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Hacker News (May 2019)
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When time became regular and universal, it changed history
86 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Show HN: Sourcetrail – Visual Source Explorer Now Supports Python
86 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Storing state in Erlang with processes (2014)
86 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Ask HN: What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?
86 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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The Myth of Convenience
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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Mailchimp changes definition of “audience” to include unsubscribed emails
86 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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The Frankfurt Kitchen
86 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video]
85 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist
85 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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The Emergence of a Fovea While Learning to Attend (2017)
85 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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OCaPIC: PIC microcontrollers programmed in OCaml
85 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Linux apps that run anywhere
85 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up
85 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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LLVM from a Go Perspective
85 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers
85 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-Game Protocol Design (2001)
85 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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It’s perfectly OK to only code at work
85 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Harry’s Will Be Sold to Owner of Schick for $1.37B
84 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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A way for startups to build a solid IT infrastructure (2017)
84 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Ticketing App AXS Scrapes Everything It Can Get from Your Phone (2018)
84 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier
84 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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How Exercise Affects Our Memory
84 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Ask HN: Why did your startup fail?
84 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Google terminated my developer account and started a competing business
84 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Repair of Iconic ’60s Era Synthesizer Turns into Long, Strange Trip for Engineer
84 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Gab will become a Mastodon fork
84 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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We Got U.S. Border Officials to Testify Under Oath. Here’s What We Found Out
84 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Bonini's Paradox
84 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Goro Shimura has died
84 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Nudging out support for a carbon tax
84 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Who killed Olof Palme?
83 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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A Curious Sequence of Prime Numbers
83 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant infection
83 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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ENIAC Operating Manual (1946) [pdf]
83 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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ModelingToolkit.jl, an IR and Compiler for Scientific Models
83 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy
83 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Show HN: Real-time image manipulation with Voronoi/Delaunay
83 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Bitset Decoding on Apple’s A12
83 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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SirixDB – An Evolutionary, Temporal NoSQL Storage System
83 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Maryland research could improve the AI task of sensorimotor representation
83 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Performance of nnn vs. ls
83 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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A look at pathfinder
83 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought
83 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Show HN: Volument – A new take on website analytics
83 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Someone Stole My Startup Idea: They Raised Money with My Slides? (2009)
83 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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A Facebook request: Write a code of tech ethics
82 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
82 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science
82 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Research Design Patterns
82 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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After city switched to a new bodycam vendor, Axon threatened its credit rating
82 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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The Gentrification of the Internet
82 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Healthy fat hidden in dirt may fend off anxiety disorders
82 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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400-year-old Bible stolen from US is found in Netherlands
81 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Tonedeaf at the Top
81 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell
81 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Guido blames social media for his decision to abandon the supervision of Python
81 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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The making of Amazon Prime, the internet's most devastating membership program
81 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Tech Jobs Lead to the Middle Class, But Not for the Masses
81 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Rare Earth Elements could be big business for West Virginia
81 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Formation of the moon brought water to Earth
81 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Bill Requires Probable Cause to Search Electronic Devices at Border
81 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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IRS Tax Calendar for Businesses and Self-Employed
81 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Ask HN: Can we build Ironman's Jarvis with 2019 tech?
81 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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U.S. Stepping Up Enforcement on Delinquent Student Loans
81 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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The Real Story of the Dutch Tulip Bubble?
81 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Flutter and Chrome OS
81 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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82% of vehicles sold this year came with a touch screen
81 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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How Contemporary Art Became a Fiat Currency for the World’s Richest
81 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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I Don't Want to Teach My Garbage DSL, Either
81 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Estimated cost of 2028 Los Angeles Olympics jumps to $6.9B
81 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Call for Code – Developer competition that seeks solutions for natural disasters
80 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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New York Times is taking down its paywall for World Press Freedom Day
80 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Show HN: Dali – A pure-Nim indie assembler for Android dex and apk files
80 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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The Mobile-Home Trap (2015)
80 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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When Women Outrun Men
80 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Creating LFortran, an interactive Fortran compiler built on top of LLVM
80 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Lisp Game Jam 2019: Results
80 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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You don’t want a child prodigy
80 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Behind Grindr's Doomed Hookup in China
80 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Kik and the SEC: What’s Going on and What Does It Mean for Crypto?
80 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Show HN: Hacker News Front Page Trends
80 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby (2008)
80 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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What Intuit knows about its users
80 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The High Cost of Low-level Crime in San Francisco
80 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Microsoft’s Edge for Mac browser now available in preview
80 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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New Type of Dementia Identified
80 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless
80 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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No, Night Owls Aren’t Doomed to Die Early
80 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Begin Japanology – Name Seals / Hanko (2006) [video]
80 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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PyTorch adds new dev tools
80 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Helium Shortage Is Hurting Parties and the Pharma Industry
80 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Blocking cryptominers from Firefox
79 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Low-Income College Students Are Being Taxed Like Trust-Fund Babies
79 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics
79 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Delta anti-union poster: Spend on video games over union dues
79 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Julian Assange Appears in Court for U.S. Extradition Hearing
79 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The Copenhagen Catalog: Principles for a new direction in tech
79 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Birthday Paradox Revisited
79 points • comment • may 29, 2019