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Hacker News (May 2019)
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MS Office in Wonderland [pdf]
73 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)
73 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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A novel data-compression technique for faster computer programs
73 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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The Ancient Secrets of Computer Vision: The Evolution of Human Vision
73 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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The Fusion Reactor Next Door
73 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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One Day With the Squad That Removes Needles and Feces From Downtown Portland
73 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Matlab's First Customer
73 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good
73 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Why Is Infrastructure So Expensive to Build in New York?
72 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Ask HN: How to performance test React webapps for rendering speed regressions?
72 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Visualizing PostgreSQL Vacuum Progress
72 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
72 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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U.S. records 75 new measles cases, 9.8% increase, as outbreak grows
72 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Prospecting for gold by looking in leaves has proven itself in Australia
72 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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U.S. Judge Orders “Immediate Removal” of Website Critical of Voice Lie Detector
72 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Language at the End of the World (2017)
72 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Restoring accidentally deleted files on Linux
72 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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After suggesting a developer drop Linux support, Vivox have released a statement
72 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Fxmsp Chat Logs Reveal Hacked Antivirus Vendors
72 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland
72 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Fast Compilers for Fast Programs
72 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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A class-action suit imperils California freelancers
72 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features
72 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Can law firms be liable for fake reviews? Pennsylvania firm says no
72 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Germany proposes $2,800 fine for parents skipping measles vaccination
72 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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The FDA fails to adequately screen or monitor products
72 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Using spinach leaf as scaffolding, scientists built a mini heart (2017)
72 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Hackers breached 3 US antivirus companies, researchers reveal
72 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Yellow Vest Facebook group with 350k members frozen on European election day
71 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Who’s at risk for obsessive healthy eating? Toronto research sheds light
71 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Americans who fled the country to escape their student debt
71 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Typing in Yiddish
71 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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VR is opening up new ways to experience art
71 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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White House launches tool to report censorship on social media
71 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Shut down social media platforms, ex-Facebook adviser urges
71 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Newest coworking space costs just $2.25 an hour, because it is a parking spot
71 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Nearly 25% of Americans are going into debt to pay for necessities like food
71 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Lessons from cold fusion, 30 years on
71 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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A controlled blaze in Utah could improve models of how wildfire smoke spreads
71 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Things I Learnt from fast.ai v3
71 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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In a first, chimpanzees seen smashing and eating tortoises
71 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Why Workers Without College Degrees Are Fleeing Big Cities
71 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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What We’ve Built Is a Computational Language
71 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Group f/64
71 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
71 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Intel offered “reward” to Dutch researchers to downplay MDS vulnerability
71 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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What Uber Left Behind in Asia
71 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Joins In Steps
71 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Microamp: Asymmetric Multi-Processing on Microcontrollers
71 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Tell HN: Work at a Startup Expo will be at YC on Saturday, June 29
71 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Show HN: Ship Your Enemies GDPR
70 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers
70 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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GitHub's new features show it’s finally listening to developers
70 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions (2015) [pdf]
70 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US hacking
70 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Show HN: Cloudmarker – Cloud monitoring tool and framework
70 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Why Airplane Boarding Got So Ridiculous
70 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Leap Motion Is Dead
70 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents
70 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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UBI without quality public services is a neoliberal’s paradise
70 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues to HR for Political Opinions
70 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Show HN: Uranus – Memo and Task App
70 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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House spending panel drops U.S. ban on gene-edited babies
70 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Joe Beef and the Excesses of Restaurant Culture
70 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Building a Silicon Brain
70 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Indictment of Julian Assange Poses a Clear Danger to Journalism, Speech
70 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Heavy water tastes the same as ordinary water (1935)
70 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Living In A Van in Google's Backyard
70 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Zuckerberg Smile
69 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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They Got Rich Off Uber and Lyft. Then They Moved to Low-Tax States
69 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility
69 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Boeing Admits It Knew of a Faulty Safety Alert in 737 Max
69 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Hey Google, isn't this black-hat SEO?
69 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Foxconn Still Trying to Tap Dance Around Its Ever-Shrinking Wisconsin Promises
69 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants
69 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Go
69 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Remote Development with Visual Studio Code (SSH/Docker)
69 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Run CP/M on your C64 using emulation
69 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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“I Tested into Stanford Through My Own Hard Work.” JK, Her Parents Paid $6.5M
69 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Musk Can’t Dodge Tesla Cash Woes Any Longer
69 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Where does your plastic waste end up?
69 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Uber’s underwater investors
69 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Diabetes complications soar in US, but not Canada, as teens become young adults
69 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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What Is Not in Plan Nine (2012)
69 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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San Francisco Considers Ban on Government's Use of Facial Recognition Technology
68 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Remote code execution through type confusion in Ghostscript
68 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Writing a Procedural Puzzle Generator
68 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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The Slippery Slope of In-Product Messaging
68 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Major Azure Outage
68 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation
68 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Ask HN: What's your preferred way of ensuring complex database integrity?
68 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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China wasn’t ready for the trade war with the United States
68 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Undercover video suggests Facebook wants extreme and disturbing content
68 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008)
68 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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The Tyranny of Ideas
68 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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List of Free Science Books
68 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Danone is engaging all 100k employees in the running of the company
68 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Keybase 4.0
68 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor
68 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Every Vehicle Should Have an Electric Motor, Even If It Doesn’t Have a Plug
68 points • comment • may 28, 2019