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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks
471 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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iPad Pro
469 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story
460 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros
459 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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October 21 post-incident analysis
458 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves
456 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Motorola and iFixit partner to sell phone repair kits
449 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations
448 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Night Sight for Pixel phones
446 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Don’t sign a CLA
445 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal
445 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story
443 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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The Big Hack: Statements From Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, Chinese Government
443 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap
438 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Startups I Want to Fund
437 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Air pollution linked to “huge” reduction in intelligence
435 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016)
430 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection
429 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?
425 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Heavy multitaskers have reduced memory
425 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
420 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin
418 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
416 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
415 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings
413 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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YC Top Companies List
409 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?
408 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon Systems Vulnerabilities
408 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Ask HN: Am I just a wantrepreneur?
407 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform
405 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit
404 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty
401 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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How to Make a Roguelike
398 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazon.com
398 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online learning
398 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware
397 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Micro.blog
396 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Brief aerobic exercise immediately enhances attention and perceptual speed
395 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Not Lisp again (2009)
395 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers
392 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do?
392 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt
387 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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The SOS in my Halloween decorations
387 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Writing an OS in Rust: Hardware Interrupts
387 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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5G Got me Fired
385 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in Nature
384 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Introduction to Differential Equations (2008)
381 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain
379 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Ask HN: What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?
378 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found
377 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Ask HN: Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?
377 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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An invitation to category theory
376 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Adblock filter rule list modified politically in Finland
376 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports
374 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
373 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
372 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China
370 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Mixnode: Turn the web into a database
370 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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GoogleMeetRoulette: Joining random meetings
368 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Why I’m Worried About Google
367 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Show HN: Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging
367 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]
365 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update [pdf]
365 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Study shows massive insect loss
364 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Flatpak – a security nightmare
362 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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“Stress Hormone” Cortisol Linked to Early Toll on Thinking Ability
362 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network
360 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
356 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29
355 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Model-Based Machine Learning Book
355 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?
353 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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My Journey into Fractals
353 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Apple T2 Security Chip: Security Overview [pdf]
353 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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How to Write a Technical Paper [pdf]
351 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Snapchat CEO’s leaked memo on survival
351 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Honda will use GM’s self-driving technology, invests in Cruise
350 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos
348 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B
348 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Anti-social Punishment
343 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave
342 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Calculus Made Easy (1910)
342 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript
341 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Intel ME Manufacturing Mode: obscured dangers and MacBook vulnerability
340 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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The Architecture of Git (2012)
340 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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How to build your own neural network from scratch in Python
340 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design
340 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Facebook Isn’t Sorry, It Just Wants Your Data
338 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Amazon Warehouse Workers Lose Bonuses, Stock Awards for Raises
338 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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gRPC-Web is going GA
338 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people
335 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
333 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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The Waiting Time Paradox, Or, Why Is My Bus Always Late?
330 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers
329 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging
329 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter
328 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
326 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought
326 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Introducing Dav1d: a new AV1 decoder
324 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale
324 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”
324 points • comment • oct 22, 2018