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Hacker News (Nov 2018)
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An Independent Assessment of the Human Rights Impact of Facebook in Myanmar
70 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Cascade: A Just-In-Time Compiler for Verilog
70 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)
70 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
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Intel CPUs fall to new hyperthreading exploit that pilfers crypto keys
70 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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Patients shocked, burned by spinal cord stimulators touted to treat pain
70 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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Mountain Gorillas Are Doing Better
70 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Turning the CPU-GPU Hybrid System on Its Head
70 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Can we rule out near-term AGI? [video]
70 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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Towards Understanding Linear Word Analogies
69 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Winds of Change: The Case for New Digital Currency
69 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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The Chemists’ War
69 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Study to determine typical transit time for a swallowed Lego figurine head
69 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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Introduction to Fountain Codes: LT Codes with Python
69 points • comment • nov 10, 2018
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The Lounge – Modern cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
69 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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US homeless fundraiser: GoFundMe campaign 'based on a lie'
69 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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PG&E-friendly wildfire bill being prepared by lawmakers in wake of lethal fires
69 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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NASA Insight is on Mars
69 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Soviet Children’s Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda
69 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans to Test New Wireless Tech
69 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Extending optionals in Swift
69 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Google C++ Style Guide Is No Good
69 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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Intro to Congestion Control
69 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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The world is not an engineering problem
69 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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Ask HN: Are any of you IEEE members?
68 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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Character by character TTY input in Unix, then and now
68 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Overturned polygons: shapes with less than two sides
68 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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DevOps for a Commodore 64
68 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome
68 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that never have to come down
68 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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No, you don't need a blockchain
68 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Forced Out by Deadly Fires, Then Trapped in Traffic
68 points • comment • nov 22, 2018
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A Commodore hacker’s story
68 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Amazon reviews now unreliable: negative reviews filtered (Anker example)
68 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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Show HN: MindForger Markdown IDE – Autolinking, MathJax Menu and CSV Export
68 points • comment • nov 10, 2018
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Why can't all cities have bike bridges like Copenhagen's Cycle Snake? (2014)
68 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
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E-mails from Amazon regarding user's e-mails being disclosed
67 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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What’s Wrong with Bananas
67 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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Introducing Amazon Translate Custom Terminology
67 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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AWS Firecracker Open Source: Secure and Fast MicroVM for Serverless Computing
67 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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New Satellites Will Hunt Pirates, and Maybe Terrorists
67 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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PHP Sadness
67 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Learn Service Workers inside and Out with a New PWA Mastery Game
67 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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IBM's future system of the past
67 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Google Sheets Query Function (2016)
67 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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40M people with diabetes will be left without insulin by 2030, study predicts
67 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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Samsung opens its Bixby assistant to developers
66 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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Huawei: NZ bars Chinese firm on national security fears
66 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot
66 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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On Rigorous Error Handling
66 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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While iPhone sales remain stagnant, Apple services hit $10B in revenue
66 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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A Solar Storm Likely Detonated Dozens of Sea Mines During the Vietnam War
66 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Open-sourcing FBGEMM for state-of-the-art server-side inference
66 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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BSDs or Illumos may be good alternatives to Linux (2017)
66 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Embracing the Laws of Physics: Three Reversible Models of Computation
66 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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The Fax Is Not Yet Obsolete
66 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Microsoft Pulling Even with Apple in Ranks of Biggest Companies
66 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Adopting Lessons from Offline Ray-Tracing to Real-Time Ray-Tracing [pdf]
66 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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The Importance of Learning Primitive Communication Methods
66 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Show HN: Harmony of the Spheres – Gravity Simulator
66 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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How Rust Helps Keep Kentik’s Performance on High
66 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Reverse Engineering Pokémon Go Plus
66 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Twitter’s Problem Isn’t the Like Button
66 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Hacking Christmas lights (2010)
66 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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What Facebook Knew and Tried to Hide [audio]
66 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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A lost language encoded in Inca cords
66 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Show HN: Arcentry – Create Interactive Cloud Diagrams
66 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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New York’s Wealthiest Cut Losses as Manhattan Real Estate Falters
66 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Using deep learning to detect malaria in images
66 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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Show HN: Codeadvice – Create, edit and collaborate on code online
66 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Neglected side projects for less than $1000
65 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
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Why I lost $42,500 making a VR game
65 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification
65 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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SPARK by Example
65 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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The CONS microprocessor (1974) [pdf]
65 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack (2014)
65 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater when it fell to Earth
65 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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SSH Access through Cloudflare
65 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Stardew Valley on FreeBSD
65 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Dynamic Automatic Differentiation of GPU Broadcast Kernels [pdf]
65 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management
65 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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A 96-year-old artist who saved a village
65 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Ask HN: What excites you most about Neuromorphic Hardware?
65 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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They Hacked Their School District When They Were 12
65 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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Targeted advertising has become the norm on the internet, and it's hurting us
64 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Ask HN: What's your routine/ways to keep being productive day by day?
64 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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IP Geolocation Through Reverse DNS
64 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Civil’s tokenomics has left its journalists wondering where their salary is
64 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Google PageRank Is Not Dead
64 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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TiDB Cloud, Managed as a Service and in the Marketplace
64 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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Limiting the power of package installation in Debian
64 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Proposed new tag: IMG (1993)
64 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Expresso: A simple expressions language with polymorphic extensible row types
64 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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8×8 has acquired the Jitsi team and technology from Atlassian
64 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment
64 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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Zuckerberg told execs the company's at 'war,' called media coverage 'bulls---'
64 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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One Reason That MIT Should Reinstate Scheme and 6.001 (2009)
64 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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Ask HN: Who was your most impressive hire?
64 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Creating Expressive C++ Smart Pointers for Remote Memory
64 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Insomnia: To Pursue Sleep So Hard You Become Invigorated by the Chase
64 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Show HN: Dweb.page – Your Gateway to the Distributed Web
64 points • comment • nov 23, 2018