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Hacker News (May 2018)
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Rust at CloudFlare
267 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Cloud Memorystore: A fully managed in-memory data store service for Redis
267 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Self-criticism can take a toll on our minds and bodies
266 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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International Obfuscated C Code Contest – 2018 Winning Entries
266 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Man donated blood every week for 60 years and helped save 2.4M babies
266 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Netflix is now worth more than Comcast
265 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings
265 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Vermont will cover $10K of expenses for people who move there and work remotely
264 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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A Year Using Matrix and Riot
264 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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California Supreme Court Transforms the Test for Who Is an Employee
264 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Devices Which Track Cellphones, Intercept Calls Found All Over DC, MD, VA
263 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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Disney, please sell the rights to Monkey Island back to its creator Ron Gilbert
263 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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The TSA has a watch list of people who present “challenges” to screening
262 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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The Engineer vs. the Border Patrol
262 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Ghostery exposed everyone's email address in its GDPR email by not using BCC
261 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Lessons from My Math Degree That Have Nothing to Do with Math
261 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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A puzzle that tiles infinitely across both sides, based on the Klein Bottle
260 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Ask HN: Amazon software engineers, how is the work culture now?
260 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Facebook now denying access unless EU users opt-in to tracking
259 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating
259 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
259 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Oracle plans to dump risky Java serialization
259 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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The Erlang Runtime System
258 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate Books by Accident
258 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Prices for dried coffee husks are outstripping those for beans
258 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Introducing Surface Hub 2
258 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Statistics, Fast and Slow
258 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Ask HN: How to become a remote contractor?
257 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Progress – A Tool to Monitor Progress for Commands in Linux (2016)
257 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Perceived Physical Activity and Mortality: Study
256 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Is K8s Too Complicated? 
255 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store solar and wind energy
254 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Tesla in autopilot mode crashes into parked Laguna Beach police cruiser
254 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Earth-Moon Fire Pole
254 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Show HN: Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals
254 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Fridge 0.1
254 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)
254 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Tiny Trains: Neat Narrow-Gauge Rail Connects German Island to Mainland
254 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Apps for which macOS applies compatibillity fixes
253 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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FCC fines robocaller record $120M
253 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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So Your Startup Received the Nightmare GDPR Letter
253 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Mussels test positive for opioids in Seattle's Puget Sound
253 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]
253 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
252 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Why the Luddites Matter
252 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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PicoLisp
251 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Instapaper is temporarily shutting off access for European users due to GDPR
250 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation
249 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Steve Jobs at MIT Sloan School of Management (1992) [video]
249 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Announcing .NET Core 2.1
249 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Self-Awareness for Introverts [pdf]
249 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April
247 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident
247 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Stopping the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career (2016)
246 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo
246 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years
245 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Oculus Go
244 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Show HN: Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch
244 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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“But didn't you write an embedded OS?”
244 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum
244 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Google's Plan to Make Tech Less Addictive
244 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ring 0
243 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Foundations of Data Science [pdf]
243 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Philip Roth has died
243 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Stack Overflow for Teams
243 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL
242 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Unifying Theories of Psychedelic Drug Effects
242 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Tech’s Two Philosophies
241 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Core Erlang by Example
240 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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On Cumulative Advantage and How to Think About Luck
240 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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When FFI Function Calls Beat Native C
240 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Ask HN: How is DDoS protection implemented?
240 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time
239 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86
239 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Has wine gone bad?
239 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Pure CSS Francine
239 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Opening of Romeo and Juliet Recited in the Accent of Shakespeare’s Time [video]
239 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Senator requests better https compliance at US Department of Defense [pdf]
239 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Impact – HTML5 Game Engine
238 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available
238 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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How to send local files to Chromecast with Python
237 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
237 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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SQLite Query Language: upsert
236 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery
235 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Finding the longest straight line you could sail without hitting land
235 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ stress power grids in Central Washington
234 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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America has a truck driver shortage
234 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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GCC 8.1 Released
234 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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The Zen of Erlang (2016)
234 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Ask HN: Looking to branch out into remote work, how to start
233 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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CSCI E-23a: Introduction to Game Development
233 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Working Lego pinball machine built from 15,000 bricks
231 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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ClassicKit – A collection of UI components for iOS influenced by Windows 95
231 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight
231 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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The Psychology of Japanese Train Stations
231 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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ReasonML – React as first intended
229 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy
229 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Book recommendation: Measure what matters
229 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers
229 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning
228 points • comment • may 30, 2018