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Hurricane Maria Killed as Many American Citizens as 9/11 Did

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Create QR codes in Excel

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What Could You Build with Just $10,000?

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Create QR codes in Excel

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Bank of America Charges Clients 6000x More in Fees Than Bitcoin

Article URL: https://247cryptonews.com/bank-of-america-charges-clients-6000x-more-in-fees-than-bitcoin/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18046007 Points: 7 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xGBcUy via

The crisis inside the physics of time

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Bank of America Charges Clients 6000x More in Fees Than Bitcoin

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Streaming accounts for 75 percent of music industry revenue in the US

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/21/streaming-75-percent-music-industry-revenue/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045766 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2DmKTxz via

Vbuild: “Compile” your Vue component to standalone HTML/JS/CSS

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Show HN: **VBUILD**, to compile “.vue” files to HTML, with python (NO Node.js)

Its main purpose is to let you use components (.vue files) in your vuejs app, without a full nodejs stack. Just use python2 or python3. BTW, it provides a method to minimize your js scripts (es2015 compliant). (It provides methods to help you to build your vuejs app without nodejs) Available on https://github.com/manatlan/vbuild (MIT licence) Available on pypi : https://pypi.org/project/vbuild/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045813 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2O3xjTT via

Brain Drain Within the EU?

Article URL: https://www.statista.com/chart/15528/eu-scientists-by-location/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045294 Points: 6 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2znsPzi via

The game industry of Iran (2016)

Article URL: https://www.polygon.com/features/2016/1/14/10757460/the-game-industry-of-iran Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039056 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2O1nSo3 via

Show HN: **VBUILD**, to compile “.vue” files to HTML, with python (NO Node.js)

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Brain Drain Within the EU?

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The game industry of Iran (2016)

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Streaming accounts for 75 percent of music industry revenue in the US

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GraphQL editor – Visual node editor for GraphQL

Article URL: https://github.com/slothking-online/graphql-editor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045532 Points: 33 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xv6L4j via

Basic security precautions for non-profits and journalists (2017)

Article URL: https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045267 Points: 9 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2keqVel via

Oracles, or why smart contracts still haven’t changed the world?

Article URL: https://blog.smartdec.net/oracles-or-why-smart-contracts-still-havent-changed-the-world-69464999e1d3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038966 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2ptBCKs via

Converse 4 released

Article URL: https://opkode.com/blog/converse-4-released/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038961 Points: 8 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2MU78ua via

Oracles, or why smart contracts still haven’t changed the world?

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Visual GraphQL editor

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Enhancing Good Posture with the Aid of Posture Corrector

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The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Data Scientist

Article URL: https://www.themuse.com/jobs/themuse/senior-data-scientist-3e830a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045579 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NZPMAO via

Small H264/SVC public domain encoder

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For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That’s Changing

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/technology/defcon-hackers-privacy-anonymity.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045339 Points: 10 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PVdFqi via

Reversing Bus Telemetry (2015)

Article URL: https://www.bastibl.net/reversing-bus-telemetry/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041757 Points: 19 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2pszOBt via

A new major release of Converse, the XMPP webchat client

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Small H264/SVC public domain encoder

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Basic Security Guide for non-profits and journalists

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Surfacing: For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That’s Changing

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The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Data Scientist

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Reverse engineering bus telemetry with GNU Radio (2015)

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Lambda lifting

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The size of things: an ngram experiment

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Lambda lifting

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_lifting Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045386 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2hc8Vhx via

A Programming Language Underdog

Article URL: https://totallywearingpants.com/posts/nim-underdog/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045259 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xvxwpl via

Japan's rovers ready for touchdown on asteroid

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A Programming Language Underdog

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Japan's rovers ready for touchdown on asteroid

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So You Want to Launch a Rocket? The FAA is Here for You (2017)

Article URL: http://groundbasedspacematters.com/index.php/2017/06/30/so-you-want-to-launch-a-rocket-the-faa-is-here-for-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038362 Points: 46 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2MS7H7T via

Are kids helpful and, if so why?

