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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Text rendering using multi channel signed distance fields

    94 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  2. Amazon can't yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions

    94 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  3. Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancers

    94 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  4. Maintainable ETL Practices at Stitchfix

    94 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  5. A NY School District Defies State, Plans To Proceed With Facial Recognition Test

    93 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  6. Vietnam Doesn’t Trust Huawei

    93 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  7. DNSCrypt – how expired certificates became a thing of the past

    93 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  8. Computing's first 'killer app' changed everything

    93 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  9. Creating and using a custom Linux kernel on Guix System

    93 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  10. A history of tea, the second most-consumed beverage in the world (2017)

    92 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  11. Blocking a protein curbs memory loss in old mice: study

    92 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  12. How Hot Chicken Happened

    92 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  13. TLS 1.3 is going to save us all, and other why IoT is still insecure (2017)

    92 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  14. Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory

    92 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  15. 102KB ought to be enough for any email

    92 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  16. A Fourier Synthesis Character Generator

    92 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  17. The boring front-end developer (2014)

    92 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  18. A Spoon That Shakes to Counteract Hand Tremors (2014)

    92 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  19. Adware Is Malicious, and It Uses Advanced Techniques to Infect

    92 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  20. A Report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting

    91 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  21. Coverage of a Disinformation Operation Against 2019 EU Parliamentary Elections

    91 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  22. Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off San Francisco (2015)

    91 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  23. The Peter Principle Tested

    91 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  24. Fitness influencers are full of shit

    91 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  25. If PHP Were British (2011)

    91 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  26. Active freelancer banned on Upwork after video verification process

    91 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  27. The Mighty U.S. Consumer Is Struggling

    91 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  28. MOVE an injury not RICE (2017)

    91 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  29. Instagram influencer with 2M followers fails to sell 36 t-shirts

    91 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  30. Plankton Haven’t Been the Same Since the Industrial Revolution

    91 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  31. Memoirs from a Japanese Internet Cafe

    91 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  32. Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a successful maiden flight

    90 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  33. The potentially seedy side of the hotel bed jumping community

    90 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  34. GitLab Strategy

    90 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  35. Reform capitalism or face revolution

    90 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  36. China’s new ‘social credit system’ is an dystopian nightmare

    90 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  37. A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics

    90 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  38. Hooks-Based WebGL Library for React

    90 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  39. A tectonic plate may have peeled apart

    90 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  40. How some cities became rat-free zones

    90 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  41. Markov Chain Text Generation

    90 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  42. Argo and the Cloudflare Global Private Backbone

    90 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  43. Mathematicians revive abandoned approach to the Riemann Hypothesis

    90 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  44. An Exercise Program for the Fat Web

    90 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  45. The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit

    90 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  46. Dividends and Buybacks Now Larger Than Total Reported Earnings for Entire S&P500

    90 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  47. Creating an Institution That Lasts 10k Years

    90 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  48. OPP: Other People's Problems

    89 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  49. The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial Cornea

    89 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  50. Legit: Git Commands as an Esoteric Programming Language

    89 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  51. Some business schools are shutting down their on-campus MBA programs

    89 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  52. Jeff Bezos unveils a lunar lander and BE-7 rocket engine

    89 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  53. Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon (2016)

    89 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  54. The Ecological Limits of Work [pdf]

    89 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  55. Claude Shannon: The Bit Player

    89 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  56. If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)

    89 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  57. /e/ plans to sell refurbished smartphones with Google-free Android

    89 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  58. Learning new skills in InfoSec without getting overwhelmed

    89 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  59. A Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath (2013)

    89 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  60. American Pictures (1985) [pdf]

    89 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  61. Wide Color Photos Are Coming to Android

    89 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  62. California bill to add more housing in single-family neighborhoods blocked

    89 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  63. New Social Media Question on DS-160 and DS-260 Visa Applications

    89 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  64. Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance [pdf]

    89 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  65. The 'Future Book' Is Here, but It's Not What We Expected (2018)

    89 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  66. A new camera can photograph from 45 kilometers away

    89 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  67. Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica (2017)

    89 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  68. Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

    89 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  69. Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel

    88 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  70. Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order

    88 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  71. PureScript 0.13 Release

    88 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  72. Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001)

    88 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  73. Cloudflare architecture and how BPF eats the world

    88 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  74. Firefox Disabled All My Extentions

    88 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  75. US has underestimated Huawei, says founder

    88 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  76. A journey through internet garbage

    88 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  77. Household radar can sense a person’s breathing and heart rate, even emotions

    87 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  78. Warning Signs That a Bubble Is About to Burst

    87 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  79. Ice sheet contributions to future sea-level rise from structured expert judgment

    87 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  80. How a carding kingpin got caught

    87 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  81. For the first time there's more people worldwide aged 65+ than aged 5 & younger

    87 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  82. ‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Struggle for Autistic Women (2017)

    87 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  83. Generating the Mandelbrot Set

    87 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  84. Hyper 3.0.0

    87 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  85. Faster Parallel Python Without Python Multiprocessing

    87 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  86. Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry

    87 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  87. To see Google track you in real time, disable Play Services

    87 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  88. Ask HN: Personal Library Manager?

    87 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  89. Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?

    87 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  90. NATO Group Catfished Soldiers on Facebook to Discover Troop Movements

    87 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  91. MDMA as a Probe and Treatment for Social Behaviors (2016)

    87 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  92. How should we critique research?

    87 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  93. On Perks

    86 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  94. The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text

    86 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  95. Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API

    86 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  96. When time became regular and universal, it changed history

    86 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  97. The Third User (2013)

    86 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  98. SpaceX launches sixty Starlink satellites on thrice-flown rocket, sticks landing

    86 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  99. Survey of Dropout Methods for Deep Neural Networks

    86 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  100. Ohmm Mining: Turn Flared Natural Gas into Bitcoin

    86 points • comment • may 29, 2019