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Hacker News (Aug 2018)
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I'm Wil Wheaton. I Live with Chronic Depression and Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed
134 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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K-anonymity
133 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans
133 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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The Real Deal About rel="me"
133 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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How air-conditioning created the modern city
133 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Making $25k/month selling chocolate dicks
133 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Criticisms of EU plans for copyright censorship machines removed from Google
133 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Microsoft Closes US Surface Factory, Moves Production to China
133 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Japan still has great influence on global financial markets
132 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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How to deal with dirty side effects in your pure functional JavaScript
132 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Brazil sets new record for homicides
132 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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Facebook to Remove Onavo App from Apple Store
132 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Aramco listing plan halted, oil giant disbands advisors – sources
132 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Some Bacteria Are Becoming 'More Tolerant' of Hand Sanitizers, Study Finds
132 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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On Loneliness and Solitude
132 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go
132 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Porting SBCL to the RISC-V
132 points • comment • aug 11, 2018
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Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft
131 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
131 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Labor Board Backs Startup Engineers Fired for Unionizing
131 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar
131 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Sclack: The best CLI client for Slack, because everything is terrible
131 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor
131 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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Italy’s famous dome is cracking, and muon imaging may help
131 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS
131 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Uber Hit with Cap as New York City Takes Lead in Crackdown
130 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Reading the NSA’s codebase: LemonGraph review
130 points • comment • aug 10, 2018
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New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind
130 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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SurveyMonkey S-1
130 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Napoleon Was the Best General Ever
130 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies
130 points • comment • aug 03, 2018
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Julia v1.0 has been released
129 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Business writers, please stop comparing market value to GDP
129 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Nuclear Weapons Nerds
129 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape
129 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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The NSA Continues to Violate Americans' Internet Privacy Rights
129 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: Career Successes Come in Clusters
129 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Companies shouldn't give candidates homework assignments
129 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy?
129 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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Pop Songs Written by Native Speakers of Swedish
128 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley
128 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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Dart 2.0 is now available
128 points • comment • aug 07, 2018
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Life as a bug bounty hunter
127 points • comment • aug 23, 2018
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The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server
127 points • comment • aug 26, 2018
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I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare
127 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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What It’s Like Living As a Diagnosed Psychopath
127 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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We Discovered Helium 150 Years Ago. Are We Running Out?
127 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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Plastic Straws Aren’t the Problem
127 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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A Visual, Intuitive Guide to Imaginary Numbers (2007)
127 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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A plea for lean software (1995) [pdf]
127 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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A new kernel polling interface
126 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Ai Wei Wei's Beijing Studio Destroyed by Chinese Authorities
126 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Beyond the pixel plane: sensing and learning in 3D
126 points • comment • aug 25, 2018
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Service Workers
126 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Very Good Security
126 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
126 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
125 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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Clothing Britain’s Spies During World War II
125 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative
125 points • comment • aug 19, 2018
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The Git project selects SHA-256 as the next-gen hash function to migrate to
125 points • comment • aug 22, 2018
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Theft: A History of Music
125 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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VigNAT: A Formally Verified Performant NAT
125 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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AMD Announces Dual-Vega Radeon Pro V340 Card with 32GB of ECC HBM Memory
125 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Slack confirms it has raised $427M at a post-money valuation of over $7B
125 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery public dataset
125 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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A Mathematical Theory for Why People Hallucinate
125 points • comment • aug 02, 2018
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Hyperpolyglot: Lisp
125 points • comment • aug 08, 2018
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Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen
125 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Smoking around the world
125 points • comment • aug 09, 2018
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Suicidal Vet Calls MDMA Treatment ‘a Miracle'
125 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete
124 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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Show HN: Map of Related Books for “Designing Data Intensive Apps”
124 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Uber’s Vision of Self-Driving Cars Begins to Blur
124 points • comment • aug 20, 2018
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An introduction to libuv (2016)
124 points • comment • aug 16, 2018
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TensorFlow 2.0 is coming
124 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Security Analysis of WireGuard [pdf]
124 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Russia tries more precise technology to block Telegram messenger
124 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Implementing a JIT-compiler with Rust
124 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk
123 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Update on Taking Tesla Private
123 points • comment • aug 13, 2018
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The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf]
123 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Collaborate, but only intermittently, says new study
123 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Z80 computer wirewrapped on perfboard
123 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Apple Goes Vertical and Why It Matters
122 points • comment • aug 30, 2018
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A Sound Card Before Its Time
122 points • comment • aug 17, 2018
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Dear Academia, I loved you, but I’m leaving you (2014)
122 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs
122 points • comment • aug 06, 2018
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Puffins are in trouble
122 points • comment • aug 29, 2018
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S2 Geometry
122 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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From laboratory in far west, China’s surveillance state spreads quietly
122 points • comment • aug 14, 2018
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Multi-Armed Bandits, Conjugate Models and Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
122 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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Amazon is paying to tweet nice things about warehouse working conditions
121 points • comment • aug 24, 2018
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On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher
121 points • comment • aug 31, 2018
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What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your Indie App
121 points • comment • aug 27, 2018
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Cracking Litter Box DRM
120 points • comment • aug 28, 2018
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Issues relating to a bug in Intel cpus
120 points • comment • aug 15, 2018
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Deep Space Network Now: Status of communications with our deep space explorers
120 points • comment • aug 05, 2018
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Design errors Satoshi made
120 points • comment • aug 18, 2018
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A Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps
120 points • comment • aug 21, 2018
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My Own Private CDN
120 points • comment • aug 30, 2018