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Ask HN: Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?

- October 17, 2018

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Twitter bans NPC accounts

- October 17, 2018

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Helm: It's Time to Own Your Email

- October 17, 2018

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Permutive (YC S14) is hiring FP engineers (Scala) in London

- October 17, 2018

Permutive (YC S14) is the simplest, most efficient way to integrate data-driven models into your product. We're a B2B SaaS company built on top of an innovative real-time data platform. We have product–market fit and customers that love us, and we're growing rapidly in Europe and the US. We raised a $10M Series A at the beginning of the year and have received funding from some of the world's best investors, including Y Combinator. Everything we build operates at scale: our platform processes billions of requests a day across hundreds of millions of monthly end-users. We're developing a next generation data platform for a world with a trillion devices, and we think applying functional programming techniques like compositionality and type-safety is the best way to build these massive distributed systems. You would be joining our core backend team on-site in London, working mostly with Scala and 'big data' ecosystem technologies (our full stack is below). We...

Twitter bans NPC accounts

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/npc-twitter-ban.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18238591 Points: 6 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PErF8b via

Helm: It's Time to Own Your Email

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://thehelm.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18238581 Points: 5 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://thehelm.com via

Permutive (YC S14) is hiring FP engineers (Scala) in London

- October 17, 2018

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Interviews with former Google employees to find out why they decided to leave

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-leave-google-2018-10 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18238328 Points: 6 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2P1RNwH via

Interactive example of how Facebook leaked access tokens

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://history.adversary.io/anonymous/facebook/birthday Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18238294 Points: 14 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2OsoSTc via

End of Service for the Weather Underground API

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-service-for-the-weather-underground-api Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18238108 Points: 15 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QNQoI8 via

Membership is the future of journalism

- October 17, 2018

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Interactive example of how Facebook leaked 50M access tokens

- October 17, 2018

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How 15 ex-Googlers knew it was time to quit

- October 17, 2018

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End of Service for the Weather Underground API

- October 17, 2018

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Ask HN: Where to go for the cheapest EE degree in the U.S.? In the World?

- October 17, 2018

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18238215 Points: 8 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2J65zJC via

Librem 5 general development report – October 15th, 2018

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-21/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18238098 Points: 17 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2AbtrbP via

Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed)

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/white-supremacists-science-dna.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18238029 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2RTnabr via

Librem 5 general development report – October 15th, 2018

- October 17, 2018

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Ask HN: Where to go for the cheapest EE degree in the U.S.? In the World?

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Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought

- October 17, 2018

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Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China (Twitter Thread)

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/1051568180748013569 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18237890 Points: 7 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/1051568180748013569 via

Securing your users' authentication

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.stavros.io/posts/securing-user-authentication/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18228668 Points: 11 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2yEP42d via

A guide to rhythm in web typography

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://betterwebtype.com/rhythm-in-web-typography Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18228301 Points: 115 # Comments: 39 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QSPvxh via

Securing your users' authentication

- October 17, 2018

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Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor

- October 17, 2018

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Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China (Twitter Thread)

- October 17, 2018

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Oresund Bridge, Wonder of Civil Engineering

- October 17, 2018

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Brutalist Architecture Masterpieces (2016)

- October 17, 2018

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Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know

- October 17, 2018

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Mouse Underlaying: New keylogger technique

- October 17, 2018

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How Employers Track Their Workers

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/10/employee-surveillance/568159/?single_page=true Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18228453 Points: 154 # Comments: 57 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2q2ltvT via

First analysis of how Uber and Lyft have affected roadway congestion in SF

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.sfcta.org/emerging-mobility/tncs-and-congestion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18228243 Points: 66 # Comments: 57 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2IYyDCA via

New half-light half-matter particles may hold the key to a computing revolution

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_686973_en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18227721 Points: 52 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2P3i2mx via

Mouse Underlaying: New keylogger technique

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.15-10-2018.155740 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223018 Points: 12 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2RQnvvB via

Vectorized Emulation: fuzzing at 2 trillion instructions per second

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_emulation.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18222729 Points: 48 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QS1dZ3 via

Deprecation of Legacy TLS 1.0 and 1.1 Versions

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://webkit.org/blog/8462/deprecation-of-legacy-tls-1-0-and-1-1-versions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18221606 Points: 25 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2RPuMvC via

