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Hacker News (May 2019)
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The Shortest Research Paper Ever Published
28 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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A plot to kill Kim Il Sung ended in mutiny and murder (2018)
28 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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John Carmack Keynote at Oculus Connect 5 (2018)
28 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Fat Tyrants
28 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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The Myth of Food Cravings
28 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Passive funds took power away from investors
28 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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It's Time to Pay Attention to Intel's Clear Linux OS Project
28 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Show HN: Leg – Simple, elegant logging for Rust
28 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Vanguard Patented a Way to Avoid Taxes on Mutual Funds
28 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Monsanto 'compiled dossier' on political opponents
28 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Daniel Bell at 100
28 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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How Much Alcohol Is Safe to Drink? None, Say These Researchers
28 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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A castle where people live rent-free
28 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Systemd Invasion into Linux Server Space
28 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Teen Commits Suicide After Instagram Poll
28 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Why are we rich but hopeless
28 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Sam Altman on Twitter: It's gross seeing so many root against Tesla
28 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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g-fu: a Lisp developed and embedded in Go
28 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The Atomic Soldiers: U.S. Veterans, Used as Guinea Pigs, Break the Silence
27 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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I was curious if a nonsense LinkedIn account would get job offers. It does!
27 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers
27 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Show HN: Open sourcing my email sending startup
27 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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TextEdit Deletes Original File Even When You Cancel
27 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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She's serving 5 years in jail for leaking one document
27 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Is daycare bad for affluent children?
27 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in markets with lower-end smartphones (2018)
27 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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LeapMotion to be acquired for $30m by UltraHaptics
27 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Emirp Primes
27 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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“I want to do unpaid image classification”
27 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Show HN: Coursera Notes Clone for YouTube Playlists with React and VideoJS
27 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Excel for iPhone now lets you take a picture of a spreadsheet and import it
27 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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How to Set Up a Mac for Web Development
27 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Israel launched an airstrike in response to a Hamas cyberattack
27 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Spelunking in the Turing Tarpit: Expedition Through an Esoteric Landscape
27 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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We Are Especially Unfortunate to Die, When Our Descendants Could Be Immortal
27 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Ask HN: Best way to learn JavaScript in 2019?
27 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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China unveils 600km/h maglev train prototype
27 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Personal Names Around the World
27 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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EFF to Tenth Circuit: First Amendment Protects Right to Record Police
27 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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My Git Workflow (2008)
27 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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CodeSandbox Raises $2.4M Seed Round Led by Kleiner Perkins
27 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Bloomberg Shits the Bed Again on Cybersecurity
27 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Ask HN: How do I represent a hierarchy in RDBMS?
27 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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The global internet is disintegrating. What comes next?
27 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Silicon Valley Couldn't Care Less About Earth’s Imminent Demise
27 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Why Are 96M Black Balls on This Reservoir?
27 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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When Did it Became Impossible to Say, ‘I Don’t Know’?
27 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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A Tale of Two Zippers
26 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Musk: Hyperloop Tunnel Is Now a Normal Tunnel – ‘This Is Simple and Just Works’
26 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Uber's Tech Stack Evolution
26 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools
26 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Google employees protest retaliation with international sit-in
26 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Ten Thousand Years (2014)
26 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory
26 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Why Not to Build a Time-Series Database
26 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Explore Kyoto's Red Gates in Unreal Engine 4
26 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Cross-ISA Machine Instrumentation Using Fast/Scalable Dynamic Binary Translation [pdf]
26 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames
26 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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US prosecutors to 'help themselves' to Julian Assange's possessions
26 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Spanish coins that predate Columbus by 200 years found deep in the Utah desert
26 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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The Smith College Historic Clothing Collection
26 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Show HN: The Urlist – Group links together and share them with a custom URL
26 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Mozart: Rational Revolutionary
26 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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[Microsoft] NeuronBlocks – Building Your NLP DNN Models Like Playing Lego
26 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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It All Ends in Tears: UK PM Theresa May Resigns
26 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Ice-T says he almost shot an Amazon delivery driver 'creeping up to my crib'
26 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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A High-Throughput Platform to Identify Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Crispr-Cas9
26 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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An abstraction called text styles – How to save yourself from a typographic mess
26 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Heavily processed food like ready meals and ice-cream linked to early death
26 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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IEEE, a major science publisher, bans Huawei scientists from reviewing papers
26 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Tracking down the teenage hackers of the Inner Circle (2016)
26 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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“Twitter engineers were caught on tape talking about shadow banning”
26 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Alan Kay Did Not Invent Objects
26 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Exercise shown more effective than drugs for depression, schizophrenia
26 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Show HN: Painless CSS: Learn CSS from First Principles
26 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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In This Doctor’s Office, a Physical Exam Like No Other
26 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Internals of CPython (3.7)
26 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Farmed salmon isn't naturally pink or red
26 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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What is the role of meat in a healthy diet?
26 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Legit: A language based on a Git commit history
26 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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GopherCon Singapore 2019 Videos
25 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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The new Windows subsystem for Linux a deep dive
25 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Sentry 9.1 and Upcoming Changes
25 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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4chan’s new troll campaign aims to make the hashtag a white supremacist symbol
25 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Preferred Women’s Waist-to-Hip Ratio Variation over the Last 2,500 Years (2015)
25 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Ask HN: Where can I do a self-study math degree online?
25 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Ask HN: I Got Deported from USA to Kenya
25 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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China recalls giant pandas from San Diego Zoo amid U.S. trade war
25 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Ask HN: My co-founder is dead. What now?
25 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Robot can pick tomatoes without bruising them better than humans
25 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Scientists revisit the cold case of cold fusion
25 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Drugmakers allegedly inflated prices over 1k% and 44 states are now suing
25 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Why Are Cryptographers Being Denied Entry into the US?
25 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Vulgar Bodies and Nasty Trades
25 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The time I accidentally transported a brick of heroin from LA to Seattle
25 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Quora still exists, and it’s now worth $2B
25 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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A 3D Interactive Map of AWS Infrastructure
25 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Crashplan bans particular filetypes and removes them from customer accounts
25 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures
25 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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CMC Cartonwrap box packing machine [video]
25 points • comment • may 26, 2019