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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Text rendering using multi channel signed distance fields
94 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Amazon can't yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions
94 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancers
94 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Maintainable ETL Practices at Stitchfix
94 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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A NY School District Defies State, Plans To Proceed With Facial Recognition Test
93 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Vietnam Doesn’t Trust Huawei
93 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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DNSCrypt – how expired certificates became a thing of the past
93 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Computing's first 'killer app' changed everything
93 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Creating and using a custom Linux kernel on Guix System
93 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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A history of tea, the second most-consumed beverage in the world (2017)
92 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Blocking a protein curbs memory loss in old mice: study
92 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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How Hot Chicken Happened
92 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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TLS 1.3 is going to save us all, and other why IoT is still insecure (2017)
92 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory
92 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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102KB ought to be enough for any email
92 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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A Fourier Synthesis Character Generator
92 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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The boring front-end developer (2014)
92 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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A Spoon That Shakes to Counteract Hand Tremors (2014)
92 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Adware Is Malicious, and It Uses Advanced Techniques to Infect
92 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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A Report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting
91 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections
91 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off San Francisco (2015)
91 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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The Peter Principle Tested
91 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Fitness influencers are full of shit
91 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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If PHP Were British (2011)
91 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Active freelancer banned on Upwork after video verification process
91 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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The Mighty U.S. Consumer Is Struggling
91 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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MOVE an injury not RICE (2017)
91 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Instagram influencer with 2M followers fails to sell 36 t-shirts
91 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Plankton Haven’t Been the Same Since the Industrial Revolution
91 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Memoirs from a Japanese Internet Cafe
91 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a successful maiden flight
90 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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The potentially seedy side of the hotel bed jumping community
90 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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GitLab Strategy
90 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Reform capitalism or face revolution
90 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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China’s new ‘social credit system’ is an dystopian nightmare
90 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics
90 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Hooks-Based WebGL Library for React
90 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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A tectonic plate may have peeled apart
90 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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How some cities became rat-free zones
90 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Markov Chain Text Generation
90 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone
90 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Mathematicians revive abandoned approach to the Riemann Hypothesis
90 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
90 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit
90 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Dividends and Buybacks Now Larger Than Total Reported Earnings for Entire S&P500
90 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Creating an Institution That Lasts 10k Years
90 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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OPP: Other People's Problems
89 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial Cornea
89 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Legit: Git Commands as an Esoteric Programming Language
89 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus MBA programs
89 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Jeff Bezos unveils a lunar lander and BE-7 rocket engine
89 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon (2016)
89 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The Ecological Limits of Work [pdf]
89 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Claude Shannon: The Bit Player
89 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
89 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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/e/ plans to sell refurbished smartphones with Google-free Android
89 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Learning new skills in InfoSec without getting overwhelmed
89 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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A Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath (2013)
89 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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American Pictures (1985) [pdf]
89 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Wide Color Photos Are Coming to Android
89 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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California bill to add more housing in single-family neighborhoods blocked
89 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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New Social Media Question on DS-160 and DS-260 Visa Applications
89 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance [pdf]
89 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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The 'Future Book' Is Here, but It's Not What We Expected (2018)
89 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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A new camera can photograph from 45 kilometers away
89 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica (2017)
89 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
89 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel
88 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order
88 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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PureScript 0.13 Release
88 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001)
88 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Cloudflare architecture and how BPF eats the world
88 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Firefox Disabled All My Extentions
88 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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US has underestimated Huawei, says founder
88 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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A journey through internet garbage
88 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Household radar can sense a person’s breathing and heart rate, even emotions
87 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Warning Signs That a Bubble Is About to Burst
87 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Ice sheet contributions to future sea-level rise from structured expert judgment
87 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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How a carding kingpin got caught
87 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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For the first time there's more people worldwide aged 65+ than aged 5 & younger
87 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Struggle for Autistic Women (2017)
87 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Generating the Mandelbrot Set
87 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Hyper 3.0.0
87 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Faster Parallel Python Without Python Multiprocessing
87 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
87 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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To see Google track you in real time, disable Play Services
87 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Ask HN: Personal Library Manager?
87 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?
87 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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NATO Group Catfished Soldiers on Facebook to Discover Troop Movements
87 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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MDMA as a Probe and Treatment for Social Behaviors (2016)
87 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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How should we critique research?
87 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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On Perks
86 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text
86 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API
86 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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When time became regular and universal, it changed history
86 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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The Third User (2013)
86 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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SpaceX launches sixty Starlink satellites on thrice-flown rocket, sticks landing
86 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Survey of Dropout Methods for Deep Neural Networks
86 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Ohmm Mining: Turn Flared Natural Gas into Bitcoin
86 points • comment • may 29, 2019