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Hacker News (May 2018)
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Writing a Portable CPU/GPU Ray Tracer in C#
113 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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The Logical Disaster of Null
113 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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The Eudora Email Client Source Code
112 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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How I got my first thousand users
112 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Mice with 3D-Printed Ovaries Successfully Give Birth
112 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Shoes – An easy little GUI toolkit for Ruby
112 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Non-Recursive Make Considered Harmful: Build Systems at Scale (2016) [pdf]
112 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Making art with SSH key randomart
112 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written into Arctic Ice
111 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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The Old Robots
111 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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YubiKey comes to the iPhone with Mobile SDK for iOS and LastPass support
111 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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1958 Imperial: What It's Like to Drive an Auto-Pilot Car
111 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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What really happened to that melted NASA camera?
111 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?
111 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals
111 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Shadow DOM enabled in Firefox nightly
111 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Epigenetics: The Evolution Revolution
111 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Varieties of Argumentative Experience
111 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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How ‘Authentic Relating’ Made Vulnerability a Movement (2017)
110 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Our machine learning and NLP journey
110 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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A giant 360 LED clock
110 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Using Flywheel Batteries to Charge Electric Vehicles in Ten Minutes
110 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Haskell's Missing Concurrency Basics (2016)
110 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history
110 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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New Car: An Accessible Minivan
110 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Everest: A lightweight REST API client written in JavaFX
110 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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When the Compiler Bites
110 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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What is Software Engineering?
109 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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“The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot
109 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Mint-lang: a language for the front-end web
109 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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'Murdered' Journalist Is Alive and Well
109 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Lisp, Jazz, Aikido
109 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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California’s next bold step on climate should be building near transit
109 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Anatomy of an online misinformation network
109 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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SoftBank Will Invest $2.25B in Cruise
109 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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YouTube rolls out new tools to help you stop watching
108 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Google I/O 2018 codelabs
108 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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The Ulam Spiral of Primes (2010)
108 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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The YIMBYs lost in California but they’re just getting started
108 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom
108 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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People crave silence, yet are unnerved by it
108 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story
108 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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3D Face Reconstruction with Position Map Regression Networks
107 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Computing Partial Differential Equations with Water
107 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Sononym: Machine Learning Sample Organizer for Musicians
107 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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GCP opening a third zone in Singapore
107 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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GHC Parser Principles
107 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles
107 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
107 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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History of Symbolics Lisp Machines (2007)
107 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Parallel Index Scans in PostgreSQL
107 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Programming Language Theory in Agda
107 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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EC2 Instance Update – C5 Instances with Local NVMe Storage
106 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Show HN: I built a peer-to-peer publishing platform
106 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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California AG Files Extortion Charges Against MugShots.com
106 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Google Duplex will call salons, restaurants, and pretend to be human for you
106 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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NYC Renters Paid Extra $616M Thanks to Airbnb, Study Says
106 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)
106 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Empiricism and the limits of gradient descent
106 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Learning to Optimize Tensor Programs
105 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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How to Train and Build a Conversational News Chatbot
105 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Dungeons and Dragons: The revival of a 'geeky' pastime
105 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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New variety in the chip market, and trouble for Intel (2017)
105 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Tesla CEO Musk Says Company Is Flattening Management Structure in Reorganization
105 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Makita has made a sturdy coffee machine aimed at construction workers
105 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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A 1950s-Era New York Knife Law Has Landed Thousands in Jail
105 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Rick Toone, Luthier
105 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Boeing's folding wingtips get the FAA green light
104 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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The Sound of Madness
104 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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A simple mechanism could have been decisive for the development of life
104 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Regional Persistent Disks on Google Kubernetes Engine
104 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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The popular creation story of astronomy is wrong
104 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Google I/O'18: Keynote Livestream [video]
104 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
104 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Tesla that crashed in Autopilot mode sped up before hitting truck: police
104 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Alan Turing’s chemistry hypothesis turned into a desalination filter
104 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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Talos II Lite
104 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Katran: A high-performance layer 4 load balancer
104 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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The Last Days of Time Inc
104 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Ask HN: When is federation a better solution than decentralization?
103 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Show HN: Offline Object Detection and Tracking on a Raspberry Pi
103 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest
103 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'
103 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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GNU Mcron
103 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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Oni – Modern Modal Editing
103 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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The myth of ‘mad’ genius
103 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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'My £1,000 Macbook Air was stolen at airport security and no one cares'
103 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Tesla Executive Leaves for Waymo
103 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Facebook management moves around but people don’t leave
103 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Emergency room patients can face steep bills even when treatment is declined
103 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Why I'm leaving Open Source
102 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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“Cost of Living” pay for remote workers is BS
102 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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TensorFlow: Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (2015) [pdf]
102 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
102 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
102 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Europe Takes First Steps in Electrifying World’s Shipping Fleets
102 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines (1995)
102 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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How a “location API” allows cops to figure out where we all are in real-time
102 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Notes on Nationalism (1945)
101 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Vuetube – Video resources that will help you to improve your Vue skills
101 points • comment • may 28, 2018