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Hacker News (Nov 2018)

  1. Before sale to IBM for billions, Red Hat started in cofounder's closet

    121 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  2. The strange postulated link between the human mind and quantum physics (2017)

    121 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  3. McKernel – A lightweight multi-kernel OS for high-performance computing

    121 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  4. Basic GPU design concepts

    121 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  5. Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death

    121 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  6. Goboy: Multi-Platform Nintendo Game Boy Color Emulator Written in Go

    121 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  7. BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models

    121 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  8. Making a neural network say “I Don’t Know”: Bayesian NNs using Pyro and PyTorch

    121 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  9. China used Huawei to hack network, says report

    120 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  10. Robert Langlands: The Greatest Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of?

    120 points • comment • nov 22, 2018

  11. James Mickens' USENIX Speech [video]

    120 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  12. Decline of Greyhound service mirrors rural Canada's plight

    120 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  13. Fred Rogers wouldn't have wanted to appear in a Google ad

    120 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  14. FDA isn't doing enough to prevent medical device hacking, HHS report says

    120 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  15. MythBusters Results – List of Myths and Summaries

    120 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  16. Stealing Chrome cookies without a password

    120 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  17. There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the C: Effectiveness of Allocation Protection [pdf]

    120 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  18. Show HN: WebRTTY – Share a terminal session over WebRTC

    119 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  19. China's Great Famine (2013)

    119 points • comment • nov 25, 2018

  20. Show HN: All-pair similarity search on millions of sets in Python and on laptop

    119 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  21. Tworoutines in Python

    119 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  22. Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki [video]

    119 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  23. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980) [pdf]

    119 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  24. Douglas Rain, voice of HAL, has died

    118 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  25. Facebook Is Full of Emotional-Support Groups

    118 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  26. Facebook chooses Canada for Dating feature launch

    118 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  27. RTL-SDR compatible decoder application for the Meteor M2 weather satellite

    118 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  28. People are “consistently inconsistent” in reasoning about controversial topics

    118 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  29. Is Neuroscience a Bigger Threat than Artificial Intelligence?

    118 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  30. Pseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles

    118 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  31. Container Linux on the Desktop [slides]

    118 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  32. The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch

    118 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  33. Copying objects in JavaScript

    118 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  34. Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off Amazon Marketplace

    117 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  35. Mundane: Rust cryptography library backed by BoringSSL

    117 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  36. Distributed Erlang: From Datacenter to Planetary Scale Applications [video]

    117 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  37. Adversarial Examples That Fool Both Computer Vision and Time-Limited Humans

    117 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  38. Why I Quit Being a Therapist [video]

    117 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  39. Satellite images expose China's network of secret re-education camps in Xinjiang

    117 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  40. Unicorns are setting up their own venture capital funds

    117 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  41. The World’s Loudest Sound (2014)

    117 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  42. Alchian–Allen effect

    117 points • comment • nov 12, 2018

  43. Čezeta e-scooter: The rebirth of the chicest communist-era scooter

    117 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  44. Alphabet unit halts glucose-detecting contact lens project

    117 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  45. How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom (2017)

    117 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  46. Oceans 'soaking up more heat than estimated'

    116 points • comment • nov 01, 2018

  47. A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont's 'best' bagel maker

    116 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  48. Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012)

    116 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  49. The spread of low-credibility content by social bots

    116 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  50. Show HN: Squally – A Game to Teach Low Level Computer Science

    116 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  51. Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy

    116 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  52. Lawsuits Aim Billions in Fines at Equifax and Ad-Targeting Companies

    116 points • comment • nov 10, 2018

  53. The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager

    115 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  54. A Profile of Claire Lehmann of Quillette

    115 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  55. Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple

    115 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  56. Building iPad Pro features in Swift

    115 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  57. If I were to invent a programming language for the 21st century

    115 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  58. EventStore: Open-Source, Functional Database with Complex Event Processing in JS

    115 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  59. Mtime comparison considered harmful

    115 points • comment • nov 17, 2018

  60. Gabor Maté on Addiction to Ideology and Social Media [video]

    115 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  61. Two men are trying to become the first person to cross Antarctica alone

    115 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  62. What the Lion Air Pilots May Have Needed to Do to Avoid a Crash

    115 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  63. Be Afraid of Economic 'Bigness'

    115 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  64. Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7

    115 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  65. Sick Building Syndrome

    114 points • comment • nov 11, 2018

  66. Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts, stoking privacy fears

    114 points • comment • nov 16, 2018

  67. Inside Sellafield's death zone with the nuclear clean-up robots

    114 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  68. Machine learning spots natural selection at work in human genome

    114 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  69. A funny rap song about the pains of pair programming

    114 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  70. A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy

    114 points • comment • nov 05, 2018

  71. Mexico's Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing recreational marijuana use

    113 points • comment • nov 02, 2018

  72. Snap Says DOJ and SEC Are Investigating IPO Disclosures

    113 points • comment • nov 14, 2018

  73. Big Oil Doesn’t Like EV Subsidies, Just Its Own Giant Subsidy

    113 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  74. How Biologists Are Creating Life-Like Cells from Scratch

    113 points • comment • nov 08, 2018

  75. Google Workers Protest Plans for Censored Search in China

    113 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  76. Facebook Considered Charging for Access to User Data

    113 points • comment • nov 28, 2018

  77. Private equity controls the U.S. voting machine industry

    113 points • comment • nov 03, 2018

  78. Badger: A fast key-value store written purely in Golang (2017)

    112 points • comment • nov 09, 2018

  79. Ford Eyes Use of Customers’ Personal Data to Boost Profits

    112 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  80. The Ripple Effect of Death in a Hotel

    112 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  81. Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? [audio]

    112 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  82. Letter to an Aspiring Doctor

    112 points • comment • nov 15, 2018

  83. Girl Scouts file trademark lawsuit as Boy Scouts plan to rename to Scouts BSA

    112 points • comment • nov 06, 2018

  84. Zero-shot learning: Using text to more accurately identify images

    112 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  85. The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong (2014)

    112 points • comment • nov 19, 2018

  86. The Digital Maginot Line

    112 points • comment • nov 29, 2018

  87. With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style

    112 points • comment • nov 18, 2018

  88. Lisp Machine Inc. K-machine (2001)

    111 points • comment • nov 23, 2018

  89. Casey Neistat’s Viral Marketing Strategy

    111 points • comment • nov 20, 2018

  90. A Fetus Can Turn to Stone in Its Mother’s Body and Go Undiscovered for Decades

    111 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  91. We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School

    111 points • comment • nov 07, 2018

  92. AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7

    111 points • comment • nov 30, 2018

  93. Fast, Constant-Time Sphere Indexing

    111 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  94. The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the ecosystem and user rights

    111 points • comment • nov 21, 2018

  95. The Mundanity of Excellence (1989)

    111 points • comment • nov 13, 2018

  96. The Shinkansen Story [video]

    111 points • comment • nov 24, 2018

  97. Amazon Starts Selling Software to Mine Patient Health Records

    110 points • comment • nov 27, 2018

  98. Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams

    110 points • comment • nov 04, 2018

  99. Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil ecosystem

    110 points • comment • nov 26, 2018

  100. Doctors Are Fed Up with Being Turned into Debt Collectors

    110 points • comment • nov 15, 2018