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Hacker News (Sep 2018)
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Trees, Teeth, and Time: The mathematics of clock making
83 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Defeating Modern Secure Boot Using Second-Order Pulsed EM Fault Injection [pdf]
83 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
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Securing cookies in Go
83 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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China’s Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communists
83 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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How We Found a Missing Scala Class
83 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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UK Surveillance Regime Violated Human Rights
83 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS
83 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Alex Garland’s cult novel The Beach, 20 years on
83 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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How does Tidelift pay maintainers?
83 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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Content Is King (1996)
83 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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The epic rise and fall of the name Heather
83 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440
83 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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Physics facts not always taught in school
82 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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A Machine Learning cheatsheet focusing on the most popular algorithms
82 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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A German Couple Winds Up on U.S. No-Fly List
82 points • comment • sep 16, 2018
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PunyForth programming language for the ESP8266
82 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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On holy wars, and a plea for peace
82 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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The origin of circuits (2007)
82 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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How to write a parser in Go
82 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Launch HN: Sterblue (YC S18) – Software for drones to inspect power lines
82 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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Tell HN: Legacy WebAudio content will break in Chrome 70
82 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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The game industry of Iran (2016)
82 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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TypeScript 3.0
82 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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Show HN: Panther – A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP
82 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Building apps on top of Google Sheets
82 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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How leaves talk to roots
82 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf]
81 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Are BGPs security features working yet?
81 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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Serious design flaw in ESS ExpressVote touchscreen: “permission to cheat”
81 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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CrimsonDB: A Self-Designing Key-Value Store
81 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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A Texas-Sized Pavement Problem
81 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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Divisiveness is efficient for watch time, and watch time leads to ads
81 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
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The Case of the Broken Lambda
81 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade
81 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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Google’s location privacy practices are under investigation in Arizona
81 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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Sloan Kettering’s Deal with Startup Ignites a New Uproar
81 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Employers Choose Bonuses Over Raises
81 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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'Right to be forgotten' could threaten global free speech, say NGOs
80 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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Show HN: Strife, a 2D game library for Go
80 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Ask HN: Why Does the European Tech Industry Have Such a B2B Focus?
80 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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Distractions Cause Bad Code
80 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Go West
80 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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'We're moving to higher ground': America's era of climate mass migration is here
80 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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First Wave of Spiking Neural Network Hardware Hits
80 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Ten years after the financial crisis, GSE securities have expanded $804B
80 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Atari 7800 Source Code
80 points • comment • sep 16, 2018
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Ghostbuster: Detecting the Presence of Hidden Eavesdroppers [pdf]
80 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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How did software get so reliable without proof? (1996) [pdf]
80 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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A Containerized Polyglot Microservices on Kubernetes and Service Mesh
79 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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Linux – The beginning of the end?
79 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?
79 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel
79 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information
79 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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What Ötzi the Iceman’s Tattoos Reveal About Copper Age Medical Practices
79 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Page Weight Matters (2012)
79 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Why We Need Dynamic Secrets
79 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Short Selling Is Tough Business
79 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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High Performance Computing: Are We Just Getting Wrong Answers Faster? (1998) [pdf]
79 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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Getting specific about generics
79 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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Cttrie – Compile-time trie-based string matching for C++
78 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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One DNA test said he was likely to get Alzheimer’s, the other said he wasn’t
78 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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Entrepreneur raises millions of bugs to tackle food waste problem (2017)
78 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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An open governance model for the AMP Project
78 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine
78 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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How Mammals Maintain Symmetry During Development
78 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Make plastic printed circuits with a standard laser cutter [video]
78 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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Probiotics labelled 'quite useless'
78 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Tokyo researchers created the strongest controllable magnetic field in history
78 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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A foundation for scikit-learn at Inria
78 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Today in History, Brought to You by Unix
78 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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The Scent of Bad Psychology
77 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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How I acquired my first 10 customers
77 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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Managing your Amazon Redshift performance: How Plaid uses Periscope Data
77 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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Giant plastic catcher heads for Pacific Ocean clean-up
77 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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Volunteers scour drone footage in search for woman who went missing on hike
77 points • comment • sep 01, 2018
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Show HN: A simple GUI app to make Linux touchpad gestures easier
77 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Masque – Wearable that manipulates a user’s perception of their own respiration
77 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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E-Ink Monitors: Ready for Prime Time?
77 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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A First Course in Design and Analysis of Experiments (2010) [pdf]
77 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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Meow Wolf’s Magic Kingdom
77 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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It’s Hard for Doctors to Unlearn Things
77 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Drug giants Novartis and Bayer fail to stop NHS offering cheaper eye treatment
76 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Designing a RISC-V CPU in VHDL: Arty S7 RPU SoC
76 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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New Electric Drone Has Groundbreaking Flight Time
76 points • comment • sep 16, 2018
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Show HN: Python library to create Siri shortcuts
76 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint
76 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Tesla to achieve leading $100/kWh battery cell cost this year, says investor
76 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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Cellular automata as convolutional neural networks
76 points • comment • sep 30, 2018
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The Problem With APLs
76 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Zooniverse
76 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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The perils of microtask work
76 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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Privateer Holdings Hits the Jackpot with $12B Tilray Stake
76 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Blogging with org-publish in Emacs
76 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Handling Notch on iPhone X, XS, XR, XS Max
76 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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Fail
76 points • comment • sep 01, 2018
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Zero-Day Bug Allows Hackers to Access CCTV Surveillance Cameras
76 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Amazon launches Part Finder, using technology acquired from Partpic in 2016
76 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Mosquitoes Genetically Modified to Crash Species That Spreads Malaria
76 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Show HN: Variables War, a kid-friendly code playing-cards game
76 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother
75 points • comment • sep 28, 2018