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Hacker News (May 2018)
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What's Up with All These Viral Illusions?
75 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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A venture fund's experiment in human-free investing
75 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Free Ethereum spam bots are ravaging Twitter
75 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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MIT Autonomous Vehicle Technology Study
75 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need?
75 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Signal-desktop HTML tag injection advisory
75 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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DSLs for Ethereum Contracts
75 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Learning Nix by Example: Building FFmpeg 4.0
74 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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How Many Objects Can Be Juggled (1997)
74 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Tech conferences moving north as Trump policies turn off attendees
74 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Copyright law hides work like Zora Neale Hurston's newly published first book
74 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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The spectacular power of Big Lens
74 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Why NASA's Next Mars Lander Will Launch from California Instead of Florida
74 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Abusing Proxies for DSLs
74 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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ls | grep “echo ${data}” – Why/how does this work?
74 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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The Problem with Threads (2006) [pdf]
74 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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XKCD on Docker
74 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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OpenStreetCam sign detection code and training data open sourced
74 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Intel's First 10nm Cannon Lake CPU Confirmed
74 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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NFL Releases Finite Element Helmet Models
74 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Pulling the Plug on GeForce Partner Program
74 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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The Many Uses of Org Mode
74 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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A Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in the Steam Client
73 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Publish everything you write (pretty much)
73 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption
73 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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The new Google News: AI meets human intelligence
73 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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In Defense of Puns
73 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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What to do with a screaming baby: the history of handbooks on motherhood
73 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Robert N. Hall, whose discoveries led to microwave ovens, died in 2016
73 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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OpenBSD's httpd gets URL rewrite
73 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Windows 10 1803 Update Failure
73 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Building a YouTube MP3 Downloader with Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda
73 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Hosting your static site with AWS S3, Route 53, and CloudFront for free
72 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Kroger acquires Home Chef for $200M
72 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Sweden distributes 'be prepared for war' leaflet to all 4.8m homes
72 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Scanner: Processing Terabytes of Video on Hundreds of Machines
72 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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TCP and BBR [pdf]
72 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Announcing the release of Fedora 28
72 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself
72 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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A woman’s brain stimulator stopped working after her home struck by lightning
72 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Show HN: JavaScript/WebGL webcam face swap with color correction
72 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Fieldbook is shutting down
72 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker
72 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Malware Wallet ‘Electrum Pro’ Stealing Seed Keys
72 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul
72 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Design for an Audience
72 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Announcing Fuse Open
72 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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2FA Notifier – Know when a site supports 2FA
72 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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On the Detection of Kernel-Level Rootkits Using Hardware Performance Counters [pdf]
72 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Big Integers in Zig
71 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Homespring – A Metaphor Oriented Programming Language
71 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Cheesemaking tips from the ancients
71 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Google Grapples with ‘Horrifying’ Reaction to Uncanny AI Tech
71 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Announcing CERT Tapioca 2.0 for Network Traffic Analysis
71 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Unlocking the Business Secrets of Escape Rooms
71 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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Arecibo message
71 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Unfortunately.tech – a collection of rejection letters
71 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Parallel Programming in Futhark
71 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Ask HN: Has it become harder for Canadians to get work in the US on a TN visa?
71 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Show HN: Anon – A Unix Command to Anonymise Data
71 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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The Best Fix for American Drug Prices Is Already on the Books
71 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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How a Medieval Society Withstood Nearly 60 Years of Drought
71 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Kenyans will soon need a license to post videos online
70 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Edmunds Tesla Model 3 Long-Term Road Test Update for April
70 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Why Entrepreneurship Programs for Engineers Fail
70 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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HashLife: An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time (2006)
70 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Before Kubrick Wrote Scripts, He Took Photos
70 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Writing self-documenting Swift code
70 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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1976 letter from Silicon Valley exec calls Steve Jobs 'flaky' and a 'joker'
70 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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How long would it take to create a Windows 1.0 capable machine from scratch?
70 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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The Medieval Mindset (2017)
70 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Tesla’s Engineering Chief Takes Leave of Absence at Pivotal Moment
70 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Disabling Callkit for China Apps
70 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Network
70 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Ask HN: What’s helpes you build a successful SaaS business?
70 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Angr – User-friendly binary analysis platform
70 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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CPAP: Back-up power and battery systems for travel
70 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Henrietta Lacks' Lasting Impact Detailed in New Portrait
69 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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EU parliaments website in violation of GDPR
69 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Postmortem Analysis of Dead Sonoff TH16 Wireless Switch
69 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Tech Industry Really Needs Professors and Teaching Talent
69 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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America is losing the battle against robocalls
69 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Why I think using sha256crypt or sha512crypt is dangerous
69 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Developing HTTPS Services in Node with Self-Signed Certificates
69 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Large Tesla Powerpack project quietly deployed at new solar project in Arizona
69 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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The Most Beautiful Piece of Code That Prints 42
69 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Three Decades Later, Mystery Numbers Explained
69 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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LA has passed new restrictions on sleeping in cars and RVs
69 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Differentiable Programming: A Semantics Perspective
69 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Authenticated Data Structures Generically
68 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch (2017)
68 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Command Line and Windows Subsystem for Linux – The Windows 10 April Update
68 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Ask HN: Is WebDav still relevant?
68 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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The Basic Sourdough
68 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Debugging Lisp Part 1: Recompilation (2015)
68 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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The Giant Planets in the Solar System Stunted the Growth of Mars
68 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Someone Has Infected at Least 500,000 Routers All Over the World
68 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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The Philip Cross Affair
68 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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1,000 True Fans (2008)
68 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Introduction to the Pony programming language
68 points • comment • may 31, 2018