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Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet (nytimes.com)

186 points by inostia on Nov 24, 2018 | 183 comments

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Two major research funders to bar grantees from publishing in hybrid journals (sciencemag.org)

186 points by sohkamyung on Nov 5, 2018 | 51 comments

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Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a codebase nobody on the team could understand?

185 points by ironmagma on Nov 28, 2018 | 217 comments

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Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision (deadspin.com)

185 points by mindgam3 on Nov 27, 2018 | 162 comments

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Why I’m Giving $1.8B for College Financial Aid (nytimes.com)

185 points by wallflower on Nov 18, 2018 | 159 comments

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Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio is worried about AI’s future (technologyreview.com)

185 points by jonbaer on Nov 19, 2018 | 137 comments

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Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips (anandtech.com)

185 points by rbanffy on Nov 8, 2018 | 102 comments

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FoundationDB 6.0 released, featuring multi-region support (foundationdb.org)

185 points by davelester on Nov 19, 2018 | 70 comments

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How Multi-Beam Flash Lidar Works (ouster.io)

185 points by derek_frome on Nov 13, 2018 | 67 comments

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A chemical so hot it destroys nerve endings – in a good way (wired.com)

185 points by jdnier on Nov 16, 2018 | 59 comments

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What's Going on in Your Child's Brain When You Read Them a Story? (kqed.org)

185 points by laurex on Nov 23, 2018 | 49 comments

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Show HN: An open-source collaborative whiteboard (wbo.openode.io)

185 points by lovasoa on Nov 28, 2018 | 40 comments

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Rendered Insecure: GPU Side Channel Attacks Are Practical [pdf] (cs.ucr.edu)

185 points by pedro84 on Nov 14, 2018 | 28 comments

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Decentralized network 42: a big dynamic VPN (dn42.net)

185 points by gjvc on Nov 28, 2018 | 12 comments

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Ads just work, no matter what you think (hackernoon.com)

184 points by awad on Nov 7, 2018 | 196 comments

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A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas (latimes.com)

184 points by broahmed on Nov 4, 2018 | 51 comments

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Still in love with Rust (dpc.pw)

183 points by adamnemecek on Nov 22, 2018 | 182 comments

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Show HN: Above-average products selling for below-average prices (goodcheapandfast.com)

183 points by john_w on Nov 4, 2018 | 65 comments

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A Lisp Way to Type Theory and Formal Proofs (2017) [pdf] (european-lisp-symposium.org)

183 points by pmoriarty on Nov 5, 2018 | 16 comments

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Ask HN: As a programmer, how do you know if you're a good one or not?

182 points by dvnguyen on Nov 26, 2018 | 99 comments

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Aminal: Golang terminal emulator from scratch (github.com)

182 points by guessmyname on Nov 28, 2018 | 80 comments

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Strato Pi – An Industrial Raspberry Pi (sferalabs.cc)

182 points by camtarn on Nov 25, 2018 | 79 comments

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Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chinese ownership (zdnet.com)

182 points by wglb on Nov 25, 2018 | 56 comments

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‘Remarkable’ global decline in the number of children women are having (bbc.com)

181 points by maxwell on Nov 9, 2018 | 233 comments

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AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown (axios.com)

181 points by threatofrain on Nov 7, 2018 | 139 comments

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Gitless: A simple version control system built on top of Git (gitless.com)

181 points by jackbravo on Nov 22, 2018 | 138 comments

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A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." (1999-2015) (cse.buffalo.edu)