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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Wind provided 37 per cent of Ireland’s electricity in Q1 2019
114 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
114 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Reycling Plastic from the Inside Out
114 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Notes on Weight Initialization for Deep Neural Networks
114 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles
114 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Rust 1.34.2
114 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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GFWaaS – Make Your Website Work in China
114 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Distributed consensus revised
114 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Czech Republic proposes the highest digital tax rate in Europe
114 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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How the United States threatens our security
114 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Tim Cook’s Message to 2019 Graduates: ‘My Generation Has Failed You’
113 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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The ABC's of Guiding the Child (1967) [pdf]
113 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Graph Matching Networks for Learning the Similarity of Graph Structured Objects
113 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Microsoft open sources code to give any app Bing-like intelligence
113 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Consuming Hacker News
113 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts
113 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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TXR – A Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging
113 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Mac: Keyboard Shortcuts Killed by Bug
113 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Examining Carlos Ghosn and Japan's System of 'Hostage Justice'
112 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Intel XED – x86 Encoder Decoder
112 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Alan Kay and Missing Messages
112 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
112 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Ask HN: Was data science just hype?
112 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Air conditioner ‘in a patch’ provides portable cooling
112 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Ray-Strips: A Compact Mesh Representation for Interactive Ray Tracing (2007) [pdf]
112 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks
112 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Propofol-induced deep sedation reduces emotional episodic memory reconsolidation
112 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub
111 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Bosch to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020
111 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual”
111 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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How to Understand Systems
111 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Ask HN: What tools/methods do you use to focus your time well?
111 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Raising a Ladder to the Moon, Under the Sea
111 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model
111 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Cambridge scientists create living organism with redesigned DNA
111 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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China backtracked on almost all aspects of U.S. trade deal – sources
111 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Interior Mapping: rendering real rooms without geometry (2018)
110 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever
110 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux (2015)
110 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Quants Think Like Amateurs in China’s Wild Stock Market
110 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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SanDisk 1-terabyte microSD card is now available
110 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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The Next Wave of Immuno-Oncology
110 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Ask HN: Coping when your client is an asshole?
110 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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The Definitive Guide on Win32 to NT Path Conversion (2016)
110 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Why Ice Lake is Important – a bit-basher’s perspective
110 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Perennial Crops
110 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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What Should We Do to Prevent Software from Failing?
110 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet
110 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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E Programming Language
110 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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The Curse of Genius
109 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Interleaved Mathematics Practice [pdf]
109 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32
109 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Prolog's Death (2010)
109 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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60 days in jail for not paying a $2.75 subway fare costs the city $22,000
109 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Linux's Vmalloc Seeing “Large Performance Benefits” with 5.2 Kernel Changes
109 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab
109 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing mostly on smartphones
108 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Mass grave in Poland embodies the violent beginning of the Bronze Age
108 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost (2016)
108 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Computational Modeling in Algebra, Physics and Data Science, for All Students
108 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Philip Morris suspends social campaign after Reuters exposes young 'influencers'
108 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Mothers Are the Unsung Heroes of Prison
108 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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'American Soil' Is Increasingly Foreign Owned
108 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Why I don't play mobile games on my smartphone
107 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Eleven Straight Days of Tornadoes Have U.S. Approaching ‘Uncharted Territory’
107 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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CO₂ and Other Greenhouse Gas Emissions
107 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Combining finances
107 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Security Company Building an International Database of Banned Bar Patrons
107 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016)
107 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Fukushima 8 years on – photo essay
107 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Google's New Manager Student Workbook
106 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Pilosa: An open source, distributed index
106 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot
106 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Show HN: Empirical – a language for time-series analysis
106 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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How we found the source of the mystery signals at Parkes Radio Telescope (2015)
106 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Starting a Business with a Co-Founder: Economics and Control
106 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Ask HN: What's preventing us from achieving seamless video communication?
106 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Uber's Losses Reach Double Digits in IPO Debut
106 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Precise timing of machine code with Linux perf
106 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Mind-controlled hearing aid allows the wearer to focus on particular voices
106 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Zork and the Z-Machine: Bringing the Mainframe to 8-Bit Home Computers
106 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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The Books of College Libraries Are Turning into Wallpaper
106 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Why Fiction Beats Truth
106 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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WordPress 5.2: Mitigating Supply-Chain Attacks
105 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Binance exchange hackers steal bitcoins worth $41m
105 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’
105 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Linux 5.1 Arrives
105 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Chinese hospitals set to sell experimental cell therapies
105 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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I was wrong about the iPad Pro
105 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Waterfox Browser
105 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning Without Reward Engineering
105 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter
105 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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McNugget Calculator
105 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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They Fictionalize Nuclear Disasters Like Chernobyl Because They Kill So Few
105 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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The C language is purely functional (2009)
105 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Almost 40% of Americans Would Struggle to Cover a $400 Emergency
105 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Ecuador has begun giving the US some of Julian Assange’s possessions
104 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Optimizing Magic Pocket for cold storage
104 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Marion Stokes: A woman who taped 30 years of TV news
104 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Black, Hot ‘Superionic’ Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water
104 points • comment • may 16, 2019