An Unintuitive Take on Data Augmentation for Self-Driving Cars

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://towardsdatascience.com/when-conventional-wisdom-fails-revisiting-data-augmentation-for-self-driving-cars-4831998c5509 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219089 Points: 71 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2pS3JD1 via

Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marijuana-faq-legalization-need-to-know-1.4862207 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18237283 Points: 41 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2ynheiJ via

Deprecation of Legacy TLS 1.0 and 1.1 Versions

- October 17, 2018

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Breaking US Encryption: The Australian Test Case

- October 17, 2018

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Piano Genie: An Intelligent Musical Interface

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/pianogenie Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18226917 Points: 56 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2pTBm7z via

A Brief History of Shopping: From Sears to Amazon in four uneasy upheavals

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.city-journal.org/brief-history-shopping-16232.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18225569 Points: 30 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CeHf6z via

Vectorized Emulation: fuzzing at 2 trillion instructions per second

- October 17, 2018

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Do We Worship Complexity?

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.innoq.com/de/blog/do-we-worship-complexity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18230827 Points: 187 # Comments: 178 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CN6Zbq via

Crops take root in unlikely city spaces

- October 17, 2018

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Wefunder is hiring a founder-in-residence

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://wefunder.com/updates/95956 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236523 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2pSDH2K via

Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?

- October 17, 2018

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236396 Points: 60 # Comments: 37 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2R0Ryj9 via

Understanding How Apache Pulsar Works

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2018/10/2/understanding-how-apache-pulsar-works Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236270 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2DXDg0S via

How to Host or Attend a Tiny Conference

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://briancasel.com/tiny-conferences/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236233 Points: 26 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NKGOmI via

Ask HN: What's your advice for someone who's raising capital for the first time?

- October 17, 2018

I'm a noob founder raising Angel/VC for my startup, what are the common pitfalls and other things that I need to be aware of? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236188 Points: 37 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2ErmLdM via

Show HN: Mole – an open source tool to easily create ssh tunnels

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://davrodpin.github.io/mole/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236125 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CNVeBp via

How Do Insurance Companies Know My Health History? (2017)

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: http://houseoflawandorder.com/insurance-companies-health-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18235822 Points: 9 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NKw9by via

Show HN: All Clear Weather – creating new live weather datasets with ML

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.allclearweather.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18235812 Points: 18 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2yi8Roz via

Pijul: A Rust based distributed version control system

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://pijul.org/posts/2018-04-21-pijul-0.10/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18235798 Points: 99 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2F6b5YJ via

Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://evergreen.segment.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18234867 Points: 220 # Comments: 75 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2pWnZn6 via

Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/16/facebook-lured-advertisers-by-inflating-ad-watch-times-up-to-900-percent-lawsuit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18234626 Points: 267 # Comments: 87 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NLMKf9 via

Responder: A familiar HTTP Service Framework

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: http://python-responder.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18234192 Points: 134 # Comments: 75 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2NFaqBY via

Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://lithub.com/life-got-you-down-time-to-read-the-master-and-margarita/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18233997 Points: 100 # Comments: 24 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2EqdWAR via

A new book calls attention to Stanford Ovshinsky and his inventions

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/stanford-ovshinsky-might-be-the-most-prolific-inventor-youve-never-heard-of-180970276/?no-ist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18233874 Points: 35 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2QUYVZc via

ChuChu TV is responsible for widely-viewed toddler content on YouTube

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/raised-by-youtube/570838/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18233763 Points: 129 # Comments: 162 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2O56rE5 via

Lisprolog – Interpreter for a Simple Lisp, Written in Prolog

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.metalevel.at/lisprolog/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18233373 Points: 44 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2P28XdB via

Why is FFTW written in OCaml and what makes it so fast?

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-FFTW-written-in-OCaml-and-what-makes-it-so-fast?share=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18233076 Points: 135 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2yo1jAP via

What I loved about Paul Allen

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Remembering-Paul-Allen?WT.mc_id=10_16_2018_10_PaulAllen_BG-TW_&WT.tsrc=BGTW&linkId=58288095 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231961 Points: 809 # Comments: 95 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2ykgpY6 via

China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks

- October 17, 2018

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-16/china-may-have-5-8-trillion-in-hidden-debt-with-titanic-risks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231756 Points: 423 # Comments: 204 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2yIag7D via