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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds

    126 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  2. Plaid in Canada

    126 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  3. A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women in tech

    126 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  4. How stress echoes down the generations

    126 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  5. How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015)

    125 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  6. Fears of Larger Contagion as Ebola Spreads to Major Congo City

    125 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  7. The Weather Channel has stopped publishing video on Facebook

    125 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  8. Cannes Interview: Christopher Nolan on a new “unrestored” 70mm print of “2001”

    125 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  9. Pie Menus: A 30-Year Retrospective: Take a Look and Feel Free

    125 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  10. A Scientist Finds Her Child’s Rare Brain Illness Stems from the Gene She Studies

    125 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  11. Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration

    125 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  12. Playing hard exploration games by watching YouTube

    125 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  13. Qualcomm Plans Exit From Server Chips

    125 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  14. Joint 3D Face Reconstruction

    124 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  15. Lightweight Concurrency in Lua

    124 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  16. Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970)

    124 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  17. Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud

    124 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  18. Kitty Marion: an actress who became a suffragette who planted bombs

    124 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  19. Insider Attack Resistance

    124 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  20. Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be ocean deserts

    124 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  21. How many deaths make a disaster newsworthy?

    124 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  22. Introduction to Calculus (2016)

    123 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  23. GTA V – Graphics Study (2015)

    123 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  24. Is IPv6 only for the Rich? [pdf]

    123 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  25. Drop Table Companies Ltd

    123 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  26. General Thinking Tools: Mental Models to Solve Difficult Problems

    123 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  27. The Philosophy of Computational Complexity

    123 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  28. Customer takes Bell to court and wins

    122 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  29. Rhetoric around the blockchain hints at problems with techno-utopian ideologies

    122 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  30. Plainbudget: Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting

    122 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  31. Chinese tech giant ZTE ceases operations after ban on using U.S. components

    122 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  32. Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback

    122 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  33. Buffett Proposed $3 Billion Uber Investment But Deal Crumbled

    122 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  34. WAMP – Web Application Messaging Protocol

    122 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  35. Scientists think the cell nucleolus may play an important role in aging

    122 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  36. Testing distributed systems

    121 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  37. Germany adopts first ethics standards for autonomous driving systems

    121 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  38. Russian ALFA Class interceptor submarine

    121 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  39. Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform

    121 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  40. Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning from Its Own History of Hate

    121 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  41. That New Memory Smell: Tech Can Tell If Your Flash Is New or Recycled

    121 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  42. Volvo to Use Google Assistant, Play Store and Maps in Next-Gen Infotainment

    121 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  43. Java’s Mysterious Interrupt

    121 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  44. The emotional journey of creating anything great

    121 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  45. Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off

    121 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  46. First impressions about Graal VM

    121 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  47. OpenAI Research

    120 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  48. Mobile phone cancer warning as malignant brain tumours double

    120 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  49. New Optical Form Factors for 400 Gigabit Ethernet

    120 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  50. Suggestive Drawing Among Humans and AIs

    120 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  51. A Dying Scientist and His Rogue Vaccine Trial

    120 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  52. Rare wooden escalators lead down into a staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel

    120 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  53. Show HN: JQBX – Social Listening Web/Mobile App

    119 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  54. If Haskell is so great, why hasn't it taken over the world? (2017)

    119 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  55. Intel's New Optane 905P Is the Fastest SSD

    119 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  56. Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless

    119 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  57. Malaysia Opposition, Led by 92-Year-Old, Wins Upset Victory

    118 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  58. Unaccountable system for cellphone tracking often abused by police

    118 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  59. The forgotten 80s home robot trend

    118 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  60. No one’s ready for GDPR

    118 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  61. The Slippery Math of Causation

    118 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  62. A guide to better embedded C++

    118 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  63. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Elm

    118 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  64. Dynimize: Speed Up MySQL with CPU Performance Virtualization

    118 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  65. Extending Tcl

    117 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  66. Exercise 'doesn't slow' progression of dementia if you already have dementia

    117 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  67. The Never-Ending War on Fake Reviews

    117 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  68. Ask HN: Building a game for AI Research

    117 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  69. Show HN: Grayscale the Web – A Chrome extension to help avoid mindless browsing

    117 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  70. Judge the value of what you have by what you had to give up to get it

    117 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  71. Why read old philosophy?

    117 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  72. Netflix is basically remaking all of TV now

    117 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  73. Are triggers really that slow in Postgres?

    116 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  74. How Michael Jackson's tilt defied gravity

    116 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  75. Illustration in the App Store

    116 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  76. Why soap bubbles are colourful and windowpanes are not

    116 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  77. Equifax statement regarding extent of security incident announced Sep 7 2017

    116 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  78. Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate'

    116 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  79. The Developers Union

    116 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  80. How to Avoid Distractions and Start the Right Company

    116 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  81. Lisp in Jak and Daxter

    116 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  82. Tomorrow's cities: Google's Toronto city built 'from the internet up'

    115 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  83. Travis merges private and open source repositories into one platform

    115 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  84. Datasette Facets: Faceted Browse and a JSON API for any CSV File or SQLite DB

    115 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  85. Chip Hall of Fame: Zilog Z80 Microprocessor (2017)

    115 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  86. Apple Avoids Amazon’s Beauty Contest, Searches Secretly for New Campus

    115 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  87. The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents

    115 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  88. Hacker News Points Inflation

    115 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  89. Unquantified

    115 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  90. Life and death on a superyacht

    115 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  91. Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Android phone

    114 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  92. The London Tube Heartbeat

    114 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  93. Particle Physics Resurrects Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice

    114 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  94. Mortgage rates have been rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years

    114 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  95. Earning Your Stripes: An Interview with Patrick Collison

    114 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  96. Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert's DUNE

    113 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  97. The Logical Disaster of Null

    113 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  98. Best Practices for ML Engineering (2017)

    113 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  99. Show HN: An Example Microservice Back End for Kubernetes, Bazel, Go, Java, GRPC

    113 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  100. Writing a Portable CPU/GPU Ray Tracer in C#

    113 points • comment • may 19, 2018