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Japan's Hometown Tax
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530
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-tim-cook-bloomberg-retraction
516
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The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40
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338
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Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With
https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/microservices-are-something-you-grow-into-not-begin-with
306
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Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place
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283
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Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years
https://www.winamp.com/
248
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Hackintosh-KVM Guide: High Sierra+ Using QEMU's I440fx Chipset
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238
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This Old Lisp
http://thisoldlisp.com/talks/els-2018/
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42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings
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229
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Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1396657
227
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Repair Café
https://repaircafe.org/en/
221
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Intel 9th Gen Review
https://www.anandtech.com/print/13400/intel-9th-gen-core-i9-9900k-i7-9700k-i5-9600k-review
207
Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrible decisions on video?
http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/did-facebooks-faulty-data-push-news-publishers-to-make-terrible-decisions-on-video/
205
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Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/18/658335490/grandma-was-right-sunshine-helps-kill-germs-indoors
191
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How the Finnish survive without small talk
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181016-how-the-finnish-survive-without-small-talk
187
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Ask HN: First month job anxiety. Am I actually an impostor?
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184
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New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry into Net Neutrality Comments
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/technology/net-neutrality-inquiry-comments.html
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171
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Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transaction Protocol
https://fauna.com/blog/consistency-without-clocks-faunadb-transaction-protocol
72
Brand New ODroid Single Board Computer
https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=32536
164
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https://bert.org/2018/10/18/slack-on-a-snes/
161
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Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge
https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-the-genius-of-anthea-bell-and-derek-hockridge/
158
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https://www.flexradio.com/ft8-tipping-point-for-ham-radio/?fbclid=IwAR3S90pJsOMx8xOc3W34IsAbw9x6skK48WHWrZ6ZTzW0UARl4snnIEQzqqQ
156
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A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis
https://tkv.io/posts/tutorial-on-pca
Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes
140
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-hacker-from-south-africa-just-rescued-the-first-nasa-computer-in-space
138
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Let’s talk about PAKE
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-talk-about-pake/
136
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A Love Story That Upended the Texas Prison System
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/love-story-upended-texas-prison-system/
133
Proposition C
https://stripe.com/press/prop-c
132
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3factor apps: a pattern for fast iteration, resilience and high scalability
https://3factor.app/
129
Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass
https://www.euclidea.xyz/
109
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https://tests4geeks.com/cpp-interview-questions/
111
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The Early Days of GitHub – Interview with Tom Preston-Werner
https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/enterpriseready/ep-2-the-early-days-of-github-with-tom-preston-werner/
15
How to Build a Real-Time Object Detection iOS App Using TensorFlow
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/https-heartbeat-fritz-ai-building-a-real-time-object-recognition-ios-app-that-detects-sushi-c4a3a2c32298
13
Apple using CBP to seize Rossmanns shipment of original Macbook batteries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVL65qwBGnw
28
Systems, not Programs
https://shalabh.com/programmable-systems/systems-not-programs.html
100
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The Chamber of Guf
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/15/the-chamber-of-guf/
92
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Brave 0.55 released
https://brave.com/new-brave-browser-release-available-for-general-download/
86
7
Improving AI language understanding by combining multiple word representations
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/dynamic-meta-embeddings/
85
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http://sb.longnow.org/SB_homepage/WholeEarth_buton.html
78
2
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http://9bitscience.blogspot.com/2013/07/raymarching-distance-fields_14.html
77
10
GraphSense – A Scalable Cryptocurrency Analytics Platform
http://graphsense.info/
73
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Show HN: Occupod – a solid mobile sleeping shelter
https://www.occupod.org/
71
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110
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https://www.imediaethics.org/cleveland-coms-new-right-to-be-forgotten-program-removes-names-from-some-expunged-crime-stories/
68
3
Extreme Botany: The Precarious Science of Endangered Rare Plants
https://e360.yale.edu/features/extreme-botany-the-precarious-science-of-saving-rare-endangered-plants
38
FTC hearings on tech companies included economists who take money from them
https://www.fastcompany.com/90253465/should-we-break-up-the-tech-giants-not-if-you-ask-the-economists-who-take-money-from-them
57
Tesla quietly drops “full self-driving” option as it adds $45,000 Model 3
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/tesla-quietly-drops-full-self-driving-option-as-it-adds-45000-model-3/
Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With