hackerNews

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Yew: Rust framework for making React-like client web apps (github.com)

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Ruby 2.5.0 Released (www.ruby-lang.org)

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Tricks to make yourself effortlessly charming (www.bbc.com)

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Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage (www.npr.org)

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Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter (www.nycresistor.com)

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Quiet (techcrunch.com)

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Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful (blog.usejournal.com)

202 points first seen 2017122621 last seen 2017122809 90 comments

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China's Shanghai sets population at 25M (www.theguardian.com)

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Lyft Self-Driving (www.lyft.com)

196 points first seen 2017122612 last seen 2017122703 148 comments

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Decentralization Roundup for 2017 (clutchofthedeadhand.com)

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Red Lang goes blockchain (www.red-lang.org)

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A Practical Guide to Correctly Troubleshooting with Traceroute (2009) [pdf] (www.nanog.org)

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The link between polygamy and war (www.economist.com)

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Demystifying container runtimes (lwn.net)

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Micromouse (en.wikipedia.org)

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What really happened in the Christmas truce of 1914? (www.bbc.co.uk)

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9

Evil Coding Incantations (9tabs.com)

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4

Hardening C/C++ Programs – Executable-Space Protection and ASLR (www.productive-cpp.com)

116 points first seen 2017122621 last seen 2017122806 26 comments

2

Show HN: Sundown – an alternative to Markdown (seyedi.org)

115 points first seen 2017122609 last seen 2017122721 101 comments

12

A different view on Functional Programming (matiasmorant.wordpress.com)

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7

Google DeepMind and healthcare in an age of algorithms (link.springer.com)

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Our Visual Imagination Is Severely Limited (undark.org)

109 points first seen 2017122612 last seen 2017122706 19 comments

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I made a talking emoji using regular emojis and JavaScript (hackernoon.com)

108 points first seen 2017122621 last seen 2017122803 52 comments

7

Bitcoin forks and airdrops (https://btcdiv.com)

100 points first seen 2017122615 last seen 2017122703 59 comments

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Cryptsetup 2.0.0 introduces new on-disk LUKS2 format (www.kernel.org)

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Blazing fast nnn file browser v1.6 released (github.com)

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VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3 (git.videolan.org)

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Piu-Piu-Sh: ‘Shoot Them All’ Game in Bash (github.com)

84 points first seen 2017122618 last seen 2017122800 8 comments

10

The Area Under an ROC Curve (2001) (gim.unmc.edu)

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Damned with Praise: The Meaning of Kendrick Lamar (www.economist.com)

81 points first seen 2017122612 last seen 2017122615 39 comments

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Why Anti-Corruption Strategies May Backfire (nautil.us)

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Hinkley Point: the ‘dreadful deal’ behind the world’s most expensive power plant (www.theguardian.com)

75 points first seen 2017122609 last seen 2017122703 67 comments

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Critique My Plan: API Key for Authentication (dev.to)

72 points first seen 2017122621 last seen 2017122800 66 comments

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A criticism of Ruby (2013) (madhadron.com)

67 points first seen 2017122606 last seen 2017122700 31 comments

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Educationism: The Hidden Bias We Often Ignore (www.bbc.com)

63 points first seen 2017122612 last seen 2017122703 38 comments

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Toward better CPU load estimation (lwn.net)

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China’s New Lenders Collect Invasive Data and Offer Billions (www.nytimes.com)

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Apple iPhone X Demand Limited, Wall Street Analysts Say (fortune.com)

58 points first seen 2017122621 last seen 2017122800 206 comments

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Writing ReasonML Bindings for JavaScript APIs (davidgom.es)

57 points first seen 2017122621 last seen 2017122800 8 comments

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To Unlock the Brain’s Mysteries, Purée It (www.nytimes.com)

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How to be Remembered for a 1,000 years (www.bbc.com)

55 points first seen 2017122615 last seen 2017122806 104 comments

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PyPy2.7 and PyPy3.5 v5.10 dual release (morepypy.blogspot.com)

53 points first seen 2017122609 last seen 2017122615 0 comments

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The Last Naturalist (www.outsideonline.com)

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Weird machines, exploitability, and provable unexploitability (ieeexplore.ieee.org)

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Twizzler: An Operating System for Next-Generation Memory Hierarchies [pdf] (www.ssrc.ucsc.edu)

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China to Overtake U.S. Economy by 2032 (www.bloomberg.com)

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Cash Might Be King, but They Don’t Care (www.nytimes.com)

48 points first seen 2017122621 last seen 2017122703 62 comments

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The Programmer’s Price (www.newyorker.com)

