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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Undercover video suggests Facebook wants extreme and disturbing content
68 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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What makes ramen noodles so special?
68 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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New physics needed to probe the origins of life
68 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Nasa Set to Demonstrate X-Ray Communications in Space
68 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Amazon leads $575M investment in Deliveroo
67 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Show HN: BattleBots Made by 5th to 8th Graders in Robotics Club
67 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Lego Braille bricks
67 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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IEEE forced to ban Huawei employees from peer-reviewing papers
67 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Packaging now standard, dependency proxy next?
67 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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And now for something completely different: running Lisp on GPUs [pdf]
67 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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In Australia, Coal Remains King
67 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone
67 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Israeli Mossad launches cyber challenge
67 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Madrid set to become first European city to scrap low-emissions zone
67 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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S/MIME Version 4.0 Message Specification
67 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large.”
67 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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‘Orientalism,’ Then and Now
67 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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The Great Adobe Purge of ’19
67 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Goto and the folly of dogma (2018)
66 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Ask HN: How do I make sure my kids are safe online?
66 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction
66 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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South Korean students flock to Japan
66 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Interview with Barbara Liskov (2016) [video]
66 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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The Shield of Achilles (1952)
66 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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One Man's Modus Ponens
66 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Cppyy – Automatic Python-C++ bindings
66 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Much of reported cryptocurrency trading volume is likely fake
66 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups
66 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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China’s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific
66 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Police Feeding Celebrity Photos into Facial Recognition Software to Solve Crimes
66 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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HiddenWasp Malware Stings Targeted Linux Systems
65 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Highly Compressed Richard Hamming's Lectures
65 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp
65 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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TCP/IP over Amazon Cloudwatch Logs
65 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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I'm not collaborating with Kenneth Reitz
65 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
65 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Engineers say Boeing pushed to limit safety testing in race to certify planes
65 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson Sacked over Huawei Leak
65 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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GDPR Documents: Your Right to be Informed and Erased
65 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Impossible Foods' next product is sausage
65 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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IPOs Bring Tax Jackpot for California; Can Lawmakers Resist?
65 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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AMD Ryzen V1000 Single Board Computer PROFIVE NUCV
65 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Trump unveils 'merit-based' immigration policy plan
65 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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A Note on SIMON-32/64 Security
65 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Show HN: CodeSpeak, the beginnings of a web-based speech-to-code tool
65 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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No paper, no PhD? India rethinks graduate student policy
65 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Professional astronomers are calculating the cost of the Starlink constellation
65 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Is reason the slave of the passions?
65 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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China LED inventory piles up to record level
64 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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What If Unhappiness Contains the Secret to Happiness?
64 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000)
64 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Chalk of Champions [video]
64 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Interview with Reid Hoffman
64 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Estimating branch probability using Intel LBR feature
64 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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The rise of few-maintainer projects
64 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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The 25¢ Apple II Real Time Clock (1981)
64 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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On Monks and Email
64 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Show HN: Open-Registry – Distributed Package Registry Owned by the Community
64 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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A free XMPP server powered with green energy
64 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Tesla’s Touchscreen UI: A Case Study of Car-Dashboard User Interface
64 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Small retailers who sold through Amazon are facing a tax time bomb
64 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you ask to see the codebase before taking a job?
64 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Show HN: DeepSwarm – Optimising CNNs Using Swarm Intelligence
64 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?
63 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies
63 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Tim Cook: Four-Year Degree Not Necessary to Be Proficient at Coding'
63 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Teen shot herself with gunshot through mouth while hands cuffed behind back
63 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Breakfast is a relatively modern invention
63 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin cryptography, BitTorrent network
63 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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To Many Chinese, America Was Like ‘Heaven.’ Now They’re Not So Sure
63 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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With His Job Gone, an Autoworker Wonders, ‘What Am I as a Man?’
63 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Spiel Des Jahres Nominations for 2019
63 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Ask HN: What healthcare options exist for entrepreneurs?
63 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Do transportation network companies decrease or increase congestion?
63 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Does open-source cryptographic software work correctly? [pdf]
63 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Chinese database is tracking cellphone usage, car location and more
63 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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A comparative study of leather hardening techniques (2018)
63 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Sisense Acquires Periscope Data
63 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Facebook removes Indian page, says it spread Iranian propaganda
63 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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A smartphone app that can hear ear infections in children
63 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Congress should grow the Digital Services budget, it more than pays for itself
62 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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One of the Greatest Environmental Crimes of the 20th Century
62 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Trippy images were designed by AI to super-stimulate monkey neurons
62 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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The YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week
62 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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San Francisco police raid home of journalist to find who leaked Adachi report
62 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Academe’s Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey, and Professional Collapse at MLA
62 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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A 72-year-old French man has crossed the Atlantic in a giant orange barrel
62 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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What happens if building more housing doesn’t work?
62 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Exploring a massive cave labyrinth hidden under Borneo
62 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Was it an invisible attack on U.S. diplomats, or something stranger?
62 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Apple AirPort Firmware Data Deletion Vulnerability
62 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Why the doors to America are closing for Chinese tech students
62 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Kong raises $43M Series C for its API Gateway
62 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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The World Blows over $5T a Year on Oil and Gas Subsidies: Report
62 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Obsidian: A safer blockchain programming language
62 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Google warns that ADB backup, restore may be removed in a future Android release
62 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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GraphQL Query Rewriter
62 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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An experiment shows how to rebuild human compassion
62 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Antonio Salieri’s Revenge
62 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Tax dialysis: How Vanguard avoids paying realised gains tax on their mutual fund
62 points • comment • may 02, 2019