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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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Decision Tables
160 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals
159 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Bloomberg’s chip story reveals murky world of national security reporting
159 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Madrid announces new rules of the road in bid to banish traffic from center
159 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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The true power of regular expressions (2012)
159 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Continued progress porting Emacs to Rust
159 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Parallel Supercomputing for Astronomy with Julia
159 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Is Saudi money becoming radioactive?
159 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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An update on GNU performance
159 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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In Amazon Go, no one thinks I'm stealing
159 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Show HN: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family
158 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Slack on a SNES
158 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts
158 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Reinforcement Learning with Prediction-Based Rewards
158 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students
158 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Faster R with FastR
158 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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How We Wrote a Textbook
158 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference
157 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Oboe: A C++ library for low latency audio in Android
157 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Masstree: A cache-friendly mashup of tries and B-trees
157 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge
157 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Instagram Has a Massive Harassment Problem
157 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Intel's New Low: Commissioning Misleading Core I9-9900K Benchmarks [video]
157 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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The Slide Rule
157 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
156 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire
156 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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The X hole
156 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Why Italy Could Be the Epicenter of the Next Financial Crisis
156 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown
156 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Spreadsheet of Steven Pinker’s book recommendations
155 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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FT8 – Tipping Point for Ham Radio?
155 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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How Intel Virtualisation Works
155 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Why Patterns Failed and Why You Should Care
155 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why
155 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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MLab is being acquired by MongoDB
155 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Flying a Cessna 172 for 65 days nonstop
155 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk (2017)
155 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Porting C to Rust
155 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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The Art of Prolog, Second Edition
154 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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The Joy of Haxe
154 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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RaptorJIT 1.0: Lua implementation for high-perf low-level system programming
154 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Tell HN: Executing a 51% attack on a real live CryptoCurrency, livestream
154 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla: Fight the S.E.C., or I Quit
154 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed
153 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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As Chinese investment pours into the EU, the Europeans are beginning to worry
153 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Firefox to support Google's WebP image format for a faster web
153 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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JS Visualizer – Visualize Context, Hoisting, Closures, and Scopes in JavaScript
153 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Atari Asteroids: Creating a Vector Arcade Classic
153 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Using machine learning to index text from billions of images
153 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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How to Find a Million-Dollar, One-Person Business Idea
152 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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C++: Associative map containers with compile-time lookup
152 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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World's longest sea crossing: Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge opens
152 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer (2017)
152 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI
152 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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What Comes After the Roomba?
152 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Stephen Hawking’s Final Paper: How to Escape from a Black Hole
151 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Unix in East Germany (1990)
151 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis
151 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Heathrow Airport fined £120K for serious failings in data protection practices
151 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Managed CockroachDB: Geo-Distributed Database as a Service
151 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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‘Two-faced’ membrane can create electricity from salty and fresh water
151 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Are our brains Bayesian? (2016)
150 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Running Your Company by Patrick Collison [video]
150 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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You can't impress developers. So don't try
150 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)
150 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Show HN: Lisp with copying GC in 537 lines of C (plus Lisp 1.5 on top)
150 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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UK cyber security agency backs Apple, Amazon China hack denials
150 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Intent to Merge
150 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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The Growth of Reddit
150 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Invisible Manipulation: ways our data is being used against us
150 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice
149 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights, Shorten Commutes
149 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Merging a Hasselblad 500C/M and a FujiFilm Instax 9
149 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Show HN: A note-taking web app that won't ever betray you
149 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Show HN: Stay with founders in San Francisco
148 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Business networking for nerds (2017)
148 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Massive octopus nursery found in deep sea
148 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Show HN: Basilica – word2vec for anything
148 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Morocco abruptly drops clock change
147 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default
147 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Solving Sol
147 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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“Social network” of brains lets people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads
147 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Nvtop: Nvidia GPU htop-like monitoring tool
147 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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MPEG-G: the ugly
147 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Trees Could Change the Climate More Than Scientists Thought
146 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Fixing a Bug in an 18 Year Old Shockwave Game
146 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand Over Data 300 Times
146 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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iOS 12: Core Data External Binary Data Storage Becomes Corrupt
146 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Run Perl in the browser with WebPerl
145 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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Building a Titan: Better security through a tiny chip
145 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Validating UTF-8 bytes using only 0.45 cycles per byte (AVX edition)
145 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Adding an Effect System to OCaml [video]
145 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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A Long Peek into Reinforcement Learning
145 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)
145 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Time to End Factory Farming?
144 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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Publishing more data behind our reporting
144 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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US mid-terms: Hackers expose 'staggering' voter machine flaws
144 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry
144 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Alex Stamos: Asking tech companies to police hate speech is “a dangerous path”
144 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Ask HN: How to start a startup that requires a high amount of initial capital?
144 points • comment • oct 04, 2018