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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Undercover video suggests Facebook wants extreme and disturbing content

    68 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  2. What makes ramen noodles so special?

    68 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  3. New physics needed to probe the origins of life

    68 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  4. Nasa Set to Demonstrate X-Ray Communications in Space

    68 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  5. Amazon leads $575M investment in Deliveroo

    67 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  6. Show HN: BattleBots Made by 5th to 8th Graders in Robotics Club

    67 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  7. Lego Braille bricks

    67 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  8. IEEE forced to ban Huawei employees from peer-reviewing papers

    67 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  9. Packaging now standard, dependency proxy next?

    67 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  10. And now for something completely different: running Lisp on GPUs [pdf]

    67 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  11. In Australia, Coal Remains King

    67 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  12. Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone

    67 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  13. Israeli Mossad launches cyber challenge

    67 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  14. Madrid set to become first European city to scrap low-emissions zone

    67 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  15. S/MIME Version 4.0 Message Specification

    67 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  16. Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large.”

    67 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  17. ‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now

    67 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  18. The Great Adobe Purge of ’19

    67 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  19. Goto and the folly of dogma (2018)

    66 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  20. Ask HN: How do I make sure my kids are safe online?

    66 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  21. The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction

    66 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  22. South Korean students flock to Japan

    66 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  23. Interview with Barbara Liskov (2016) [video]

    66 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  24. The Shield of Achilles (1952)

    66 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  25. One Man's Modus Ponens

    66 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  26. Cppyy – Automatic Python-C++ bindings

    66 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  27. Much of reported cryptocurrency trading volume is likely fake

    66 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  28. Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups

    66 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  29. China’s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific

    66 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  30. Police Feeding Celebrity Photos into Facial Recognition Software to Solve Crimes

    66 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  31. HiddenWasp Malware Stings Targeted Linux Systems

    65 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  32. Highly Compressed Richard Hamming's Lectures

    65 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  33. The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp

    65 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  34. TCP/IP over Amazon Cloudwatch Logs

    65 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  35. I'm not collaborating with Kenneth Reitz

    65 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  36. ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK

    65 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  37. Engineers say Boeing pushed to limit safety testing in race to certify planes

    65 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  38. UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson Sacked over Huawei Leak

    65 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  39. GDPR Documents: Your Right to be Informed and Erased

    65 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  40. Impossible Foods' next product is sausage

    65 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  41. IPOs Bring Tax Jackpot for California; Can Lawmakers Resist?

    65 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  42. AMD Ryzen V1000 Single Board Computer PROFIVE NUCV

    65 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  43. Trump unveils 'merit-based' immigration policy plan

    65 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  44. A Note on SIMON-32/64 Security

    65 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  45. Show HN: CodeSpeak, the beginnings of a web-based speech-to-code tool

    65 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  46. No paper, no PhD? India rethinks graduate student policy

    65 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  47. Professional astronomers are calculating the cost of the Starlink constellation

    65 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  48. Is reason the slave of the passions?

    65 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  49. China LED inventory piles up to record level

    64 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  50. What If Unhappiness Contains the Secret to Happiness?

    64 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  51. Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000)

    64 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  52. Chalk of Champions [video]

    64 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  53. Interview with Reid Hoffman

    64 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  54. Estimating branch probability using Intel LBR feature

    64 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  55. The rise of few-maintainer projects

    64 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  56. The 25¢ Apple II Real Time Clock (1981)

    64 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  57. On Monks and Email

    64 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  58. Show HN: Open-Registry – Distributed Package Registry Owned by the Community

    64 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  59. A free XMPP server powered with green energy

    64 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  60. Tesla’s Touchscreen UI: A Case Study of Car-Dashboard User Interface

    64 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  61. Small retailers who sold through Amazon are facing a tax time bomb

    64 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  62. Ask HN: Do you ask to see the codebase before taking a job?

    64 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  63. Show HN: DeepSwarm – Optimising CNNs Using Swarm Intelligence

    64 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  64. Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?

    63 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  65. Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies

    63 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  66. Tim Cook: Four-Year Degree Not Necessary to Be Proficient at Coding'

    63 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  67. Teen shot herself with gunshot through mouth while hands cuffed behind back

    63 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  68. Breakfast is a relatively modern invention

    63 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  69. ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin cryptography, BitTorrent network

    63 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  70. To Many Chinese, America Was Like ‘Heaven.’ Now They’re Not So Sure

    63 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  71. With His Job Gone, an Autoworker Wonders, ‘What Am I as a Man?’

    63 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  72. Spiel Des Jahres Nominations for 2019

    63 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  73. Ask HN: What healthcare options exist for entrepreneurs?

    63 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  74. Do transportation network companies decrease or increase congestion?

    63 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  75. Does open-source cryptographic software work correctly? [pdf]

    63 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  76. Chinese database is tracking cellphone usage, car location and more

    63 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  77. A comparative study of leather hardening techniques (2018)

    63 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  78. Sisense Acquires Periscope Data

    63 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  79. Facebook removes Indian page, says it spread Iranian propaganda

    63 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  80. A smartphone app that can hear ear infections in children

    63 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  81. Congress should grow the Digital Services budget, it more than pays for itself

    62 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  82. One of the Greatest Environmental Crimes of the 20th Century

    62 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  83. Trippy images were designed by AI to super-stimulate monkey neurons

    62 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  84. The YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week

    62 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  85. San Francisco police raid home of journalist to find who leaked Adachi report

    62 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  86. Academe’s Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey, and Professional Collapse at MLA

    62 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  87. A 72-year-old French man has crossed the Atlantic in a giant orange barrel

    62 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  88. What happens if building more housing doesn’t work?

    62 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  89. Exploring a massive cave labyrinth hidden under Borneo

    62 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  90. Was it an invisible attack on U.S. diplomats, or something stranger?

    62 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  91. Apple AirPort Firmware Data Deletion Vulnerability

    62 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  92. Why the doors to America are closing for Chinese tech students

    62 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  93. Kong raises $43M Series C for its API Gateway

    62 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  94. The World Blows over $5T a Year on Oil and Gas Subsidies: Report

    62 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  95. Obsidian: A safer blockchain programming language

    62 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  96. Google warns that ADB backup, restore may be removed in a future Android release

    62 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  97. GraphQL Query Rewriter

    62 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  98. An experiment shows how to rebuild human compassion

    62 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  99. Antonio Salieri’s Revenge

    62 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  100. Tax dialysis: How Vanguard avoids paying realised gains tax on their mutual fund

    62 points • comment • may 02, 2019