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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. What's Up with All These Viral Illusions?

    75 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  2. A venture fund's experiment in human-free investing

    75 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  3. Free Ethereum spam bots are ravaging Twitter

    75 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  4. MIT Autonomous Vehicle Technology Study

    75 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  5. In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need?

    75 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  6. Signal-desktop HTML tag injection advisory

    75 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  7. DSLs for Ethereum Contracts

    75 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  8. Learning Nix by Example: Building FFmpeg 4.0

    74 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  9. How Many Objects Can Be Juggled (1997)

    74 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  10. Tech conferences moving north as Trump policies turn off attendees

    74 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  11. Copyright law hides work like Zora Neale Hurston's newly published first book

    74 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  12. The spectacular power of Big Lens

    74 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  13. Why NASA's Next Mars Lander Will Launch from California Instead of Florida

    74 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  14. Abusing Proxies for DSLs

    74 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  15. ls | grep “echo ${data}” – Why/how does this work?

    74 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  16. The Problem with Threads (2006) [pdf]

    74 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  17. XKCD on Docker

    74 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  18. OpenStreetCam sign detection code and training data open sourced

    74 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  19. Intel's First 10nm Cannon Lake CPU Confirmed

    74 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  20. NFL Releases Finite Element Helmet Models

    74 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  21. Pulling the Plug on GeForce Partner Program

    74 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  22. The Many Uses of Org Mode

    74 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  23. A Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in the Steam Client

    73 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  24. Publish everything you write (pretty much)

    73 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  25. New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption

    73 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  26. The new Google News: AI meets human intelligence

    73 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  27. In Defense of Puns

    73 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  28. What to do with a screaming baby: the history of handbooks on motherhood

    73 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  29. Robert N. Hall, whose discoveries led to microwave ovens, died in 2016

    73 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  30. OpenBSD's httpd gets URL rewrite

    73 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  31. Windows 10 1803 Update Failure

    73 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  32. Building a YouTube MP3 Downloader with Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda

    73 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  33. Hosting your static site with AWS S3, Route 53, and CloudFront for free

    72 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  34. Kroger acquires Home Chef for $200M

    72 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  35. Sweden distributes 'be prepared for war' leaflet to all 4.8m homes

    72 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  36. Scanner: Processing Terabytes of Video on Hundreds of Machines

    72 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  37. TCP and BBR [pdf]

    72 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  38. Announcing the release of Fedora 28

    72 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  39. Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself

    72 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  40. A woman’s brain stimulator stopped working after her home struck by lightning

    72 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  41. Show HN: JavaScript/WebGL webcam face swap with color correction

    72 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  42. Fieldbook is shutting down

    72 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  43. Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker

    72 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  44. Malware Wallet ‘Electrum Pro’ Stealing Seed Keys

    72 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  45. As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul

    72 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  46. Design for an Audience

    72 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  47. Announcing Fuse Open

    72 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  48. 2FA Notifier – Know when a site supports 2FA

    72 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  49. On the Detection of Kernel-Level Rootkits Using Hardware Performance Counters [pdf]

    72 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  50. Big Integers in Zig

    71 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  51. Homespring – A Metaphor Oriented Programming Language

    71 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  52. Cheesemaking tips from the ancients

    71 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  53. Google Grapples with ‘Horrifying’ Reaction to Uncanny AI Tech

    71 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  54. Announcing CERT Tapioca 2.0 for Network Traffic Analysis

    71 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  55. Unlocking the Business Secrets of Escape Rooms

    71 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  56. Arecibo message

    71 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  57. Unfortunately.tech – a collection of rejection letters

    71 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  58. Parallel Programming in Futhark

    71 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  59. Ask HN: Has it become harder for Canadians to get work in the US on a TN visa?

    71 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  60. Show HN: Anon – A Unix Command to Anonymise Data

    71 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  61. The Best Fix for American Drug Prices Is Already on the Books

    71 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  62. How a Medieval Society Withstood Nearly 60 Years of Drought

    71 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  63. Kenyans will soon need a license to post videos online

    70 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  64. Edmunds Tesla Model 3 Long-Term Road Test Update for April

    70 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  65. Why Entrepreneurship Programs for Engineers Fail

    70 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  66. HashLife: An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time (2006)

    70 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  67. Before Kubrick Wrote Scripts, He Took Photos

    70 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  68. Writing self-documenting Swift code

    70 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  69. 1976 letter from Silicon Valley exec calls Steve Jobs 'flaky' and a 'joker'

    70 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  70. How long would it take to create a Windows 1.0 capable machine from scratch?

    70 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  71. The Medieval Mindset (2017)

    70 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  72. Tesla’s Engineering Chief Takes Leave of Absence at Pivotal Moment

    70 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  73. Disabling Callkit for China Apps

    70 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  74. The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Network

    70 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  75. Ask HN: What’s helpes you build a successful SaaS business?

    70 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  76. Angr – User-friendly binary analysis platform

    70 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  77. CPAP: Back-up power and battery systems for travel

    70 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  78. Henrietta Lacks' Lasting Impact Detailed in New Portrait

    69 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  79. EU parliaments website in violation of GDPR

    69 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  80. Postmortem Analysis of Dead Sonoff TH16 Wireless Switch

    69 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  81. Tech Industry Really Needs Professors and Teaching Talent

    69 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  82. America is losing the battle against robocalls

    69 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  83. Why I think using sha256crypt or sha512crypt is dangerous

    69 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  84. Developing HTTPS Services in Node with Self-Signed Certificates

    69 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  85. Large Tesla Powerpack project quietly deployed at new solar project in Arizona

    69 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  86. The Most Beautiful Piece of Code That Prints 42

    69 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  87. Three Decades Later, Mystery Numbers Explained

    69 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  88. LA has passed new restrictions on sleeping in cars and RVs

    69 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  89. Differentiable Programming: A Semantics Perspective

    69 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  90. Authenticated Data Structures Generically

    68 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  91. Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch (2017)

    68 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  92. Command Line and Windows Subsystem for Linux – The Windows 10 April Update

    68 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  93. Ask HN: Is WebDav still relevant?

    68 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  94. The Basic Sourdough

    68 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  95. Debugging Lisp Part 1: Recompilation (2015)

    68 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  96. The Giant Planets in the Solar System Stunted the Growth of Mars

    68 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  97. Someone Has Infected at Least 500,000 Routers All Over the World

    68 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  98. The Philip Cross Affair

    68 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  99. 1,000 True Fans (2008)

    68 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  100. Introduction to the Pony programming language

    68 points • comment • may 31, 2018