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1. | | Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness (phys.org) |
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851 points by maxwell on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 332 comments |
2. | | Julia 1.0 (julialang.org) |
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915 points by montalbano on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 434 comments |
3. | | A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt (mrooding.me) |
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537 points by rapnie on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 309 comments |
4. | | Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster (tryretool.com) |
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592 points by dvdhsu on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 109 comments |
5. | | Gerald M. Weinberg has died (facebook.com) |
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374 points by pbowyer on Aug 8, 2018 | hide | 66 comments |
6. | | I don't trust Signal (drewdevault.com) |
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523 points by Bl4ckb0ne on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 455 comments |
7. | | Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021 (rideuta.com) |
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316 points by ngngngng on Aug 8, 2018 | hide | 180 comments |
8. | | America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price (reneweconomy.com.au) |
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224 points by Osiris30 on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 124 comments |
9. | | A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes (bloomberg.com) |
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317 points by rbanffy on Aug 8, 2018 | hide | 157 comments |
10. | | New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers (nytimes.com) |
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361 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 329 comments |
11. | | A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Personal Information (buzzfeednews.com) |
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256 points by minimaxir on Aug 8, 2018 | hide | 74 comments |
12. | | IPOs are expensive and cumbersome – Try a direct listing, like we did at Spotify (ft.com) |
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206 points by rayhano on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 109 comments |
13. | | Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey (case-podcast.org) |
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231 points by tosh on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 91 comments |
14. | | Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer (ucdavis.edu) |
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272 points by selimthegrim on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 105 comments |
15. | | A Guide to Python's Magic Methods (2012) (rszalski.github.io) |
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194 points by apsec112 on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 45 comments |
16. | | Show HN: NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC (nes.party) |
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237 points by hauxir on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 60 comments |
17. | | WireGuarding the mainline (lwn.net) |
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206 points by thinxer on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 95 comments |
18. | | First drug to prevent chronic migraines approved by EU (theguardian.com) |
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113 points by al_ramich on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 61 comments |
19. | | Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay? (keyvalues.com) |
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196 points by lynnetye on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 359 comments |
20. | | The terrible 'what if': how OCD makes every day a matter of life or death (theguardian.com) |
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262 points by pmcpinto on Aug 8, 2018 | hide | 134 comments |
21. | | Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed (thehill.com) |
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266 points by anigbrowl on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 524 comments |
22. | | Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js (medium.com/tensorflow) |
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213 points by hardmaru on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 27 comments |
23. | | How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility (sapiens.org) |
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159 points by JoachimOfFiore on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 102 comments |
24. | | Librem 5 general development report (puri.sm) |
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116 points by Nelkins on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 58 comments |
25. | | Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (2013) [pdf] (ucla.edu) |
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81 points by stevewilhelm on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 15 comments |
26. | | A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos (theguardian.com) |
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301 points by lingz on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 210 comments |
27. | | Blogging with Emacs org-mode (sadiqpk.org) |
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109 points by pksadiq on Aug 8, 2018 | hide | 33 comments |
28. | | The pfSense Book (netgate.com) |
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121 points by ingve on Aug 8, 2018 | hide | 43 comments |
29. | | Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition (scientificamerican.com) |
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95 points by draenei on Aug 9, 2018 | hide | 37 comments |
30. | | Causal Models (stanford.edu) |
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112 points by zerealshadowban on Aug 8, 2018 | hide | 19 comments |
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