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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. Loot boxes are obviously gambling

    173 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  2. Shell Magic: Set Operations with uniq

    172 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  3. Middle name initials enhance evaluations of intellectual performance (2014)

    172 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  4. Ask HN: "Creative" ways to handle abusive http traffic?

    172 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  5. Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts

    172 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  6. Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping

    172 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  7. Tesla reviewing contractors, firing everyone not vouched for by an employee

    172 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  8. ML Beyond Curve Fitting: An Intro to Causal Inference and Do-Calculus

    172 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  9. Google admits brainteasers were useless for hiring (2013)

    171 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  10. Introducing Thanos: Prometheus at Scale

    171 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  11. The path that the decimal number system took from India to medieval Europe

    171 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  12. Invisible asymptotes

    171 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  13. Counting Bees on a Raspberry Pi with a ConvNet

    171 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  14. High-quality schools can increase academic achievement among the poor (2010)

    171 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  15. Apple is a traditional business

    171 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  16. NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Able to Drill Holes into Rocks Again

    171 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  17. Meta Crush Saga: a C++17 compile-time game

    170 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  18. Pipe Logic (2011)

    170 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  19. You don’t actually need a co-founder (2016)

    170 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  20. Ask HN: Any good collaboratively built documentation on good parenting?

    169 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  21. Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

    169 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  22. Examples of marketing tactics

    169 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  23. The world split into 7 equal areas of population

    169 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  24. Google 'stole my videos', says film-maker Philip Bloom

    169 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  25. Modern CMake short tutorial and best practice

    169 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  26. Technical Writing: Learning from Kernighan

    169 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  27. Show HN: LayerJS – A simple UI composition and navigation library

    169 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  28. GPU-equipped Ryzen Pros give AMD what it needs to conquer the corporate desktop

    168 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  29. The extraordinary life and death of the world’s oldest known spider

    168 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  30. Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll

    168 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  31. New autoplay policy in Chrome

    168 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  32. IBM bans USB, SD cards, flash drives and portable devices from every office

    168 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  33. Verizon AS701 blocking Tor consensus server tor26 (86.59.21.38)

    168 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  34. Continuous Domain Game of Life in Python with Numpy

    168 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  35. What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates

    168 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  36. My OTP 21 Highlights

    167 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  37. Version 6 of Angular Now Available

    167 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  38. Mecanum wheel

    167 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  39. Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from swapping schools (2017)

    167 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  40. Painting made out of CSS rules

    167 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  41. Show HN: I built an open source event-management system

    167 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  42. A tool that lets you hear both Yanny and Laurel

    166 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  43. People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses

    166 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  44. Michael Pollan reluctantly embraces the 'new science' of psychedelics

    166 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  45. The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers

    166 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  46. Asylo: an open-source framework for confidential computing

    166 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  47. Mindfulness may have been over-hyped

    165 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  48. Bitsavers

    165 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  49. Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim

    164 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  50. Material UI v1 for React is out

    164 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  51. Unexploded Ordnance found in Server Room

    164 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  52. Ask HN: What are the biggest challenges preventing startups from hiring remote?

    164 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  53. Sublime Text 3.1 Released

    164 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  54. UIs that accidentally preserve memories

    163 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  55. Boeing 747s are back in demand as workhorses of global shipping

    163 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  56. US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further Below Replacement Level

    163 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  57. Redis 5.0 RC1 is out

    162 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  58. FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

    162 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  59. How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer

    162 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  60. Emissions of banned, ozone-depleting chemical CFC-11 have climbed 25% since 2012

    162 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  61. Digital Photocopiers Loaded with Secrets (2010)

    162 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  62. How to Find Investors and Get Email Intros

    161 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  63. Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (2014)

    161 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  64. To Yarn and Back to Npm Again

    161 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  65. Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields (2015)

    161 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  66. Leveraging the type system to avoid mistakes

    161 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  67. Lawyers Send Mobile Ads To Phones In ER Waiting Rooms

    160 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  68. Big tech products are mostly useless

    160 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  69. Coinbase acquires decentralized cryptocurrency trading platform Paradex

    160 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  70. Bloom Programming Language

    160 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  71. About ZFS Performance

    159 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  72. React in Patterns

    159 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  73. Void Linux project leader has disappeared

    159 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  74. Free SSL on Github Pages with a custom domain: Part 2 – Let's Encrypt

    159 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  75. Evidence of regulatory capture of patent examiners

    159 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  76. Open-Sourcing our GDPR Compliance Preparation For Articles 30, 32, and 35

    158 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  77. Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones

    158 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  78. The Markov Property, Chain, Reward Process and Decision Process

    158 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  79. The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?

    158 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  80. Vermont passes first law to crack down on data brokers

    157 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  81. Troubled Times for Alternatives to Einstein’s Theory of Gravity

    157 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  82. How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google

    157 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  83. What SSH Hacking Attempts Look Like

    157 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  84. Roadmap for CoreOS Integration with Red Hat OpenShift

    157 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  85. GDPR Hall of Shame

    157 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  86. How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service

    157 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  87. U.S. Army, Uber sign research agreement

    157 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  88. Drones that can haul a 20-pound load for 500 miles and land on a moving target

    157 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  89. Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS

    157 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  90. Illnesses from Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites Increasing in the US

    156 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  91. Imgur launches video

    156 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  92. A Universal Law of Procrastination (2016)

    156 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  93. Signed Integers Are Two’s Complement

    156 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  94. Letting neural networks be weird

    156 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  95. Build2, a Cargo-like dependency and build manager for C/C++

    156 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  96. The GDPR blog post

    156 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  97. Airbnb's new typeface

    156 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  98. Why Men Love War (1984)

    156 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  99. Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS

    156 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  100. China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry

    156 points • comment • may 06, 2018