598
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Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/oct/20/facebook-fake-amazon-review-factories-uncovered-which-investigation
8 years ago
409
153
Ask HN: What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18264245
336
238
So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2018/04/so-you-want-to-open-a-small-press-bookstore-artist-run-space-a-cautionary-tale
318
222
Not exercising worse than smoking, diabetes and heart disease study finds
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/health/study-not-exercising-worse-than-smoking/index.html
308
35
How I Became a Knife Steel Metallurgist
https://knifesteelnerds.com/2018/10/08/how-i-became-a-knife-steel-metallurgist/
258
31
Show HN: Lipreading with Deep Learning
https://github.com/astorfi/lip-reading-deeplearning
★ 1.9k Python Apache-2.0– 8 years ago
244
49
Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity
https://arcan-fe.com/2018/10/17/arcan-versus-xorg-approaching-feature-parity/
223
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Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it develops it
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsofts-problem-isnt-shipping-windows-updates-its-developing-them/
219
184
The rise of the robot farmer
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/20/space-robots-lasers-rise-robot-farmer
218
105
Erlang/OTP by Example
http://erlangbyexample.org
216
68
Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years
https://www.zdnet.com/article/zero-day-in-popular-jquery-plugin-actively-exploited-for-at-least-three-years/
123
Massachusetts gas fires: Another technological tragedy
http://bit-player.org/2018/another-technological-tragedy
211
132
Signing Your Apps for Gatekeeper
https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/
208
99
Understanding Quaternions
https://www.3dgep.com/understanding-quaternions/
77
Mio – Cross-platform header-only C++11 library for memory-mapped file IO
https://github.com/mandreyel/mio
★ 1.9k C++ MIT– 8 years ago
190
46
Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s
http://theconversation.com/alzheimers-disease-mounting-evidence-that-herpes-virus-is-a-cause-104943
173
Meow Hash: A high-speed non-cryptographic hash function
https://mollyrocket.com/meowhash
161
145
Time to End Factory Farming?
https://quillette.com/2018/10/20/why-its-time-to-end-factory-farming/
160
88
The Joy of Haxe
https://medium.com/@fontstruct/the-joy-of-haxe-84f933f4b859
148
51
Validating UTF-8 bytes using only 0.45 cycles per byte (AVX edition)
https://lemire.me/blog/2018/10/19/validating-utf-8-bytes-using-only-0-45-cycles-per-byte-avx-edition/
138
124
Tricks That Can Outsmart Deepfake Videos for Now
https://www.wired.com/story/these-new-tricks-can-outsmart-deepfake-videosfor-now/
137
44
Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights
https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/20/Sway-1.0-highlights.html
28
Ethernaut: wargame to learn about smart contract security
https://ethernaut.zeppelin.solutions/
116
The City That Had Too Much Money
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-20/vancouver-is-drowning-in-chinese-money
127
106
High-end house rents in Vancouver plunge up to 20% as inventory spikes: experts
https://www.vancourier.com/real-estate/high-end-house-rents-plunge-up-to-20-as-inventory-spikes-experts-1.23470074
119
107
A new course to teach people about fairness in machine learning
https://www.blog.google/technology/ai/new-course-teach-people-about-fairness-machine-learning/amp/
115
18
MIT AGI: Conversation with Yoshua Bengio [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azOmzumh0vQ
109
90
Sears Kit Homes Changed Housing
https://www.curbed.com/2018/10/16/17984616/sears-catalog-home-kit-mail-order-prefab-housing
The impact of gratitude on adolescent materialism and generosity
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439760.2018.1497688
104
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Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in Federal Court
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/us/harvard-admissions-affirmative-action.html
101
97
Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/10/20/quantum-computers-will-break-the-encryption-that-protects-the-internet
41
3D-printing a stainless steel bridge full of sensors
https://mx3d.com/smart-bridge/
100
Transferring GitHub stars
https://francisco.io/blog/transferring-github-stars/
122
The genetics of university success
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32621-w
96
10
Regarding your stupid complaint (2011)
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/02/regarding-your-stupid-complaint.html
95
Most Initial Conversations Go Better Than People Think
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/most-initial-conversations-go-better-than-people-think/
146
America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/america-is-drowning-in-milk-nobody-wants
94
60
Yeti DNS Project
https://yeti-dns.org
93
Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had with developers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265177
5
Art and Spirit in Mathematics: The Lessons of Japanese Temple Geometry (part I)
https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/art-spirit-in-mathematics-the-lessons-of-japanese-temple-geometry-part-i/
86
21
Building a live video streaming website – Part 3 – DRM
https://benwilber.github.io/nginx/rtmp/live/video/streaming/django/drm/2018/10/20/building-a-live-video-streaming-website-part-3-drm.html
81
3
Raster Vision: A New Framework for Deep Learning on Satellite and Aerial Imagery
https://www.azavea.com/blog/2018/10/18/raster-vision-release/
7
Alchemy: A Language and Compiler for Homomorphic Encryption Made Easy [pdf]
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~cpeikert/pubs/alchemy.pdf
78
Will Tech Leave Detroit in the Dust?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-detroit-become-a-software-business-1540008107
54
Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings? (2017)
http://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-sight/why-doesnt-ancient-fiction-talk-about-feelings-rp
75
154
As U.S. fertility rates collapse, finger-pointing and blame follow
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/10/19/us-fertility-rates-collapse-finger-pointing-blame-follow
27
Researchers Prove Quantum Computers Are More Powerful Than Classical Computers
https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/evw93z/researchers-finally-proved-quantum-computers-are-more-powerful-than-classical-computers?__twitter_impression=true