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| Stories from August 20, 2018 |
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1. | | Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing (theverge.com) |
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445 points by albertzeyer on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 377 comments |
2. | | Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere (npr.org) |
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466 points by francisofascii on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 301 comments |
3. | | Minecraft Global Warming (github.com/nsporillo) |
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524 points by nsporillo on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 125 comments |
4. | | Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time (pbs.org) |
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488 points by jabo on Aug 19, 2018 | hide | 291 comments |
5. | | Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff (github.com/sinclairtarget) |
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647 points by quickthrower2 on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 165 comments |
6. | | OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress (openai.com) |
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195 points by gdb on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 75 comments |
7. | | Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges (latimes.com) |
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116 points by Jerry2 on Aug 19, 2018 | hide | 38 comments |
8. | | SEC Charges Rothenberg Ventures in Fraudulent Scheme (sec.gov) |
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176 points by ciscoriordan on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 87 comments |
9. | | Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source dependencies (backyourstack.com) |
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277 points by vvoyer on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 61 comments |
10. | | What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? (twobithistory.org) |
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410 points by weebst on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 52 comments |
11. | | Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace (litepaper.com) |
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373 points by ilanhz on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 171 comments |
12. | | New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment (bps.org.uk) |
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305 points by hecubus on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 144 comments |
13. | | Parallel Programming with Python (chryswoods.com) |
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218 points by uaaa on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 141 comments |
14. | | Making ASDF more magic by making it less magic (fare.livejournal.com) |
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43 points by ghosthamlet on Aug 19, 2018 | hide | 11 comments |
15. | | LI2: Lego Institute for Lego Investigation (norvig.com) |
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104 points by tosh on Aug 19, 2018 | hide | 19 comments |
16. | | Clover: 4-Bit Quantized Linear Algebra (astojanov.github.io) |
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94 points by ArtWomb on Aug 18, 2018 | hide | 18 comments |
17. | | OpenStreetMap for the dyslexic (osm4dys.org) |
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146 points by thinkingemote on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 64 comments |
18. | | Fast Multiplication with Slow Additions (loup-vaillant.fr) |
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80 points by loup-vaillant on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 9 comments |
19. | | Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail (bbc.com) |
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154 points by gpresot on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 111 comments |
20. | | 1968 Created the 'Ultimate' Anti-Sport Sport (npr.org) |
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49 points by js2 on Aug 18, 2018 | hide | 11 comments |
21. | | More Americans report near-constant cannabis use (theatlantic.com) |
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315 points by TheBeardKing on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 374 comments |
22. | | Why HP Fell (mondaynote.com) |
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182 points by robin_reala on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 155 comments |
23. | | Pop Songs Written by Native Speakers of Swedish (theparisreview.org) |
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135 points by prostoalex on Aug 19, 2018 | hide | 148 comments |
24. | | Design errors Satoshi made (twitter.com/deadalnix) |
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128 points by myth_drannon on Aug 18, 2018 | hide | 53 comments |
25. | | Hume the Humane (aeon.co) |
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50 points by pepys on Aug 17, 2018 | hide | 11 comments |
26. | | Overnight Brain Stimulation Improves Memory (jneurosci.org) |
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103 points by laurex on Aug 18, 2018 | hide | 34 comments |
27. | | Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers (bloomberglaw.com) |
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219 points by altoidaltoid on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 266 comments |
28. | | Go Memory Management (povilasv.me) |
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165 points by ngaut on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 18 comments |
29. | | The Billionaires and The Guru: How an Indian Family Burned Through $2B (bloomberg.com) |
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168 points by dragonsh on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 108 comments |
30. | | Liftoff: a new baseline compiler for WebAssembly in V8 (v8project.blogspot.com) |
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150 points by titzer on Aug 20, 2018 | hide | 20 comments |
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