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Hacker News (May 2018)
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How the Manhattan Project’s Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret
91 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Show HN: Jackal – XMPP server in Go
91 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Fuck You Startup World
90 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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NetBSD: a new version of the CDDL dtrace and ZFS code
90 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Document Liberation Project
90 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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In Silicon Valley, Chinese 'accelerators' aim to bring startups home
90 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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Life as a stepmother
90 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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The Question of Quantum Supremacy
90 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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The relationship between humans and parrots can be surprisingly profound
90 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Start colon cancer screening at 45, not 50, American Cancer Society urges
89 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Papua New Guinea bans Facebook for a month to root out 'fake users'
89 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Responses to strftime and %G
89 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Show HN: Corral – A Serverless MapReduce Framework
89 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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FlureeDB, a Practical Decentralized Database (2017) [pdf]
89 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled from Go
89 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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What Astronomers Are Learning from Gaia’s New Milky Way Map
89 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Tor: 1100 relays still run end-of-life tor versions
88 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Xi-Editor – Modern editor with Rust back end
88 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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An FPGA-based In-line Accelerator for Memcached (2013) [pdf]
88 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Ask HN: What keeps you going?
88 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Traditional TV Is in Trouble
88 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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AquilaOS: Posix Compliant/mostly ISA Transparent Operating System
88 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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US Digital Currency
88 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Bach at the Burger King
88 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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In ‘Elastic,’ a Physicist Argues That the Mind Needs Time to Play
88 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
88 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Snowflake to Avalanche: A Novel Metastable Consensus Protocol Family for Crypto
87 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Anyone could download Cambridge researchers’ 4M user Facebook data set for years
87 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Drone Pilots’ Pay is Dropping
87 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Semantic Compression
87 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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The Micronesian island of Yap has stone money too heavy to move
87 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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How Britain’s First Mission to China Went Wrong
87 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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The birthrate in the U.S. is the lowest it’s been in 30 years
87 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Sleeping in on the weekends might prevent an early death
87 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Guide to Data Classes in Python 3.7
87 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Psychopathy to Altruism: Neurobiology of the Selfish–Selfless Spectrum
87 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Pluralization rules around the world
86 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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A Slower Speed of Light (2012)
86 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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The Peter Principle Isn't Just Real, It's Costly
86 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Show HN: Refjar.com – bookmark links and fetch online discussions
86 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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AI revives in-memory processors
86 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Facebook reportedly plans to launch its own cryptocurrency
86 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requests
86 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry
86 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems?
86 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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The Cyber Security Body of Knowledge
86 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Post-Spectre Threat Model Re-Think
86 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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The case for electric scooters
86 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Gardener: Manage Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers
86 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Show HN: Smooth UI, a React UI Library for Humans
86 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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The Silence of the Bugs
86 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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How Developers Use Dynamic Features of Programming Languages: Smalltalk [pdf]
85 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development?
85 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Is capitalism a threat to democracy?
85 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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How to accelerate revenue for SaaS startups
85 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Sinking of the US Cargo Vessel El Faro: Illustrated digest [pdf]
85 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Vevo could have been ‘an existential threat’ to YouTube, but YouTube won
85 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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The crypto alternative
85 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Sacred Retreats of California (2013)
85 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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A new experiment hints at surprising hidden mechanics of quantum superpositions
85 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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“There is, unfortunately, no such thing as a truly neutral stance on inclusion”
85 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Show HN: Bitbox.co – Cloud Storage for Developers
85 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Petition: Apple recall and replace defective Macbook Pro keyboard design
85 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Show HN: When my builds fail I pay money to charity
85 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Show HN: Sucrase, 20x faster smaller-scoped alternative to Babel
84 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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MrWint's GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version “Arbitrary Code Execution” (2017)
84 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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What Write Skew Looks Like
84 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Apple Rejects Valve's Steam Link App Due to 'Business Conflicts'
84 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Tesla is hit by $2B patent troll case from Nikola Motors
84 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Decisions can be tough when you have chronic pain
84 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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React 16.4 release notes (pointer events)
84 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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GDPR Transparency and Consent Framework
84 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Underscore Pi (2017)
84 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Cosmos – The universe of algorithm and data structures
84 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Tesla is holding a hackathon to fix two robot bottlenecks in Model 3 production
84 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis
83 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Australian government proposes to limit cash payments for purchases to AUD$10K
83 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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The Average Age and Years Served of Members of US Congress Every Year Since 1789
83 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Eul – The language
83 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Mounting partitions from a dd image
83 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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When an implementation monoculture might be the right thing
83 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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On “From Java to Kotlin and Back Again”
83 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network
83 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Process and Leverage in Fundraising
83 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Vigilante Hacks Government-Linked Cyberespionage Group
83 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Consider using Digital Mars C compiler
83 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Mandaeism
83 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Ask HN: Which VPN?
83 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Hawaiian Volcano Observatory issues “Red” aviation warning relating to Kīlauea
83 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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A journey along the abandoned Karachi Circular Railway
82 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Veblen goods
82 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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California Now World's 5th Largest Economy, Surpassing UK
82 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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How Harvey Karp Turned Baby Sleep into Big Business
82 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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PagerDuty makes their security training public
82 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Building a Progressive Web App in React, using Firestore for offline support
82 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Mainframes and Supercomputers, From the Beginning Till Today
82 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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The American Housing Crisis Might Be Our Next Big Political Issue
82 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Findings from the Imagenet and CIFAR10 competitions
82 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox
82 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
82 points • comment • may 14, 2018