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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Clear is better than clever [pdf]
495 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons
494 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Windows gets a new terminal
491 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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A Decade of Remote Work
490 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Practices for writing high-performance Go
489 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords
486 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets
485 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM
483 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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CBS censors a ‘Good Fight’ segment whose topic was Chinese censorship
482 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building
481 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]
480 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)
473 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries
471 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history
467 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
463 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage
462 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
461 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00
461 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit other workers
459 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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GNU Guix 1.0
458 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy
457 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Guardian records first operating profit since 1998
456 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Google suspends some business with Huawei
456 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild
455 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics
455 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made
452 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets
452 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics
451 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor
451 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Twilio Super SIM
449 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE
447 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
447 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long
446 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default
445 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed
444 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
443 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?
442 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure
440 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse
439 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs
438 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox
437 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Betrayed by an app she had never heard of
436 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
432 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time
431 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users
431 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Game Engine Black Books Update
430 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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New Game: Minecraft Earth
428 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly
425 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection
424 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected
422 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Founder Books
421 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud
419 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Why I'm still using jQuery
416 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)
409 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Google Fights Back
409 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Geoff Ralston taking over as President of YC
407 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records
407 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes
405 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python
404 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia
401 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's standard library
399 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Ask HN: Which books teach mental models?
399 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter
399 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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JetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face
396 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Uber opens at $42 per share
394 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Firms That Promised Ransomware Decryption Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers
393 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified
391 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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U.S. regulators approve the Long-Term Stock Exchange
390 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Ask HN: How can I work towards building a company while employed?
389 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone
389 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History
389 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Oh shit, git (2016)
388 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (1996)
388 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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3D Game Shaders for Beginners
387 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash
385 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete
383 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit limiting ability to shut off MCAS
383 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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SaaS CTO Security Checklist
382 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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0x Launch Kit – Launch your own cryptocurrency exchange or marketplace
381 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010)
381 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Guide to Deep Work
380 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Unraveling the JPEG
380 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible
375 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Show HN: Turn an Excel file into a web application
372 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Android App Reverse Engineering 101
372 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc
371 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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The State of Apple's Developer Documentation
368 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites
364 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms
364 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft
363 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Removing duplicate lines from files keeping the original order with Awk
362 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Employing QUIC Protocol to Optimize Uber’s App Performance
360 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from an abandoned building
358 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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YTMND has shut down
357 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Making a Game Boy Game in 2017
357 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Blue Moon
357 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Three.js Fundamentals
356 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Translating math into code with examples in Java, Racket, Haskell, Python (2011)
356 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own design review
356 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Mathics – A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica
356 points • comment • may 07, 2019