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Hacker News (Sep 2018)
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To Restore Civil Society, Start with the Library
183 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain
182 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?
182 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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Companies worry more about access to software developers than capital
182 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking
182 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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The Riemann Hypothesis, explained
181 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recognition Boarding
181 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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The Inexplicably Fascinating Japanese Art of Being Useless
181 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
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NSA metadata program “consistent” with Fourth Amendment, Kavanaugh once argued
181 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room
181 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective
181 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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Telltale Employees Left Stunned by Company Closure, No Severance
181 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Extended Validation Certificates Are Dead
180 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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In test case, U.S. fails to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger calls
180 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That
180 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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Mics that record in 3D ambisonics are the next big thing
179 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12
179 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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The Dangers of DNA Testing
179 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
179 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Loneliness is a serious public-health problem
179 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Fennel – Lisp in Lua
179 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Why Is College in America So Expensive?
179 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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The Evolution of Reddit’s Architecture (2017)
178 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Senate passes copyright bill to end 140-year protection for old songs
178 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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What went wrong at Social Capital
178 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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What I Learned from a Taipei Alley
178 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Many who crafted regulations after the 2008 crisis now work for Wall Street
177 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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Git is already federated and decentralized
177 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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What Companies Mean by Culture Fit
177 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a menu builder for terminal
177 points • comment • sep 09, 2018
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Google Photos API
176 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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Deep Reinforcement Learning in Depth in 60 Days
176 points • comment • sep 02, 2018
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Another Week with Bad Software
176 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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PagerDuty (YC S10) Raises $90M at a $1.3B Valuation
176 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Log(Graph): A Near-Optimal High-Performance Graph Representation (2018) [pdf]
175 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Solving My Email Problem
175 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google [pdf]
175 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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ProtonMail Hits 5M Accounts
175 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Sperm Count Zero
174 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Qualcomm’s Chain of Trust
174 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Firefox: The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement with the Web [pdf]
174 points • comment • sep 30, 2018
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Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds
174 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Estonia sues Gemalto for €152M over ID card flaws
174 points • comment • sep 30, 2018
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A new book about Nietzsche: tethering philosophy to the mess of daily experience
173 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down
173 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation
173 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible
173 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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The art of creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 family of CPUs
172 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International
172 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
172 points • comment • sep 17, 2018
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Implementing a network protocol in Go
172 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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Inside Wayback Machine, the internet’s time capsule
172 points • comment • sep 30, 2018
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WeWork Backs Down on Employee Noncompete Requirements
171 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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EA reportedly under criminal investigation in Belgium due to FIFA's loot boxes
171 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Krita 4.1.3 Released
171 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Meshbird – distributed private networking
171 points • comment • sep 25, 2018
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Ripgrep 0.10.0 released (PCRE2 and multi-line support)
171 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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Bloated
171 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Ask HN: Better tools for the software requirements / scoping phase?
171 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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How YC Has Changed
170 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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The Cartel Next Door
170 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK
170 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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In Math Cram Sessions, Solving for Why
170 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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The iPhone Franchise
170 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps
169 points • comment • sep 20, 2018
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Microwave Weapons Are Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers
169 points • comment • sep 01, 2018
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Breakout implemented in JavaScript in a PDF
169 points • comment • sep 05, 2018
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Steve Jobs licensed Amazon’s one-click patent for $1M in one phone call
169 points • comment • sep 18, 2018
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Lenovo: Companies working in China may have to install local backdoors
169 points • comment • sep 19, 2018
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Show HN: Thi.ng/hdom – S-expression based, pure ES6 UI/VDOM components
169 points • comment • sep 23, 2018
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Interactive Git Cheatsheet
168 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Argue with your customers
168 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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Eagle.js: A hackable slideshow framework built with Vue.js
168 points • comment • sep 24, 2018
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Tesla Accounting Chief, HR Head Resign on the Same Day; Stock Plunges
168 points • comment • sep 07, 2018
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FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory
168 points • comment • sep 13, 2018
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The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses
168 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Yale researchers 'teleport' a quantum gate
168 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Hyperkernel – A push-button approach to building provably correct OS kernels
168 points • comment • sep 10, 2018
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An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard
167 points • comment • sep 03, 2018
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Why are conversations limited to about four people?
167 points • comment • sep 12, 2018
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Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard
167 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types
166 points • comment • sep 08, 2018
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Ask HN: How do I choose between a job offer from Google and a promising startup?
166 points • comment • sep 15, 2018
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Mario Kart Wii: The History of the Ultra Shortcut [video]
166 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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Automakers working to transform data from cars into secondary revenue streams
166 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly
166 points • comment • sep 01, 2018
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British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3M award for pulsar work
166 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Intelligent, devoted, alien – parrots are unlike any other pet
166 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
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Uber Scam in Brazil – Drivers Have ‘Challenges’ Ending Trips
166 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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A bipartisan plan to end surprise ER bills
165 points • comment • sep 28, 2018
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TRIZ, a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool
165 points • comment • sep 22, 2018
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Levenshtein Automata (2010)
165 points • comment • sep 04, 2018
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K3s: Kubernetes without the features I don't care about
164 points • comment • sep 26, 2018
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U.S. Congress Renews $5M Open Textbook Pilot for Second Year
164 points • comment • sep 29, 2018
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What’s the difference between an integer and a pointer?
164 points • comment • sep 21, 2018
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Solid-state battery startup claims breakthrough for electric vehicles
164 points • comment • sep 11, 2018
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How to write X in both Python 3 and JavaScript
164 points • comment • sep 14, 2018
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Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees
163 points • comment • sep 27, 2018
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Tor Browser 8.0 released
163 points • comment • sep 06, 2018
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Robot Operating System – A flexible framework for writing robot software
163 points • comment • sep 05, 2018