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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet
230 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants
229 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Alternative code styles
229 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Two years of Elixir at The Outline
228 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This
227 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Jepsen: MongoDB 3.6.4
227 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
227 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Repair Café
226 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Apple accused of overpricing, restricting device repairs
225 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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This Old Lisp
225 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Trivial authentication bypass in libssh leaves servers wide open
224 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Building a language translator from scratch with deep learning
223 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With a Shim from a Soda Can
223 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared
223 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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The Super-Rich Are Stockpiling Wealth in Black-Box Charities
223 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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My Parents Give Me $28k a Year
223 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Don't shoot, I'm disabled
222 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (2013) [pdf]
222 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months
222 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Pushback against Saudi funding endangers Silicon Valley valuations
221 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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EU drops rule that would prevent self-driving car data from being copyrighted
221 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure, Flies for 4 Hours
220 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Opus 1.3 Released
220 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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The Hardest Woods
219 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Bringing transparency to ER prices, one hospital bill at a time
219 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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An AWS Region is coming to South Africa
218 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Siri, and More
218 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Unslacking Tideways Company
218 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
217 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Intel 9th Gen Review
217 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Removing Old Versions of TLS
217 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away
216 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Lack of progress exposed by the Canary MacGuffin
216 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem
216 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy
216 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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The Awful German Language (1880)
216 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If Their Stories Move Markets
216 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset
216 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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The rise of the robot farmer
215 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings
215 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Raising of Chicago
214 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs
214 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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The Economics of a Commune in the Ozarks
214 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing (2017)
214 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Is Chronic Anxiety a Learning Disorder?
214 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years
213 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Why Do Computers Use So Much Energy?
213 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent
213 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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New York Times app autoplays video ads on articles even with paid subscription
212 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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A Brief History of High Availability
212 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Belgian Air Force F-16 destroyed by fire during maintenance
212 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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The Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Worse
212 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Friendly Floatees
212 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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YouTube marketing horror story
211 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Massachusetts gas fires: Another technological tragedy
211 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Lion Air crash: Boeing 737 plane crashes in sea off Jakarta
210 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Show HN: WebRTC implementation for Python using Asyncio
210 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
209 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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We can no longer leave online security to the market
209 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it develops it
209 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Asterisks in Python
209 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Erlang/OTP by Example
209 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Physics Nobel won by laser wizardry – laureates include first woman in 55 years
209 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1
209 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Haskell's kind system: a primer
209 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Wikipedia bans Breitbart as a source for facts
208 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency
208 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Declassified documents show why the US and the USSR came close to war in 1973
208 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA (Variable-Length Array) Free
207 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Tesla delivered 83,500 vehicles in the third quarter, more than expected
207 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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The Dutch Reach: A No-Tech Way to Save Bicyclists’ Lives
207 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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U.S. Secretly Halted JPMorgan’s Growth for Years
207 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind the Unlikely Tech Unicorn MailChimp
206 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Mio – Cross-platform header-only C++11 library for memory-mapped file IO
206 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Signing Your Apps for Gatekeeper
206 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Soup – Alan Kay on Objects
206 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS 13
206 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Meter Telescope
205 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement
205 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Stripe Integration for Twilio Pay
205 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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It’s better to be born rich than gifted
204 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Proposal: Go 2 transition
204 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Show HN: TeXMe – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents
204 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Wisconsin’s $4.1B Foxconn factory boondoggle
204 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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I.R.S. Tax Fraud Cases Plummet After Budget Cuts
203 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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China Censors Bad Economic News Amid Signs of Slower Growth
203 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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The U.S. Needs to Crack Down on White-Collar Crime
203 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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The Complicated Financial Lives of Freelancers
203 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid
203 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Apple finally announces an overhauled Mac mini
202 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Responder: A familiar HTTP Service Framework
202 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors
202 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free
202 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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The State of Agile Software in 2018
202 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Alphabet's cyber unit Jigsaw introduces a new security app to bust censorship
202 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Linux 4.19
202 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Pijul: A Rust based distributed version control system
201 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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What's a senior engineer's job?
200 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Fidelity launches trade execution and custody for cryptocurrencies
200 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled
200 points • comment • oct 21, 2018