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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. No, PGP is not broken, not even with the Efail vulnerabilities

    197 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  2. The end of Iridium flares?

    197 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  3. Terry Gilliam on his techniques for Monty Python animations (2014)

    196 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  4. Say yes to the progressive web

    196 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  5. Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or Discrete Form?

    196 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  6. Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses

    195 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  7. Full Guide to Developing REST API’s with AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda

    195 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  8. Eshell as a main shell

    195 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  9. I was a corporate restaurant consultant

    195 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  10. Show HN: A raytracer to shade topographic maps in R

    195 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  11. One-Of-a-Kind Private Train Takes on Florida’s Traffic Nightmare

    194 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  12. Finland offers free online Artificial Intelligence course to anyone, anywhere

    194 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  13. Finland's cities are havens for library lovers

    193 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  14. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney

    193 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  15. China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips

    193 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  16. Facebook photo-scanning lawsuit could cost it billions

    193 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  17. The Internals of Postgres – Concurrency Control

    192 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  18. Event Sourcing made Simple

    191 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  19. Gödel and the unreality of time

    191 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  20. DeepMind: From Generative Models to Generative Agents [video]

    191 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  21. Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in adults admitted to psychiatric hospital

    190 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  22. All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (2011)

    189 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  23. Lyme Disease Is on the Rise Again

    189 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  24. The Jaguar Is Made for the Age of Humans

    189 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  25. Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack

    188 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  26. Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GA

    188 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  27. Pwned Passwords in Practice: Real World Examples of Blocking the Worst Passwords

    188 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  28. Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

    188 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  29. Penniless Yogi Baba Ramdev Controls a Billion-Dollar Corporation

    188 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  30. True cost of email: We only get 1h 12min/day of uninterrupted productive time

    188 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  31. Show HN: Morning Cup of Coding – A curated newsletter of programming articles

    187 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  32. The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016)

    187 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  33. Open source tutorial for Hackintosh installation

    187 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  34. NetBSD Network Security Audit

    187 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  35. How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US

    186 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  36. It’s COBOL all the way down

    186 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  37. What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job

    186 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  38. Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Enterprise Software Again

    185 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  39. Show HN: Vuido builds desktop apps using Vue.js without Electron

    185 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  40. Excel Adds JavaScript and Power BI Support

    185 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  41. New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood”

    184 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  42. The Complete History of Lemmings (2006)

    184 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  43. Digital Capitalism’s War on Leisure

    184 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  44. Uber Eliminates Forced Arbitration for Sexual Misconduct Claims

    184 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  45. Ascii Art Generator

    184 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  46. From Java to Kotlin and Back Again

    184 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  47. PostgreSQL's fsync surprise

    183 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  48. An Analysis of vgo

    183 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  49. The Language of the Roman Empire

    183 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  50. Speculative execution, variant 4: speculative store bypass

    183 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  51. Why it's hard to answer “when to raise a series A”

    182 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  52. Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

    182 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  53. Learning to See in the Dark

    181 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  54. To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock must grow 50% in 20 years

    181 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  55. China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, closes $620M round

    181 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  56. Against Facebook

    181 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  57. Top Mistakes and Learnings from My Startup: Postmortem Samsamia

    181 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  58. Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts

    181 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  59. Noteplan – Markdown Calendar, Todos, and Notes

    180 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  60. Linux RNG flaws

    180 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  61. Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefits of Fasting

    180 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  62. A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

    180 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  63. APL deserves its renaissance too

    180 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  64. The Cutting Room Floor: Unearthing Unused Content from Video Games

    180 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  65. Japan's most valuable startup aims to teach factory robots to think

    180 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  66. Launch HN: Dharma (YC S17) an open protocol for borrowing/lending cryptoassets

    180 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  67. Show HN: NimForum – A lightweight alternative to Discourse

    180 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  68. Apple iMac Pro and Secure Storage

    180 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  69. My favorite principle for code quality

    179 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  70. NASA advisers say SpaceX rocket technology could put lives at risk

    179 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  71. Is it worth supporting Firefox?

    179 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  72. Curb Cuts

    179 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  73. Comcast is leaking the names and passwords of customers’ wireless routers

    179 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  74. Snap Inc. presents Yellow – An investment and mentorship program in LA

    179 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  75. $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts

    179 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  76. The Cult of the Root Cause

    179 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  77. Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers [pdf]

    178 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  78. Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods

    178 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  79. Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (2015)

    178 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  80. As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake

    178 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  81. Bose's Awesome 'Magic Carpet' Suspension Is Making Production at Last

    178 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  82. Open Source Calculator Teaches Us about Quality Documentation

    177 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  83. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research

    176 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  84. California Eyes Data Privacy Measure

    176 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  85. Doug Engelbart's advice to a young software developer [video]

    176 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  86. Civ 5 AI battle – All 43 Civs on same map [video]

    176 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  87. Toshiba’s loss of star engineer tells tale of company's decline

    176 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  88. Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial

    176 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  89. Intel AI open-sources library for deep learning-driven NLP

    175 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  90. Is Prefix of String in Table? a Journey into SIMD String Processing

    175 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  91. Don't Get Your Coworker to Agree with You

    175 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  92. PS4-5.05-Kernel-Exploit: A fully implemented kernel exploit for the PS4

    175 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  93. Google de-emphasizes 'Don't Be Evil' motto in its code of conduct

    175 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  94. Space Is Full of Planets, and Most of Them Don't Even Have Stars

    175 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  95. Towards λ-calculus

    174 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  96. Learning Web Development? Skills to Make You Stand Out

    174 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  97. Loot boxes are obviously gambling

    173 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  98. Ask HN: Do I place the fan so that it blows air inwards or outwards?

    173 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  99. Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project

    173 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  100. The memory models that underlie programming languages (2016)

    173 points • comment • may 18, 2018