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Hacker News (Sep 2018)
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PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars
56 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Engineering tour de force births programmable optical quantum computer
56 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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North, Thalmic's Secret Smart Glasses Play
56 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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Show HN: Clipboard Plus, free and open-source clipboard manager for Windows
56 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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Brazil Nuts Are Brought to You by Rodents
56 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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Ask HN: Did anyone just get prompted by Google Chrome with a privacy form?
56 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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The Escape of Bernd Boettger (2014)
56 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Global scan – exposed .git repos
56 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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DNA detectives hunting the causes of cancer
56 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Microsoft to ‘warn’ Windows 10 users not to install Chrome or Firefox
56 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Pycket: A Tracing JIT For a Functional Language (2015) [pdf]
56 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Ruins Lives (2017)
56 points • comment • sep 30, 2018
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On SGQR, Singapore's unified QR code payment system
56 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?
56 points • comment • sep 01, 2018
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React-copy-write: immutable React state management library
56 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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The Village Voice (1955-2018)
56 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Pivotal CRISPR patent battle won by Broad Institute
56 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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Network topologies for large-scale compute centers: It's the diameter (2016)
55 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics
55 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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Show HN: Minimal Bookmarking Site
55 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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World's first animal was a pancake-shaped ocean dweller
55 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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A Chinese Company Reshaping the World Leaves a Troubled Trail
55 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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A blog in pure Org/Lisp
55 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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Show HN: Replays of technical interviews with engineers from Google, FB and more
55 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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Ask HN: Where are other tech scenes outside Bay Area
55 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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The ‘Post-PC Era’ Never Really Happened and Likely Won’t
55 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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Comparing the NYT op-ed to tweets from cabinet members
55 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Gamma Steganography
55 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Leaked video reveals Amazon's union-busting playbook
55 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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An Open Source Release of the Freedom U540-C000's Bootloader
55 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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Marshall Islands warned against adopting digital currency
55 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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NYT sues FCC, says it hid evidence of Russia meddling in net neutrality repeal
55 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Survival Tips for Women in Tech
55 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Youth-apprenticeship program in Colorado mirrors a successful Swiss model
55 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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When Concorde was the future
55 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Google defends Gmail data sharing, gives few details on violations
55 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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Optimize Dokku Deployment Speed for Ruby on Rails Apps with Dockerfile
55 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Show HN: Micro JavaScript framework inspired by finite-state machine
55 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Ray Tracing Is No New Thing
54 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Interview with Dr Erika Camacho on the Hartman-Grobman theorem [audio]
54 points • comment • sep 16, 2018
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Net neutrality gives “free” Internet to Netflix and Google, ISP claims
54 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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Ten Trillion-Degree Quasar Astonishes Astronomers (2016)
54 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
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Code, conflict, and conduct
54 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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The problem of shitty software is you because you pay for this shit
54 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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Kansas-born woman told birth certificate not proof of citizenship for passport
54 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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Show HN: Visual CSS Grid Editor
54 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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The acceptance of bad scientific practice to the benefit of productivity
54 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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Twitter CEO: conservative employees ‘dont feel safe to express their opinions’
54 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Aspider: A lightweight, asynchronous micro-framework based on asyncio
54 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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State of JavaScript 2018 Survey
54 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal with the Opioid Epidemic
54 points • comment • sep 16, 2018
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Removing jQuery from GitHub.com front end
54 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Karl Ove Knausgaard Concludes “My Struggle”
54 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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NCIX Data Breach
54 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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Krukenberg procedure
54 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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RL3: a rule-based information-extraction and entity-recognition engine
54 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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How Libcorrect Corrects Errors, Part I
54 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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In Search of Darkness
54 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Do images of the brain make us more likely to believe what we read?
53 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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Benchmarking C++ Sets
53 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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Fullscreen mobile modal: how hard can it be?
53 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Edward Snowden surveillance powers ruled unlawful
53 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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SEPA: A Simple, Efficient Permutation Algorithm
53 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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Java’s Checked Exceptions Are Evil? (2015)
53 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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Hide your real name in Open Source
53 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Twitter says bug may have exposed some direct messages to third-party developers
53 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Advice from a Geographer: Put Away the Map
53 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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Automated PCB Reverse Engineering (2017) [pdf]
53 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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‘Quantum Atmospheres’ May Reveal Secrets of Matter
53 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Manga comics turn gray – but spirited – along with readers
53 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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Reading bits in far too many ways
53 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Nepal cracks down on lucrative helicopter rescue scams
53 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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Dumb Rules That Make Your Best People Want to Quit (2017)
53 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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Hurricane Maria Killed as Many American Citizens as 9/11 Did
53 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
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Avatars, identicons, and hash visualization
53 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Ask HN: What is the best API documentation you have ever seen?
53 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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Hooking up brains to machines could be the ‘next big thing’ for gaming
53 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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Parry and Thrust: On Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley
53 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour
53 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Uber Rebrand
52 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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A Flannery O’Connor Reading List
52 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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Over half the firmwares uploaded to TCSL Armor have invalid certificates
52 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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AttackDefense is giving free access to their online cybersecurity lab
52 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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Europe’s Triumphs and Troubles Are Written in Swiss Ice
52 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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TensorFlow 1.11 released
52 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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European observatory on Algorithmic Sovereignty
52 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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An ancient engineering feat that harnessed the wind
52 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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MTNT: Machine Translation of Noisy Text
52 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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Novelrank is gone
52 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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Why California's Privacy Law Won't Hurt Facebook or Google
52 points • comment • sep 01, 2018
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The Cult of Reason
52 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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Detecting Screen Content via Remote Acoustic Side Channels
52 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
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Amazon researcher explains science behind Alexa's newly announced whisper mode
52 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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The Numbers Behind a Fields Medalist's Math
52 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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Data Wrangling with Apache Kafka and KSQL
52 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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The Subway Doesn't Have to Be Hot and Gross
52 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Bomb squad warning over magnet fishing
52 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Moon Is Stepping Stone, Not Alternative to Mars, NASA Chief Says
52 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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USB drives with no phantom load
51 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Milkymist: VJ on an FPGA
51 points • comment • sep 24, 2018