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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. Predicting Stock Performance with Natural Language Deep Learning

    228 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  2. Amazon Froze My Account and I Still Don’t Know Why

    228 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  3. Windows gifski.exe with a digital signature

    228 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  4. Logo design trends of 2018

    227 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  5. Tearing apart printf()

    226 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  6. YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon

    226 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  7. Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?

    226 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  8. Birds had to relearn flight after meteor wiped out dinosaurs

    225 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  9. Facebook: Let Us Be Part of the Hearing

    225 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  10. Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

    225 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  11. Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks, even emotions

    225 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  12. Rust in production at Figma

    224 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  13. Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes

    224 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  14. US Employee in China Suffers Brain Injury in Case Recalling Cuba Sound 'Attack'

    223 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  15. Flopstarter: a platform for bad ideas

    223 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  16. MIT lecturer Ana Bell discusses books to learn CS and programming

    223 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  17. How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit

    222 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  18. The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix (2016) [pdf]

    222 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  19. How to Adopt Modern C++17 into Your C++ Code [video]

    222 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  20. Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

    222 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  21. Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Shipments

    221 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  22. Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands

    220 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  23. Free Music Archive

    220 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  24. Introducing Kepler.gl, an Open-Source Geospatial Toolbox

    220 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  25. Mozilla Fights for Net Neutrality This May (and Always)

    220 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  26. How Not to Negotiate a $6.1B Deal

    219 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  27. 12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income

    219 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  28. Emacs 26.1 released

    219 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  29. Ocean-going robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and science

    218 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  30. Zuckerberg set up fraudulent scheme to 'weaponise' data, court case alleges

    218 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  31. Reinforcement Learning – Bandit Problems

    217 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  32. Medieval trade networks

    217 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  33. Analog Devices AD9361 – when microchips are more profitable than drugs

    217 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  34. Chess boxing

    217 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  35. How to become a part-time programmer

    216 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  36. 'The Expanse' Canceled at Syfy

    216 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  37. WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free

    215 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  38. NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclear reactor

    214 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  39. Adding BigInts to V8

    214 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  40. My struggle to learn React

    214 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  41. Mozilla Global Sprint 2018

    214 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  42. The DisplayPort Pin 20 Problem

    214 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  43. Lobotomizing Gnome

    214 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  44. Mary Meeker Internet Trends Report 2018

    214 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  45. Zero-Overhead Tree Processing with the Visitor Pattern

    213 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  46. Great technology should improve life, not distract from it

    213 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  47. DNA of every baby born in California is stored. Who has access to it?

    213 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  48. Write Emails Faster with Smart Compose in Gmail

    213 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  49. Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy

    213 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  50. The Egg (2009)

    212 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  51. Did Google Fake Its Big A.I. Demo?

    212 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  52. Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010)

    211 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  53. The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver

    211 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  54. Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

    211 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  55. CS109 Data Science

    211 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  56. ‘My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels’ in Many Languages

    211 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  57. Binary SMS – The old backdoor to your new thing

    211 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  58. CS 189: Introduction to Machine Learning

    210 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  59. 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense

    210 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  60. The HP-35: Consumer Electronics, an Origin Story

    210 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  61. Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

    209 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  62. Brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time

    209 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  63. Are My Friends Really My Friends?

    209 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  64. Architecture of a Database System (2007) [pdf]

    207 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  65. I wish mum's phone was never invented

    207 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  66. Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance

    206 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  67. The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10B of Bitcoin in Bunkers

    206 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  68. AsteroidOS – An open-source operating system for smartwatches

    206 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  69. Space Invaders from Scratch

    206 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  70. Interviews vs. auditions

    205 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  71. A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture

    204 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  72. How 2 M.T.A. Decisions Pushed the Subway into Crisis

    204 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  73. Learn cryptographic engineering by example

    204 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  74. Ask HN: Books you should have read when you start a career in SE / CS?

    204 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  75. The State of Cryptocurrency Mining

    203 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  76. A relatively simple Datalog engine

    203 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  77. Lawmakers move to block government from ordering digital back doors

    203 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  78. Rust Qt Binding Generator

    203 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  79. Ask HN: How to blog things I've learnt in graduate school?

    202 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  80. Glassdoor has been acquired by Recruit Holdings for $1.2B

    202 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  81. How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System

    201 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  82. Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder

    201 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  83. Microsoft is now worth more than Alphabet

    201 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  84. Letting go of the GPS to learn the art of natural navigation

    201 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  85. Jails are replacing visits with video calls–inmates and families hate it

    201 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  86. Odyssey – Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler

    201 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  87. The SpaceDrive Project – First Results on EMDrive and Mach-Effect Thrusters

    200 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  88. A few words on Doug Engelbart (2013)

    200 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  89. Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard [pdf]

    200 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  90. Evidence that drinking baking soda can promote an anti-inflammatory environment

    199 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  91. Recursive Common Table Expressions in Postgres

    199 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  92. Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers?

    199 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  93. Postgres 11 Beta 1 released

    199 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  94. Zuckerberg didn’t make any friends in Europe today

    198 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  95. Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity?

    198 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  96. All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election

    198 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  97. Cervus: A WebAssembly subsystem for Linux

    198 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  98. Proxy, a new JavaScript ES6 feature

    198 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  99. Google’s ML Kit makes it easy to add AI smarts to iOS and Android apps

    197 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  100. The end of Iridium flares?

    197 points • comment • may 22, 2018