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Hacker News (May 2018)
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Show HN: Favicon Kit – get and embed Favicons from any web site (CDN and API)
54 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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How North Korean hackers became the world’s greatest bank robbers
54 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Star Performer Created a ‘Toxic Culture’ at Silicon Valley Community Foundation
54 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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GDPR
54 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Seattle now decade’s fastest-growing big city in the U.S.
54 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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A static binary rewriter that does not use heuristics
54 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Polygenic adaptation and convergent evolution in rainforest hunter-gatherers
54 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Show HN: Yet Another HN “Who's Hiring” Browser
54 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store
54 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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A Crash-Course in PHP Namespaces for WordPress Developers
54 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Ask HN: Work from home (WFH) setup
54 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Bitcoin estimated to use 0.5% of the world's electric energy by end of 2018
54 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Bloomberg: In an era of hyper-wealth, economy-class rich starts at $25M
54 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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20-week Study: Facial exercises help middle-aged appear more youthful
54 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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The US is running out of bombs – and it may soon struggle to make more
54 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Discussion if Google Fonts is GDPR compliant
54 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Learning Erlang as an Experienced Developer
53 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Carbon emissions from tourism are rising at an alarming rate
53 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Show HN: Ping.gy – An app to connect with people within 1km from you
53 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Who is Losing the Nile?
53 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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A megathread on breaking away from Google
53 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Show HN: A search engine that doesn't track you, where users vote for results
53 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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How Social Media Exploits Our Moral Emotions
53 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting?
53 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear case about who gets paid in class action lawsuits
53 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Show HN: Trailer Nite – Find something to watch tonight
53 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Show HN: I'm Creating a GitHub Repo Quality Bot
53 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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How to write your own BitTorrent client in Java by using Bt library
53 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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DSP Inside TI Radar Puts AI on Edge
53 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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A comparison of adaptive radix trees and hash tables [pdf]
53 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Limited airborne transmission of Ebola is ‘very likely,’ analysis says (2015)
53 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet
53 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Analysis vs Algebra predicts eating corn? (2010)
52 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Memo Life for You
52 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Facebook Locking Out GDPR Users Until They Consent
52 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Syfy has canceled the Expanse, but its producers want to find it a new home
52 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Compile Time Prevention of SQL-Injections in Rust
52 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Ask HN: Anyone using Nixos in production?
52 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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A plea for stability in the SciPy ecosystem
52 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Ariane chief seems frustrated with SpaceX for driving down launch costs
52 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python (2011)
52 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Backdoor injected to NPM express-cookies package
52 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Why we should all be using Windows 95
52 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Engineered Band Gap Pushes Graphene Closer to Displacing Silicon
52 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Ask HN: Is a React Native like approach to desktop apps better than Electron?
52 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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The Curse of Konzo
52 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Understand Journalism
52 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Ask HN: What makes you happy in life?
52 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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How Culture Molds Habits of Thought (2000)
52 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Faulty Logic: Debating won’t bring us closer to truth
52 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Was Cleopatra Beautiful? (1997)
51 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Facial recognition tech wrongly identified 2,000 people as potential criminals
51 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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The Big Lie of Venture Capital
51 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Three-body Gallery
51 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Startup Wants to Replace Cars and Subways with Elevated Pods
51 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Ask HN: What's it like to live in San Francisco?
51 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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One Cubit the More: Remembering J. Robert Oppenheimer
51 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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The ongoing bailout list of the financial system
51 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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Generative adversarial network in 70 lines of Julia
51 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Making of “Logon's run – 3D meets the aging bits”
51 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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The treadmill was invented as a prison rehabilitation device
51 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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Solar energy companies in California deploy batteries to homes to stablize grid
51 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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How can we be sure AI will behave? Perhaps by watching it argue with itself
51 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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What will happen when an ant falls from the Empire State Building
51 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Ask HN: Anyone interested in sharing our office space with us? Bangalore, India
51 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Show HN: Golimit – Ringpop-based distributed and decentralized rate limiter
51 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Ask HN: I think my company might be selling. What should I be doing to prepare?
51 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Show HN: SugarTeX – readable LaTeX language extension and transcompiler to LaTeX
50 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Minimal Responsive Grid System
50 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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The1975..com (very odd glitch)
50 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Birchbox reached a deal, but it will leave some investors with nothing
50 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Real-Time AI: Microsoft Announces Preview of Project Brainwave
50 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Hiding Information in Rendered Text
50 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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The meaning of the Vision Fund
50 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags?
50 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Sony introduces the DPT-CP1 digital paper tablet with a $600 price tag
50 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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30+ Machine Learning Resources
50 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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WhatsApp's CEO Is Suddenly Leaving Facebook. It Could Cost Him $1B
49 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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The Soon-To-Be-Extinct Embedded Software Engineer
49 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Cinematic rendering – an alternative to volume rendering for 3D CT (2016)
49 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Pranking My Roommate with Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads (2014)
49 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Activist Jailed for Facebook Posts; FBI Tracks Him as “Black Identity Extremist”
49 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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New York City Launches First Blockchain Initiatives
49 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Twenty-first century Victorians
49 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Backdoor in ssh-decorator package
49 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Bertrand Russell – Message to Future Generations (1959) [video]
49 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or Any EU Traffic Under GDPR
49 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Save the nuclear power plants that generate 50% of America’s clean electricity
49 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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NeTV2 – An open video development board
49 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Why Nora Vasconcellos is the future of skateboarding
49 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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What GDPR means for your app or side project
49 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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The baby formula crime ring
49 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Show HN: Minimal Fibers
49 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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The Mgmt configuration management language
48 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum
48 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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How will the GDPR impact machine learning?
48 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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The Silent Type: On Ulysses S. Grant
48 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Peter Thiel and Palantir Are at the Heart of the Iran Nuclear Deal
48 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Australians will no longer be able to order from Amazon’s American site
48 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Traders with Pockets Full of Crypto Quit Wall Street
48 points • comment • may 30, 2018