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The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers

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Storage Boom to Bust: Memory Makers Plan to Cut NAND Flash Production

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Storage Boom to Bust: Memory Makers Plan to Cut NAND Flash Production

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How Important is Innovation for Better Development Outcomes?

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How Important is Innovation for Better Development Outcomes?

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USA Today created a giant database of police misconduct

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USA Today created a giant database of police misconduct

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Henrik Ibsen invented realistic theater, and now he bores. Why?

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Why isn't 1 a prime number?

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Why isn't 1 a prime number?

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Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned

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China’s quest for clean, limitless energy heats up

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Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned

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China’s quest for clean, limitless energy heats up

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California Has a Housing Crisis. The Answer Is More Housing

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California Has a Housing Crisis. The Answer Is More Housing

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How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance

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Introduction to LSM Trees: May the Logs Be with You

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How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance

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Introduction to LSM Trees: May the Logs Be with You

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How do we know when we’ve fallen in love?

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Study finds Reddit’s controversial ban of its most toxic subreddits worked

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The Value of Friendships in Academic Success

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Study finds Reddit’s controversial ban of its most toxic subreddits worked

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The Value of Friendships in Academic Success

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How do we know when we’ve fallen in love?

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Building a Passive IMSI Catcher

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Combining Video and Movement Data to Enhance Team Sport Analysis (2018) [pdf]

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New best story on Hacker News: The inception bar: a new phishing method

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Building a Passive IMSI Catcher

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The Invention of Islamophobia (2011)

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Evidence for Recent Polygenic Selection on Educational Attainment and IQ

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China’s Spying Poses Rising Threat to U.S.

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Jane Manchun Wong: App researcher who unlocks new features before they launch

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Who hit the ball out? An egocentric temporal order bias

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China’s Spying Poses Rising Threat to U.S.

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Jane Manchun Wong: App researcher who unlocks new features before they launch

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An Overview of Secure Boot in Debian

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Who hit the ball out? An egocentric temporal order bias

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There is no good reason to buy an inkjet printer (2016)

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There is no good reason to buy an inkjet printer (2016)

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Crustacean has never been seen away from Lake Merritt, but it's not from Oakland

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Boolean Circuits are Neural Networks

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Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money

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We All Work for Facebook

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We All Work for Facebook

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Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money

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Rare and strange ICD-10 codes

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Rare and strange ICD-10 codes

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Subtractive Synths Explained

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The inception bar: a new phishing method

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I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape

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The bible of doing business with the city of New York

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The Embedded Rust Book

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J2cl: Transpile Java to JavaScript for Closure Compiler

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Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007)

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Could ImGUI Be the Future of GUIs?

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Spurious Justifications for Eliminating Price Caps on .org and Legacy Domains

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Audible and audiobooks, the fastest growing part of publishing

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Living Wage Calculator

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Meditations on Moloch (2014)

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Nearby stellar explosions could have killed off large animals

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Mastering Motion: The Journey to Emulate MotionPlus

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QuaterNet: A Quaternion-Based Recurrent Model for Human Motion

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Mystery of the Universe’s Expansion Rate Widens with New Hubble Data

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Stop Memsetting Structures

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Why a Traffic Flow Suddenly Turns into a Traffic Jam (2013)

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Notation for Social Deduction Games

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Intel Stockpiling 10nm Chips

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Crustacean has never been seen away from Lake Merritt, but it's not from Oakland

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What to Do When Donors Make Things Complicated

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Breweries Helped Keep a Pre-Columbian Empire Together

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Solving Riddles with Prolog and ES6 Generators (2014)

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What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly

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Show HN: A minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go

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An Archaeologist Challenges Mainstream Scientific Thinking (2017)

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Back in the Day: Unix, Minix and Linux

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The Lost Art of Deadline Writing

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PostgreSQL Features to Try

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Subtractive Synths Explained

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Nearby stellar explosions could have killed off large animals

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Mystery of the Universe’s Expansion Rate Widens with New Hubble Data

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J2cl: Transpile Java to JavaScript for Closure Compiler

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The bible of doing business with the city of New York

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What to Do When Donors Make Things Complicated

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The inception bar: a new phishing method

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I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape

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Spurious Justifications for Eliminating Price Caps on .org and Legacy Domains

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QuaterNet: A Quaternion-Based Recurrent Model for Human Motion

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What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly

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Audible and audiobooks, the fastest growing part of publishing

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Stop Memsetting Structures

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Intel Stockpiling 10nm Chips

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The Embedded Rust Book

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Show HN: A minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go

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Back in the Day: Unix, Minix and Linux

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PostgreSQL Features to Try

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An Archaeologist Challenges Mainstream Scientific Thinking (2017)

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Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007)

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