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October 2018 Archive
301.
Why iPhone Xs performance on JavaScript is so good (twitter.com)
276 points by Bootvis on Oct 8, 2018 | 124 comments
302.
PipelineDB 1.0 – High-Performance Time-Series Aggregation for PostgreSQL (pipelinedb.com)
276 points by Fergi on Oct 24, 2018 | 61 comments
303.
The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores (nymag.com)
275 points by NN88 on Oct 22, 2018 | 162 comments
304.
GitHub: October 21 Incident Report (blog.github.com)
275 points by pietroalbini on Oct 22, 2018 | 110 comments
305.
Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID (arstechnica.com)
274 points by evo_9 on Oct 30, 2018 | 377 comments
306.
Turns Out Wearing a Hi-Vis Vest Gets You into Everything for Free (vice.com)
274 points by LeoPanthera on Oct 28, 2018 | 199 comments
307.
DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to its own stand (arstechnica.com)
274 points by extraterra on Oct 23, 2018 | 175 comments
308.
Hubble Space Telescope Is In Safe Mode After Gyro Failure (nasawatch.com)
274 points by waserwill on Oct 8, 2018 | 132 comments
309.
Alarming study shows massive insect loss (washingtonpost.com)
273 points by dschuetz on Oct 16, 2018 | 83 comments
310.
310 Bitcoin challenge has been solved (bitcoinchallenge.codes)
272 points by kwikiel on Oct 11, 2018 | 119 comments
311.
WebAssembly Threads ready to try in Chrome 70 (developers.google.com)
272 points by feross on Oct 30, 2018 | 89 comments
312.
The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News (eff.org)
271 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 29, 2018 | 180 comments
313.
Memory Allocators 101 – Write a simple memory allocator (2016) (arjunsreedharan.org)
271 points by DonbunEf7 on Oct 10, 2018 | 51 comments
314.
Millions of workers believe they are bound by non-binding contracts (thespeakernewsjournal.com)
269 points by sprechen on Oct 11, 2018 | 170 comments
315.
The D Language Front-End Merged Into GCC 9 (phoronix.com)
269 points by Ace17 on Oct 29, 2018 | 90 comments
316.
Update to Ask HN: What to do if I’m about to lose my job to mental health issues (pastebin.com)
269 points by throwawaydev00 on Oct 7, 2018 | 88 comments
317.
RIP Todd Bol, Inventor of ‘Little Free Libraries’ (weeklystandard.com)
269 points by okfine on Oct 23, 2018 | 33 comments
318.
An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming (arxiv.org)
269 points by lainon on Oct 1, 2018 | 14 comments
319.
How a Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Exploited Android Phones to Steal Millions (buzzfeednews.com)
268 points by minimaxir on Oct 23, 2018 | 103 comments
320.
Bpftrace for Linux 2018 (brendangregg.com)
268 points by deirdres on Oct 8, 2018 | 21 comments
321.
What Businessweek got wrong about Apple (apple.com)
267 points by rakkhi on Oct 5, 2018 | 175 comments
322.
Intuitive Understanding of Euler’s Formula (betterexplained.com)
267 points by sdeepak on Oct 29, 2018 | 57 comments
323.
Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem (quantamagazine.org)
267 points by digital55 on Oct 8, 2018 | 24 comments
324.
Texans say voting machines changing straight-ticket choices (apnews.com)
266 points by threatofrain on Oct 26, 2018 | 237 comments
325.
World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016) (gdatasoftware.com)
266 points by bdz on Oct 30, 2018 | 116 comments
326.
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video] (youtube.com)
265 points by espeed on Oct 23, 2018 | 124 comments
327.
How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database (brandur.org)
265 points by bgentry on Oct 15, 2018 | 32 comments
328.
How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team (stripe.com)
265 points by petethomas on Oct 18, 2018 | 21 comments
329.
Teaching C (2016) (blog.regehr.org)
263 points by ingve on Oct 30, 2018 | 211 comments
330.
Show HN: Jobs Done – A ritual app for ending the work day inspired by Deep Work (github.com)
263 points by skidding on Oct 30, 2018 | 56 comments