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Hacker News (Sep 2018)

  1. Trees, Teeth, and Time: The mathematics of clock making

    83 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  2. Defeating Modern Secure Boot Using Second-Order Pulsed EM Fault Injection [pdf]

    83 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  3. Securing cookies in Go

    83 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  4. China’s Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communists

    83 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  5. How We Found a Missing Scala Class

    83 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  6. UK Surveillance Regime Violated Human Rights

    83 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  7. Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS

    83 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  8. Alex Garland’s cult novel The Beach, 20 years on

    83 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  9. How does Tidelift pay maintainers?

    83 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  10. Content Is King (1996)

    83 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  11. The epic rise and fall of the name Heather

    83 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  12. UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440

    83 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  13. Physics facts not always taught in school

    82 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  14. A Machine Learning cheatsheet focusing on the most popular algorithms

    82 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  15. A German Couple Winds Up on U.S. No-Fly List

    82 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  16. PunyForth programming language for the ESP8266

    82 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  17. On holy wars, and a plea for peace

    82 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  18. The origin of circuits (2007)

    82 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  19. How to write a parser in Go

    82 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  20. Launch HN: Sterblue (YC S18) – Software for drones to inspect power lines

    82 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  21. Tell HN: Legacy WebAudio content will break in Chrome 70

    82 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  22. The game industry of Iran (2016)

    82 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  23. TypeScript 3.0

    82 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  24. Show HN: Panther – A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP

    82 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  25. Building apps on top of Google Sheets

    82 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  26. How leaves talk to roots

    82 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  27. Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf]

    81 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  28. Are BGPs security features working yet?

    81 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  29. Serious design flaw in ESS ExpressVote touchscreen: “permission to cheat”

    81 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  30. CrimsonDB: A Self-Designing Key-Value Store

    81 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  31. A Texas-Sized Pavement Problem

    81 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  32. Divisiveness is efficient for watch time, and watch time leads to ads

    81 points • comment • sep 02, 2018

  33. The Case of the Broken Lambda

    81 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  34. Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade

    81 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  35. Google’s location privacy practices are under investigation in Arizona

    81 points • comment • sep 11, 2018

  36. Sloan Kettering’s Deal with Startup Ignites a New Uproar

    81 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  37. Employers Choose Bonuses Over Raises

    81 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  38. 'Right to be forgotten' could threaten global free speech, say NGOs

    80 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  39. Show HN: Strife, a 2D game library for Go

    80 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  40. Ask HN: Why Does the European Tech Industry Have Such a B2B Focus?

    80 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  41. Distractions Cause Bad Code

    80 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  42. Go West

    80 points • comment • sep 25, 2018

  43. 'We're moving to higher ground': America's era of climate mass migration is here

    80 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  44. First Wave of Spiking Neural Network Hardware Hits

    80 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  45. Ten years after the financial crisis, GSE securities have expanded $804B

    80 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  46. Atari 7800 Source Code

    80 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  47. Ghostbuster: Detecting the Presence of Hidden Eavesdroppers [pdf]

    80 points • comment • sep 27, 2018

  48. How did software get so reliable without proof? (1996) [pdf]

    80 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  49. A Containerized Polyglot Microservices on Kubernetes and Service Mesh

    79 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  50. Linux – The beginning of the end?

    79 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  51. Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?

    79 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  52. Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel

    79 points • comment • sep 04, 2018

  53. Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information

    79 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  54. What Ötzi the Iceman’s Tattoos Reveal About Copper Age Medical Practices

    79 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  55. Page Weight Matters (2012)

    79 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  56. Why We Need Dynamic Secrets

    79 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  57. Short Selling Is Tough Business

    79 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  58. High Performance Computing: Are We Just Getting Wrong Answers Faster? (1998) [pdf]

    79 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  59. Getting specific about generics

    79 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  60. Cttrie – Compile-time trie-based string matching for C++

    78 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  61. One DNA test said he was likely to get Alzheimer’s, the other said he wasn’t

    78 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  62. Entrepreneur raises millions of bugs to tackle food waste problem (2017)

    78 points • comment • sep 09, 2018

  63. An open governance model for the AMP Project

    78 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  64. UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

    78 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  65. How Mammals Maintain Symmetry During Development

    78 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  66. Make plastic printed circuits with a standard laser cutter [video]

    78 points • comment • sep 03, 2018

  67. Probiotics labelled 'quite useless'

    78 points • comment • sep 06, 2018

  68. Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history

    78 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  69. A foundation for scikit-learn at Inria

    78 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  70. Today in History, Brought to You by Unix

    78 points • comment • sep 12, 2018

  71. The Scent of Bad Psychology

    77 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  72. How I acquired my first 10 customers

    77 points • comment • sep 05, 2018

  73. Managing your Amazon Redshift performance: How Plaid uses Periscope Data

    77 points • comment • sep 10, 2018

  74. Giant plastic catcher heads for Pacific Ocean clean-up

    77 points • comment • sep 07, 2018

  75. Volunteers scour drone footage in search for woman who went missing on hike

    77 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  76. Show HN: A simple GUI app to make Linux touchpad gestures easier

    77 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  77. Masque – Wearable that manipulates a user’s perception of their own respiration

    77 points • comment • sep 17, 2018

  78. E-Ink Monitors: Ready for Prime Time?

    77 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  79. A First Course in Design and Analysis of Experiments (2010) [pdf]

    77 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  80. Meow Wolf’s Magic Kingdom

    77 points • comment • sep 20, 2018

  81. It’s Hard for Doctors to Unlearn Things

    77 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  82. Drug giants Novartis and Bayer fail to stop NHS offering cheaper eye treatment

    76 points • comment • sep 21, 2018

  83. Designing a RISC-V CPU in VHDL: Arty S7 RPU SoC

    76 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  84. New Electric Drone Has Groundbreaking Flight Time

    76 points • comment • sep 16, 2018

  85. Show HN: Python library to create Siri shortcuts

    76 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  86. Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint

    76 points • comment • sep 29, 2018

  87. Tesla to achieve leading $100/kWh battery cell cost this year, says investor

    76 points • comment • sep 13, 2018

  88. Cellular automata as convolutional neural networks

    76 points • comment • sep 30, 2018

  89. The Problem With APLs

    76 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  90. Zooniverse

    76 points • comment • sep 28, 2018

  91. The perils of microtask work

    76 points • comment • sep 23, 2018

  92. Privateer Holdings Hits the Jackpot with $12B Tilray Stake

    76 points • comment • sep 19, 2018

  93. Blogging with org-publish in Emacs

    76 points • comment • sep 08, 2018

  94. Handling Notch on iPhone X, XS, XR, XS Max

    76 points • comment • sep 15, 2018

  95. Fail

    76 points • comment • sep 01, 2018

  96. Zero-Day Bug Allows Hackers to Access CCTV Surveillance Cameras

    76 points • comment • sep 18, 2018

  97. Amazon launches Part Finder, using technology acquired from Partpic in 2016

    76 points • comment • sep 14, 2018

  98. Mosquitoes Genetically Modified to Crash Species That Spreads Malaria

    76 points • comment • sep 24, 2018

  99. Show HN: Variables War, a kid-friendly code playing-cards game

    76 points • comment • sep 26, 2018

  100. A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother

    75 points • comment • sep 28, 2018