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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials
87 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Prehistoric art hints at lost Indian civilisation
87 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Google X Executive Accused of Sexual Harassment Still Works There, Employees Say
87 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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A Review of the Neural History of Natural Language Processing
87 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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The World Is Built on Probability (1988)
87 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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How I lost my faith in Lisp (2002)
86 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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MAC address age tracking
86 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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A Reddit Forum That Guesses Who You Are Based on What's in Your Fridge
86 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Police told to avoid looking at recent iPhones to avoid lockouts
86 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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A Fast x86 Implementation of Select (2017) [pdf]
86 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Fletcher's Checksum
86 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Police spies infiltrated UK leftwing groups for decades
86 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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West Virginia’s Supreme Court Impeachment Crisis
86 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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My Fiancé Jamal Khashoggi Was a Lonely Patriot
86 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type
85 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Optimal Time-Inconsistent Beliefs: Misplanning, Procrastination, and Commitment [pdf]
85 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Are dark kitchens the satanic mills of our era?
85 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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East German coffee crisis
85 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Teaching CS in the schools
85 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Ask HN: How can we make React better?
85 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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2080 RTX performance on Tensorflow with CUDA 10
85 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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The Meaning of “Aquemini”
85 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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UGears – 3D Wooden Mechanical Model Kits, 3D Puzzles
85 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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A Billionaire’s Sears Fiasco Is Finally Nearing Its End
85 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Junk Arson Science Sent Claude Garrett to Prison for Murder 25 Years Ago
85 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Hetzner DIY Private Networking with Tinc
84 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Show HN: SQL Viewer – UI for uber/queryparser, written in Haskell
84 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Physicists investigate why matter and antimatter are not mirror images
84 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Show HN: UXHunt – Your Daily Dose of UX Intelligence (and Our Side Project)
84 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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‘Ghost kanji’ lurk in the Japanese lexicon
84 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Brave 0.55 released
84 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percent and rising
84 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’
84 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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As a female engineer, I am not diversity
84 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Want to Punish Saudi Arabia? Cut Off Its Weapons Supply
83 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Benjamin Button Reviews the New MacBook Pro (2016)
83 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Reified Generics: The Search for the Cure
83 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Tyndall F-22s, Left Behind Before Michael Hit, Possibly Damaged Beyond Repair
83 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Stop cherry-picking, start merging, Part 1: The merge conflict
83 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Descent Source Code
83 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Future of Statistical Programming
83 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]
83 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Injecting .Net Assemblies into Unmanaged Processes
83 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Cisco coughs up baker’s dozen of vulnerabilities and other security nasties
83 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell (2013)
83 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age [pdf]
83 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Channels, Concurrency, Cores: A New Concurrent ML Implementation (2017) [video]
83 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Voice control engine that runs fully in the browser using WebAssembly
83 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following
83 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (1670)
82 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Open-source crypto is no better than closed-source crypto
82 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Improving AI language understanding by combining multiple word representations
82 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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“Whole Earth” origin (1976)
82 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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The Dickensian Conditions of Life in a For-Profit Lockup
82 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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The compute and data moats are dead
82 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Boeing may have used a lobbying firm to plant a scathing story about SpaceX
82 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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CSV 1.1 – CSV Evolved (for Humans)
82 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Six years later, Star Citizen is still raking it in
82 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window: sources
82 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts (2015)
82 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Space Transportation System
82 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Building a live video streaming website – Part 3 – DRM
81 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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World has 10 years to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say
81 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Lost in Occupation: How Google Maps Is Erasing Palestine
81 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry
81 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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On McNeil Island, the only residents are dangerous sex offenders
81 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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An Unintuitive Take on Data Augmentation for Self-Driving Cars
81 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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The Mathematician (1947)
81 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Introducing PyTorch across Google Cloud
81 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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The making of Supreme Commander
81 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Compiling to Categories (2017) [video]
81 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Show HN: Webpage to PDF Microservice
81 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Drilling Down on Depth Sensing and Deep Learning
81 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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What is the ‘legitimate interests’ basis?
81 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Nvidia drivers on Linux are trash
80 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Learning Acrobatics by Watching YouTube
80 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Actors for Squeak Smalltalk
80 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Netflix to let viewers pick how TV episodes and movies will end
80 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Alchemy: A Language and Compiler for Homomorphic Encryption Made Easy [pdf]
80 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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The Intl.RelativeTimeFormat API
80 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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The First Photo Ever Created by a Japanese Photographer (2016)
80 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
80 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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When's a van a van and when's it a car?
79 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Polly: LLVM Framework for High-Level Loop and Data-Locality Optimizations
79 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Oceans warming faster than anticipated, study finds
79 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Murdered Saudi Rumoured to Have Used Apple Watch App to Record His Own Death
79 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents
79 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Show HN: How much is my life costing now
79 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Games in less than 13kB of JavaScript
79 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Saudi Backlash Threatens U.S. Startups
79 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had with developers?
79 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and geopolitics (2016)
79 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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PeerTube stable 1.0.0
79 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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CNCF to Host Cloud Native Buildpacks in the Sandbox
79 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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In few years renewable power may become a better economic option
79 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends
79 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Apple tells Congress it found no signs of hacking attack
79 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 30% of Staff
78 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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The Turk
78 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Life on a neutron star (2004)
78 points • comment • oct 24, 2018