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Hacker News (May 2018)
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‘Alexa’ has become a less popular baby name since Amazon launched Echo
22 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Vim 8.1 is available
22 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Life on the Poincaré Disk
22 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Show HN: Ip Man. Mac menu bar app displaying your IP
22 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Beastly Numbers (1996) [pdf]
22 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Show HN: I made wits.chat – A way to read everyday and share what you learned
22 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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At least 58 Palestinians killed and thousands injured by Israeli forces
22 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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200 people in cars, on bikes, on buses and light rail
22 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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How to Harden SSH with Identities and Certificates (2014)
22 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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U.S. safety agency (NHTSA) says 'did not assess' Tesla Autopilot effectiveness
22 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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The Wedding Sting (2015)
22 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Why Is Amazon's Generosity to a Seattle Homeless Shelter Such a Pain?
22 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Nanoscope: Method-Tracing Tool for Android
22 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Adobe to acquire Magento for $1.68B
22 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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I spent 16 months on this Bitcoin explainer. by Art of the Problem
22 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Google announces six new voices for Assistant at #IO18 – including John Legend
21 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Ask HN: What you watch to laugh?
21 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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You Need Deli Cups
21 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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The Deep Time of Walden Pond
21 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Reconfigurable Cache Architecture for Storage Systems with Online Workload
21 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps?
21 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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When the Movies Went West
21 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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E-recycling innovator is going to prison for trying to extend computers' lives
21 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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AMD Zen CPU Microcode Added to Linux-Firmware Tree, Bulldozer Updated – Phoronix
21 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR
21 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Microsoft’s meeting room of the future
21 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Free E-book: Distributed Systems Observability
21 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Comcast confirms plan to buy 21st Century Fox and control of Hulu
21 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Google's front for lobbying
21 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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No amount of alcohol, sausage or bacon is safe according to cancer experts
21 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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The End of Intelligence
21 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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Ask HN: Who is looking for help on their side project? (May 2018)
21 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Ask HN: What is the best online course to start learning python?
21 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Story-Oriented Programming
21 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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TIME’s Latest Cover Photo Is a Drone Photo of 958 Drones
21 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Show HN: Kitten – Tiny multi-server automation tool
21 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Butchers 'living in fear' as vegan attacks on the rise
21 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Crab crisis: Maryland seafood industry loses 40% of workforce in visa lottery
21 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Mike Meru Has $1M in Student Loans. How Did That Happen?
21 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Cross Entropy
21 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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“Scientists are leaving Amazon reviews and it's amazing”
21 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Is it really a Leonardo?
21 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Facebook charm offensive just turns into being offensive
21 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions (2016)
21 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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I found some COBOL. Last comment is from 1985. Written by my mother
21 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Ask HN: What skills would get me the best remote job?
20 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Satellite data suggests China and other authoritarian regimes are fudging GDP
20 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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A serious security vulnerability has been found in 7-Zip
20 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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75% Chrome traffic is now over HTTPS
20 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Don the Talking Dog
20 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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How I write Go HTTP services after seven years
20 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you reduce unsolicited phone calls?
20 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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The Effect of Ad Transparency on Ad Effectiveness
20 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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The 3-ladder system of social class in the U.S. (2012)
20 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Experience with Viruses on Unix systems (1989) [pdf]
20 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Firefox 63 set to block in-browser crypto-miners
20 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Even Privacy Advocates Are Tracking You Online
20 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Tech Breakthroughs That Could Make People Love the Bus
20 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Yippies vs. Zippies: New book reveals ’70s counterculture feud
20 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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CSV Schema Language – A Language for Defining and Validating CSV Data
20 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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How to Generate Free Wildcard SSL Certificates with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu
20 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Updating the Go Code of Conduct
20 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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The Gun-Law Loophole That Entices Tycoons and Criminals to Play Cop
20 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Ask HN: Is Signal down?
20 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Cities from the sea: the true cost of reclaimed land
20 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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NASA’s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster
20 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Ask HN: What has your experience with lesser-known TLDs been?
20 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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How I write Go HTTP services after 7 years
20 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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The World Wants More Camel Milk
20 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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How gender bias affects healthcare
20 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Releasing the Eudora Email Client Source Code
20 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Ask HN: What are all the “hacker news” sites for other disciplines?
20 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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Bill Gates: Trump twice asked me the difference between HIV and HPV
20 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Serverboards 18.04 Released
20 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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The contrast between Tesla and the rest of the auto industry is terrifying
20 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Glyphosate shown to disrupt microbiome 'at safe levels', study claims
20 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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I work in tech and quit the perfect job
20 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Intuition of Gradient Descent for Machine Learning
19 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Muons: the little-known particles helping to probe the impenetrable
19 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Show HN: CampTarget, road routing and planning helper
19 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Show HN: Instaaa 2.0 – Promote your business everywhere with a single click
19 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Coding bootcamp broke the law. How to get into tech?
19 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Open source's big German win: 300,000 users shift to Nextcloud for file sharing
19 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents
19 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Russian journalist faked his death to root out who was after him
19 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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UM Foundation invests tens of millions in offshore tax havens
19 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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[pdf] GDPR Complaint vs. Facebook
19 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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DynoRoot1111 (CVE-2018-1111)
19 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Show HN: Decoupled – A lightweight music player for iOS
19 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Life gets better after 50: why age tends to work in favour of happiness
19 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Ask HN: Client won't pay me my invoice and disputed Paypal payment 3 months ago
19 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Girls and Software
19 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Show HN: Klaro – open-source consent management for websites (GDPR and ePrivacy)
19 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Trump withdraws from Iran nuclear agreement
19 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Visiting Newton's Atelier before The Principia, 1679-1684
19 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Show HN: Avoid GDPR by blocking EU visitors
19 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Google Is Listing “Nazism” as the Ideology of the California Republican Party
19 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Show HN: S&P 500 Annualized Returns Fun Facts
19 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Tell HN: Free Online Cloud Computing Course from Carnegie Mellon
19 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Ask HN: How to explain being sole employee in job title?
19 points • comment • may 09, 2018