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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Birthday Paradox Revisited
79 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant
79 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered
79 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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E.O. Wilson Sounds Off on the Trouble With STEM
79 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Utterances: Lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
79 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration (1993)
79 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Microsoft, Brilliant team up to offer quantum curriculum
79 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Next Week’s Maker Faire in San Mateo Could Be Bay Area’s Last
79 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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The Human Brain: Even Basic Facts Are Hotly Contested
79 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear to renewables
79 points • comment • may 14, 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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Impossible Foods Responds to Glyphosate Allegation
78 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Genode OS Framework 19.05
78 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Some bad news for DANE and DNSSEC
78 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Metatron – Open-Sourced, Self-Service Big Data Discovery
78 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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How well do London buses match the timetables?
78 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Google – My Location History
78 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Number go down: the single trade that crashed Bitcoin
78 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?
78 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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The after-party balloon effect
78 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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WhatsApp users will start seeing in-app ads within ‘Status’ feature from 2020
78 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students (2007) [pdf]
78 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Diesel is not better for the environment than electric
78 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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On the Trail of the RoboCall King
78 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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The degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy
78 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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A Nazi Critic and a Gestapo Spy
78 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Over 25k Linksys routers vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure flaw
77 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Health Effects of Job Insecurity
77 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
77 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The global trade in junk and trash
77 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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'I wash all my food like crazy': scientists voice concern about nanoparticles
77 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Peergos Alpha – A decentralized file storage and communication network
77 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Mysterious groups of archaea stir debate about the origin of complex creatures
77 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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After Your First Big Startup Success, What’s Next? (2014)
77 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Bento – An Android UI Framework
77 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The must-have accessory for the 1980s: 2-inch screen in-dash TV (2014)
77 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
77 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Go Is on a Trajectory to Become the Next Enterprise Programming Language
77 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Understanding the Objective-C Runtime (2010)
76 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)
76 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Why natural cycles only play small role in rate of global warming
76 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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GopenPGP, an open source encryption library for native applications
76 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Caffeine Cranks Up Solar Cells
76 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Security Issue with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Titan Security Keys
76 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Google Salary Ranges and Levels – Levels.fyi
76 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Music: A Mathematical Offering (2006)
76 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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UK suffers defeat in UN vote on Chagos Islands
76 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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CodeGen: LLVM wrapper for just-in-time code generation and compilation
76 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Unwind: A privilege-separated DNS recursive nameserver for every laptop [pdf]
76 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Synchrony, one of the US's last active demoparties
76 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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As Mass Timber Takes Off, How Green Is This New Building Material?
76 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Show HN: Talk to Transformer – Generate Text with OpenAI's Latest GPT-2 Model
76 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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US Ride-Share Drivers Ready for Countrywide Strike Ahead of Uber IPO
76 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Generalized Additive Models in R – A free interactive course
76 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Near-duplicate features of C++ (2017)
76 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Off Grid Bitcoin Transactions Using Ham Radio and Blockstreams Satellites
76 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1.7 per hour
75 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Magnitude 8.0 earthquake, 75km SSE of Lagunas, Peru
75 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Retro: A Modern, Pragmatic Forth
75 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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How Indigo, a Canadian Chain, Is Reinventing Book Selling
75 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Israeli firm linked to WhatsApp spyware attack faces lawsuit
75 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Managing Your Startup Board
75 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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iFixit Pixel 3a XL teardown [video]
75 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition
75 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Telnet BBS Guide
75 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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New Taxes and Higher Density Aren't Fixing Vancouver's Housing Problem
75 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Forced Tech Transfers Are on the Rise in China, European Firms Say
75 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Why what we think we know about schizophrenia is wrong
75 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Icecream – A little debugging library
74 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warns: Never Forget
74 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Illegal toxic waste dumping in Italy (2014)
74 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Network Solutions’ scammy bullshit signup funnel
74 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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What an Extinct Bird Re-Evolving Says About “Species”
74 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Apple Pay will support NFC tags
74 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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London’s Tube Network to Switch on Wi-Fi Tracking by Default in July
74 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft
74 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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World's rivers 'awash with dangerous levels of antibiotics'
74 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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A request to drill for lithium near Death Valley
74 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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We Must Defend Science in the Face of Political Attacks
74 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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A Working Mathematician’s Guide to Parsing
74 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Implementing a New CPU Architecture for Ghidra [slides]
74 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Launch HN: Withfriends (YC W19) – Memberships for Small Businesses
74 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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A napalm attack, an orphan, and a message three decades later
74 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women?
74 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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How to slice your code into continuations
74 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
73 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Multi-threaded SQLite without the OperationalErrors (2017)
73 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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The Fusion Reactor Next Door
73 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Get Started with 6502 Assembly Programming on Atari Lynx
73 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye
73 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Some Writing Advice: Don’t Take Others’ Advice
73 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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GNU Guix 1.0.1 Released
73 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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The many human errors that brought down the Boeing 737 Max
73 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good
73 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Show HN: Map of Polish Composers
73 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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EU's Tusk warns of risks in rise of U.S. tech giants
73 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Understanding the fork system call in Unix
73 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private keys on GitHub
73 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Show HN: Comfygure – A small CLI to manage application configurations
73 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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The Cost of Fixing Things
73 points • comment • may 12, 2019