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Hacker News (May 2019)
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What I learned as a VC filling in as a startup CEO for 4 months
104 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Baba Is Turing Complete: A Sketch of a Proof
104 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Abandoning the fiduciary rule was a mistake
104 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudio and ALSA
104 points • comment • may 03, 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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The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)
104 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Gmail really wants me to say yes
103 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Tertill Weeding Robot
103 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Mathematical Jargon Failures
103 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Stealing Downloads from Slack Users
103 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Jsonpath – a query language for JSON in Postgres [pdf]
103 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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The Evolution of Web Design (2016)
103 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Whaling in the Soviet Union
103 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Boom in Dodgy Wall Street Deals Points to Market Trouble Ahead
102 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Security for Elasticsearch is now free
102 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012)
102 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Beam: Distributed knowledge graph store written in Go by eBay
102 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay
102 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Tracking logo found in Navy email to Navy Times amid leak investigation
102 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg
102 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Google Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags
102 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Comicgen: Comic Creator
102 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Serving Vue.js Apps on GitHub Pages
101 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Racket: John Carmack’s VRScript Samples (2015)
101 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Why is chicken so cheap? [video]
101 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Tesla researcher is 'excited' about new battery tech developed by the Army
101 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Crimes in Concrete
101 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Ebtrees: Elastic Binary Trees (2011)
101 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Microbots Are on Their Way
100 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill
100 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Let's Build a Compiler (1995)
100 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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The speed of BGP network propagation
100 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Bloom Filters by Example (2013)
100 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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China’s Rover Reveals Moon’s Hidden Depths
100 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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If the number of children is not growing, why is the population still increasing
100 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Samsung announces first 3nm PDK
99 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Interactive exploration of earnings by age and industry (2018)
99 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Alexa, what are you doing with kids' data?
99 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Lenovo stole a fan's video to promote the foldable Motorola RAZR
99 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Japanese railway company starts testing 249mph bullet train speeds
99 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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WestJet pilot’s eyes struck by laser on flight from Newfoundland to Florida
99 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Manning refusing to testify at grand jury probing WikiLeaks
99 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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I don't want to be a full-fullstack developer
99 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Investor Funnels for Series As
99 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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King Alfred and India
99 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The oldest vegetarian restaurant
98 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Across the rich world, an extraordinary jobs boom is under way
98 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Swift for Tensorflow 0.3.1
98 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Flashrom – flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM and expansion cards
98 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Building better software with better tools: sanitizers vs. Valgrind
98 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Information Security Mental Models
98 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep? (2014)
98 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning
98 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Free Solo and Economic Growth
98 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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The AI That's Too Dangerous to Release
98 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Solid: Data ownership as well as improved privacy (2017)
98 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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A small town, a chemical plant and the residents' desperate fight for clear air
97 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Charity is no substitute for humanity
97 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Make the Leap from JavaScript to PureScript
97 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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France to ban electric scooters from pavements in September
97 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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The Lavish Roman Banquet: A Calculated Display Of Debauchery And Power
97 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Why I’m rewriting my SaaS
97 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Show HN: jTools – a collection of JavaScript web components with MIT license
97 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Software Engineering Lessons from Aviation
97 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Fujifilm’s GFX 100 – A medium format mirrorless camera
97 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Without heart disease, daily aspirin may be too risky
97 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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DHS to start DNA testing to establish family relationships on the border
97 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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U.S. Army: “How has serving impacted you?”
96 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Unencumbered Open Source Commodore 64 ROMs
96 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Humane by Design
96 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Cybersecurity Checklist for Political Campaigns
96 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Dear Programming Job Applicants (2010)
96 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Pinebook – Powerful, Metal and Open Source ARM 64-Bit Laptop
96 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Self Driving Desktop
96 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Google I/O Developer Keynote [video]
96 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? (2018)
96 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Making Nuclear Energy Smaller, Cheaper And Safer
96 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank and Honda
95 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Show HN: A dead-simple Trello-like TODO manager
95 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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‘Cybersovereignty’ Splits the Once World Wide Web
95 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Zapping Nuclear Waste in Minutes Is Nobel Winner’s Holy Grail Quest
95 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Wisconsin bar owner uncovers 134-year-old circus poster
95 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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GNU Hyperbole 7.0.3
95 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Saving a Million People from a Cyclone
95 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Scotland to House Largest Tidal Turbine
95 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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American life is improving for the lowest paid
95 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Robocrop: world's first raspberry-picking robot set to work
95 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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How NLP can help cure cancer? [pdf]
95 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Dungeons and Back Alleys: The Fate of the Mentally Ill in America
95 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Ask HN: How common is it to work on projects with no testing?
95 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Boeing’s Own Test Pilots Lacked Key Details of 737 Max Flight-Control System
95 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Fallout: Reading Kernel Writes from User Space
95 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Uber IPO underwriter so certain IPO was overpriced they shorted it themselves
95 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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An End-to-End AutoML Solution for Tabular Data at KaggleDays
94 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Text rendering using multi channel signed distance fields
94 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Joe Armstrong Obituary
94 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you miss 90s simplicity?
94 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Amazon can't yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions
94 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Debugging Firmware with GDB
94 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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New brand
94 points • comment • may 01, 2019