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Hacker News (May 2018)

  1. What Sucks About Erlang (2008)

    140 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  2. Ocean waves play greater role in trapping CO2 than previously understood

    140 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  3. Why Do Americans Stay When Their Town Has No Future?

    140 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  4. Al Jazeera open-sources InterviewJS, turns interviews into interactive chats

    140 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  5. Stock-trading app Robinhood was rejected by 75 investors

    140 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  6. Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life?

    140 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  7. No Thanks, Google. I'll Speak for Myself

    140 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  8. “We didn't chase the fad of using every Intel CPU feature”

    139 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  9. Code to joy: learning to code in middle age

    139 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  10. Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016)

    139 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  11. Archive of Operating Systems

    139 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  12. China’s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares

    139 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  13. Diamonds Are Bullshit

    139 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  14. Ten Years of Vim

    138 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  15. Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices

    138 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  16. Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors

    138 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  17. How I used a Google query to mine passwords from dozens of public Trello boards

    138 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  18. Buses Need Our Love More Than Ever

    138 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  19. Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google [pdf]

    138 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  20. Adobe to Acquire Magento

    138 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  21. Don't let Google take over Berlin

    138 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  22. Power Laws and Rich-Get-Richer Phenomena (2010) [pdf]

    138 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  23. The History of the Philips CD-I, Failed PlayStation Ancestor

    138 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  24. Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil

    137 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  25. Machine Learning for .NET

    137 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  26. How a Newspaper Dies

    137 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  27. Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology

    137 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  28. My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed

    137 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  29. A world hidden 30m below Budapest

    137 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  30. The Verge Hack, Explained

    137 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  31. Google announces a new generation for its TPU machine learning hardware

    137 points • comment • may 08, 2018

  32. Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte

    136 points • comment • may 16, 2018

  33. One parameter is always enough [pdf]

    136 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  34. Python as a declarative programming language (2017)

    136 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  35. NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction

    136 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  36. Show HN: Chromely – Lightweight Alternative to Electron for .NET and .NET Core

    136 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  37. Comparing the C FFI overhead in various programming languages

    136 points • comment • may 26, 2018

  38. Two Canadian banks say accounts compromised: CIBC 40,000 and BMO 50,000

    136 points • comment • may 28, 2018

  39. A dozen Google employees quit over military drone project

    135 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  40. Passive Wi-Fi: Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions

    135 points • comment • may 12, 2018

  41. More fun with reactive-banana-automation

    135 points • comment • may 06, 2018

  42. Ruby’s Rack Push: Decoupling the real-time web application from the web

    135 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  43. ‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1

    135 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  44. GDPR compliance checklist

    134 points • comment • may 03, 2018

  45. In Germany, the use of cash has become a proxy for concerns about trust, privacy

    134 points • comment • may 25, 2018

  46. Understanding Image Sharpness (2003)

    134 points • comment • may 20, 2018

  47. Yubico sent marketing email to address submitted with bug report

    134 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  48. Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway

    134 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  49. American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth (2016)

    133 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  50. FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in

    133 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  51. Zig: programming language designed for robustness optimality and clarity [video]

    133 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  52. Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out

    133 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  53. 'Google go home': the Berlin neighbourhood fighting off a tech giant

    133 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  54. Xerox calls off $6.1B sale to Fujifilm

    132 points • comment • may 14, 2018

  55. Teaching Programming Languages by Experimental and Adversarial Thinking

    132 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  56. Internet Explorer zero-day

    132 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  57. Google vs. Google: How Nonstop Political Arguments Rule Its Workplace

    132 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  58. Nerves v1.0 Released

    132 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  59. Java 10 and beyond – a look at the potential language change

    132 points • comment • may 13, 2018

  60. IBM Watson Health slashes workforce

    131 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  61. Ask HN: Learning multiple languages vs. mastering one

    131 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  62. Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects

    131 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  63. Microsoft .Net Core telemetry is not opt-in

    131 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  64. Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)

    131 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  65. Exeter team develops low-cost photoelectrode for water-splitting using sunlight

    131 points • comment • may 09, 2018

  66. China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first half of the 20th century

    131 points • comment • may 19, 2018

  67. Hydrofluoric Acid: An Invisible Fire (1996)

    131 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  68. Particle physicists turn to AI to cope with CERN’s collision deluge

    131 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  69. Stateful Apps on Kubernetes: A quick primer

    130 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  70. Reinforcement learning with musculoskeletal models

    130 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  71. Dagoba: an in-memory graph database (2016)

    130 points • comment • may 18, 2018

  72. OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out

    130 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  73. Motorola M68000 Family Programmer’s Reference Manual (1992) [pdf]

    130 points • comment • may 15, 2018

  74. A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm to Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid

    130 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  75. A global array of telescopes reveals details on event horizon scales in Sgr A*

    130 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  76. Raising a seed round instead of a Series A

    130 points • comment • may 17, 2018

  77. We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS (2016)

    130 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  78. Operator Framework: Building Apps on Kubernetes

    130 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  79. Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature This Year

    130 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  80. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (2017)

    130 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  81. Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?

    130 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  82. Show HN: Skor – Drop-in microservice to get Postgres changes as JSON webhooks

    129 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  83. Pornography and the Butterfly Effect

    129 points • comment • may 27, 2018

  84. Go vgo: Semantic Versioning and Human Error

    129 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  85. How to get your personal data from apps you use

    129 points • comment • may 07, 2018

  86. 2018 reform of EU data protection rules

    129 points • comment • may 01, 2018

  87. Show HN: ~200 byte in-browser, no JS, private notepad

    128 points • comment • may 05, 2018

  88. $1M to build decentralized social networks

    128 points • comment • may 11, 2018

  89. Researchers say a breathalyzer has flaws, casting doubt on countless convictions

    128 points • comment • may 10, 2018

  90. Growing up with AI

    127 points • comment • may 21, 2018

  91. Every 202,500 Years, Earth Wanders in a New Direction

    127 points • comment • may 24, 2018

  92. Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

    127 points • comment • may 04, 2018

  93. 86% of CrashCrate subscribers used passwords already leaked in other breaches

    127 points • comment • may 02, 2018

  94. Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins

    127 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  95. UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds

    126 points • comment • may 23, 2018

  96. Plaid in Canada

    126 points • comment • may 22, 2018

  97. Michael Jackson Estate Turns the 'Fair Use' Tables on Disney

    126 points • comment • may 31, 2018

  98. Accountancy used to be boring and safe, but today it’s neither

    126 points • comment • may 30, 2018

  99. Show HN: Deno, a secure TypeScript runtime using V8 and Go

    126 points • comment • may 29, 2018

  100. NYC housing court, created to protect tenants, has become a tool for landlords

    126 points • comment • may 21, 2018