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Hacker News (Oct 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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Atmospheric railway
43 points • comment • oct 14, 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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Competition is hotting up in the coffee industry
42 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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A tale of the unending hunt for dark matter
42 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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The Deal of the Art
42 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Is WebAssembly faster than JavaScript?
42 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Debugging Distributed Systems With Why-Across-Time Provenance [pdf]
42 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Relational inductive biases, deep learning, and graph networks
42 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Commuting by Bicycle is down?
42 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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LibrePCB: First release candidate
42 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Show HN: Callbaxx.js – A utility library to bring callbacks to synchronous code
42 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Climate Change Will Get Worse. These Investors Are Betting on It
42 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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George Holtz codes 11 hours straight live stream [video]
42 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Apple Pulling High-Grossing Scammy Offer Subscription Apps Off the App Store
42 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Small Colleges Can Save Towns in Middle America (2017)
42 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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LADbible Is the Most Popular Publisher on Facebook
42 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Boise and Reno capitalize on the California real estate exodus
42 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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The Hiring Post (2015)
42 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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For collecting weather data, tiny satellites measure up to expensive cousins
42 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Brotopia: Analysis and Review
42 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam
42 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Show HN: An ASCII z-depth world (view source)
42 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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What Toasters and Distributed Systems Might Have in Common
41 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Why Half a Degree of Global Warming Is a Big Deal
41 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Niall Ferguson: The Destructive Power of Social Networks
41 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Appalachian Mountains becoming more rugged (2007)
41 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Israel's Cyber-Spy Industry Helps World Dictators Hunt Dissidents and Gays
41 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Xkcd: Google Announcement
41 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Fork Over Passwords or Pay the Price, New Zealand Tells Travelers
41 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Mind’s quality control center found in long-ignored brain area
41 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Ask HN: What does it feel like to master playing an instrument by ear?
41 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Decentralized token swap/payment widget on any websites
41 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Open sourcing TRFL: a library of reinforcement learning building blocks
41 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Technology led a hospital to give a patient 38 times his dosage
41 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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“High End” Apartment Construction Creates Mismatch of Supply and Demand
41 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Google shutters Google+ social network after WSJ reports a huge security lapse
41 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Eight Futures of Work: Scenarios and Their Implications
41 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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VW CEO says they’ll have ‘EVs as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020’
41 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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GitHub Actions
41 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Legless Japanese businessmen: the photographer who caught a Tokyo epidemic
41 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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A $500M Central Bank Heist and How It Was Foiled
41 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Maximized Monte Carlo Testing with MCHT
41 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Membership is the future of journalism
41 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Ask HN: When has big $$$ before product-market-fit ever worked out?
41 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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'Facebook baby ads taunted me after stillborn'
41 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Show HN: Monero Web Miner for Low-Tech Static Sites
41 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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The World's Tiniest Optical Gyroscope Is Now Smaller Than a Grain of Rice
41 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Show HN: CoinMarketBook – CoinMarketCap, but with a different metric
40 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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A New Biography of Benjamin Franklin's Early Life
40 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Improving C++ Builds with Split DWARF
40 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Annon: Configurable API gateway that acts as a reverse proxy with plugin system
40 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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YC Hackathon without writing code
40 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Capitalism is becoming less competitive
40 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Google Tink
40 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Practical TLA+
40 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Money Can Buy Happiness [pdf]
40 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Literary Hoax is an Underappreciated Genre
40 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Rpitx: RF Transmitter for Raspberry Pi
40 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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State of the Art: Reproducibility in Artificial Intelligence [pdf]
40 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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XMPP – Myths and Legends
40 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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So, today, for the first time in *25* years of Apple, I downgraded
40 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Facebook has lost 30% of its value since July
40 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
40 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate”
39 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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The Greatest Use of Life: On William James
39 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Pantagruel: An Unambiguous, Undefined Program Specification Language
39 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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The Making of Darius
39 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
39 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Entire broadband industry sues Vermont to stop state net neutrality law
39 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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If Printed Dictionaries Are History, What'll Children Sit on to Reach the Table?
39 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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The eXpress Data Path: Fast Programmable Packet Processing in the OS Kernel [pdf]
39 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Ask HN: Best remote only company to work for?
39 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Show HN: FFdynamic – Extend FFmpeg with A/V process composition, runtime control
39 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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I’m Leaving Google — Here’s the Real Deal Behind Google Cloud
39 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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The indefatigable efforts of J. M. Keynes
39 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Thalmic Labs ending sale of Myo armbands
39 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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C is the desert island language
39 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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The Museum of Accidents Offers a Glimpse into Japanese Introspection
39 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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The Jacquard Loom: A Driver of the Industrial Revolution (2016)
39 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Cern scientist: 'Physics built by men – not by invitation'
39 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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More Than 150 Vulnerabilities Discovered in US Marine Corp Websites
39 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Jack Dorsey runs two multibillion-dollar companies without using a computer
39 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Using roughtime as a “cryptographic notary”
39 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists
39 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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TimescaleDB 1.0 Is Production Ready
39 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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The Library of Congress has launched a new crowd-sourced transcription tool
39 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Labor Supply and the Attention Tax
39 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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From Design to Front-end
39 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Anything for this: The costs, benefits of life in elite sport
39 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Mexico’s tenth journalist killed this year
39 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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RECC, the Robert Elder Compiler (and Emulator and Microkernel) Collection
39 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Burning Desire for Efficiency (2012)
39 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Lagunitas Brewing to lay off 12 percent of its workforce
39 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Amazon Announces $100M Donated to Charities Through AmazonSmile
39 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Ask HN: Is FaceID harmfull for your eyes?
38 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Freedom to fail – or managing to succeed?
38 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Analysis in Higher Gauge Theory
38 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Various species of ants engage in some kind of agriculture (2016)
38 points • comment • oct 03, 2018