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Hacker News (May 2019)
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The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (2017)
56 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle
56 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Advice on balancing family life at a startup
56 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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It’s Never Been Easier to Be a CEO, and the Pay Keeps Rising
56 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Argon-16 Computer
55 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Microsoft hints at new modern Windows OS with ‘invisible’ background updates
55 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might Be the Worst Idea in Tech
55 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Same-sex marriage legalization associated with reduced antigay bias
55 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Anxiety might be alleviated by regulating gut bacteria
55 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Code Review from the Command Line (2018)
55 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Japan: Streets at Night (Photography)
55 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Voice Pitch Predicts Labor Market Success Among Male CEOs (2012) [pdf]
55 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Listen to jungle sounds with the SAFE project
55 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Intel Process Technology Update: 10nm Server Products in 1H 2020, 7nm in 2021
55 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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An eBPF overview, part 5: Tracing user processes
55 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Amnesty loses new New York Headquarters because China
55 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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From Collisions to Chosen-Prefix Collisions Application to Full SHA-1 [pdf]
55 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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VPN service for hosting public-facing services on non-hosting ISP circuits
55 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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WebAssembly in Redex
55 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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The Missing Readline Primer
55 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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At $2.1M, Novartis gene therapy will be world’s most expensive drug
55 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Show HN: Web Components for Dynamic Scripture References
55 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Atari 800 vs. Commodore 64 – The Brief Tale of Two 8-Bit Home Computers
55 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Multi-Person Pose Estimation with Enhanced Channel-wise and Spatial Information
55 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Using Ed25519 signing keys for encryption
55 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning – Ted Chiang
54 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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RCE Without Native Code: Exploitation of a Write-What-Where in Internet Explorer
54 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Drivers group plans work stoppage at Uber, Lyft in NYC
54 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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The Antonine Wall was the real final frontier of the Roman Empire
54 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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CrowdStrike S-1
54 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Beyond Quantum Mechanics [video]
54 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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In search of a truce in the autism wars
54 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Show HN: Python 3 TSP solver based on LKH (cross platform)
54 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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A 600-Page Textbook About Modern Monetary Theory Has Sold Out
54 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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These may be the first images of dogs, and they’re wearing leashes (2017)
54 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Strache Caught on Camera in Ibiza
54 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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$500k a Year yet Struggling? Let's Do a Double Take
54 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen by 2048
54 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Security Advisory for the Standard Library
54 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Simulating A/B tests offline with counterfactual inference
54 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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A Boost for Java on the Client
54 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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APIs for fun personal projects
54 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Using SPARK to Prove 255-Bit Integer Arithmetic from Curve25519
54 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Roger McNamee: “Facebook Is Terrible for America”
54 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Go to Statement Considered Harmful (1968) [pdf]
54 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Bob Widlar – The Life of an Engineering Legend
54 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Why Do Lunar Satellites Eventually Crash into the Moon? [video]
54 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Show HN: Create thousands of videos from a Google sheet
54 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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The rich world is enjoying an unprecedented jobs boom
53 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Interactive Text Prediction Explainer
53 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam
53 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Power Plant?
53 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Recursive Make Considered Harmful (1997) [pdf]
53 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Found: Stolen Alexander Hamilton Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette
53 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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HP Enterprise Nears Deal to Buy Cray
53 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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She was the “queen of the mommy bloggers”
53 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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The hiring spreadsheet and the clash at The Markup
53 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati
53 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Handy Keymaps in Vim
53 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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React SVG Drawing Library
53 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Examples of bad open-source code to learn what to avoid?
53 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Show HN: Flipt – an open-source feature flag solution
53 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Moa fossil footprints found in New Zealand river
53 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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USB Snooping Made Easy: Crosstalk Leakage Attacks on USB Hubs (2017)
53 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Incognito no more: Publishers close loopholes as paywall blockers emerge
53 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Solder Alloys and Metallurgy
52 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Ask HN: What jobs can a software engineer take to tackle climate change?
52 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous
52 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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When to Stop Fuzzing
52 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Liverpool Football Club’s reliance on analytics
52 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Tootdon App sends a copy of every post to a central corporate server
52 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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In a backyard in Erie, Pa., an unusual cardinal may be a gynandromorph
52 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Netscape's Internet Foundation Classes (1996)
52 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Digital Doppelgängers Fool Advanced Anti-Fraud Tech
52 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans
52 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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“The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture
52 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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The hype about an incoming wave of tech IPOs has underscored SF's tensions
52 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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A Hardware Accelerator for Tracing Garbage Collection
52 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Salesforce.com tells its customers to stop selling assault-style rifles
52 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Wingtip Coupling at 15,000 Feet (2000) [pdf]
52 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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First Draft of PostgreSQL 12 Release Notes
52 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Voynich Manuscript Decrypted by Bristol Academic
52 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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PayPal starts charging 2.9% for refunded sales
52 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Why do you grab your bag when running off a burning plane?
52 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
52 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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A case for lease-based, utilitarian resource management on mobile devices
52 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Tor Browser 8.0.8
52 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Two amateur sleuths discover ancient rock art in the plains of India
52 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'
52 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Ask HN: How can I find a good mentor?
51 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Rio de Janeiro’s police killed a record number of people in three months
51 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Show HN: Made a new notification tool and I'm looking for some beta testers
51 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Tesla increases price of all Model 3 variants, even ‘off-the-menu’ base model
51 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News
51 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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The Internet Is Making You Less Free
51 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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This neural net would like to deliver these petitions
51 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languages
51 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Metamorphic Testing
51 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Refurbished Samsung Android Phones Sans Google Now Available
51 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Announcing GraalVM 19
50 points • comment • may 09, 2019