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Hacker News (May 2018)
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No, PGP is not broken, not even with the Efail vulnerabilities
197 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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The end of Iridium flares?
197 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Terry Gilliam on his techniques for Monty Python animations (2014)
196 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Say yes to the progressive web
196 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or Discrete Form?
196 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses
195 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Full Guide to Developing REST API’s with AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda
195 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Eshell as a main shell
195 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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I was a corporate restaurant consultant
195 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Show HN: A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R
195 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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One-Of-a-Kind Private Train Takes on Florida’s Traffic Nightmare
194 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Finland offers free online Artificial Intelligence course to anyone, anywhere
194 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Finland's cities are havens for library lovers
193 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney
193 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips
193 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Facebook photo-scanning lawsuit could cost it billions
193 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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The Internals of Postgres – Concurrency Control
192 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Event Sourcing made Simple
191 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Gödel and the unreality of time
191 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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DeepMind: From Generative Models to Generative Agents [video]
191 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in adults admitted to psychiatric hospital
190 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (2011)
189 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again
189 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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The Jaguar Is Made for the Age of Humans
189 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
188 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GA
188 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Pwned Passwords in Practice: Real World Examples of Blocking the Worst Passwords
188 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”
188 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Penniless Yogi Baba Ramdev Controls a Billion-Dollar Corporation
188 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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True cost of email: We only get 1h 12min/day of uninterrupted productive time
188 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Show HN: Morning Cup of Coding – A curated newsletter of programming articles
187 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016)
187 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Open source tutorial for Hackintosh installation
187 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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NetBSD Network Security Audit
187 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US
186 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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It’s COBOL all the way down
186 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job
186 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software Again
185 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Show HN: Vuido builds desktop apps using Vue.js without Electron
185 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Excel Adds JavaScript and Power BI Support
185 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood”
184 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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The Complete History of Lemmings (2006)
184 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Digital Capitalism’s War on Leisure
184 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Uber Eliminates Forced Arbitration for Sexual Misconduct Claims
184 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Ascii Art Generator
184 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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From Java to Kotlin and Back Again
184 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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PostgreSQL's fsync surprise
183 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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An Analysis of vgo
183 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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The Language of the Roman Empire
183 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Speculative execution, variant 4: speculative store bypass
183 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Why it's hard to answer “when to raise a series A”
182 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads
182 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Learning to See in the Dark
181 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock must grow 50% in 20 years
181 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, closes $620M round
181 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Against Facebook
181 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Top Mistakes and Learnings from My Startup: Postmortem Samsamia
181 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts
181 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Noteplan – Markdown Calendar, Todos, and Notes
180 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Linux RNG flaws
180 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefits of Fasting
180 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
180 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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APL deserves its renaissance too
180 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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The Cutting Room Floor: Unearthing Unused Content from Video Games
180 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Japan's most valuable startup aims to teach factory robots to think
180 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Launch HN: Dharma (YC S17) an open protocol for borrowing/lending cryptoassets
180 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Show HN: NimForum – A lightweight alternative to Discourse
180 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Apple iMac Pro and Secure Storage
180 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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My favorite principle for code quality
179 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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NASA advisers say SpaceX rocket technology could put lives at risk
179 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Is it worth supporting Firefox?
179 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Curb Cuts
179 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Comcast is leaking the names and passwords of customers’ wireless routers
179 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Snap Inc. presents Yellow – An investment and mentorship program in LA
179 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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$11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
179 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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The Cult of the Root Cause
179 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers [pdf]
178 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods
178 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (2015)
178 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake
178 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Bose's Awesome 'Magic Carpet' Suspension Is Making Production at Last
178 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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Open Source Calculator Teaches Us about Quality Documentation
177 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research
176 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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California Eyes Data Privacy Measure
176 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Doug Engelbart's advice to a young software developer [video]
176 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Civ 5 AI battle – All 43 Civs on same map [video]
176 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Toshiba’s loss of star engineer tells tale of company's decline
176 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial
176 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Intel AI open-sources library for deep learning-driven NLP
175 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Is Prefix of String in Table? a Journey into SIMD String Processing
175 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Don't Get Your Coworker to Agree with You
175 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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PS4-5.05-Kernel-Exploit: A fully implemented kernel exploit for the PS4
175 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Google de-emphasizes 'Don't Be Evil' motto in its code of conduct
175 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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Space Is Full of Planets, and Most of Them Don't Even Have Stars
175 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Towards λ-calculus
174 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Learning Web Development? Skills to Make You Stand Out
174 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Loot boxes are obviously gambling
173 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Ask HN: Do I place the fan so that it blows air inwards or outwards?
173 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project
173 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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The memory models that underlie programming languages (2016)
173 points • comment • may 18, 2018