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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Silicon Valley Is Awash in Chinese and Saudi Cash
37 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Google has given $150k in free ads to deceptive anti-abortion group
37 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Announcing the new pricing plan for AWS Config rules
37 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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3D imaging of fetal head molding and brain shape changes during labor
37 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Personal Blog Analytics – Which Numbers Really Matter
37 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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The Cul-de-Sac of the Computational Metaphor
37 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Ex-NSA man slams Israel for strike on alleged Hamas cyber attackers
37 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Homeokinetics: A Physical Science for Complex Systems (1978) [pdf]
36 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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The dark truth behind wildlife tourism
36 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Merck Created Hit List to “Destroy,” “Neutralize” or “Discredit” Doctors
36 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Hubble spies curious galaxy moving a little closer
36 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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The United Kingdom Has Gone Mad
36 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Debiasing Desire: Addressing Bias and Discrimination on Intimate Platforms
36 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Apple is lobbying Californian lawmakers against 'Right to Repair' bill
36 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Ask HN: Why are phone numbers considered a secure personal identifier?
36 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Why every cyclist needs a pool noodle
36 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Fiverr is a happier marketplace than Upwork as there is no race to the bottom
36 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest
36 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Show HN: ShaderLab – My WebGL Social Network
36 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Weird Ruby: Positive and Negative Strings
36 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Korean team designs graphene-based transparent flexible battery
36 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Sunscreen enters bloodstream after just one day of use
36 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Can Facebook Be Fixed? Should It Be?
36 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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'Reconstruction' begins of stone age lands lost to North Sea
36 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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MacBook Pro Keyboard Why Apples Dust Excuse Is Wrong[Teardown and Explanations]
36 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Sleep Apnea Can Have Deadly Consequences
36 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Origami-inspired materials could soften the blow for reusable spacecraft
35 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Becoming Dr. Seuss
35 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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SEC approves new Silicon Valley stock exchange backed by Marc Andreessen
35 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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A Geocode Is Not an Address
35 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead (2016)
35 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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The Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones
35 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Ford to eliminate 7k jobs, or 10% of workforce
35 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Smallest Simplest Stablest GUI Library
35 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys
35 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Your ‘recycled’ laptop may end up in an illegal Asian scrapyard
35 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’
35 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Show HN: Nomocle – Create Hacker News dashboards and follow topics
35 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren puts a giant tech breakup billboard in San Francisco’s face
35 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Purism and the Linux Kernel
35 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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I’m sorry, but this “Full Stack” meme makes me mad/sad
35 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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I am a Web Dev And I am Burnt Out
35 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The Twelve-Factor App
35 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Thrangrycat
35 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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DIY facial recognition for porn sparks concern
35 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Food packaging is full of toxic chemicals – here's how it could affect health
35 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Boeing Crash Fight Will Set Price on Victims' Minutes of Terror
35 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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The killing of Népszabadság, Hungary’s biggest opposition paper
35 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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The Subtle Art of the Mathematical Conjecture
35 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Boeing might represent the greatest indictment of 21st-century capitalism
35 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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What is the largest bi-truncatable prime?
35 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Delta tells workers they should buy video games instead of joining a union
34 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Is TikTok a Chinese Cambridge Analytica Data Bomb Waiting to Explode?
34 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Social Media and Self Harm: The Need to ‘Do Something’
34 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Is All Economics Local? [pdf]
34 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company lands $48.7M contract for underground “people mover”
34 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Netflix is not the future of TV
34 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Facebook: Breaking Up Facebook Is Not the Answer
34 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Syzkaller Found a Bug
34 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Scientists Find Cocaine in Shrimps
34 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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A Day in the Life of a Principal Space Architect
34 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Thanks to Facebook, Cellphone Companies Are Watching You More Closely Than Ever
34 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Chinese Family Reportedly Paid $6.5M for Spot at Stanford
34 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure
34 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Air pollution may be damaging 'every organ in the body’
34 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Israel to auction prefab classrooms donated by EU to Palestinians
34 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Boston Student wrote ‘I'm from Hong Kong’ An onslaught of Chinese anger followed
34 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Honeywell Brings Blockchain to Used Aircraft Parts Market
34 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Azerbaijani Wikipedia accused of administrator abuse, Armenian genocide denial
34 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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TSMC to Keep Supplying Chips to Huawei
34 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Amazon fired these 7 pregnant workers. Then came the lawsuits
33 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Ask HN: What are the numbers everyone should know in 2019?
33 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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US DOE referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas”
33 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Micro SaaS Ideas You'll Want to Steal
33 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop
33 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Hashtag Propaganda. Secret UK govt tactics for post-terror planning
33 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Germany Talking about Banning End-to-End Encryption
33 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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MySQL Cluster Auto-Recovery
33 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Former Rockstar Designer Says Former Top Executive Groped Him
33 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Go
33 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Psyche-c – Automatic Compilation of Partially-Available C Sources
33 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Due to professional hacking, this website has been removed from the web
33 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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A distracted, divided U.S. is no match for China’s long-term plan for domination
33 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Illinois might start charging $1k per year to own an electric vehicle
33 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?
33 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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DeepMind Achieves Human Level Performance in Quake III Arena Capture the Flag
33 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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America just had its lowest number of births in 32 years, report finds
33 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Team Synchronization Across GitHub and Azure Active Directory
33 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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The Feds May Come to Regret Charging Assange with Espionage
33 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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The Last Known Slave Ship Has Been Found
32 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Chinese Dominance of Rare-Earth Metals Threatens to Disrupt U.S. Manufacturing
32 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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China Gears Up to Weaponize Rare Earths in Trade War
32 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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A Brief History of Zork (2014)
32 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Lattice Boltzmann
32 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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I tried to make Facebook's news feed random and fun
32 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Artificial general intelligence is here, and it's useless
32 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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The Sparse Manifold Transform (2018) [pdf]
32 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Anti-Stokes excitation of solid-state quantum emitters for nanoscale thermometry
32 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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The Future of Interaction
32 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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SQL Cards
32 points • comment • may 11, 2019