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Two years of Elixir at the Outline

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Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation

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The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected

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A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

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Two years of Elixir at the Outline

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Why I switched sides: From bootstrapping to VC

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Not Lisp again

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Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI

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Not Lisp again

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The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project

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Top lawyers were beaten by legal AI

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Federal prosecutors have filed new charges against swatter Tyler Barriss

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/feds-hit-notorious-swatter-tyler-barriss-with-46-new-charges/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18308807 Points: 38 # Comments: 44 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2D4B3j4 via

Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition

Article URL: https://blog.github.com/2018-10-26-github-and-microsoft/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18308787 Points: 62 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PXBMW2 via

Tesla hugely exceeded expectations last quarter

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Top lawyers were beaten by legal AI

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The Feds Just Hit a Notorious Swatter with 46 New Charges

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Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition

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Tesla hugely exceeded expectations last quarter–this chart shows why

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WebRender is in beta

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Retiring?

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WebRender is in beta

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Retiring?

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Why might reading make myopic?

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Why might reading make myopic?

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How working memory gets you through the day

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A Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.geeklan.co.uk/files/oshug69-Miller-criscv.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18308255 Points: 9 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2qcQmNY via

Can optical illusions fool AI too?

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The life and death of a laptop battery (2015)

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Google’s secret and Linear Algebra (2004) [pdf]

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The History and Concept of Computability (1996) [pdf]

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The Mathematician (1947)

Article URL: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Von_Neumann_Part_1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18298059 Points: 56 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Ye6YEY via

A Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V [pdf]

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DevOops, some common anti-patterns

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HDR image to LDR using edge-preserving multiscale decompositions

Article URL: https://www.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/tonemapfarbman.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307917 Points: 11 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2CJYQ6C via

Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests

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Google drops plans for Berlin campus after protests

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DevOops, some common anti-patterns

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Poutine Dynamics

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HDR image to LDR using edge-preserving multiscale decompositions

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Google’s secret and Linear Algebra (2004) [pdf]

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Trying to prove Christie’s auction AI art is generated with Barrat’s model

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Show HN: TeXMe: Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents

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ICANN Frees .Amazon Domain for Company Delegation

Article URL: http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/10/25/icann-frees-amazon-domain-company-delegation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307526 Points: 13 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PVDdEc via

China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers

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Experimental realization of Feynman's ratchet

Article URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/aae71f/meta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307484 Points: 6 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2Pq08uy via

12 Mind-Bending Perceptual Illusions – Facts So Romantic

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Pirate Zdeněk Hřib to be Prague mayor

Article URL: http://praguemonitor.com/2018/10/26/pirate-zden%C4%9Bk-h%C5%99ib-be-prague-mayor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307322 Points: 30 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2SpLP7Y via

Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science

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12 Mind-Bending Perceptual Illusions – Facts So Romantic

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Show HN: TeXMe: Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents

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China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers

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Experimental realization of Feynman's ratchet

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Pirate Zdeněk Hřib to be Prague mayor

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ICANN Frees .Amazon Domain for Company Delegation

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I Bought Used Voting Machines on EBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming

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The life and death of a laptop battery (2015)

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The X hole

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Teasing, Gossip, and Local Names on Rapanui (1979) [pdf]

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Amplemarket (YC W14) Seeks Software Engineer in Lisbon, Portugal

Amplemarket.com is a Y Combinator-backed fast-growing tech startup with headquarters in San Francisco and Lisbon, Portugal. We are looking for a software engineer to join our team in Lisbon. We have a preference for a full stack developer with a focus on frontend (not mandatory). This is a unique opportunity to work with a team of MIT-alumni that built other great projects like fermatslibrary.com. If interested, please email team@amplemarket.com. Some things about this position: - Work directly with the co-founders - Lots of autonomy and impact - Competitive salary and equity - Ship new features every week - Our stack: Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch Perks: - Join a fast growing startup - Opportunities to grow within the company - Competitive salary - Annual paid trip to headquarters in San Francisco Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307281 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2PlD4Nr via

California Considers Placing a Mileage Tax on Drivers (2017)

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Show HN: I made a script to generate self-signed SSL certs for local development

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What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy

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Cancer Hospital Ads Deceive Patients About Their Chances Of Survival

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New best story on Hacker News: Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms

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New best story on Hacker News: In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal

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New best story on Hacker News: Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim

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New best story on Hacker News: First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings

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At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks

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Oscar Wilde in America

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Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms

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The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation [pdf]

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Cancer Hospital Ads Deceive Patients About Their Chances Of Survival

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Gophish: An open source phishing toolkit

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California Considers Placing a Mileage Tax on Drivers (2017)

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Amplemarket (YC W14) Seeks Software Engineer in Lisbon, Portugal

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The Mathematician (1947)

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Visualizing Science: Illustration and Beyond

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Introducing Hooks

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To Save Endangered Species, Should We Bring Them into Our Cities?

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Night Sight for Pixel phones

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Qt Design Studio 1.0

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FDA approves new drug to treat influenza

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Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k

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How Curry Became a Japanese Naval Tradition

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Can optical illusions fool AI too?

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The peer review industry: implausible and outrageous

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Reusing Old Hardware

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Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim

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The History and Concept of Computability (1996) [pdf]

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What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy

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Unicorn: lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework

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FoundationDB Summit Program Announced

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Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry

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Show HN: I made a script to generate self-signed SSL certs for local development

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Playing Mortal Kombat with TensorFlow.js

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Ply: Lightweight, Dynamic Tracing in Linux

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“Stress Hormone” Cortisol Linked to Early Toll on Thinking Ability

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Validating UTF8 Strings via Lookup Tables

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Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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