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Hacker News (Oct 2018)

  1. Palm

    53 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  2. CERN suspends physicist after his science-and-gender talk

    53 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  3. UK firms 'near point of no return'

    53 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  4. Money can buy happiness, but not unconditionally

    53 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  5. Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System (1979) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  6. Donating $1B to help accelerate land and ocean conservation

    53 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  7. Bahnhof’s 10 Gbit/s router for home use – the fastest on the market

    52 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  8. The Black Cat of Microbenchmarks

    52 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  9. The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War

    52 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  10. Redefining the Mole

    52 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  11. The centenary of the 20th century’s worst catastrophe, the Spanish flu

    52 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  12. The story behind Michelin stars

    52 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  13. LinkedIn acquires employee engagement platform Glint

    52 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  14. Ask HN: What scripts/cronjobs you have made that made your life generally easier

    52 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  15. An ImageNet-like text classification task based on Reddit posts

    52 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  16. Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression

    52 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  17. Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations

    52 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  18. How I Transitioned from Physics Academia to the ML Industry

    52 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  19. Experimental realization of Feynman's ratchet

    52 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  20. Peloton: Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler for Diverse Cluster Workloads

    52 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  21. I Bought Used Voting Machines on EBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming

    52 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  22. An analysis of all known decentralized exchanges

    52 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  23. We can do better than percentile latencies

    52 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  24. California's Unconstitutional Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards

    52 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  25. Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution (2012) [pdf]

    52 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  26. Show HN: Res(ts): Auto-Generate TypeScript Models for Django Projects

    52 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  27. The Mixed Track Record of Machine Learning Algorithms

    52 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  28. Cancer Hospital Ads Deceive Patients About Their Chances Of Survival

    52 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  29. The Price of Saving Grand Central Station

    51 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  30. Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine

    51 points • comment • oct 28, 2018

  31. Charles B. Wang, co-founder of Computer Associates, has died

    51 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  32. How Yan Lianke Became China's Most Controversial Satirist

    51 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  33. Efficient AVL Tree in C#

    51 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  34. Octobox helps manage GitHub notifications

    51 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  35. GitHub: sysget – A front-end for every package manager

    51 points • comment • oct 07, 2018

  36. The Death of the IPO

    51 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  37. Inside the World of D.I.Y. Ammunition

    51 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  38. Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, Citizens (2014) [pdf]

    51 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  39. MacOS Dynamic Desktop

    50 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  40. Deriving the Normal Distribution

    50 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  41. Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco

    50 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  42. Show HN: CryptoProof – post proofs to the Ethereum blockchain for free

    50 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  43. Ask HN: Does anyone farm with aquaponics?

    50 points • comment • oct 06, 2018

  44. If You Traveled Far Enough Through Space, Would You Return to Your Start Point?

    50 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  45. Dyson to build electric cars in Singapore

    50 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  46. DNA may soon be used to store computer data

    50 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  47. Modify new Gmail interface to be more like classic Gmail

    50 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  48. Atlassian debuts new Jira Software Cloud with timeline view, configuration flow

    50 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  49. President signs bills to eliminate pharmacy ‘gag’ clauses

    50 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  50. The flu that transformed the 20th Century

    50 points • comment • oct 21, 2018

  51. Lisprolog – Interpreter for a Simple Lisp, Written in Prolog

    50 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  52. Anki Vector: The Home Robot

    50 points • comment • oct 13, 2018

  53. Amazon says wage hike ‘more than compensates’ for loss of bonuses

    50 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  54. Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire or a Critique?

    50 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  55. Planar rotations and the DCT

    50 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  56. Orris: The world’s rarest perfume ingredient

    50 points • comment • oct 09, 2018

  57. Best Practices for Creating Useful Dashboards

    50 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  58. Apple Fixes Bagel Emoji

    50 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  59. The full list of 600 free online courses from 190 universities

    50 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  60. Faraday Future hit with layoffs, salary cuts

    50 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  61. Implementing Impersonation

    49 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  62. Two Kinds of Tech Debt and How to Pay It Down

    49 points • comment • oct 23, 2018

  63. Heap Feng Shader: Exploiting SwiftShader in Chrome

    49 points • comment • oct 25, 2018

  64. Codeless GraphQL, REST testing

    49 points • comment • oct 15, 2018

  65. Apple's Folly: Long before the iPhone, the Pippin console flopped hard (2013)

    49 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  66. Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone

    49 points • comment • oct 02, 2018

  67. JetBlue Founder’s New Airline Won’t Have Customer Service Phones

    49 points • comment • oct 27, 2018

  68. NPM and the future of JavaScript

    49 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  69. Enabling further research of information operations on Twitter

    49 points • comment • oct 18, 2018

  70. Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head

    49 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  71. Phillis Wheatley

    49 points • comment • oct 29, 2018

  72. Tensions with the West are putting the future of China’s Skynet at stake

    49 points • comment • oct 20, 2018

  73. 'Spectacular' diabetes treatment could end daily insulin injections

    49 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  74. Retiring?

    49 points • comment • oct 26, 2018

  75. A new book calls attention to Stanford Ovshinsky and his inventions

    49 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  76. Automatic Kernel Optimization for Deep Learning on All Hardware Platforms

    49 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  77. Ask HN: Where to go for the cheapest EE degree in the U.S.? In the World?

    49 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  78. The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain

    49 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  79. The popular Iranian tradition of using Hafez’s poems for divination

    49 points • comment • oct 24, 2018

  80. Yale putting high-tech tests to its controversial Vinland Map

    49 points • comment • oct 08, 2018

  81. Update on Structured Concurrency

    49 points • comment • oct 19, 2018

  82. You Are Jeff Bezos

    49 points • comment • oct 22, 2018

  83. Against the naming of fungi (2013)

    48 points • comment • oct 30, 2018

  84. In Poor, Rural Communities, Fleeing Hurricane Michael Was Tough

    48 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  85. Go 2.0 Error Handling Requirements

    48 points • comment • oct 14, 2018

  86. Travis CI adds support for testing your projects on Windows

    48 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  87. AmigaOS 3.1.4

    48 points • comment • oct 10, 2018

  88. Self-Playing Pipe Organ

    48 points • comment • oct 01, 2018

  89. B12 Bishkek: How we extended our team in Central Asia

    48 points • comment • oct 31, 2018

  90. The case for pair programming

    48 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  91. Ubuntu Linux Performance Over the Past Six Years on an Intel Xeon Server

    48 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  92. Pristine Quantum Light Source Created at the Edge of Silicon Chip

    48 points • comment • oct 11, 2018

  93. Ask HN: Is 23andMe DNA testing worth it?

    48 points • comment • oct 03, 2018

  94. Machine Learning on 2KB of RAM [pdf]

    48 points • comment • oct 16, 2018

  95. How Berea College Makes Tuition Free with its Endowment

    48 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  96. Ask HN: What are some of the dark sides of being in the tech industry?

    48 points • comment • oct 17, 2018

  97. Quant Investor Cliff Asness Hasn’t Smashed His Screen This Year Yet

    48 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  98. Apple's New Privacy Policy Updates: What You Need to Know

    48 points • comment • oct 04, 2018

  99. Lab-Grown Human Retinas Illuminate How Eyes Develop Color Vision

    48 points • comment • oct 12, 2018

  100. Funky Materials Give the Mantis Shrimp Its Powerful Punch

    48 points • comment • oct 18, 2018