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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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Update to Ask HN: What to do if I’m about to lose my job to mental health issues
267 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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French intelligence officer caught selling confidential data on the dark web
267 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’
266 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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RIP Todd Bol, Inventor of ‘Little Free Libraries’
266 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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What I Learned From Making Hot Sauce at Scale in China
266 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Memory Allocators 101 – Write a simple memory allocator (2016)
266 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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WebAssembly Threads ready to try in Chrome 70
265 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Bpftrace for Linux 2018
263 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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IBM Nears Deal to Acquire Red Hat
263 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database
262 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Go hits the concurrency nail on the head
261 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Turns Out Wearing a Hi-Vis Vest Gets You into Everything for Free
261 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016)
261 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Alarming study shows massive insect loss
261 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News
261 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to its own stand
261 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Intuitive Understanding of Euler’s Formula
261 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Millions of workers believe they are bound by non-binding contracts
260 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
260 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices
260 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
259 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work
259 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]
258 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
258 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Fear, trust and JavaScript: When types and functional programming fail
258 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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How a Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Exploited Android Phones to Steal Millions
257 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team
255 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Teaching C (2016)
255 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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M.B.A. Applications Decline at Harvard, Wharton, Other Elite Schools
255 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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His Body Was Behind the Wheel for a Week Before It Was Discovered
254 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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I woke up unable to speak English
253 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Ferret – Declarative web scraping
253 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Show HN: Lipreading with Deep Learning
253 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history and location stolen
252 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Bill to ban bots impersonating people for telemarketing and influencing election
251 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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A guide to rhythm in web typography
251 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable
250 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Do We Worship Complexity?
250 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Even janitors have noncompetes now
250 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Howler.js – JavaScript audio library for the modern web
249 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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IQ Matters Less Than You Think
249 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Show HN: Jobs Done – A ritual app for ending the work day inspired by Deep Work
249 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
249 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it
248 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea
247 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Blood money
246 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets
246 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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A Great Old Timey Game Programming Hack (2013)
245 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Show HN: Space invaders, but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm
245 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Identifying QUIC deliverables
245 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Ban organophosphate pesticides to protect children's health, experts say
244 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Hackintosh-KVM Guide: High Sierra+ Using QEMU's I440fx Chipset
244 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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RawGit is now in a sunset phase and will soon shut down
244 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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I Pay for News; Why Do I Still See Intrusive Ads? (2017)
243 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science
243 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
243 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Wayback Machine director outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive
243 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition
242 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers
242 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates
241 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Qualcomm says Apple is $7B behind in royalty payments
241 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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GitHub and Jira Software Integration
240 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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How I hacked modern vending machines
240 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
240 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its link-shortening system
240 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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WebRender is in beta
240 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity
240 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Delaunay and Voronoi on a sphere
240 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks
240 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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One of Bloomberg’s sources told them Chinese spy chip story “didn’t make sense”
240 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System
240 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Ask HN: What's your advice for someone who's raising capital for the first time?
240 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Micro Snitch – Know when someone spies on you
239 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows
239 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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A Tour of the Top Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies
238 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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What the hell happened to Darius Miles?
238 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Penrose: create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text
238 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Facebook launches PyTorch 1.0
237 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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TSMC: First 7nm EUV Chips Taped Out, 5nm Risk Production in Q2 2019
237 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst
236 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Choosing to stay out of the community
236 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Multithreading Rust and Wasm
236 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Ten years ago today, I had the idea for an app I thought was interesting
236 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Top lawyers beaten by legal AI
235 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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The Marvel API
235 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
235 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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No Phd, No Problem: New Schemes Teach the Masses to Build AI
235 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
235 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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The annoying habits of highly effective people
234 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Rust RAII is better than the Haskell bracket pattern
234 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Rust has a static “garbage collector”
234 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Interpol chief Meng Hongwei vanishes on trip to China
233 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi 6
232 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
232 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Ask HN: How to get started developing with FPGA?
232 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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How to Delete Facebook and Instagram from Your Life Forever
231 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
231 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Gophish: An open source phishing toolkit
231 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
231 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
231 points • comment • oct 22, 2018