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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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Palm
53 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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CERN suspends physicist after his science-and-gender talk
53 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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UK firms 'near point of no return'
53 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Money can buy happiness, but not unconditionally
53 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System (1979) [pdf]
53 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Donating $1B to help accelerate land and ocean conservation
53 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Bahnhof’s 10 Gbit/s router for home use – the fastest on the market
52 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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The Black Cat of Microbenchmarks
52 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War
52 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Redefining the Mole
52 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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The centenary of the 20th century’s worst catastrophe, the Spanish flu
52 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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The story behind Michelin stars
52 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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LinkedIn acquires employee engagement platform Glint
52 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Ask HN: What scripts/cronjobs you have made that made your life generally easier
52 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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An ImageNet-like text classification task based on Reddit posts
52 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
52 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
52 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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How I Transitioned from Physics Academia to the ML Industry
52 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Experimental realization of Feynman's ratchet
52 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Peloton: Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler for Diverse Cluster Workloads
52 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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I Bought Used Voting Machines on EBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming
52 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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An analysis of all known decentralized exchanges
52 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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We can do better than percentile latencies
52 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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California's Unconstitutional Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards
52 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution (2012) [pdf]
52 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Show HN: Res(ts): Auto-Generate TypeScript Models for Django Projects
52 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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The Mixed Track Record of Machine Learning Algorithms
52 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Cancer Hospital Ads Deceive Patients About Their Chances Of Survival
52 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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The Price of Saving Grand Central Station
51 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine
51 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Charles B. Wang, co-founder of Computer Associates, has died
51 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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How Yan Lianke Became China's Most Controversial Satirist
51 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Efficient AVL Tree in C#
51 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Octobox helps manage GitHub notifications
51 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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GitHub: sysget – A front-end for every package manager
51 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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The Death of the IPO
51 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Inside the World of D.I.Y. Ammunition
51 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, Citizens (2014) [pdf]
51 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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MacOS Dynamic Desktop
50 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Deriving the Normal Distribution
50 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco
50 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Show HN: CryptoProof – post proofs to the Ethereum blockchain for free
50 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Ask HN: Does anyone farm with aquaponics?
50 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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If You Traveled Far Enough Through Space, Would You Return to Your Start Point?
50 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Dyson to build electric cars in Singapore
50 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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DNA may soon be used to store computer data
50 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Modify new Gmail interface to be more like classic Gmail
50 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Atlassian debuts new Jira Software Cloud with timeline view, configuration flow
50 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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President signs bills to eliminate pharmacy ‘gag’ clauses
50 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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The flu that transformed the 20th Century
50 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Lisprolog – Interpreter for a Simple Lisp, Written in Prolog
50 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Anki Vector: The Home Robot
50 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Amazon says wage hike ‘more than compensates’ for loss of bonuses
50 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire or a Critique?
50 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Planar rotations and the DCT
50 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Orris: The world’s rarest perfume ingredient
50 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Best Practices for Creating Useful Dashboards
50 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Apple Fixes Bagel Emoji
50 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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The full list of 600 free online courses from 190 universities
50 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Faraday Future hit with layoffs, salary cuts
50 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Implementing Impersonation
49 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Two Kinds of Tech Debt and How to Pay It Down
49 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Heap Feng Shader: Exploiting SwiftShader in Chrome
49 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Codeless GraphQL, REST testing
49 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Apple's Folly: Long before the iPhone, the Pippin console flopped hard (2013)
49 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
49 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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JetBlue Founder’s New Airline Won’t Have Customer Service Phones
49 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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NPM and the future of JavaScript
49 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Enabling further research of information operations on Twitter
49 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Tech suffers from lack of humanities, says Mozilla head
49 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Phillis Wheatley
49 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Tensions with the West are putting the future of China’s Skynet at stake
49 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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'Spectacular' diabetes treatment could end daily insulin injections
49 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Retiring?
49 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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A new book calls attention to Stanford Ovshinsky and his inventions
49 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Automatic Kernel Optimization for Deep Learning on All Hardware Platforms
49 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Ask HN: Where to go for the cheapest EE degree in the U.S.? In the World?
49 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain
49 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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The popular Iranian tradition of using Hafez’s poems for divination
49 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Yale putting high-tech tests to its controversial Vinland Map
49 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Update on Structured Concurrency
49 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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You Are Jeff Bezos
49 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Against the naming of fungi (2013)
48 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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In Poor, Rural Communities, Fleeing Hurricane Michael Was Tough
48 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Go 2.0 Error Handling Requirements
48 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Travis CI adds support for testing your projects on Windows
48 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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AmigaOS 3.1.4
48 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Self-Playing Pipe Organ
48 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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B12 Bishkek: How we extended our team in Central Asia
48 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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The case for pair programming
48 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Ubuntu Linux Performance Over the Past Six Years on an Intel Xeon Server
48 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Pristine Quantum Light Source Created at the Edge of Silicon Chip
48 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Ask HN: Is 23andMe DNA testing worth it?
48 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Machine Learning on 2KB of RAM [pdf]
48 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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How Berea College Makes Tuition Free with its Endowment
48 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Ask HN: What are some of the dark sides of being in the tech industry?
48 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Quant Investor Cliff Asness Hasn’t Smashed His Screen This Year Yet
48 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Apple's New Privacy Policy Updates: What You Need to Know
48 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Lab-Grown Human Retinas Illuminate How Eyes Develop Color Vision
48 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Funky Materials Give the Mantis Shrimp Its Powerful Punch
48 points • comment • oct 18, 2018