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Hacker News (Nov 2018)
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Why do all websites look the same?
259 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
258 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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Practical Typography
258 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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China Steps Up Trade Secret Theft from US Companies
257 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Google accused of 'trust demolition' over health app
257 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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LearnDB: Learn how to build a database
256 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Programming Quotes
256 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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The Dangerous Fetishization of ‘Hustle Porn’
255 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?
255 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before news of HQ2 location emerged
254 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Why I'm Ditching Android
253 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
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Real-Time Noise Suppression Using Deep Learning
253 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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OpenBSD on a Laptop
252 points • comment • nov 03, 2018
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Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements
251 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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South Koreans lock themselves up to escape prison of daily life
251 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B
250 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’
250 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre
250 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler
249 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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We Regulate the Wrong Things
249 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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Starting a Business in Silicon Valley
248 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Israeli scientists develop tissue implants that won't be rejected
248 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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The Matrix Cookbook (2012) [pdf]
248 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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MemSQL is now free to use for databases with up to 128GB of RAM usage
248 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Daniel Kahneman on when to trust intuitive judgment
248 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Half of lonely people think no one will notice if something bad happens to them
247 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12
246 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries
246 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
245 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon benefit from an outdated definition of “monopoly”
245 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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How to Land on Mars
244 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (1985)
244 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech
244 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Building a company is fucking hard
243 points • comment • nov 28, 2018
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Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don't call back
243 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Tensorflow 2.0: models migration and new design
243 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years
243 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Ford Buying San Francisco-Area E-Scooter Startup Spin
243 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
242 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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AI Playbook
242 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George Soros
241 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users
241 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL
241 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing
241 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Sundar Pichai: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems’
241 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming
241 points • comment • nov 02, 2018
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“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming
241 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal
241 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Compiler basics: Lisp to Assembly
240 points • comment • nov 26, 2018
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A note to our employees
240 points • comment • nov 08, 2018
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New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances
240 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy
240 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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OpenCV 4.0
239 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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A remote UK community living off-grid
239 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)
239 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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How Zapier Reached $35M ARR
239 points • comment • nov 15, 2018
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Against software development
238 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Tracking China's Muslim Gulag
237 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Programs to Read
237 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration and tax data
237 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star
236 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection
236 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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What a Real Train System Looks Like (2009)
236 points • comment • nov 22, 2018
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VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes
236 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks citizen behavior
235 points • comment • nov 14, 2018
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Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country
235 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer
234 points • comment • nov 07, 2018
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Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents, Only Poorer
234 points • comment • nov 29, 2018
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Stop using JWT for sessions (2016)
233 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights
233 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock Smartphones
232 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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Apple Admits to Hardware Quality Problems with iPhone X, MacBook Pro
232 points • comment • nov 10, 2018
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You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True
232 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Designing an Engineering Performance Management System from Scratch
231 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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There is more to high house prices than constrained supply
231 points • comment • nov 24, 2018
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A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at a stroke
231 points • comment • nov 06, 2018
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New critical vulnerability in multiple high-privileged Android services
230 points • comment • nov 01, 2018
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Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists
229 points • comment • nov 18, 2018
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Small robots may kill the tractor and make farming efficient
229 points • comment • nov 11, 2018
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Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
228 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Show HN: HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hosted cloud services
228 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Googlers are openly asking bosses to cancel the censored search engine for China
227 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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LibrePCB: First stable release published
227 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Apple’s Social Network
226 points • comment • nov 05, 2018
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What Makes .NET Core So Special?
226 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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So You Want to Learn Physics (2016)
226 points • comment • nov 04, 2018
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Fundamental Algorithms of Machine Learning
225 points • comment • nov 21, 2018
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Snapshots of Tokyo’s vivid street life
225 points • comment • nov 13, 2018
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The Media Industry and the “Make-Google-Pay” Fantasy
224 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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Scientists who make apps addictive
224 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go
223 points • comment • nov 17, 2018
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Bogle Sounds a Warning on Index Funds
223 points • comment • nov 30, 2018
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Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (2014)
222 points • comment • nov 25, 2018
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Apple has removed us from the App Store
222 points • comment • nov 09, 2018
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Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Based on Family Photos
221 points • comment • nov 16, 2018
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Dead sperm whale found in Indonesia had ingested '6kg of plastic'
221 points • comment • nov 20, 2018
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Show HN: A JavaScript Handbook
221 points • comment • nov 12, 2018
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Functional, stateless JavaScript finite state machines and statecharts
221 points • comment • nov 19, 2018
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ASRock motherboard destroys Linux software RAID
221 points • comment • nov 27, 2018
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Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
221 points • comment • nov 13, 2018