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Stories from October 21, 2018
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1.Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews (theguardian.com)
598 points by sefrost on Oct 20, 2018 | 313 comments
2.Who Are My Investors? (avc.com)
500 points by wslh on Oct 21, 2018 | 253 comments
3.The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40 (mchap.io)
516 points by bpchaps on Oct 19, 2018 | 233 comments
4.Massachusetts gas fires: Another technological tragedy (bit-player.org)
216 points by greeneggs on Oct 20, 2018 | 123 comments
5.An update on GNU performance (arm.com)
161 points by ingve on Oct 21, 2018 | 64 comments
6.Alchemy: A Language and Compiler for Homomorphic Encryption Made Easy [pdf] (umich.edu)
81 points by ArtWomb on Oct 20, 2018 | 7 comments
7.Ask HN: What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?
409 points by ankurvjy on Oct 20, 2018 | 153 comments
8.A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266 (github.com/gbafana25)
105 points by gkm25 on Oct 21, 2018 | 22 comments
9.Hello P5.js Web Editor (medium.com/processing-foundation)
194 points by juliendorra on Oct 21, 2018 | 24 comments
10.Run Perl in the browser with WebPerl (zero-g.net)
148 points by mfontani on Oct 21, 2018 | 58 comments
11.Researchers Prove Quantum Computers Are More Powerful Than Classical Computers (vice.com)
75 points by Osiris30 on Oct 20, 2018 | 27 comments
12.Ask HN: Am I just a wantrepreneur?
428 points by ced83fra on Oct 21, 2018 | 148 comments
13.Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf] (umontreal.ca)
194 points by tarsius on Oct 21, 2018 | 55 comments
14.Why Kodak Died and Fujifilm Thrived: A Tale of Two Film Companies (petapixel.com)
169 points by bleair on Oct 21, 2018 | 50 comments
15.Repair Café (repaircafe.org)
227 points by fredley on Oct 19, 2018 | 65 comments
16.Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years (zdnet.com)
216 points by john37386 on Oct 20, 2018 | 68 comments
17.A Love Story That Upended the Texas Prison System (texasmonthly.com)
136 points by rmason on Oct 19, 2018 | 37 comments
18.Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Siri, and More (ieee.org)
225 points by kanishkdudeja on Oct 21, 2018 | 136 comments
19.Problems with infinite scroll (logrocket.com)
208 points by ohjeez on Oct 21, 2018 | 108 comments
20.Mass-Produced Electric Lada from 30 Years Ago (englishrussia.com)
118 points by stmw on Oct 21, 2018 | 69 comments
21.Pharo: An immersive programming experience (pharo.org)
188 points by signa11 on Oct 21, 2018 | 106 comments
22.The Looming Danger of Non-Banks (axios.com)
101 points by rafaelc on Oct 21, 2018 | 70 comments
23.Notes on Landauer's principle, reversible computation, Maxwell's Demon (2003) [pdf] (princeton.edu)
73 points by boricensis on Oct 21, 2018
24.New Cottonseed Is Safe for People to Eat (npr.org)
55 points by crunchiebones on Oct 19, 2018 | 45 comments
25.Show HN: Webpage to PDF Microservice (imti.co)
93 points by cjimti on Oct 21, 2018 | 34 comments
26.Orca: differential bug localization in large-scale services (acolyer.org)
37 points by mpweiher on Oct 20, 2018 | 4 comments
27.67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months (cnbc.com)
237 points by DoreenMichele on Oct 21, 2018 | 148 comments
28.Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s (theconversation.com)
190 points by hourislate on Oct 20, 2018 | 46 comments
29.Show HN: SQL Viewer – UI for uber/queryparser, written in Haskell (github.com/dlthomas)
88 points by dllthomas on Oct 21, 2018 | 9 comments
30.BepiColombo Launches on Long Journey to Mercury (nytimes.com)
55 points by dnetesn on Oct 20, 2018 | 2 comments

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