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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces
139 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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H-1B visa: Government says work ban for H-4 spouses coming this month
139 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Time Series Databases to Watch
138 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Tesla: Insane or Clever
138 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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ELF files on Linux
138 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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I do not use a debugger (2016)
138 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Ask HN: When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?
137 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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CIA’s Latest Layer: An Onion Site
137 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Internet Explorer Browser Collection
137 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote
137 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Chicago successfully taxes streaming services
137 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Docker Bug Allows Root Access to Host Filesystem
137 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Electromagnetic interference mapping
137 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Momo-3 is Japan's first private rocket to reach space
137 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Graphics Team ships WebRender MVP
137 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Tanker: End-to-End Encryption SDK for JavaScript
137 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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CQRS and Event Sourcing Intro for Developers
137 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled
136 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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A way to do atomic writes
136 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The Search for the Extra Pedal (2017)
136 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Grumpy Cat internet legend dies
136 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Ask HN: Resources on how Google/Facebook etc. approach software design?
136 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality
136 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
136 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (2017) [pdf]
135 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Grocery Outlet S-1
135 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Amazon Hit by Extensive Fraud with Hackers Siphoning Merchant Funds
135 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Remote, in-memory key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone? [pdf]
135 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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AMD Ryzen Mini-STX: ASRock’s DeskMini A300
135 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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The Zig Programming Language
134 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Depression-Gene Studies Were Built on Shaky Foundations
134 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Irish Supreme Court Dismisses Facebook’s Complaint on NSA Surveillance [pdf]
134 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?
134 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
134 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Microsoft makes AI tool for better search available as an open source project
134 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Problems with DSLs for non-programmers
134 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China
134 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Data Science Interview Study Guide
134 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Sourcehut Q1 2019 financial report
133 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work
133 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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The Problem With Happiness
133 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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The Impact of the Lambda Calculus (1997) [pdf]
133 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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DuckDuckGo Proposes the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019”
133 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by Snowden
133 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Germany is opening its first electric highway for trucks
133 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year
133 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Using an Atari ST as Unix/Linux Terminal
133 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Muse: designing a studio for ideas
133 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Microsoft Is Building Internet Explorer into Its New Chromium Edge
132 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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CLIPS: A Tool for Building Expert Systems
132 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M
132 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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ClojureScript: Graal.js REPL Environment
132 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Boeing 737 Max Simulators Are in High Demand, But Flawed
132 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages
132 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Amazon Shareholders Rejected Employees' Call to Respond to Climate Change
132 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones
131 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Former Fortnite UX lead digs into ethical game design
131 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Almost every speed limit is too low (2017)
131 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice
131 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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One of the dumbest things I’ve ever published
131 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook Dirty Tricks
131 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Introduction to Containerization
131 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
130 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test
130 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Fifteen-year-old Nigerian builds small scale construction machines [video]
130 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light
130 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass
130 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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An Introduction to Vectorization
130 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012)
130 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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How to set your Google account to delete itself after you die
130 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS Mitigation Costs on an Intel Dual Core and HT Laptop
130 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Microsoft Solitaire Inducted into World Video Game Hall of Fame
130 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Cultural Tattoos Invisible in Wet Collodion Prints (2018)
130 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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System design interview questions for IT companies
130 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis?
129 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Human Pose Estimation with Deep Learning
129 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Schoolgirls who defied the Stasi
129 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After the Recession
129 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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U.S. military to analyze 350B social media posts to understand popular movements
129 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Llvm-mca – LLVM Machine Code Analyzer
129 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Updates to Works with Nest
128 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Scientists have created a living organism whose DNA is human-made
128 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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European universities dismal at reporting results of clinical trials
128 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon Neighbors
128 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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ProtonMail is dropping support for Internet Explorer 11
128 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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The Neko Virtual Machine
128 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas
128 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Banks Look Safer with Deposits
127 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017)
127 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Bitcoin's First $1k Weekend Since 2017 Marks Nine-Month High
127 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Ways to break your systems code using volatile (2010)
127 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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MakerLisp: Embedded Lisp Machine
126 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Singapore Urges U.S. to Accept China's Rise, Spare Other Nations
126 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Ask HN: Is the “The Art of Computer Programming” Worth the Investment?
126 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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'Healthiest hearts in the world' found
126 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Scanning the fintech landscape: disruptive models
126 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web
126 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
125 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Blue-collar workers who become white-collar later in life
125 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices
125 points • comment • may 16, 2019