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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
70 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Things an architect should know
70 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Cyclogyro
70 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Notes on Landauer's principle, reversible computation, Maxwell's Demon (2003) [pdf]
70 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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The metamorphosis of Escher
70 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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“Poliolike” Childhood Muscle-Weakening Disease Reappears
70 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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National Theater in London Offers Glasses with Live Subtitles
70 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Looking Glass: an extremely low latency KVM FrameRelay implementation
70 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Show HN: How to start a business in France
70 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Epic Games Sues YouTuber 'Golden Modz' Over 'Magical' Fortnite Powers
70 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Doing a Job (1982)
70 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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As U.S. fertility rates collapse, finger-pointing and blame follow
70 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Study Links Uber and Lyft to Increase in U.S. Traffic Deaths
70 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care
70 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Hijacking HTML canvas and PNG images to store arbitrary text data
70 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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We cannot afford to be indifferent to internet spying (2013)
69 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Mathematicians confirm the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
69 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Ultimate Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter
69 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Heinlein and Clarke discuss the Moon landings as they happen (2016)
69 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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How The Koenigsegg Regera Hits 248 MPH Without A Gearbox (2015)
69 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Machine Learning Algorithms Examples in MatLab/Octave
69 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Prolog as Description and Implementation Language in CS Teaching (2004) [pdf]
69 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Cleveland.com’s ‘right to be forgotten’ removes names from some crime stories
69 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Music industry hails passage of the Music Modernization Act
69 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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New in Postgres 11: Monitoring JIT Performance, Auto Prewarm, Stored Procedures
69 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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For a German Chef, Hospital Food Is the Ultimate Challenge
69 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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AI Spirits
69 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Around 62% of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks
69 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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2018 UtahJS Pay, Education, Job-title Survey
69 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Gab.com banned from PayPal
69 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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New study links common herbicides and antibiotic resistance
69 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Former Googlers on how they knew it was time to quit
69 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Defamation lawsuit over “Shitty Media Men” spreadsheet could break new ground
69 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Notes on Type Layouts and ABIs in Rust
68 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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A Comprehensive Guide to Sentiment Analysis
68 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China
68 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell
68 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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A Unix Shell poster from 1983
68 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Micromusic.net chiptune radio (1999)
68 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security [video]
68 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Introducing Navigate on Autopilot
68 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil
68 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Meet the Endoterrestrials
68 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab
68 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Ask HN: 4 months after posting my project on HN, it has 0 users. Has it failed?
68 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Orkney islands could get first electric plane service
68 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Funds Back Proposal to Remove Zuckerberg as Facebook Chairman
68 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Julia parallel task runtime (WIP)
68 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Wallaroo goes full Apache 2.0
68 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Lessons from Coinbase’s Wild Ascent
68 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data
68 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Show HN: A tool to translate images across languages
68 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer (2014)
68 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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How Do Insurance Companies Know My Health History? (2017)
67 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Qnnpack: PyTorch-integrated open source library for mobile deep learning
67 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
67 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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The excruciating final hours of George Washington (2014)
67 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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How I Made $2k in a Month from One Medium Article
67 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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PiDP-11: Recreating the PDP-11/70
67 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Parsing logs 230x faster with Rust
67 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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New tool streamlines the creation of moving pictures
67 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Solo – Open-source FIDO2 security key
67 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Salmon Farmers Are Scanning Fish Faces to Fight Killer Lice
67 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Emperor Akihito of Japan is a published marine biologist
67 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Cathay Pacific flags data breach affecting 9.4M passengers
67 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Challenge – AI Initiative
67 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Show HN: Occupod – a solid mobile sleeping shelter
67 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Constructing human-grade parsers
67 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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IPCC: Climate scientists consider ‘life changing’ report
67 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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The BNC Connector and How It Got That Way
67 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Small company or big company?
67 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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High-Res Graphics on a Text-Only TRS-80 Model 4 from 1983
67 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Understanding How Apache Pulsar Works
67 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing
66 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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When the U.S President Phones Friends, the Chinese Listen and Learn
66 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Hidden Tribes: A Study of America's Polarized Landscape [pdf]
66 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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A future for fork(2)
66 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector [video]
66 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Show HN: Gravity – Kubernetes snapshots for on-premise deployments
66 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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A Guide to Post-Quantum Cryptography
66 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s poetry reveals a writer humbled by the craft
66 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Node 11.0
66 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Bypass Paywalls – A Firefox extension to bypass paywalls of many news sites
66 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Sigmund Jähn, the first German to travel into space
66 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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GitLab 11.4 Released with Merge Request Reviews and Feature Flags
66 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Entering the next phase of Project Valhalla
66 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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US Lawmakers Urge Canada to Snub China's Huawei in Telecoms
66 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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NixOS 18.09 Jellyfish Released
66 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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SymbiFlow: A FOSS Verilog-to-Bitstream FPGA synthesis flow for Various FPGAs
66 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Extreme Botany: The Precarious Science of Endangered Rare Plants
66 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database
66 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update due to major issues – The Verge
66 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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FTC hearings on tech companies included economists who take money from them
65 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Whither the Software Artist?
65 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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GPU LSM: A Dynamic Dictionary Data Structure for the GPU [pdf]
65 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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On Thursday a rocket failed. Three humans remain on the ISS. What’s next?
65 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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40% of the American middle class face poverty in retirement, study concludes
65 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Cloudera and Hortonworks merging
65 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Why Mathematicians Can’t Find the Hay in a Haystack
65 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Lakes of Wada
65 points • comment • oct 07, 2018