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Hacker News (May 2018)
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Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
2043 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
1870 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
1607 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
1453 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
1336 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
1311 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
1300 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Google YOLO clickjacking
1281 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention
1205 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time
1204 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Completely Silent Computer
1076 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
1055 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1
997 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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AI winter is well on its way
984 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions
969 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas
965 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely
909 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Safe ways to do things in bash
880 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
878 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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I've spent the last two years building a new email client
852 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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GDPR: Don't Panic
819 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
802 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles
767 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?
747 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?
746 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign
740 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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Subscription Hell
738 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality
737 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
737 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
729 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME
716 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award
711 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding
702 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Too Clever by Half
692 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food
666 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Python startup time: milliseconds matter
658 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'
654 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Make front end shit again
647 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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GDPR will pop the adtech bubble
646 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
639 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
635 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Show HN: Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look
633 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python
629 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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How a domain registrar can kill your business
627 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Gnome has moved to GitLab
627 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
625 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression
621 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
620 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)
604 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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$36k Google App Engine RCE
599 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Facebook announces Clear History feature
595 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
580 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
576 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Proton Native – React Native for the desktop
573 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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I put all my personal data on eBay
571 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
565 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned
559 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video
559 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies
554 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home
550 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003)
548 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
542 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS
542 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby
541 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit
534 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics
529 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Introducing Git protocol version 2
528 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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The rise of the pointless job
523 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)
520 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Getting Google to ban our entire company
517 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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The Economics of Writing a Technical Book
513 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers
498 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
491 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?
490 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Uber, Google and others pay London Evening Standard for favorable coverage
488 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Rust 1.26 released
480 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Build your own X: project-based programming tutorials
470 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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De-Googling my phone
470 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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The Power of Prolog
470 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (2012)
469 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals
468 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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The Bill Gates Line
465 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Algorithms and Data Structures Explained and Implemented in JavaScript
463 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Read first pages of novels, and reveal the author and title if you're hooked
462 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?
461 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation
460 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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C Is Not a Low-Level Language
458 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Python’s For - Else
458 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare
456 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5
455 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Shell Style Guide
454 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
454 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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HTTP headers we don't want
450 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)
449 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story
447 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Another flaw in Signal desktop app leaks chats in plaintext
447 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Intel Announces Optane DIMMs
445 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Solving dynamic programming interview problems
445 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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I Write Letters to CEOs
441 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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High school physics course notes, with JavaScript simulations
441 points • comment • may 29, 2018