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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Birthday Paradox Revisited

    79 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  2. Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant

    79 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  3. Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered

    79 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  4. E.O. Wilson Sounds Off on the Trouble With STEM

    79 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  5. Utterances: Lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

    79 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  6. Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration (1993)

    79 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  7. Microsoft, Brilliant team up to offer quantum curriculum

    79 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  8. Next Week’s Maker Faire in San Mateo Could Be Bay Area’s Last

    79 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  9. The Human Brain: Even Basic Facts Are Hotly Contested

    79 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  10. Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear to renewables

    79 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  11. Julian Assange Appears in Court for U.S. Extradition Hearing

    79 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  12. Impossible Foods Responds to Glyphosate Allegation

    78 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  13. Genode OS Framework 19.05

    78 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  14. Some bad news for DANE and DNSSEC

    78 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  15. Metatron – Open-Sourced, Self-Service Big Data Discovery

    78 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  16. How well do London buses match the timetables?

    78 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  17. Google – My Location History

    78 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  18. Number go down: the single trade that crashed Bitcoin

    78 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  19. Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

    78 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  20. The after-party balloon effect

    78 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  21. WhatsApp users will start seeing in-app ads within ‘Status’ feature from 2020

    78 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  22. How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students (2007) [pdf]

    78 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  23. Diesel is not better for the environment than electric

    78 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  24. On the Trail of the RoboCall King

    78 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  25. The degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy

    78 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  26. A Nazi Critic and a Gestapo Spy

    78 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  27. Over 25k Linksys routers vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure flaw

    77 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  28. Health Effects of Job Insecurity

    77 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  29. Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing

    77 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  30. The global trade in junk and trash

    77 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  31. 'I wash all my food like crazy': scientists voice concern about nanoparticles

    77 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  32. Peergos Alpha – A decentralized file storage and communication network

    77 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  33. Mysterious groups of archaea stir debate about the origin of complex creatures

    77 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  34. After Your First Big Startup Success, What’s Next? (2014)

    77 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  35. Bento – An Android UI Framework

    77 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  36. The must-have accessory for the 1980s: 2-inch screen in-dash TV (2014)

    77 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  37. I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium

    77 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  38. Go Is on a Trajectory to Become the Next Enterprise Programming Language

    77 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  39. Understanding the Objective-C Runtime (2010)

    76 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  40. Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)

    76 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  41. Why natural cycles only play small role in rate of global warming

    76 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  42. GopenPGP, an open source encryption library for native applications

    76 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  43. Caffeine Cranks Up Solar Cells

    76 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  44. Security Issue with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Titan Security Keys

    76 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  45. Google Salary Ranges and Levels – Levels.fyi

    76 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  46. Music: A Mathematical Offering (2006)

    76 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  47. UK suffers defeat in UN vote on Chagos Islands

    76 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  48. CodeGen: LLVM wrapper for just-in-time code generation and compilation

    76 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  49. Unwind: A privilege-separated DNS recursive nameserver for every laptop [pdf]

    76 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  50. Synchrony, one of the US's last active demoparties

    76 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  51. As Mass Timber Takes Off, How Green Is This New Building Material?

    76 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  52. Show HN: Talk to Transformer – Generate Text with OpenAI's Latest GPT-2 Model

    76 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  53. US Ride-Share Drivers Ready for Countrywide Strike Ahead of Uber IPO

    76 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  54. Generalized Additive Models in R – A free interactive course

    76 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  55. Near-duplicate features of C++ (2017)

    76 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  56. Off Grid Bitcoin Transactions Using Ham Radio and Blockstreams Satellites

    76 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  57. I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1.7 per hour

    75 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  58. Magnitude 8.0 earthquake, 75km SSE of Lagunas, Peru

    75 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  59. Retro: A Modern, Pragmatic Forth

    75 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  60. How Indigo, a Canadian Chain, Is Reinventing Book Selling

    75 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  61. Israeli firm linked to WhatsApp spyware attack faces lawsuit

    75 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  62. Managing Your Startup Board

    75 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  63. iFixit Pixel 3a XL teardown [video]

    75 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  64. Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

    75 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  65. Telnet BBS Guide

    75 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  66. New Taxes and Higher Density Aren't Fixing Vancouver's Housing Problem

    75 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  67. Forced Tech Transfers Are on the Rise in China, European Firms Say

    75 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  68. Why what we think we know about schizophrenia is wrong

    75 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  69. Icecream – A little debugging library

    74 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  70. 30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warns: Never Forget

    74 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  71. Illegal toxic waste dumping in Italy (2014)

    74 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  72. Network Solutions’ scammy bullshit signup funnel

    74 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  73. What an Extinct Bird Re-Evolving Says About “Species”

    74 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  74. Apple Pay will support NFC tags

    74 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  75. London’s Tube Network to Switch on Wi-Fi Tracking by Default in July

    74 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  76. 'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft

    74 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  77. World's rivers 'awash with dangerous levels of antibiotics'

    74 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  78. A request to drill for lithium near Death Valley

    74 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  79. We Must Defend Science in the Face of Political Attacks

    74 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  80. A Working Mathematician’s Guide to Parsing

    74 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  81. Implementing a New CPU Architecture for Ghidra [slides]

    74 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  82. Launch HN: Withfriends (YC W19) – Memberships for Small Businesses

    74 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  83. A napalm attack, an orphan, and a message three decades later

    74 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  84. Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women?

    74 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  85. How to slice your code into continuations

    74 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  86. PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

    73 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  87. Multi-threaded SQLite without the OperationalErrors (2017)

    73 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  88. The Fusion Reactor Next Door

    73 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  89. Get Started with 6502 Assembly Programming on Atari Lynx

    73 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  90. Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye

    73 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  91. Some Writing Advice: Don’t Take Others’ Advice

    73 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  92. GNU Guix 1.0.1 Released

    73 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  93. The many human errors that brought down the Boeing 737 Max

    73 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  94. Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good

    73 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  95. Show HN: Map of Polish Composers

    73 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  96. EU's Tusk warns of risks in rise of U.S. tech giants

    73 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  97. Understanding the fork system call in Unix

    73 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  98. Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private keys on GitHub

    73 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  99. Show HN: Comfygure – A small CLI to manage application configurations

    73 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  100. The Cost of Fixing Things

    73 points • comment • may 12, 2019