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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled
200 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?
200 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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After Journalist’s Alleged Murder, Tech Execs Distance Themselves from Saudis
199 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrible decisions on video?
199 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Create React App 2.0: Babel 7, Sass, and More
199 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second
199 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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IRL Glasses Block All the Screens Around You
199 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language
198 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Google to Charge Phone Makers for Android Apps in Europe
198 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Understanding Quaternions
198 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Problems with infinite scroll
198 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (1996)
198 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Create your own dysfunctional single-page app
198 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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SQL as an API language
198 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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This is the best drone according to Amazon? – The HS100
198 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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14-year-long oil spill in Gulf of Mexico may be worst in U.S. history
197 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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What we lose by reading 100,000 words every day
196 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Lolbench: automagically and empirically discovering Rust performance regressions
196 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates
196 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever
196 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Flight rules for Git
195 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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The Single Board Computer Database
194 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Justice Department Sues to Stop California Net Neutrality Law
194 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping
194 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare
194 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Google Engineers Organizing a Walk Out to Protest the Protection of Andy Rubin
194 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Avoiding Zombie Startups
194 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Literate raytracer: a simple implementation of raytracing in Javascript
193 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read?
193 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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New law lets you defer capital gains taxes by investing in opportunity zones
192 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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PNG format co-designer Glenn Randers-Pehrson has died
192 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says
192 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Arabic, a great language, has a low profile
192 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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How to Host or Attend a Tiny Conference
192 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Joanna Rutkowska leaves Qubes OS, joins Golem
192 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Warp – self-contained, single binary applications
191 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Copenhagen Suborbitals: The world’s only manned, amateur space program
191 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Algebra and the Lambda Calculus (1993)
190 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Stellar Smart Contracts
190 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?
190 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Former CIA Chief of Disguise Explains How Spies Use Disguises [video]
190 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Interim OS: minimalist OS influenced by Lisp machines and Plan 9
190 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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The backlash against overtourism
190 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation secrets
190 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Ask HN: What are good projects to understand CUDA and GPU Programming?
189 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Hello P5.js Web Editor
188 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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ChuChu TV is responsible for widely-viewed toddler content on YouTube
188 points • comment • oct 16, 2018
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Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests
188 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Brave – A private, secure and fast browser
188 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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A shadowy op-ed campaign is now smearing SpaceX in space cities
188 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated
187 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
187 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety
187 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Closer to Medicinal Use
187 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR
186 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Intel kills off the 10nm process?
186 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier
186 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Show HN: A list of programmers coding live
186 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Using /proc to get a process' current stack trace
186 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf]
186 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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The Cryptocurrency Industry Is 'On the Brink of an Implosion', Research Says
185 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers
184 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k
184 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary
184 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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NIST: Blockchain Technology Overview [pdf]
184 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Grad Student Solved a Fundamental Quantum Computing Problem
184 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Pharo: An immersive programming experience
183 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth
183 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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A fun optimization trick from rsync
183 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Myth of the Brown Recluse
183 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s
183 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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An Elm compiler for the Erlang Virtual Machine
182 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Interface Hall of Shame – QuickTime 4.0 Player (1999)
182 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Falcon: A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/2 and HTTPS
182 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing – Aka RFCs
182 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language
182 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Talking to the Mailman – Interview with Richard Stallman
181 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on what the roller-coaster ride felt like
181 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry into Net Neutrality Comments
181 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients'
181 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket seems to be a hit with satellite companies
181 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level
181 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Towards fearless SIMD
180 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620
180 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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The Big List of RPG Plots
180 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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42 (school)
179 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Gig-Economy Workers Are the Modern Proletariat
179 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s computing power
179 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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See what you can create with 140 characters of JavaScript and a canvas
178 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework
178 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Tesla’s Model 3 Is Becoming One of America’s Best-Selling Sedans
178 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Alarm as China eases 25-year ban on rhino and tiger parts
178 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Show HN: Coffee Chat – Trade your expertise
177 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years
177 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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How WeChat faded into the silence in India
177 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data
176 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Gates Still Working Behind the Scenes at Microsoft
176 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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How the Finnish survive without small talk
176 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Packets per Second Limitations in EC2
176 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Ham vs. Ham as Radio Amateurs Are in Conflict with ARRL
175 points • comment • oct 06, 2018