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Origin of the species: where did Darwin's finches come from?

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How LeBron James' new public school really is the first of its kind

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My Own Car System, Rear Camera, Offline Maps and Routing with Go

Article URL: https://blog.nobugware.com/post/2018/my_own_car_system_raspberry_pi_offline_mapping_map_matching_places_part2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17661820 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LLWbPX via

Show HN: Toy – the thin c++ game engine

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My Own Car System, Rear Camera, Offline Maps and Routing with Go

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Show HN: Toy – the thin c++ game engine

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How to read an RFC

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How LeBron James' new public school really is the first of its kind

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Saleswhale (YC S16) is hiring back end engineers in Singapore

Article URL: https://www.techinasia.com/jobs/7994fdb5-c222-4118-86f3-a15c0836eb34 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17661615 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2AGaHnd via

Books found in dumpster belonged to Thomas Jefferson

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/he-found-15-books-in-a-sierra-dumpster-then-he-found-out-they-belonged-to-thomas-jefferson/ar-BBLd9cM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655713 Points: 24 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2OwAgK0 via

Where did the Microsoft tech stack disappear?

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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

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Finding links between the Standard Model of particle physics and the octonions

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Saleswhale (YC S16) is hiring back end engineers in Singapore

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Books found in dumpster belonged to Thomas Jefferson

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Whistleblower reveals Google’s plans for censored search in China

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Tackling youth unemployment by growing mushrooms from coffee waste

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Pokemon or big data?

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Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17660872 Points: 6 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2voNrEg via

Aaronson's student proves that Aaronson's beliefs are only “backed” by arrogance

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Pokemon or big data?

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Application-Level Optimization of Big Data Transfers [pdf]

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Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China

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The band of biologists who redrew the tree of life

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05827-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17660365 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NYZv6K via

Gusto is hiring full-stack developers in SF and Denver

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Fastmail is down

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GUIs Considered Harmful

Article URL: http://porkmail.org/era/unix/guis.txt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17660463 Points: 46 # Comments: 41 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2v6NhC5 via

Legal struggle alleges ‘Love’ artist Robert Indiana exploited in final years

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/25/artist-robert-indiana-brought-love-to-the-world-was-he-being-exploited-in-his-final-years/?utm_term=.c6f4f92ddab4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655816 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2LIeXr9 via

The band of biologists who redrew the tree of life

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A Dynamic Forth Compiler for WebAssembly

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Fastmail is down

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GUIs Considered Harmful

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Gusto is hiring full-stack developers in SF and Denver

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Atom 1.29

Article URL: http://blog.atom.io/2018/07/31/atom-1-29.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17660301 Points: 17 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2AuvpGr via

Introducing the Dweb

Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/07/introducing-the-d-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17660131 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2KcfFHL via

WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion

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Legal struggle alleges ‘Love’ artist Robert Indiana exploited in final years

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Introducing the Dweb

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Atom 1.29

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WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion

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Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?

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Landlord: Per-Tenant Stats in Postgres with Citus

Article URL: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/07/31/introducing-landlord-per-tenant-stats/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655586 Points: 75 # Comments: 42 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2OvIqm1 via

That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to publisher, 0% to authors

Article URL: https://twitter.com/hwitteman/status/1015049411276300289 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17653347 Points: 472 # Comments: 133 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/hwitteman/status/1015049411276300289 via

Porting Coreboot to the 51NB X210

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A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

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How America Uses Its Land

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A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake (2014)

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Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm

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The Bullshit Web

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Most Remote Spots in USA Wilderness Complexes

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Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban

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Cherry MX History

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Analyzing Articles on Hacker News Using NLP

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Taskbook: Like Trello but for the Terminal

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Faust: Stream Processing for Python

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Ancient public library discovered in Germany

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Two scientists are changing the way the world looks at mist

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And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake

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Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Near: Meet a Teen Who Rides One Every Day

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Museum of ZZT

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Rapidstring: Maybe the fastest string library ever

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Do Not Read: Restricted collections in remarkable libraries

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Porting Coreboot to the 51NB X210

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Multiple-Image Network Graphics and how it came to be

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Why Hostility Can Bring People Closer Together

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Guilded (YC S17) is hiring senior full-stack engineers to connect gaming teams

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Quirk: Quantum Circuit Simulator

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Slack as group mind

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Launch HN: JITX (YC S18) – Automating Circuit Board Design

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A Photo Gallery of MeteorWrongs

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Trout Tickling

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That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to publisher, 0% to authors

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Landlord: Per-Tenant Stats in Postgres with Citus

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New best story on Hacker News: A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

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New best story on Hacker News: The Bullshit Web

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New best story on Hacker News: Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm

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New best story on Hacker News: That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to publisher, 0% to authors

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New best story on Hacker News: Amazon Dark Patterns

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A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake (2014)

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/09/16/348975479/a-tiny-25-million-mistake Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17659859 Points: 22 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2AuUfpH via

Guilded (YC S17) is hiring senior full-stack engineers to connect gaming teams

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Cherry MX History

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Taskbook: Like Trello but for the Terminal

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How America Uses Its Land

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Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/credit-card-backlash-mounts-as-kroger-weighs-expanding-visa-ban Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17657738 Points: 97 # Comments: 166 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2mYGaqH via

Most Remote Spots in USA Wilderness Complexes

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Museum of ZZT

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Faust: Stream Processing for Python

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A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

Article URL: https://www.quaxio.com/bootable_cd_retro_game_tweet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17656299 Points: 713 # Comments: 73 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Oylh2r via

Ancient public library discovered in Germany

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/31/spectacular-ancient-public-library-discovered-in-germany Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655824 Points: 133 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2OtW5dg via

Everyone does not, in fact, have a book in them

Article URL: https://theoutline.com/post/5541/unconventional-wisdom-you-should-not-write-a-book?zd=1&zi=4m5oydnj Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655777 Points: 79 # Comments: 113 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2At4bjd via

Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Near: Meet a Teen Who Rides One Every Day

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-31/inside-the-life-of-waymo-s-driverless-test-family Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655502 Points: 177 # Comments: 210 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2O19Nn4 via

Do Not Read: Restricted collections in remarkable libraries

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The Bullshit Web

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Launch HN: JITX (YC S18) – Automating Circuit Board Design

Hi HN, We're Duncan, Austin, Jonathan, and Patrick, the founders of JITX ( https://www.jitx.com ). Today, every circuit board is manually designed by skilled engineers. JITX is automating circuit board design with AI that designs optimized boards in hours instead of weeks. This all started for us while we were still at UC Berkeley. Duncan and Austin were PhD students and constantly designing robots to test new ideas. We realized we had to start from scratch every time we started work on a new robot. All that work had to be thrown away, because you can’t reuse hardware designs like software. We wanted a way to design robots faster; we wanted a way to design better robots! At the same time Patrick and Jonathan were building Chisel, an automated tool for digital logic design. The roboticists saw Chisel and got inspired. Patrick and Jonathan saw how people design circuit boards and were horrified. We hit it off and decided to solve the problem — we would make circuit board design mor...

Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654220 Points: 685 # Comments: 162 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2vp7LoK via

Light painting animations directly from Blender

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2018/07/30/light-painting-animations-directly-from-blender Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17653466 Points: 225 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2v3QiTt via

Slack as group mind

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Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)

Article URL: https://www.itprotoday.com/management-mobility/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17652502 Points: 169 # Comments: 88 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2voBJth via