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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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Why open office design makes people less productive
48 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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UK Universities: Is free speech under threat?
47 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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New mandoc feature: -T html -O toc (Table of contents)
47 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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For AI, translation is about more than language
47 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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China just laid out how it wants Google to help it persecute its Muslim minority
47 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Poutine Dynamics (2016)
47 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Who paid 99¢?
47 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented (2002)
47 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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The Power of Shutting Up and Sitting in Silence
47 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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The $349 Nokia 7.1 brings a low price, flagship-style design to the US
47 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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A Brief History of Shopping: From Sears to Amazon in four uneasy upheavals
47 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Skills and education (2007)
47 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Interactive example of how Facebook leaked access tokens
47 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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The last lighthouse keeper of Capri
47 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Show HN: My implemented vision of a PIM
47 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking
47 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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What's the Use of a Horse's Tail?
47 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Review: ‘Istanbul: The Dice Game’ rules the bazaar
47 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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China’s Government Has Ordered a Million Citizens to Occupy Uighur Homes
47 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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PeerTube, a free and federated video platform reaches 1.0
47 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Applying Predictive Analytics to Flight Delays
47 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Consider the Wombat
47 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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New material could up efficiency of concentrated solar power
46 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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YouTube down worldwide
46 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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The future of photography is code
46 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Tesla Q3 2018 Vehicle Safety Report
46 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy
46 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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New Theory Explains Why Europe's Original Dogs Vanished
46 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Salesforce CEO: tech billionaires 'hoard their money' and won't help homeless
46 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Kubernetes on Bare Metal
46 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Iterative Optimization on Hot Paths in Go Apps
46 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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In a new study, those who ate more organic food had fewer cancer diagnoses
46 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist (2017)
46 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Is Rust functional?
46 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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GPP – general-purpose preprocessor
46 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Donald Daters, a dating app for Trump supporters, leaked its users’ data
46 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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The History of Notre-Dame Cathedral’s Gargoyles
46 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Super-tomato shows what plant scientists can do
45 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Barcelona's Sagrada Familia agrees to deal over lack of building permit
45 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science
45 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Don’t offer co-workers help unless asked
45 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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How some animals use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate
45 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Barry Martin's Hopalong Orbits Visualizer
45 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Up to 17 F-22 Raptors may have been damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Michael
45 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Show HN: A JavaScript budgeting app that implements a KNN to make predictions
45 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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A New Biography of Churchill
45 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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WhatsApp founder: I sold out, but I walked away from $850M when I quit FB
45 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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China Makes a Big Play in Silicon Valley
45 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Running a Wall of Sheep in the Wild
45 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Introducing the Distance Field Generator
45 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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How Snowflake Rebuilt Its AWS Stack on Azure
45 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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The magical realism of Santa Cruz del Islote
45 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Azul GUI Framework
45 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
45 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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If the Rich Really Want to ‘Do Good,’ They Should Become Class Traitors Like FDR
45 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Brex Has Amassed A Valuation Of $1.1B In Under Two Years
45 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Warhol photography archives publicly available
45 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Federal prosecutors have filed new charges against swatter Tyler Barriss
45 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Food Scientists Are Getting Fed Up with Picky Eaters
45 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Firefox 63 – Tricks and Treats
45 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Testing Privacy-Preserving Telemetry with Prio
45 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Optimizing Clang: A Practical Example of Applying BOLT
45 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Using Data Science to Help Women Make Contraceptive Choices
45 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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The problem with education philanthropy
45 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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I'm Just a Middle-Aged House Dad Addicted to Pot
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Science Fiction Interfaces (2017)
44 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Magic Mushroom Drug Evolved to Mess with Insect Brains
44 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Person Retrieval in Surveillance Video using Height, Color and Gender
44 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Yet Another Rant About Blockchains
44 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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After a year of #MeToo, American opinion has shifted against victims
44 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature (2016) [pdf]
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Canada's last witch trials: Women accused of fake witchcraft
44 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Verizon Says 44,000 Managers Qualify for Company Buyout Offer
44 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Visopsys
44 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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CEO Shoots Self to Test Bulletproof Jacket
44 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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BlackBerry announces a new quantum-resistant code signing service
44 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Feds Order Google to Hand Over a Load of Innocent Americans' Locations
44 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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REPT: reverse debugging of failures in deployed software
44 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Sidney Darlington, inventor of the Darlington transistor
44 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Active Expressions: Basic Building Blocks for Reactive Programming (2017)
44 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Umbra Composit does high-resolution 3D scans
44 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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HDR image to LDR using edge-preserving multiscale decompositions
44 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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OOP vs. Functional Programming (2014)
44 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Side Projects are deadweight to employability
43 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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RSC head of voice: “I want actors to use their own accents”
43 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Smell and behavior: The scents of taking action
43 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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The Conspiratorial Hate We See Online Is Increasingly Appearing in Real Life
43 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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2018 Desktop Linux Platform Issues
43 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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EBay Sues Amazon, Alleging Sellers Were Illegally Poached
43 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Videos for "Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous"
43 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Buildpacks Go Cloud Native
43 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?
43 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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The Private Magic of Treehouses
43 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Endgame: how Australian preppers are bugging out and hunkering down
43 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Show HN: Astro-Bot – A programming question with every new tab
43 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Waking up early serves capitalism
43 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Atmospheric railway
43 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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New Pompeii Graffiti May Rewrite History
43 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration
43 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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How the Chinese Government Works to Censor Debate in Western Democracies
43 points • comment • oct 04, 2018