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Hacker News (May 2018)
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What Sucks About Erlang (2008)
140 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Ocean waves play greater role in trapping CO2 than previously understood
140 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Why Do Americans Stay When Their Town Has No Future?
140 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Al Jazeera open-sources InterviewJS, turns interviews into interactive chats
140 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Stock-trading app Robinhood was rejected by 75 investors
140 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life?
140 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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No Thanks, Google. I'll Speak for Myself
140 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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“We didn't chase the fad of using every Intel CPU feature”
139 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Code to joy: learning to code in middle age
139 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016)
139 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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Archive of Operating Systems
139 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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China’s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares
139 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Diamonds Are Bullshit
139 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Ten Years of Vim
138 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
138 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors
138 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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How I used a Google query to mine passwords from dozens of public Trello boards
138 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Buses Need Our Love More Than Ever
138 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google [pdf]
138 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Adobe to Acquire Magento
138 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Don't let Google take over Berlin
138 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Power Laws and Rich-Get-Richer Phenomena (2010) [pdf]
138 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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The History of the Philips CD-I, Failed PlayStation Ancestor
138 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil
137 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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Machine Learning for .NET
137 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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How a Newspaper Dies
137 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology
137 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed
137 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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A world hidden 30m below Budapest
137 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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The Verge Hack, Explained
137 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Google announces a new generation for its TPU machine learning hardware
137 points • comment • may 08, 2018
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Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte
136 points • comment • may 16, 2018
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One parameter is always enough [pdf]
136 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Python as a declarative programming language (2017)
136 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
136 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Show HN: Chromely – Lightweight Alternative to Electron for .NET and .NET Core
136 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Comparing the C FFI overhead in various programming languages
136 points • comment • may 26, 2018
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Two Canadian banks say accounts compromised: CIBC 40,000 and BMO 50,000
136 points • comment • may 28, 2018
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A dozen Google employees quit over military drone project
135 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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Passive Wi-Fi: Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions
135 points • comment • may 12, 2018
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More fun with reactive-banana-automation
135 points • comment • may 06, 2018
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Ruby’s Rack Push: Decoupling the real-time web application from the web
135 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1
135 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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GDPR compliance checklist
134 points • comment • may 03, 2018
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In Germany, the use of cash has become a proxy for concerns about trust, privacy
134 points • comment • may 25, 2018
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Understanding Image Sharpness (2003)
134 points • comment • may 20, 2018
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Yubico sent marketing email to address submitted with bug report
134 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway
134 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth (2016)
133 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in
133 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Zig: programming language designed for robustness optimality and clarity [video]
133 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out
133 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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'Google go home': the Berlin neighbourhood fighting off a tech giant
133 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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Xerox calls off $6.1B sale to Fujifilm
132 points • comment • may 14, 2018
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Teaching Programming Languages by Experimental and Adversarial Thinking
132 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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Internet Explorer zero-day
132 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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Google vs. Google: How Nonstop Political Arguments Rule Its Workplace
132 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Nerves v1.0 Released
132 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Java 10 and beyond – a look at the potential language change
132 points • comment • may 13, 2018
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IBM Watson Health slashes workforce
131 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Ask HN: Learning multiple languages vs. mastering one
131 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects
131 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Microsoft .Net Core telemetry is not opt-in
131 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)
131 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Exeter team develops low-cost photoelectrode for water-splitting using sunlight
131 points • comment • may 09, 2018
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China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first half of the 20th century
131 points • comment • may 19, 2018
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Hydrofluoric Acid: An Invisible Fire (1996)
131 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Particle physicists turn to AI to cope with CERN’s collision deluge
131 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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Stateful Apps on Kubernetes: A quick primer
130 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Reinforcement learning with musculoskeletal models
130 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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Dagoba: an in-memory graph database (2016)
130 points • comment • may 18, 2018
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OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out
130 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Motorola M68000 Family Programmer’s Reference Manual (1992) [pdf]
130 points • comment • may 15, 2018
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A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm to Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid
130 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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A global array of telescopes reveals details on event horizon scales in Sgr A*
130 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Raising a seed round instead of a Series A
130 points • comment • may 17, 2018
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We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS (2016)
130 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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Operator Framework: Building Apps on Kubernetes
130 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature This Year
130 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (2017)
130 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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Macron Vowed to Make France a ‘Startup Nation.’ Is It Getting There?
130 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Show HN: Skor – Drop-in microservice to get Postgres changes as JSON webhooks
129 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Pornography and the Butterfly Effect
129 points • comment • may 27, 2018
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Go vgo: Semantic Versioning and Human Error
129 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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How to get your personal data from apps you use
129 points • comment • may 07, 2018
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2018 reform of EU data protection rules
129 points • comment • may 01, 2018
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Show HN: ~200 byte in-browser, no JS, private notepad
128 points • comment • may 05, 2018
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$1M to build decentralized social networks
128 points • comment • may 11, 2018
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Researchers say a breathalyzer has flaws, casting doubt on countless convictions
128 points • comment • may 10, 2018
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Growing up with AI
127 points • comment • may 21, 2018
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Every 202,500 Years, Earth Wanders in a New Direction
127 points • comment • may 24, 2018
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Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot
127 points • comment • may 04, 2018
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86% of CrashCrate subscribers used passwords already leaked in other breaches
127 points • comment • may 02, 2018
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Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins
127 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds
126 points • comment • may 23, 2018
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Plaid in Canada
126 points • comment • may 22, 2018
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Michael Jackson Estate Turns the 'Fair Use' Tables on Disney
126 points • comment • may 31, 2018
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Accountancy used to be boring and safe, but today it’s neither
126 points • comment • may 30, 2018
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Show HN: Deno, a secure TypeScript runtime using V8 and Go
126 points • comment • may 29, 2018
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NYC housing court, created to protect tenants, has become a tool for landlords
126 points • comment • may 21, 2018