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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. How the Manhattan Project’s Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret

    91 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  2. Show HN: Jackal – XMPP server in Go

    91 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  3. Fuck You Startup World

    90 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  4. NetBSD: a new version of the CDDL dtrace and ZFS code

    90 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  5. Document Liberation Project

    90 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  6. In Silicon Valley, Chinese 'accelerators' aim to bring startups home

    90 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  7. Life as a stepmother

    90 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  8. The Question of Quantum Supremacy

    90 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  9. The relationship between humans and parrots can be surprisingly profound

    90 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  10. Start colon cancer screening at 45, not 50, American Cancer Society urges

    89 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  11. Papua New Guinea bans Facebook for a month to root out 'fake users'

    89 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  12. Responses to strftime and %G

    89 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  13. Show HN: Corral – A Serverless MapReduce Framework

    89 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  14. FlureeDB, a Practical Decentralized Database (2017) [pdf]

    89 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  15. Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled from Go

    89 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  16. What Astronomers Are Learning from Gaia’s New Milky Way Map

    89 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  17. Tor: 1100 relays still run end-of-life tor versions

    88 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  18. Xi-Editor – Modern editor with Rust back end

    88 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  19. An FPGA-based In-line Accelerator for Memcached (2013) [pdf]

    88 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  20. Ask HN: What keeps you going?

    88 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  21. Traditional TV Is in Trouble

    88 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  22. AquilaOS: Posix Compliant/mostly ISA Transparent Operating System

    88 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  23. US Digital Currency

    88 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  24. Bach at the Burger King

    88 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  25. In ‘Elastic,’ a Physicist Argues That the Mind Needs Time to Play

    88 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  26. Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

    88 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  27. Snowflake to Avalanche: A Novel Metastable Consensus Protocol Family for Crypto

    87 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  28. Anyone could download Cambridge researchers’ 4M user Facebook data set for years

    87 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  29. Drone Pilots’ Pay is Dropping

    87 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  30. Semantic Compression

    87 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  31. The Micronesian island of Yap has stone money too heavy to move

    87 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  32. How Britain’s First Mission to China Went Wrong

    87 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  33. The birthrate in the U.S. is the lowest it’s been in 30 years

    87 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  34. Sleeping in on the weekends might prevent an early death

    87 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  35. Guide to Data Classes in Python 3.7

    87 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  36. Psychopathy to Altruism: Neurobiology of the Selfish–Selfless Spectrum

    87 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  37. Pluralization rules around the world

    86 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  38. A Slower Speed of Light (2012)

    86 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  39. The Peter Principle Isn't Just Real, It's Costly

    86 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  40. Show HN: Refjar.com – bookmark links and fetch online discussions

    86 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  41. AI revives in-memory processors

    86 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  42. Facebook reportedly plans to launch its own cryptocurrency

    86 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  43. Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requests

    86 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  44. Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry

    86 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  45. Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems?

    86 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  46. The Cyber Security Body of Knowledge

    86 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  47. Post-Spectre Threat Model Re-Think

    86 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  48. The case for electric scooters

    86 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  49. Gardener: Manage Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers

    86 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  50. Show HN: Smooth UI, a React UI Library for Humans

    86 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  51. The Silence of the Bugs

    86 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  52. How Developers Use Dynamic Features of Programming Languages: Smalltalk [pdf]

    85 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  53. Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development?

    85 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  54. Is capitalism a threat to democracy?

    85 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  55. How to accelerate revenue for SaaS startups

    85 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  56. Sinking of the US Cargo Vessel El Faro: Illustrated digest [pdf]

    85 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  57. Vevo could have been ‘an existential threat’ to YouTube, but YouTube won

    85 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  58. The crypto alternative

    85 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  59. Sacred Retreats of California (2013)

    85 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  60. A new experiment hints at surprising hidden mechanics of quantum superpositions

    85 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  61. “There is, unfortunately, no such thing as a truly neutral stance on inclusion”

    85 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  62. Show HN: Bitbox.co – Cloud Storage for Developers

    85 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  63. Petition: Apple recall and replace defective Macbook Pro keyboard design

    85 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  64. Show HN: When my builds fail I pay money to charity

    85 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  65. Show HN: Sucrase, 20x faster smaller-scoped alternative to Babel

    84 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  66. MrWint's GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version “Arbitrary Code Execution” (2017)

    84 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  67. What Write Skew Looks Like

    84 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  68. Apple Rejects Valve's Steam Link App Due to 'Business Conflicts'

    84 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  69. Tesla is hit by $2B patent troll case from Nikola Motors

    84 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  70. Decisions can be tough when you have chronic pain

    84 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  71. React 16.4 release notes (pointer events)

    84 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  72. GDPR Transparency and Consent Framework

    84 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  73. Underscore Pi (2017)

    84 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  74. Cosmos – The universe of algorithm and data structures

    84 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  75. Tesla is holding a hackathon to fix two robot bottlenecks in Model 3 production

    84 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  76. Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis

    83 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  77. Australian government proposes to limit cash payments for purchases to AUD$10K

    83 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  78. The Average Age and Years Served of Members of US Congress Every Year Since 1789

    83 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  79. Eul – The language

    83 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  80. Mounting partitions from a dd image

    83 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  81. When an implementation monoculture might be the right thing

    83 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  82. On “From Java to Kotlin and Back Again”

    83 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  83. SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network

    83 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  84. Process and Leverage in Fundraising

    83 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  85. Vigilante Hacks Government-Linked Cyberespionage Group

    83 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  86. Consider using Digital Mars C compiler

    83 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  87. Mandaeism

    83 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  88. Ask HN: Which VPN?

    83 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  89. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory issues “Red” aviation warning relating to Kīlauea

    83 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  90. A journey along the abandoned Karachi Circular Railway

    82 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  91. Veblen goods

    82 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  92. California Now World's 5th Largest Economy, Surpassing UK

    82 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  93. How Harvey Karp Turned Baby Sleep into Big Business

    82 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  94. PagerDuty makes their security training public

    82 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  95. Building a Progressive Web App in React, using Firestore for offline support

    82 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  96. Mainframes and Supercomputers, From the Beginning Till Today

    82 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  97. The American Housing Crisis Might Be Our Next Big Political Issue

    82 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  98. Findings from the Imagenet and CIFAR10 competitions

    82 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  99. Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox

    82 points • comment • may 30, 2018

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

    82 points • comment • may 14, 2018