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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Wind provided 37 per cent of Ireland’s electricity in Q1 2019

    114 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  2. Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”

    114 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  3. Reycling Plastic from the Inside Out

    114 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  4. Notes on Weight Initialization for Deep Neural Networks

    114 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  5. Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

    114 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  6. Rust 1.34.2

    114 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  7. GFWaaS – Make Your Website Work in China

    114 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  8. Distributed consensus revised

    114 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  9. Czech Republic proposes the highest digital tax rate in Europe

    114 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  10. How the United States threatens our security

    114 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  11. Tim Cook’s Message to 2019 Graduates: ‘My Generation Has Failed You’

    113 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  12. The ABC's of Guiding the Child (1967) [pdf]

    113 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  13. Graph Matching Networks for Learning the Similarity of Graph Structured Objects

    113 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  14. Microsoft open sources code to give any app Bing-like intelligence

    113 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  15. Consuming Hacker News

    113 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  16. Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts

    113 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  17. TXR – A Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging

    113 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  18. Mac: Keyboard Shortcuts Killed by Bug

    113 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  19. Examining Carlos Ghosn and Japan's System of 'Hostage Justice'

    112 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  20. Intel XED – x86 Encoder Decoder

    112 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  21. Alan Kay and Missing Messages

    112 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  22. 5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review

    112 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  23. Ask HN: Was data science just hype?

    112 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  24. Air conditioner ‘in a patch’ provides portable cooling

    112 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  25. Ray-Strips: A Compact Mesh Representation for Interactive Ray Tracing (2007) [pdf]

    112 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  26. EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks

    112 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  27. Propofol-induced deep sedation reduces emotional episodic memory reconsolidation

    112 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  28. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

    111 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  29. Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020

    111 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  30. Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual”

    111 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  31. How to Understand Systems

    111 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  32. Ask HN: What tools/methods do you use to focus your time well?

    111 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  33. Raising a Ladder to the Moon, Under the Sea

    111 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  34. Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model

    111 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  35. Cambridge scientists create living organism with redesigned DNA

    111 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  36. China backtracked on almost all aspects of U.S. trade deal – sources

    111 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  37. Interior Mapping: rendering real rooms without geometry (2018)

    110 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  38. Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever

    110 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  39. FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux (2015)

    110 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  40. Quants Think Like Amateurs in China’s Wild Stock Market

    110 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  41. SanDisk 1-terabyte microSD card is now available

    110 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  42. The Next Wave of Immuno-Oncology

    110 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  43. Ask HN: Coping when your client is an asshole?

    110 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  44. The Definitive Guide on Win32 to NT Path Conversion (2016)

    110 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  45. Why Ice Lake is Important – a bit-basher’s perspective

    110 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  46. Perennial Crops

    110 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  47. What Should We Do to Prevent Software from Failing?

    110 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  48. Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet

    110 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  49. E Programming Language

    110 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  50. The Curse of Genius

    109 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  51. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Interleaved Mathematics Practice [pdf]

    109 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  52. Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32

    109 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  53. Prolog's Death (2010)

    109 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  54. 60 days in jail for not paying a $2.75 subway fare costs the city $22,000

    109 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  55. Linux's Vmalloc Seeing “Large Performance Benefits” with 5.2 Kernel Changes

    109 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  56. ‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab

    109 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  57. U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing mostly on smartphones

    108 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  58. Mass grave in Poland embodies the violent beginning of the Bronze Age

    108 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  59. Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost (2016)

    108 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  60. Computational Modeling in Algebra, Physics and Data Science, for All Students

    108 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  61. Philip Morris suspends social campaign after Reuters exposes young 'influencers'

    108 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  62. Mothers Are the Unsung Heroes of Prison

    108 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  63. 'American Soil' Is Increasingly Foreign Owned

    108 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  64. Why I don't play mobile games on my smartphone

    107 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  65. Eleven Straight Days of Tornadoes Have U.S. Approaching ‘Uncharted Territory’

    107 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  66. CO₂ and Other Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    107 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  67. Combining finances

    107 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  68. Security Company Building an International Database of Banned Bar Patrons

    107 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  69. CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016)

    107 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  70. Fukushima 8 years on – photo essay

    107 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  71. Google's New Manager Student Workbook

    106 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  72. Pilosa: An open source, distributed index

    106 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  73. To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot

    106 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  74. Show HN: Empirical – a language for time-series analysis

    106 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  75. How we found the source of the mystery signals at Parkes Radio Telescope (2015)

    106 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  76. Starting a Business with a Co-Founder: Economics and Control

    106 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  77. Ask HN: What's preventing us from achieving seamless video communication?

    106 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  78. Uber's Losses Reach Double Digits in IPO Debut

    106 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  79. Precise timing of machine code with Linux perf

    106 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  80. Mind-controlled hearing aid allows the wearer to focus on particular voices

    106 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  81. Zork and the Z-Machine: Bringing the Mainframe to 8-Bit Home Computers

    106 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  82. The Books of College Libraries Are Turning into Wallpaper

    106 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  83. Why Fiction Beats Truth

    106 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  84. WordPress 5.2: Mitigating Supply-Chain Attacks

    105 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  85. Binance exchange hackers steal bitcoins worth $41m

    105 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  86. MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

    105 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  87. Linux 5.1 Arrives

    105 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  88. Chinese hospitals set to sell experimental cell therapies

    105 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  89. I was wrong about the iPad Pro

    105 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  90. Waterfox Browser

    105 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  91. End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning Without Reward Engineering

    105 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  92. The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter

    105 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  93. McNugget Calculator

    105 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  94. They Fictionalize Nuclear Disasters Like Chernobyl Because They Kill So Few

    105 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  95. The C language is purely functional (2009)

    105 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  96. Almost 40% of Americans Would Struggle to Cover a $400 Emergency

    105 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  97. Ecuador has begun giving the US some of Julian Assange’s possessions

    104 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  98. Optimizing Magic Pocket for cold storage

    104 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  99. Marion Stokes: A woman who taped 30 years of TV news

    104 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  100. Black, Hot ‘Superionic’ Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water

    104 points • comment • may 16, 2019