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October 2017 Archive
2011.
Bill Gates is offering the first $2B for renewable energy (emphasisms.com)
42 points by abledon on Oct 1, 2017 | 4 comments
2012.
Return to the Source (cipht.net)
42 points by katee on Oct 7, 2017 | 4 comments
2013.
Survey of CPU Caches (meribold.github.io)
42 points by signa11 on Oct 21, 2017 | 2 comments
2014.
Real world machine learning at Jane Street (blog.janestreet.com)
42 points by astdb on Oct 26, 2017 | 2 comments
2015.
Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation (cosmosmagazine.com)
42 points by pmcpinto on Oct 2, 2017 | 0 comments
2016.
Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency (brainpickings.org)
42 points by imartin2k on Oct 9, 2017 | 0 comments
2017.
Oral History of John Backus (2006) [video] (youtube.com)
42 points by jpelecanos on Oct 29, 2017 | 0 comments
2018.
Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Told to Surrender (nytimes.com)
42 points by djug on Oct 30, 2017 | 0 comments
2019.
UK government calls out Whatsapp for enabling criminals to communicate in secret (techcrunch.com)
41 points by chatmasta on Oct 5, 2017 | 73 comments
2020.
Why Johnny Can't Code Good [video] (youtube.com)
41 points by coolsunglasses on Oct 13, 2017 | 70 comments
2021.
Windows Subsystem for Linux is good, but not enough yet (akitaonrails.com)
41 points by castlegloom on Oct 14, 2017 | 61 comments
2022.
Why the Piloted Flight Speed Record Hasn’t Been Broken in 50 Years (motherboard.vice.com)
41 points by smollett on Oct 19, 2017 | 51 comments
2023.
Boy Scouts Announce They Will Accept Girls (nytimes.com)
41 points by votepaunchy on Oct 11, 2017 | 44 comments
2024.
Passing the torch (lobste.rs)
41 points by laurent123456 on Oct 2, 2017 | 39 comments
2025.
Former Equifax CEO says breach boiled down to one person not doing their job (techcrunch.com)
41 points by orange_county on Oct 3, 2017 | 34 comments
2026.
Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner (nytimes.com)
41 points by Firebrand on Oct 1, 2017 | 33 comments
2027.
El Faro Sinking – full report [pdf] (media.defense.gov)
41 points by mojomark on Oct 25, 2017 | 32 comments
2028.
Dell XPS 13, one year later (bit-101.com)
41 points by ingve on Oct 6, 2017 | 30 comments
2029.
Why restaurants hate Grubhub/Seamless (tribecacitizen.com)
41 points by Mitchhhs on Oct 9, 2017 | 28 comments
2030.
Killing ants with nuclear weapons (drewdevault.com)
41 points by colinprince on Oct 19, 2017 | 28 comments
2031.
Outlawry, Supervillians, and Modern Law (2010) (lawandthemultiverse.com)
41 points by Mz on Oct 29, 2017 | 26 comments
2032.
Galileo and Heliocentricity: A Rough Guide (2014) (thonyc.wordpress.com)
41 points by Hooke on Oct 2, 2017 | 22 comments
2033.
Update on Google’s Secretive Startup Calico Labs (longevityfacts.com)
41 points by apsec112 on Oct 19, 2017 | 20 comments
2034.
DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (1997) (wired.com)
41 points by jpelecanos on Oct 2, 2017 | 18 comments
2035.
Publicly credit your employees (superted.io)
41 points by superted on Oct 20, 2017 | 18 comments
2036.
Ex-Google exec: Sun may be setting on Silicon Valley (axios.com)
41 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 19, 2017 | 13 comments
2037.
Winnie-the-Pooh brought joy to readers, but misery to the Milnes (economist.com)
41 points by sohkamyung on Oct 3, 2017 | 12 comments
2038.
Show HN: TorProxy, a kernel module which routes all network traffic through Tor (github.com)
41 points by raw23 on Oct 8, 2017 | 11 comments
2039.
Ask HN: How to find better clients as a two-person remote dev team?
41 points by person_number_8 on Oct 22, 2017 | 11 comments
2040.
Startup Outcome Misled Advertisers with Manipulated Information, Sources Say (wsj.com)
41 points by coloneltcb on Oct 12, 2017 | 10 comments