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Hacker News (Nov 2018)
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Before sale to IBM for billions, Red Hat started in cofounder's closet
121 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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The strange postulated link between the human mind and quantum physics (2017)
121 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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McKernel – A lightweight multi-kernel OS for high-performance computing
121 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Basic GPU design concepts
121 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death
121 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Goboy: Multi-Platform Nintendo Game Boy Color Emulator Written in Go
121 points • comment • nov 22, 2018
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BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models
121 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Making a neural network say “I Don’t Know”: Bayesian NNs using Pyro and PyTorch
121 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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China used Huawei to hack network, says report
120 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
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Robert Langlands: The Greatest Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of?
120 points • comment • nov 22, 2018
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James Mickens' USENIX Speech [video]
120 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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Decline of Greyhound service mirrors rural Canada's plight
120 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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Fred Rogers wouldn't have wanted to appear in a Google ad
120 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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FDA isn't doing enough to prevent medical device hacking, HHS report says
120 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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MythBusters Results – List of Myths and Summaries
120 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Stealing Chrome cookies without a password
120 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the C: Effectiveness of Allocation Protection [pdf]
120 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Show HN: WebRTTY – Share a terminal session over WebRTC
119 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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China's Great Famine (2013)
119 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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Show HN: All-pair similarity search on millions of sets in Python and on laptop
119 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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Tworoutines in Python
119 points • comment • nov 23, 2018
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Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki [video]
119 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980) [pdf]
119 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Douglas Rain, voice of HAL, has died
118 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Facebook Is Full of Emotional-Support Groups
118 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch
118 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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RTL-SDR compatible decoder application for the Meteor M2 weather satellite
118 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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People are “consistently inconsistent” in reasoning about controversial topics
118 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat than Artificial Intelligence?
118 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles
118 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Container Linux on the Desktop [slides]
118 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch
118 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Copying objects in JavaScript
118 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off Amazon Marketplace
117 points • comment • nov 10, 2018
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Mundane: Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL
117 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Distributed Erlang: From Datacenter to Planetary Scale Applications [video]
117 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Adversarial Examples That Fool Both Computer Vision and Time-Limited Humans
117 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Why I Quit Being a Therapist [video]
117 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Satellite images expose China's network of secret re-education camps in Xinjiang
117 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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Unicorns are setting up their own venture capital funds
117 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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The World’s Loudest Sound (2014)
117 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Alchian–Allen effect
117 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Čezeta e-scooter: The rebirth of the chicest communist-era scooter
117 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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Alphabet unit halts glucose-detecting contact lens project
117 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom (2017)
117 points • comment • nov 10, 2018
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Oceans 'soaking up more heat than estimated'
116 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont's 'best' bagel maker
116 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012)
116 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
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The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
116 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Show HN: Squally – A Game to Teach Low Level Computer Science
116 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy
116 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Lawsuits Aim Billions in Fines at Equifax and Ad-Targeting Companies
116 points • comment • nov 10, 2018
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The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager
115 points • comment • nov 23, 2018
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A Profile of Claire Lehmann of Quillette
115 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple
115 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Building iPad Pro features in Swift
115 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st century
115 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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EventStore: Open-Source, Functional Database with Complex Event Processing in JS
115 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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Mtime comparison considered harmful
115 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Gabor Maté on Addiction to Ideology and Social Media [video]
115 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Two men are trying to become the first person to cross Antarctica alone
115 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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What the Lion Air Pilots May Have Needed to Do to Avoid a Crash
115 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Be Afraid of Economic 'Bigness'
115 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7
115 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Sick Building Syndrome
114 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts, stoking privacy fears
114 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Inside Sellafield's death zone with the nuclear clean-up robots
114 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Machine learning spots natural selection at work in human genome
114 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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A funny rap song about the pains of pair programming
114 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy
114 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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Mexico's Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing recreational marijuana use
113 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Snap Says DOJ and SEC Are Investigating IPO Disclosures
113 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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Big Oil Doesn’t Like EV Subsidies, Just Its Own Giant Subsidy
113 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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How Biologists Are Creating Life-Like Cells from Scratch
113 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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Google Workers Protest Plans for Censored Search in China
113 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Facebook Considered Charging for Access to User Data
113 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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Private equity controls the U.S. voting machine industry
113 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
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Badger: A fast key-value store written purely in Golang (2017)
112 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Ford Eyes Use of Customers’ Personal Data to Boost Profits
112 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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The Ripple Effect of Death in a Hotel
112 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio]
112 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Letter to an Aspiring Doctor
112 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Girl Scouts file trademark lawsuit as Boy Scouts plan to rename to Scouts BSA
112 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Zero-shot learning: Using text to more accurately identify images
112 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong (2014)
112 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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The Digital Maginot Line
112 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style
112 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Lisp Machine Inc. K-machine (2001)
111 points • comment • nov 23, 2018
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Casey Neistat’s Viral Marketing Strategy
111 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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A Fetus Can Turn to Stone in Its Mother’s Body and Go Undiscovered for Decades
111 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School
111 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7
111 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Fast, Constant-Time Sphere Indexing
111 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the ecosystem and user rights
111 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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The Mundanity of Excellence (1989)
111 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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The Shinkansen Story [video]
111 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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Amazon Starts Selling Software to Mine Patient Health Records
110 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams
110 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil ecosystem
110 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Doctors Are Fed Up with Being Turned into Debt Collectors
110 points • comment • nov 15, 2018