posts of the cabinet minister
153 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (2015)
153 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Absolute Hot
153 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage
153 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (2009)
153 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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UBC researchers may have found a way to make donated blood universal
153 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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How to use LEDs to detect light
152 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail
151 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Programming Language Foundations in Agda
151 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Microsoft will require suppliers to offer paid parental leave
151 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Krypton: phone-based U2F Authenticator
151 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Windows Calculator invalid input with 10^x function
151 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1
151 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Organic solar cells set 'remarkable' energy record
151 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Google's AutoML: Cutting Through the Hype
151 points • comment • aug 01, 2018
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The Berklee College of Music Sampling Archive
150 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Can you use the terminal for everything? [video]
150 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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NLP’s generalization problem, and how researchers are tackling it
150 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning
150 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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What Can Small Tech Companies Do About Patent Trolls?
150 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Goodbye Python, Hello Go
150 points • comment • aug 03, 2018