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Hacker News (Oct 2018)
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Poor Man’s Bose – Open Office and on the Go Noise Control
143 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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As fake videos become more realistic, seeing shouldn't always be believing
143 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected (1995)
143 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Playing Mortal Kombat with TensorFlow.js
143 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Lawsuit claims Ancestry.com gets preferential access to New York public archives
143 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Announcing Rust 1.30
142 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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The tragic end of Telltale Games
142 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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React v16.6.0: lazy, memo and contextType
142 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter in Go
142 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Apple Bloomberg Congressional Letter
142 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna (2017)
142 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code
141 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Google’s Secret and Linear Algebra (2004) [pdf]
141 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Show HN: MicroMDM – Open Source MDM Server for Apple Devices
141 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset (2017)
141 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name?
141 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Generative Coding – “The Nature of Code” Ported to Three.js
140 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Why Are Japan’s Cherry Blossom Trees Blooming in Fall?
140 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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The future’s so bright, I gotta wear blinders
140 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Mathematics as thought
140 points • comment • oct 12, 2018
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Data Factories
140 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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Ask HN: What is it like to run a VPN as a business?
140 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro
140 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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Isochronic Map shows how long it took to travel the world in 1914 (2015)
140 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Eugene Shoemaker Is Still the Only Man Buried on the Moon
139 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Automatic Differentiation with Julia
139 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Two in Three Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana
139 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Supply Chain Security Is the Whole Enchilada, but Who’s Willing to Pay for It?
139 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Green tea supplements ruined my liver
139 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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VSCode silently opts you in to data collection
139 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebooks (2017)
138 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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New North American Trade Deal Has Bad News for Canadian Copyright
138 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Firebase outages and misleading status reporting
138 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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Scientists say halting deforestation 'just as urgent' as reducing emissions
138 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Japan’s special take on a packed lunch
138 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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A Hacker from South Africa Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space (2016)
138 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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The next recession
137 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003
137 points • comment • oct 09, 2018
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Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption
137 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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L.A.'s Most Derided Piece of Public Art Is About to Light Up Again
137 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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An overview of the top web hacking techniques of 2017
137 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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A RISC-V chip with built-in neural networks
137 points • comment • oct 08, 2018
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Robinhood Gets Almost Half Its Revenue from Bargain with High-Speed Traders
136 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Rethink Robotics shuts down
136 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Do we really live longer than our ancestors?
136 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Ethernaut: wargame to learn about smart contract security
136 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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On the Law of Diminishing Specialization
136 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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State considered harmful: A proposal for a stateless laptop (2015)
136 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Designing a new funding structure for bootstrappers
136 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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When Blockbuster Video Tried Burning Game Cartridges on Demand
135 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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How to read Kafka: part I
135 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Compiling Lisp to JavaScript in 350 Lines of Haskell
135 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Global Kernel Locks in APFS
135 points • comment • oct 29, 2018
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Programs compiled by Go 1.11 allocate an unreasonable amount of virtual memory
135 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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The DS GPU and its fun quirks
135 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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The Murgia Hack System
135 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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California to ban weak default passwords on internet-connected devices
134 points • comment • oct 05, 2018
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Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars?
134 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town
134 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix
134 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux
134 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Show HN: Mole – an open source tool to easily create ssh tunnels
134 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Solar foods
134 points • comment • oct 31, 2018
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Let’s talk about PAKE
133 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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We Are All Lawyers Now – The Rise of the Legalish
133 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Why did the golden age of the Simpsons end?
133 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Fedora 29
133 points • comment • oct 30, 2018
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Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers
133 points • comment • oct 11, 2018
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Internet Relay Chat turns 30–and we remember how it changed our lives
133 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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Why Zig When There Is Already CPP, D, and Rust? (2017)
133 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust
132 points • comment • oct 23, 2018
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Show HN: Trigonoparty – JavaScript trigonometry visualization
132 points • comment • oct 06, 2018
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Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service Runtime
132 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Blazor, a framework for browser-based .NET apps using WebAssembly [video]
132 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Domain Storytelling: A DDD tool to visualize domain stories in the browser
132 points • comment • oct 18, 2018
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Tricks That Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos for Now
132 points • comment • oct 20, 2018
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The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation
132 points • comment • oct 02, 2018
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RedisGraph: a fast, queryable property graph database for Redis
131 points • comment • oct 21, 2018
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The interesting ideas in Datasette
131 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Richard Branson suspends Saudi Arabia’s investment over missing journalist
131 points • comment • oct 13, 2018
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The Strangest Book on the Theory of Computation (2009)
131 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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A Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V [pdf]
131 points • comment • oct 26, 2018
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A Love Story That Upended the Texas Prison System
131 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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Climate change and the 75% problem
131 points • comment • oct 17, 2018
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Nginx C function
131 points • comment • oct 14, 2018
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To Heil, or Not to Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich
131 points • comment • oct 10, 2018
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RISC-V: More Than a Core
131 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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SimpleSSR: Server-Side Rendering at Scale
131 points • comment • oct 27, 2018
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Google has sacked dozens over sexual harassment since 2016
131 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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Waymo self-driving car crashed when driver fell asleep and triggered manual mode
131 points • comment • oct 03, 2018
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Proposition C
131 points • comment • oct 19, 2018
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The peer review industry: implausible and outrageous
130 points • comment • oct 25, 2018
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A Sudden Illness (2003)
130 points • comment • oct 28, 2018
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Rete – JavaScript framework for node-based visual programming
130 points • comment • oct 07, 2018
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Facebook adding “fbclid” parameter to outbound links
130 points • comment • oct 22, 2018
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Project Atlas
130 points • comment • oct 01, 2018
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A Look at Game Streaming Tech in the Browser
130 points • comment • oct 15, 2018
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Twenty Questions Of Maddening, Delicious Geometry
130 points • comment • oct 04, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
130 points • comment • oct 24, 2018
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Open-Source Machine Learning Repos to Inspire Your Next Project
130 points • comment • oct 10, 2018