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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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Jesse Jackson ’88 tees are hot in Asia. Here’s why
18 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I Can't Say I'm Safe' in Russia – HuffPost
18 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Inferno v6 released
18 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Ask HN: Resources for the “engineering” aspects of software engineering
18 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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'Distracted boyfriend meme' is sexist, rules Swedish advertising watchdog
18 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Throttling conditions to be considered in Messaging platform – Service Bus
18 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Why Tech Founders Need a Moral Compass
18 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Saudi Arabia's missing princes (2017)
18 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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The Most Influential Paper Gerard Salton Never Wrote (2004) [pdf]
18 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Researchers develop nature-inspired surfaces that can harvest water from fog
17 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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The CIA's former Chief of Disguise reveals what makes a good disguise (video)
17 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Can we go electric before it's too late?
17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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How new-lines affect the Linux kernel performance
17 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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AU metadata laws under fire as 'authority creep' has more agencies with access
17 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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IPFS, the Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained
17 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Supermicro.com website is down
17 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Wall Street Quietly Warns That 5G Wireless Is Being Aggressively Over-Hyped
17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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90% of apps on Google Play contain third-party trackers
17 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Latest Revision to ARM Instruction Set Includes Optimizations for JavaScript
17 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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ASP.NET Core Ditching .NET Framework, Will Be 'Part of .NET Core' Going Forward
17 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Executive exodus: Jamie Dimon and other top CEOs quit Saudi conference
17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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The Roman 'Brexit': how life in Britain changed after 409 AD
17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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The Robinhood High-Frequency Trading Scandal: The Plot Thickens
17 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?
17 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Frankenstein and the gory gang: how the novel blazed a trail for high art horror
17 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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What developers say Apple needs to do to make the Apple TV a gaming console
17 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Ask HN: What stock trading API do you use or recommend?
17 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Amazon, Palantir are aiding mass deportations of govt ‘undesirables’
17 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Facebook extends account deletion grace period from 14 to 30 days
17 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Erdogan demands that Saudis prove missing journalist left their consulate alive
17 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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The Keyhole Problem (2002) [pdf]
17 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Deno – A secure TypeScript runtime on V8
17 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Deep Red: The Beginning of the End of a Familiar Open Source Business Model?
17 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Military Leaders Are Starting to Freak Out Over Russia’s Info Warfare Dominance
17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Taming Performance Variability [pdf]
17 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Wikipedia rejected an entry on Strickland in May because she wasnt famous enough
17 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Russian hackers were caught in the act
17 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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A recent experiment may have placed organisms in a state of quantum entanglement
17 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Towns across the US make it illegal for teenagers to trick-or-treat
17 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Amazons move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in one of its biggest warehouses
17 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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The Google+ Bug Is More About the Cover-Up Than the Crime
17 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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How China's New Missile Concept Could Cripple American Air Power
17 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Nash equilibrium
17 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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A Mysterious Fossil Points to the Origins of Lizards and Snakes
17 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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During Google’s early self-driving tests, there were over “a dozen accidents”
17 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Harvard's dirty secrets on display
17 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Canada becomes second country to legalise recreational marijuana
17 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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The Electric Chair That Might Soon Be Used in Tennessee
17 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Gab Vanishes, and the Internet Shrugs
17 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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This latest academic journal hoax is over-hyped and the reporting on it is bad
17 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Robot Criminals
17 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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What’s Snapchat’s AR Endgame?
17 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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The U.S. Library of Congress Lets You Stream Hundreds of Free Films
17 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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How to stop saying “um”, “ah”, and “you know”
17 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Ask HN: What's was the hardest part about starting to code?
17 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Tesla confirms Q3 production: 80,000 vehicles and 83,500 deliveries
17 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Show HN: Callwarden
17 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politicians in the Middle East
16 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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A brief romantic encounter at UC-Davis triggered an absurd Title IX process
16 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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CVE-2018-4407 Vid: crash any macOS High Sierra or iOS 11 device on the same WiFi
16 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Ask HN: Success with hacker news jobs
16 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Oscar Wilde in America
16 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Why the NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code
16 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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‘Lifeboats’ Amid the World’s Wildfires
16 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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California Becomes First State to Mandate Female Board Directors
16 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Redirect Detective
16 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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How we increased productivity with a fruit basket at work
16 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Bunnicula, asynchronous messaging with RabbitMQ for Clojure
16 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Countdown to PHP 5.6 EOL
16 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2018)
16 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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2 Men Rejected NBA's $3M Offer. That Decision Made Them $800M
16 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Facebook's Joel Kaplan faces Kavanaugh critics at emotional town hall
16 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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What we can learn about trade policy from a misbegotten 19th century effort
16 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Why Yu-Gi-Oh Is Actually About Dealing with Childhood Trauma
16 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Fortean Slips: Toilet Paper Plagiarism (1997)
16 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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NP-3 Nitrogen Plastic Welder
16 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Repression in Saudi Arabia has reached a new level
16 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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We Got Spanked: What We Know So Far
16 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal
16 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet 'X' unit is out
16 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Event-driven investing: How I made 33x my money in two weeks
16 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Negative Time Iteration
16 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Facilitation Tools for Meetings and Workshops (2013) [pdf]
16 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Jeff Bezos: Today's internet is a 'confirmation bias machine'
16 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait
16 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Amazon drops on revenue miss
16 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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A modern annotated code companion to Paul Graham's “On Lisp”
16 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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How Watership Down (the film) terrified an entire generation
16 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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NOAA Begins Posting Hurricane Michael Damage Assessment Imagery
16 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Using Fressian to exchange values between WebAssembly modules and ClojureScript
16 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Shipwreck found in Black Sea is 'world's oldest intact'
16 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Walmart's strategy to solve the Amazon puzzle is working
16 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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California Considers Placing a Mileage Tax on Drivers (2017)
16 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness
16 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Dedicated Server: STOR-72T
16 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Repl.it (YC W18) raises $4.5M led by Andreessen Horowitz
16 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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The Future of Zend
16 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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The Ketchup Conundrum (2004)
16 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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How the Chinese Government Works to Censor Debate in Western Democracies
16 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Hy – a Lisp embedded in Python
16 points • comment • oct 20, 2018