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Hacker News (May 2018)
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UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds
126 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Plaid in Canada
126 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women in tech
126 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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How stress echoes down the generations
126 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015)
125 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Fears of Larger Contagion as Ebola Spreads to Major Congo City
125 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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The Weather Channel has stopped publishing video on Facebook
125 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Cannes Interview: Christopher Nolan on a new “unrestored” 70mm print of “2001”
125 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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Pie Menus: A 30-Year Retrospective: Take a Look and Feel Free
125 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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A Scientist Finds Her Child’s Rare Brain Illness Stems from the Gene She Studies
125 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration
125 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Playing hard exploration games by watching YouTube
125 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Qualcomm Plans Exit From Server Chips
125 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Joint 3D Face Reconstruction
124 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Lightweight Concurrency in Lua
124 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970)
124 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud
124 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Kitty Marion: an actress who became a suffragette who planted bombs
124 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Insider Attack Resistance
124 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be ocean deserts
124 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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How many deaths make a disaster newsworthy?
124 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Introduction to Calculus (2016)
123 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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GTA V – Graphics Study (2015)
123 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Is IPv6 only for the Rich? [pdf]
123 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Drop Table Companies Ltd
123 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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General Thinking Tools: Mental Models to Solve Difficult Problems
123 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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The Philosophy of Computational Complexity
123 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Customer takes Bell to court and wins
122 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Rhetoric around the blockchain hints at problems with techno-utopian ideologies
122 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Plainbudget: Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting
122 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Chinese tech giant ZTE ceases operations after ban on using U.S. components
122 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback
122 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Buffett Proposed $3 Billion Uber Investment But Deal Crumbled
122 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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WAMP – Web Application Messaging Protocol
122 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Scientists think the cell nucleolus may play an important role in aging
122 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Testing distributed systems
121 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Germany adopts first ethics standards for autonomous driving systems
121 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Russian ALFA Class interceptor submarine
121 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform
121 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate
121 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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That New Memory Smell: Tech Can Tell If Your Flash Is New or Recycled
121 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Volvo to Use Google Assistant, Play Store and Maps in Next-Gen Infotainment
121 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Java’s Mysterious Interrupt
121 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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The emotional journey of creating anything great
121 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off
121 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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First impressions about Graal VM
121 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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OpenAI Research
120 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Mobile phone cancer warning as malignant brain tumours double
120 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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New Optical Form Factors for 400 Gigabit Ethernet
120 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Suggestive Drawing Among Humans and AIs
120 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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A Dying Scientist and His Rogue Vaccine Trial
120 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Rare wooden escalators lead down into a staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel
120 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Show HN: JQBX – Social Listening Web/Mobile App
119 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the world? (2017)
119 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Intel's New Optane 905P Is the Fastest SSD
119 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless
119 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Malaysia Opposition, Led by 92-Year-Old, Wins Upset Victory
118 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Unaccountable system for cellphone tracking often abused by police
118 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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The forgotten 80s home robot trend
118 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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No one’s ready for GDPR
118 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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The Slippery Math of Causation
118 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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A guide to better embedded C++
118 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Elm
118 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Dynimize: Speed Up MySQL with CPU Performance Virtualization
118 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Extending Tcl
117 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Exercise 'doesn't slow' progression of dementia if you already have dementia
117 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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The Never-Ending War on Fake Reviews
117 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Ask HN: Building a game for AI Research
117 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Show HN: Grayscale the Web – A Chrome extension to help avoid mindless browsing
117 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Judge the value of what you have by what you had to give up to get it
117 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Why read old philosophy?
117 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Netflix is basically remaking all of TV now
117 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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Are triggers really that slow in Postgres?
116 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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How Michael Jackson's tilt defied gravity
116 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Illustration in the App Store
116 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Why soap bubbles are colourful and windowpanes are not
116 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Equifax statement regarding extent of security incident announced Sep 7 2017
116 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate'
116 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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The Developers Union
116 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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How to Avoid Distractions and Start the Right Company
116 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Lisp in Jak and Daxter
116 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Tomorrow's cities: Google's Toronto city built 'from the internet up'
115 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Travis merges private and open source repositories into one platform
115 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Datasette Facets: Faceted Browse and a JSON API for any CSV File or SQLite DB
115 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Chip Hall of Fame: Zilog Z80 Microprocessor (2017)
115 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Apple Avoids Amazon’s Beauty Contest, Searches Secretly for New Campus
115 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents
115 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Hacker News Points Inflation
115 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Unquantified
115 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Life and death on a superyacht
115 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Android phone
114 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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The London Tube Heartbeat
114 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Particle Physics Resurrects Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice
114 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Mortgage rates have been rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years
114 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Earning Your Stripes: An Interview with Patrick Collison
114 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert's DUNE
113 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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The Logical Disaster of Null
113 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Best Practices for ML Engineering (2017)
113 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Show HN: An Example Microservice Back End for Kubernetes, Bazel, Go, Java, GRPC
113 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Writing a Portable CPU/GPU Ray Tracer in C#
113 points • comment • may 19, 2018