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Hacker News (May 2018)
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Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter
440 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime
439 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Never Write Your Own Database (2017)
437 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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What happens before main() is executed in C and why is it important?
434 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?
432 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
427 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
426 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90%
425 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal
425 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
424 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music
424 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’
423 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
423 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now
422 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
422 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1
422 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
421 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
421 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Things to know about the GDPR, Mozilla and Firefox
420 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2
420 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is picking up 'The Expanse'
418 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency
418 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud
414 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster (2014)
413 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Amazon Aurora Backtrack
413 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi
412 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Is there a fix for impostor syndrome?
411 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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I Got Catfished by a Candidate
411 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
411 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Telegram App Says Apple Is Blocking Updates Over Dispute with Russia
410 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
408 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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NSA encryption plan for ‘internet of things’ rejected by ISO
405 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Harvard Classics Book Download
405 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Discover dev – a daily digest of engineering blogs
403 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Firefox 60 released
403 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley
401 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2M
401 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution
399 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Cool Backgrounds
397 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Ask HN: How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?
395 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Launch HN: Necto (YC W18) – ISP Starter Kit
395 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 60
395 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices
394 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Man Allegedly Used Change of Address Form to Move UPS Headquarters
394 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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How to write efficient matrix multiplication
393 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Actix: a small, pragmatic, and fast Rust web framework
392 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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A new fast hash table in response to Google’s new fast hash table
390 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web
390 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS
389 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement
388 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Facebook is launching a dating feature
387 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (2015)
387 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Docker is a dangerous gamble
387 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard
385 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone
383 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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“Manager READMEs” from some tech companies
381 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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How to disappear from the internet
381 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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GDPR: Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe
380 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple
379 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram
375 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and browsers
374 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties
374 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Moving Fast and Securing Things
372 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Why Is Location Data No Longer Private?
371 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing our Kernel Bypass Work
370 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Diamonds Suck (2006)
370 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (1998)
365 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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The Various Kinds of IO – Blocking, Non-Blocking, Multiplexed and Async
365 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, According to SimilarWeb
364 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Side-channel attacking browsers through CSS3 features
363 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers
362 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
362 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?
362 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
362 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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The Senate has forced a vote to restore net neutrality
361 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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30 years later, QBasic is still the best
361 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements
360 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
359 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench
358 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU
357 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Android P
357 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Walmart will begin offering to subsidize college tuition for its U.S. workers
357 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
356 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues (2015)
354 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming
354 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Libui: a portable GUI library for C
351 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, netstat, etc
349 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day
349 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Playing battleships over BGP
347 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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AI and Compute
345 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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State-of-the-art text classification with universal language models
345 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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C Primer
344 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Every Ruler in Europe Every Year Since 400 BC
339 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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The United States of Japan
338 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store
337 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Thermal Paper Polaroid
337 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Tarballs, the ultimate container image format
336 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See Surveillance Risk
335 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar
334 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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7-Zip: From Uninitialized Memory to Remote Code Execution
333 points • comment • may 03, 2018