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871.

How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk (clemenswinter.com)

130 points by cwinter on Aug 17, 2018 | 8 comments

872.

Dear Academia, I loved you, but I’m leaving you (2014) (anothersb.blogspot.com)

129 points by tacon on Aug 18, 2018 | 87 comments

873.

Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption (electricitymap.org)

129 points by robin_reala on Aug 16, 2018 | 71 comments

874.

A Sound Card Before Its Time (os2museum.com)

129 points by userbinator on Aug 17, 2018 | 60 comments

875.

A new kernel polling interface (lwn.net)

129 points by doener on Aug 27, 2018 | 44 comments

876.

TensorFlow 2.0 is coming (groups.google.com)

129 points by albertzeyer on Aug 14, 2018 | 32 comments

877.

Beyond the pixel plane: sensing and learning in 3D (thegradient.pub)

129 points by gtmtg on Aug 25, 2018 | 15 comments

878.

Uber’s Vision of Self-Driving Cars Begins to Blur (nytimes.com)

128 points by plasticchris on Aug 20, 2018 | 156 comments

879.

Suicidal Vet Calls MDMA Treatment ‘a Miracle' (thedailybeast.com)

128 points by eplanit on Aug 16, 2018 | 80 comments

880.

Design errors Satoshi made (twitter.com)

128 points by myth_drannon on Aug 18, 2018 | 53 comments

881.

VigNAT: A Formally Verified Performant NAT (vignat.github.io)

128 points by signa11 on Aug 17, 2018 | 40 comments

882.

After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Cryptocurrency Investors (nytimes.com)

127 points by samspenc on Aug 21, 2018 | 134 comments

883.

Russia tries more precise technology to block Telegram messenger (reuters.com)

127 points by Mereruka on Aug 31, 2018 | 102 comments

884.

Very Good Security (a16z.com)

127 points by jaxondu on Aug 28, 2018 | 90 comments

885.

From laboratory in far west, China’s surveillance state spreads quietly (reuters.com)

127 points by adventured on Aug 14, 2018 | 48 comments

886.

The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf] (lamport.azurewebsites.net)

127 points by xkgt on Aug 6, 2018 | 21 comments

887.

AMD Announces Dual-Vega Radeon Pro V340 Card with 32GB of ECC HBM Memory (tomshardware.com)

127 points by rerx on Aug 27, 2018 | 19 comments

888.

Hyperpolyglot: Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)

127 points by tosh on Aug 8, 2018 | 17 comments

889.

Chief U.S. spy catcher says China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans (reuters.com)

126 points by AnatMl2 on Aug 31, 2018 | 108 comments

890.

What Does ‘Off the Record’ Really Mean? (nytimes.com)

126 points by js2 on Aug 4, 2018 | 92 comments

891.

Service Workers (frontendian.co)

126 points by andRyanMiller on Aug 28, 2018 | 66 comments

892.

Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs (w3c-ccg.github.io)

126 points by rapnie on Aug 6, 2018 | 42 comments

893.

Show HN: A parser for electronic component descriptions (github.com)

126 points by kasbah on Aug 11, 2018 | 19 comments

894.

Implementing a JIT-compiler with Rust (dinfuehr.github.io)

126 points by ristem on Aug 6, 2018 | 17 comments

895.

Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research (reuters.com)

125 points by e15ctr0n on Aug 29, 2018 | 168 comments

896.

What happens when a Pacific island upsets China (reuters.com)

125 points by tomohawk on Aug 19, 2018 | 149 comments

897.

Goodbye VSCode, Hello Emacs Again (hotair.tech)

125 points by tangue on Aug 28, 2018 | 81 comments

898.

Show HN: unicode.style (unicode.style)

125 points by ekmartin on Aug 13, 2018 | 66 comments

899.

The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness (nytimes.com)

125 points by electic on Aug 17, 2018 | 45 comments

900.

An introduction to libuv (2016) (nikhilm.github.io)

125 points by eatonphil on Aug 16, 2018 | 38 comments