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Practical guide to hyperparameters search for deep learning models

Article URL: https://blog.floydhub.com/guide-to-hyperparameters-search-for-deep-learning-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038766 Points: 27 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Nhu8rn via

Nvidia vid2vid: high-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation

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Roughtime: Securing Time with Digital Signatures

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A dozenal notation for western music

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New best story on Hacker News: Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

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New best story on Hacker News: NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner

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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search

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The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model

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Functional core, imperative shell (2012)

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Postgres 11 – a First Look

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AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI

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Inside look at modern web browser (part 4)

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Practical guide to hyperparameters search for deep learning models

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A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago

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How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017)

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A DMT trip 'feels like dying' – and scientists now agree

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Roughtime: Securing Time with Digital Signatures

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A guide to proper use of animation in UX

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Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down

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John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

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How communist Bulgaria became a leader in tech and sci-fi

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Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

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Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard

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Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)

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Apple File System Reference [pdf]

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CTRL-Labs: demo of human-computer control using electromyography [video]

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Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades

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A Day in the Life of Americans

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There's No Such Thing as a General-purpose Processor (2014)

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White House Drafts Order to Look into Google, Facebook Practices

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Cluep, a Canadian startup that raised just $500K, acquired for $40M

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Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer – Part Two

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Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (1999) [pdf]

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So You Want to Launch a Rocket? The FAA is Here for You (2017)

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Go team adding a Go language server to core

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Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community Is Being Evicted

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White House Drafts Order to Look into Google, Facebook Practices

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-22/draft-order-for-trump-would-crack-down-on-google-facebook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044530 Points: 20 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PWGtyV via

John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine”

Article URL: https://twitter.com/THErealDVORAK/status/1043180806020116480 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044106 Points: 153 # Comments: 77 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/THErealDVORAK/status/1043180806020116480 via

The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/09/22/the-fed-stalls-the-creation-of-a-bank-with-a-novel-business-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044105 Points: 121 # Comments: 61 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NWJDFn via

AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI

Article URL: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002956/ai-company-accused-of-using-humans-to-fake-its-ai- Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18043969 Points: 69 # Comments: 36 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Dk9raj via

Inside look at modern web browser (part 4)

Article URL: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/09/inside-browser-part4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18043608 Points: 77 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2ps6A5B via

Postgres 11 – a First Look

Article URL: http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2018/09/20/postgresql-11-a-first-look/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18043425 Points: 181 # Comments: 78 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2OFIzmD via

Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)

Article URL: http://blog.conceptnet.io/posts/2017/how-to-make-a-racist-ai-without-really-trying/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18043288 Points: 189 # Comments: 90 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2qIwJ1d via

Functional core, imperative shell (2012)

Article URL: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/functional-core-imperative-shell Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18043058 Points: 261 # Comments: 62 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/NNxNVz via

Go team adding a Go language server to core

Article URL: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/tools/+/136676#message-11c783bc9a9f6adf6119bbb85c89510fda25abe9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042930 Points: 167 # Comments: 55 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2OJeNgS via

A DMT trip 'feels like dying' – and scientists now agree

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/dd52796e-5935-414e-af0c-de9686d02afa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042901 Points: 133 # Comments: 60 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xsXOro via

A guide to proper use of animation in UX

Article URL: https://uxdesign.cc/the-ultimate-guide-to-proper-use-of-animation-in-ux-10bd98614fa9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042779 Points: 83 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CjgK1J via

A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago

Article URL: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wiener-my-lai-hugh-thompson-20180316-story.html# Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042405 Points: 155 # Comments: 45 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2HBmRw7 via

Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down

Article URL: https://heapanalytics.com/blog/engineering/clocksource-aws-ec2-vdso Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18042382 Points: 137 # Comments: 73 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xtTSHI via

After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community Is Being Evicted

Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hambach-forest-treehouse-eviction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041642 Points: 78 # Comments: 39 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2zm0ARI via

Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

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Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades

Article URL: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-smog-streak-20180921-story.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041029 Points: 121 # Comments: 80 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2DhMPar via

Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer – Part Two

Article URL: https://blog.stoplight.io/writing-documentation-when-you-arent-a-technical-writer-part-two-59997587cc2a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18040924 Points: 92 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2N8lAQe via

Apple File System Reference [pdf]

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/support/apple-file-system/Apple-File-System-Reference.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18040742 Points: 209 # Comments: 52 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2psvTof via

Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard

Article URL: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2018/09/inside-cpyext-why-emulating-cpython-c.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18040664 Points: 154 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2xvN1xv via

Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (1999) [pdf]

Article URL: https://academics.rowan.edu/csm/departments/math/facultystaff/faculty/osler/Billions_pi_digits.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18040630 Points: 130 # Comments: 50 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2DlY6Xs via