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An Impenetrable Program Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (www.wired.com)

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The Nature of Proof (2011) (loopspace.mathforge.org)

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My Man in Japan (2015) (tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Order of the Shadow Wolf Cyberzine 5 (www.legowelt.org)

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Electronic Loneliness (1995) (www.mediamatic.net)

39 points first seen 2017122606 last seen 2017122618 7 comments

25

Penn Machine Learning Benchmarks (github.com)

39 points first seen 2017122618 last seen 2017122706 0 comments

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Differential Pricing of Traffic in the Internet (arxiv.org)

38 points first seen 2017122621 last seen 2017122718 9 comments

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Reflecting on F# in 2017 (medium.com)

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How Not following my dreams enabled me to build a startup with 3.2M users (medium.com)

37 points first seen 2017122609 last seen 2017122618 2 comments

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The All American Aldi (www.theawl.com)

37 points first seen 2017122621 last seen 2017122709 51 comments

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Reversible Computing (2016) [video] (www.youtube.com)

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Firefox Stuff (docs.google.com)

34 points first seen 2017122606 last seen 2017122700 12 comments

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Review of annotated editions of Frankenstein (www.nybooks.com)

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Security warning for Thunderbird users and Enigmail users (posteo.de)

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NORAD's Crazy Santa Cause (www.politico.com)

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Caching at Netflix: The Hidden Microservice (2016) [video] (m.youtube.com)

30 points first seen 2017122606 last seen 2017122703 0 comments

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The Cult and Cults of Brasília (1992) (www.juliandibbell.com)

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Proof of Stake Pools for Ethereum (github.com)

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If you can't remember what domain(s) Sci-Hub is on why not make it all of them? (www.reddit.com)

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Combinatorial optimization with reinforcement learning (github.com)

26 points first seen 2017122618 last seen 2017122803 2 comments

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Three Things That Are Trying to Kill Display Ads and Just Can’t Do It (www.adbeat.com)

25 points first seen 2017122621 last seen 2017122700 32 comments

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Eating reindeer meat (agfundernews.com)

23 points first seen 2017122609 last seen 2017122700 24 comments

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Finite Field Arithmetic, Chapter 4: FFACalc (www.loper-os.org)

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Upon a diagnosis of brain cancer, Eric Sun set out to achieve some musical goals (www.newyorker.com)

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China regulator summons founder of debt-laden LeEco back to China (www.reuters.com)

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Smarties: How the stocking staple got its name (www.bbc.com)

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Forget conspiracies; Why Apple’s reason for slowing your iPhone is hostile (medium.com)

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Selling an Item for $1.6M with Elm and Headless Drupal (www.gizra.com)

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Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle – R.P. Feynman (www.ranum.com)

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Why millions of Chinese children are left to raise themselves (aeon.co)

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Julian Assange's Twitter account disappears (www.washingtonexaminer.com)

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Quantum Computing Becomes More Accessible (www.scientificamerican.com)

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How a Non-Traditional Path Can Lead You to Your Destination (getmarlow.com)

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Amazon and Microsoft employees caught up in sex trafficking sting (www.engadget.com)

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Simpson's paradox (en.wikipedia.org)

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Managing goroutine lifecycles with run.Group GopherAcademy (blog.gopheracademy.com)

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How do you articulate yourselves so well? (item?id=16003980)

8 points first seen 2017122603 last seen 2017122603 7 comments

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Trinity Supercomputer Wiring Reconfiguration Saves Millions – InsideHPC (insidehpc.com)

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Theranos gets $100M funding? Things may not be as they first seem (liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com)

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Speeding up the Build of C and C++ Projects (www.viva64.com)

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Does reference counting GC really use less memory than tracing GC (flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com)

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Homekit Enabled Thermostat Using Raspberry Pi 3 (blog.encoredevlabs.com)

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New York City's electric bike delivery workers face crackdown (www.theguardian.com)

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JVM Anatomy Park #14: Constant Variables (shipilev.net)

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Apple Hammered with Class Action #5 for Slowing iPhone Battery Issue (www.patentlyapple.com)

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Why did Vitalik created Ethereum and not upgrade Bitcoin blockchain? (hshno.de)

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Apple IdentityServices: What if anyone can be you? (medium.com)

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LattePanda Alpha (www.kickstarter.com)

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Julian Assange's official Twitter account not appearing (www.cbsnews.com)

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The Global Rush to Build New Skyscrapers (www.visualcapitalist.com)

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The surprising thing Google learned about its employees (www.washingtonpost.com)

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