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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Scientists discover China has been secretly emitting banned ozone-depleting gas
46 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Stonewall riots 50 years later: 'We were fighting and it was for our lives'
46 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Redesigning Trust: Blockchain for Supply Chains
46 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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T1: Secure Programming for Embedded Systems [pdf]
46 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators
45 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Buttons on the Web: Placement and Order
45 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Designing an end-to-end encrypted CI/CD pipeline with Keybase.io
45 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Asian shops shun Huawei phone trade-ins on Google suspension worries
45 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Nasa to fund novel diffractive solar sails
45 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Knit, Chisel, Hack: Building Programs in Guile Scheme (2016) [video]
45 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Huawei's alternative OS to Android set to roll out as early as fall
45 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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U.S. Says Russia Might Be Setting Off Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons
45 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Dr. Bronner’s soap brand became a touchstone of wellness culture
45 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Claims that breakfast is a health panacea may be unsupported
45 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Never-Slow Mode a.k.a. Slightly-Fast Mode
45 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Janus cosmology: what is negative mass?
45 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Unpaywall Journals
45 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Reverse Engineering the Dropbox Client
45 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Windows 10 is getting a Microsoft-built Linux kernel
45 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Google pulls Huawei’s Android license, forcing it to use open source version
45 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Latest Firefox Release Is Faster Than Ever
45 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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RaspberryPi Featured on UK Postage Stamp
45 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Software Design is Human Relationships: Waiters, Changers, and Sufficiency
45 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The Subtle Art of the Mathematical Conjecture
45 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult
45 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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An Update on Spline Licensing
45 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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China ready to hit back at U.S. with rare earths
44 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Men, commit to mentor women
44 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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What Happened to Hovertrains? (2018) [video]
44 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Bitcoin's Rally Masks Uncomfortable Fact: Almost Nobody Uses It
44 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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PX9 Data Compression
44 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Stockholm's focus on walkability
44 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Known Issue: Charged full price of Fi device after financing
44 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Account Hijacking Forum OGusers Hacked
44 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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The low-down on home routers – how to buy, what to avoid
44 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Remote Development with VS Code
44 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Universal Math Solutions in Dimensions 8 and 24
44 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Passive DNS – A tutorial to set up your own passive DNS using D4 project
44 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Assange is reportedly gravely ill, and hardly anyone’s talking about it
44 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Over 100 Riot Games Employees Walked Out to End Forced Arbitration
44 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Hegelian contradiction and the prime numbers (part 2)
44 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Pad Thai was invented by the Thai government
44 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Smartphone shipments: Apple down 30%, Samsung down 8%, Huawei up 50%
44 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Basic Income as Common Dividends: Piloting a Transformative Policy
44 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Thurrott: Microsoft Confirms UWP Is Not the Future of Windows Apps
44 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Bing’s Not the Laughingstock of Technology Anymore
44 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Uber Is a Scam
44 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Programatically Understand Gaussian Processes: Part 1
44 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Silicon Valley will soon get its own stock exchange
44 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Functional Programming Is on the Rise
44 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Fabrix – A strongly-typed Node.js ecosystem
44 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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The rise of the sober bar
43 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Quantum information in quantum cognition
43 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex? (2014)
43 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Python's Caduceus Syndrome
43 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Interview with Kyle Simpson, author of You Don’t Know JS book series
43 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Lucretius saw no boundary between scientific interests and ethical claims
43 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Ask HN: Has Google made you pay $15,000 to $75,000 for a security review?
43 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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PyTorch 1.1
43 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Amoma.com is a scam (2017)
43 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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The Milkman Model Returns, This Time for Shampoo and Haagen-Dazs
43 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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You Had Me, And You Lost Me: Why I don't read Megatokyo (2004)
43 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Ted Chiang returns with another awe-inducing sci-fi collection
43 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Google Disables Intel Hyperthreading on ChromeOS
43 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Evergreen, highly scalable library software with GPL
43 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Reader/Reader blocking in reader/writer locks
43 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Uber prices blockbuster IPO conservatively to raise $8.1B
43 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social and Economic Background
43 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Defenses Against TCP SYN Flooding Attacks (2006)
43 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as 'creepy'
43 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Driven – A bicycle drivechain concept without derailleurs and chains
42 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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HP Spectre 15 x360 2019 review: Carving a niche in a crowded space
42 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Don't share pictures of your kids online
42 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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The Artistry of China’s Ivory Puzzle Balls
42 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Apple Is Finally Killing iTunes
42 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Ancient DNA Yields Snapshots of Vanished Ecosystems
42 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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What's New in Matplotlib 3.1
42 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Physical kilogram is officially dead
42 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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The Mysterious and Strange Origin of the Floppy Disk (2017)
42 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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A Most Important Discovery (1953)
42 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Huawei has trademarked its 'Hongmeng' operating system
42 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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CSS Grid Garden – a game to learn CSS grid by watering plants
42 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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A blueprint to write copy that converts, even if you're an awful writer
42 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Lokomotive: An engine to drive cutting-edge Linux technologies into Kubernetes
42 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Show HN: Wasmer – A Go library for executing WebAssembly binaries
42 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex (2002)
42 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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MitM'ing my STB (2016)
42 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Are the Trans Fat Purveyors of Our Generation
42 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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KidSwitch: Identifying Kids in Apps and Sites
42 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Firefox 67
42 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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OpenTracing and OpenCensus are merging into OpenTelemetry
42 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Nothing but Solitude
41 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Show HN: M4b-tool – a tool to merge, split and chapterize audiobooks
41 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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The antibiotic industry is broken
41 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Intel’s new boss wants to teach the chipmaker new tricks
41 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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What’s new in JavaScript [video]
41 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment
41 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Google has been storing G Suite user passwords in plain text for 14 years
41 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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RFC 8548: Cryptographic Protection of TCP Streams (Tcpcrypt)
41 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Apple dismisses Google’s criticism over turning privacy into a ‘luxury good’
41 points • comment • may 27, 2019