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Hacker News (Nov 2018)
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Ask HN: Why is Atom a whopping 845 MB on my Mac?
30 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Chrome 71 will block any and all ads on sites with “abusive experiences”
30 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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Peter Thiel Pledges to Support Trump’s 2020 Campaign
30 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Confessions of US Postal Worker: “We deliver Amazon packages until we drop dead”
30 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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H-1B Fraud Claim at Dolby Leads to State Department, Homeland Security Complaint
30 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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Living with an Unmarried Partner Now Common for Young Adults
30 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Google 'betrays patient trust' with DeepMind Health move
30 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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The Adorable Optimism of the IPCC
30 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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DeepMind's AlphaZero on Carlsen-Caruana Games 1, 3, 5 and 8 (Sicilian Defence)
30 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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A story about Upwork fucking over freelancers in order to upsell their clients
30 points • comment • nov 10, 2018
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Google in China: When ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Met the Great Firewall
30 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit
30 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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How to cure a hangover: what one man found after a 10-year quest
30 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Oil drilling: Wrong coordinate system creates lake 1,300 feet deep (1980)
30 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Amazon Managed Blockchain -Easily create and manage scalable blockchain networks
29 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
29 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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Stack(age): History, philosophy, and future
29 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Nancy Pelosi's Husband Purchases Large Blocks of Options on Amazon, Facebook
29 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Pinebook: My First Few Surprising Hours with a $99 Linux Laptop
29 points • comment • nov 22, 2018
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Namecheap announces support for TOTP-based 2FA
29 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Doctors said my mother was on her death bed. She just needed bananas
29 points • comment • nov 23, 2018
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Glencore’s Misadventure in the Congo Threatens Its Cobalt Dreams
29 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Ask HN: Is Atom now dead in the water?
29 points • comment • nov 22, 2018
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Ask HN: Knowing what we know about Facebook, why do you still have an account?
29 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Elliot Schrage on Definers
29 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Command and Conquer 4K remaster coming
29 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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The automation charade
29 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Political Reality: Buy Ads on Facebook or Risk Losing the Election
29 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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Google Services Inaccessible Due to BGP Leak
29 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Brexit uncertainty means UK is uninvestable
29 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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'Conservative Move': A relocation service for conservatives fleeing blue states
29 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Show HN: Truck.app – an rsync client for Mac
29 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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The Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form New Foundation to Support GraphQL
29 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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RPCS3 Progress Report: September 2018
29 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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Brave Browser is taking the web by storm
29 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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The Bucolic Life of a Cambodian Grandmother Accused of Mass Killings (2017)
29 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Looking back at Project Athena
29 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Visualizing Large Scale Uber Movement Data
29 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Google ReCaptcha targeting non-Google browsers
29 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Compartmentalized computing with CLIP OS
29 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada
29 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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How Cooperating Microbes Shaped Life on Earth
29 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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Knut Wicksell: the Birth of Modern Monetary Policy (2004) [pdf]
29 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Noise Pollution Is Making the Oceans Unbearable for Underwater Life
28 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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A diet supplemented with red algae could reduce greenhouse gases emitted by cows
28 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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Google details just how good dark mode is for your battery
28 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity
28 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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Amazon deal will disrupt plans for affordable housing on Long Island City sites
28 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Elon Musk renames his BFR spacecraft Starship
28 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Novel Quantum Emitter Provides Key Building Block for a Quantum Internet
28 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 10 years for our daily lives?
28 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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Cherry-Picking and the Scientific Method (2013) [pdf]
28 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome
28 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Belize’s thriving Afro-Caribbean community
28 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science
28 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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China confounds all that western liberals believed about the net
28 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Uber/makisu: Fast and flexible Docker image building tool
28 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Financial Times bot warns if articles quote too many men
28 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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Florida passes Amendment Four, restoring voting rights to convicted felons
28 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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Ask HN: Do you keep work logs, and if so, how do you use them?
28 points • comment • nov 10, 2018
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Physics can explain the fastball’s unexpected twist, new study finds
28 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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Study: Over 20 years, Silicon Valley workers’ median wage has fallen by 14%
28 points • comment • nov 23, 2018
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Apple will no longer report iPhone numbers
28 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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How coddled young radicals got discomfort all wrong (2015)
28 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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Windows 10's first paid-for, Linux-based distro
28 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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How the U.S. Systematically Puts Black Farmers Out of Business
28 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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I've used Apple computers my entire life. why I'm never buying one again
28 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Rivian unveils all-electric pickup truck with unbelievable specs
28 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Show HN: Essential – A weekly planner for work, personal and social life
28 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+
28 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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LinkedIn Is Now Home to Hyperpartisan Content, False Memes, and Troll Battles
28 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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React-sky: easy animated backgrounds
28 points • comment • nov 22, 2018
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Statusfy – A Marvelous Open Source Status Page System
27 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Bitcoin crashes through $4,000
27 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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Introducing the C++ Lambda Runtime
27 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Zuckerberg made his execs use Android after Apple slammed FB's privacy approach
27 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Backblaze’s Custom Data Center PDU
27 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla
27 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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XxHash – an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm
27 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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Twitter took down thousands of accounts that discouraged voting in midterms
27 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
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The weird and wonderful feline world of Louis Wain
27 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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QUIC-Tracker: an open-source QUIC test suite
27 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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First Battle of the Marne – Entente forces counter attack
27 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Getting Started with Qt for WebAssembly
27 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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Show HN: DiagramJS – Create beautiful node diagrams using JavaScript
27 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Science confirms it: People are not pets
27 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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The world’s biggest telescope is ready. The problem: staffing it
27 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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Wilfred Owen: Bugle marks centenary of war poet's death
27 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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Limited Availability of Spaces API in NYC3
27 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Sega Dreamcast at 20: the futuristic games console that came too soon
27 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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Marriage 101: There Are No Soul Mates
27 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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The promise and peril of gene drives
27 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Ask HN: Self-taught devs, what are the best cheap resources for learning webdev?
27 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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Ask HN: Whitepaper v Academic Paper: What’s the best way to share breakthroughs?
27 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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To the Gulf of Minneapolis (2016)
26 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Tech stocks are getting slammed, Dow tanks more than 500 points
26 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Predictive Scaling for Amazon EC2, Powered by Machine Learning
26 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Sheryl Sandberg’s saintly image in Silicon Valley is unravelling
26 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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The Dragon: Fear and Power
26 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Bitcoin plunges 12%, reaching lowest value in a year
26 points • comment • nov 14, 2018