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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming

    2043 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  2. Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone

    1870 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  3. US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data

    1607 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  4. The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written

    1453 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  5. Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

    1336 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  6. Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact

    1311 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  7. The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill

    1300 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  8. Google YOLO clickjacking

    1281 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  9. Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention

    1205 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  10. LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time

    1204 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  11. Completely Silent Computer

    1076 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  12. John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories

    1055 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  13. AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1

    997 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  14. AI winter is well on its way

    984 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  15. Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions

    969 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  16. How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas

    965 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  17. Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely

    909 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  18. Safe ways to do things in bash

    880 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  19. Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)

    878 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  20. I've spent the last two years building a new email client

    852 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  21. GDPR: Don't Panic

    819 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  22. Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

    802 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  23. Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles

    767 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  24. UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?

    747 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  25. You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?

    746 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  26. A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign

    740 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  27. Subscription Hell

    738 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  28. Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality

    737 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  29. GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers

    737 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  30. De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds

    729 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  31. EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME

    716 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  32. Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award

    711 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  33. 82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding

    702 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  34. Too Clever by Half

    692 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  35. Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food

    666 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  36. Python startup time: milliseconds matter

    658 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  37. Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'

    654 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  38. Make front end shit again

    647 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  39. GDPR will pop the adtech bubble

    646 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  40. What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M

    639 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  41. Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative

    635 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  42. Show HN: Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look

    633 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  43. Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python

    629 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  44. How a domain registrar can kill your business

    627 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  45. Gnome has moved to GitLab

    627 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  46. NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report

    625 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  47. An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression

    621 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  48. ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money

    620 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  49. Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)

    604 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  50. $36k Google App Engine RCE

    599 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  51. Facebook announces Clear History feature

    595 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  52. You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS

    580 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  53. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

    576 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  54. Proton Native – React Native for the desktop

    573 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  55. I put all my personal data on eBay

    571 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  56. Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems

    565 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  57. I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned

    559 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  58. Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video

    559 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  59. Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies

    554 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  60. Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home

    550 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  61. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)

    548 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  62. The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)

    542 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  63. Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

    542 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  64. Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby

    541 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  65. How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

    534 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  66. iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics

    529 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  67. Introducing Git protocol version 2

    528 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  68. The rise of the pointless job

    523 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  69. Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)

    520 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  70. Getting Google to ban our entire company

    517 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  71. The Economics of Writing a Technical Book

    513 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  72. Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

    498 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  73. Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence

    491 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  74. Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?

    490 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  75. Uber, Google and others pay London Evening Standard for favorable coverage

    488 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  76. Rust 1.26 released

    480 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  77. Build your own X: project-based programming tutorials

    470 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  78. De-Googling my phone

    470 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  79. The Power of Prolog

    470 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  80. What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (2012)

    469 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  81. Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals

    468 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  82. The Bill Gates Line

    465 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  83. Algorithms and Data Structures Explained and Implemented in JavaScript

    463 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  84. Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and title if you're hooked

    462 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  85. Ask HN: How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?

    461 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  86. Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation

    460 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  87. C Is Not a Low-Level Language

    458 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  88. Python’s For - Else

    458 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  89. I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

    456 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  90. Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5

    455 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  91. Shell Style Guide

    454 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  92. The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org

    454 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  93. HTTP headers we don't want

    450 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  94. Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)

    449 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  95. Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story

    447 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  96. Another flaw in Signal desktop app leaks chats in plaintext

    447 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  97. Intel Announces Optane DIMMs

    445 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  98. Solving dynamic programming interview problems

    445 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  99. I Write Letters to CEOs

    441 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  100. High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations

    441 points • comment • may 29, 2018