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Hacker News (May 2019)
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How Plaid Reconciles Pending and Posted Transactions
125 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices
125 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Google emails in Adtrader lawsuit show company didn't refund ad fraud
125 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Tencent replaces PUBG with a Chinese government-friendly alternative
125 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
125 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Faster arithmetic by flipping signs
125 points • comment • may 09, 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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Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the Eiffel Tower
125 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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China, Leverage, and Values
124 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Curiosity Killed the Mario
124 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Pollution cover-ups exposed in Chinese provinces
124 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Show HN: Konstellate – An Open Source GUI to Visualize Kubernetes Applications
124 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Modeling Adversaries with TLA+
123 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
123 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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The New Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Architecture [video]
123 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Self-driving trucks begin mail delivery test for U.S. Postal Service
123 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Standards.REST: A Collection of HTTP/REST API Standards and Specs
123 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?
123 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Physician Training Stress and Accelerated Cellular Aging
123 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Neural nets typically contain smaller “subnetworks” that can often learn faster
123 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Show HN: Roc – Real-Time streaming over the network
123 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Depth of Field
123 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Apple's WebKit team proposes a way ads can be measured while maintaining privacy
123 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Chinese activists detained ahead of 30th anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown
122 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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India orders anti-trust probe of Google for alleged Android abuse
122 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Xcel Energy Says It Will Close Two Coal-Fired Power Plants a Decade Early
122 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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The preachers getting rich from poor Americans
122 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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A man who is ageing too fast
122 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Spina bifida: Keyhole surgery repairs baby spine in womb
122 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Lenovo launches HoloLens competitor
122 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune
122 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Snapchat Employees Abused Data Access to Spy on Users
122 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Manifold: Java Type-Safe Metaprogramming, Structural Typing, Extension Methods
122 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
122 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Higher Social Classes Have an Exaggerated Belief That They Are More Capable
122 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Taking care of the elderly in Silicon Valley – a personal story
121 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Amazon defeated Rekognition shareholder revolt by a large margin
121 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Call agreement
121 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Response to false statements on surveillance made by Martin Steiger
121 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat
121 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Derive Yourself a Kalman Filter
121 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Show HN: G-Fu – a pragmatic Lisp embedded in Go
121 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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China Is Wasting Less Solar and Wind Power
120 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings
120 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network Using Only NumPy
120 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Google confirms Play store will continue to function for existing Huawei phones
120 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Show HN: UXY – adding structure to Unix tools
120 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Hermes – A message broker built on top of Kafka
120 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry
120 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Tor Browser disabled NoScript, but can't update
120 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts
120 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Public's Dread of Nuclear Power Limits Its Deployment
120 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Amazon interested in buying Boost from T-Mobile, Sprint: sources
120 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Google's Civil War
119 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Show HN: PiShot – capture high-speed strobe images using a Raspberry Pi camera
119 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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A Type of Programming
119 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Doctors and decision fatigue
119 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Byte Magazine – Smalltalk (1981)
119 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Detroit’s LED streetlights going dark after a few years
119 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Understanding Bloom Filters with Pharo
119 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Start Binge-Reading
119 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Why are people modding Thomas the Tank Engine into video games?
119 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Google to push new ads on its apps
119 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Red Hat Universal Base Image
118 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life
118 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car
118 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Scopes – Retargetable programming language and infrastructure
118 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Alloy is an open source language and analyzer for software modeling
118 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Chinese Window Lattice and CSS
118 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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A new documentary on the downfall of General Magic
118 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB
118 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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The origin story of data science
118 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily
118 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Mathematics for Computer Science (2017) [pdf]
117 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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TempleOS: Installation
117 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No
117 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Fasting Affects the Brain
117 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Adobe tells users of old Premiere versions that they are not allowed to use them
117 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Mimetic Traps
117 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island
117 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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How to Join a Social Network in 1998
117 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Riot Games workers walk out to protest forced arbitration
116 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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China unveils 600 kph maglev train prototype
116 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Show HN: Oya – New projects set up lightning fast
116 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Some AMD CPU's RDRAND might not return random data after a suspend/resume
116 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Palantir’s software was used for deportations, documents show
116 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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The Trouble with “Finding Your People” Online
116 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Improving privacy and security on the web
116 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Data Is Plural – Structured Archive
115 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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WireGuard on OpenBSD
115 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Minimum pay at Basecamp is now $70k
115 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Racket News – Issue 7
115 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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What Is Electricity? (2013)
115 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Drugmakers hiked prices 1k% in price-fixing scheme, states allege
115 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Death rates from energy production per TWh
115 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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A Survey of Symbolic Execution Techniques (2018)
115 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Rust 1.34.2
114 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Notes on Weight Initialization for Deep Neural Networks
114 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Electric Vehicles Are Overwhelmingly More Energy Efficient
114 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Distributed consensus revised
114 points • comment • may 07, 2019