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World's fastest camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

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A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers

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The Most Influential Paper Gerard Salton Never Wrote (2004) [pdf]

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A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers

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WhatsApp founder: I sold out, but I walked away from $850M when I quit FB

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Negative Time Iteration

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The Big Problem with Machine Learning Algorithms

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WhatsApp founder: I sold out, but I walked away from $850M when I quit FB

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The Big Problem with Machine Learning Algorithms

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Micro Snitch – Know when someone spies on you

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Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

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Micro Snitch – Know when someone spies on you

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Picovoice – Embed private voice AI into any product instantly

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Pristine Quantum Light Source Created at the Edge of Silicon Chip

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The last lighthouse keeper of Capri

Article URL: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181005-the-last-lighthouse-keeper-of-capri Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18192407 Points: 25 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PsGkmQ via

BlazingSQL – A GPU SQL Engine for RAPIDS Open-Source Software from Nvidia

Article URL: https://blog.blazingdb.com/announcing-blazingsql-a-gpu-sql-engine-for-rapids-open-source-software-from-nvidia-11e115ba7dd7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18186392 Points: 95 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2pKNl7p via

CHERI: Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions

Article URL: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18186060 Points: 59 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2ybpaUp via

Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced

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Supermicro boards were so bug ridden, why would hackers ever need implants?

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Remix is hiring Software Engineers to build better public transit in cities

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Every Byte of a TLS Connection Explained and Reproduced

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Supermicro boards were so bug ridden, why would hackers ever need implants?

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Remix is hiring Software Engineers to build better public transit in cities

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Masstree: A cache-friendly mashup of tries and B-trees

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Masstree: A cache-friendly mashup of tries and B-trees

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OpenBSD's unveil()

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EFF to Texas AG: Epson Tricked Its Customers with a Dangerous Fake Update

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Wikipedia is a mirror of the world’s gender biases

Article URL: https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/10/11/wikipedia-mirror-world-gender-biases/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18200325 Points: 6 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2IQFtdo via

Leonardo da Vinci's tree rule may be explained by wind

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200,000+ MikroTik routers worldwide compromised to inject cryptojacking malware

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Leonardo da Vinci's tree rule may be explained by wind

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2012-01-leonardo-da-vinci-tree.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18200313 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CGZX8j via

200,000+ MikroTik routers worldwide compromised to inject cryptojacking malware

Article URL: https://badpackets.net/200000-mikrotik-routers-worldwide-have-been-compromised-to-inject-cryptojacking-malware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18200119 Points: 6 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2zBsR6K via

The last lighthouse keeper of Capri

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EFF to Texas AG: Epson Tricked Its Customers with a Dangerous Fake Update

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Triplebyte (YC S15) Is Hiring a Demand Generation Manager

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Triplebyte (YC S15) Is Hiring a Demand Generation Manager

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On Thursday a rocket failed. Three humans remain on the ISS. What’s next?

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On Thursday a rocket failed. Three humans remain on the ISS. What’s next?

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Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/interstellar-comet-oumuamua-might-not-actually-be-a-comet-20181010/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199801 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2OSfKqe via

A Python Library to extract tabular data from PDFs

Article URL: https://blog.socialcops.com/technology/engineering/camelot-python-library-pdf-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199708 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QsPYX0 via

Music industry hails passage of the Music Modernization Act

Article URL: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-music-modernization-act-20181011-story.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199645 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CEVjHG via

Instabug Untold Stories – How a Unicorn Is Being Built in Egypt

Article URL: https://instabug.com/blog/instabug-untold-stories-ep-1-techcrunched/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199599 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2DuYO4U via

Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid

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A Python Library to extract tabular data from PDFs

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Show HN: Percollate – a command-line tool to grab web pages as PDFs

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Instabug Untold Stories – How a Unicorn Is Being Built in Egypt

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Music industry hails passage of the Music Modernization Act

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How the Economist is opening the data behind our reporting

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How the Economist is opening the data behind our reporting

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Go GC: (design choices og the Go garabage collector)

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Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]

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Cyclogyro

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Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference

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Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection

I recall the mention of a CBS video streaming site, but now a major newspaper is prompting users to turn it off? Firefox's reader view works for now, but I wonder how long that will last... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18198502 Points: 221 # Comments: 145 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2IRgGWu via

4043 byte PC emulator (2013)

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Six Principles for Making New Things (2008)

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Oboe: A C++ library for low latency audio

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/introducing-oboe-c-library-for-low.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18198177 Points: 87 # Comments: 33 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2ywUBrE via

BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

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310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved

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After Journalist’s Alleged Murder, Tech Execs Distance Themselves from Saudis

Article URL: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ryanmac/silicon-valley-leaders-disassociate-saudi-arabia-board-neom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18197431 Points: 175 # Comments: 53 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CElvSC via

2080 Ti TensorFlow GPU Benchmarks

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How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database

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Asterisks in Python

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William Hazlitt Was the Consummate Critic: Observant, Difficult, and Fascinating

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We can no longer leave online security to the market

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/opinion/internet-hacking-cybersecurity-iot.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18196438 Points: 113 # Comments: 58 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2yd7CHv via

What happened when Buffer stopped using Slack on Fridays

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Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom

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The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens

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Tale of Three Probabilistic Families: Discriminative, Descriptive and Generative

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New best story on Hacker News: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Apple Supplier List – Top 200 [pdf]

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Walmart turns to Flipkart for tech

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Oboe: A C++ library for low latency audio

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Oil droplets guided by pilot waves do not give rise to double-slit interference

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4043 byte PC emulator (2013)

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310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved

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Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection

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The 555 and How It Got That Way

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BlazingSQL – A GPU SQL Engine for RAPIDS Open-Source Software from Nvidia

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Cyclogyro

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CHERI: Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions

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EU drops rule that would prevent self-driving car data from being copyrighted

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BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

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Bounce denotes battery health (2015)

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CSV 1.1 – CSV Evolved (for Humans)

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We can no longer leave online security to the market

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Asterisks in Python

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Go GC: (design choices og the Go garabage collector)

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Tale of Three Probabilistic Families: Discriminative, Descriptive and Generative

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Polly: LLVM Framework for High-Level Loop and Data-Locality Optimizations

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Parallel Supercomputing for Astronomy with Julia

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William Hazlitt Was the Consummate Critic: Observant, Difficult, and Fascinating

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Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom

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Six Principles for Making New Things (2008)

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How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database

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What happened when Buffer stopped using Slack on Fridays

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2080 Ti TensorFlow GPU Benchmarks

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After Journalist’s Alleged Murder, Tech Execs Distance Themselves from Saudis

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The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens

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