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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Being a PhD student shouldn’t be bad for your health
25 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Photos of the Tiananmen Square Protests Through the Lens of a Student Witness
25 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Sorry, keto fans, you're probably not in ketosis (2018)
25 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Best paid email hosting service in 2019?
25 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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A long-lost vessel from the 1800s was found by accident as NOAA tested equipment
25 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Taleb Says Fed Should Do 'Minimum Harm' [video]
25 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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The End of Mobile
25 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The Influence of Streamlined Music on Cognition and Mood (2016)
25 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Exploring undefined behavior using constexpr
24 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Ask HN: Do you think technology progress will flatten out 100 years from now
24 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Israel’s NSO: the business of spying on your iPhone
24 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Weissman Score
24 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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The Inescapable Town Square
24 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Exxon Predicted 2019’s Ominous CO2 Milestone in 1982
24 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Windows 10 will soon ship with a full, open-source, GPLed Linux kernel
24 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Scalable Python Code with Pandas UDFs
24 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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GDB 8.3
24 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Britain in two-week coal-free record
24 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Ask HN: As a female/minority, how do you vet a company before taking a job?
24 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Why do rich people lie, cheat and steal more than those on low incomes?
24 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Almost One Million Vulnerable to BlueKeep Vuln (CVE-2019-0708)
24 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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BBC admits iPlayer has lost streaming fight with Netflix
24 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Excelsior JET 16 cancelled and Excelsior moving away from JVM development
24 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Ask HN: What would you like to say to your fellow HN readers?
24 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Boeing CEO refuses to admit 737 MAX 8 is flawed
24 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Motion Profiling Controllers
24 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Southwest Airlines Considers A220 as 737 Max Replacement
24 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Semantic Oscillations: Encoding Context and Structure in Complex Holographic Vec
24 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Oregon outlaws use of so-called ‘cyanide bombs’
24 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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More Tigers Live in Cages Than the Wild
24 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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New electrochemical process shortens the path to capturing and recycling CO2
24 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Ask HN: With a single site per comment, which sites do you visit regularly?
24 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Boeing Plans Layoff of 900 quality inspectors
24 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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How Gitlab Cracked the Code of Remote Working
24 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Tell HN: My usability pet peeve – am/pm times with a leading zero
24 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Early efforts to build a thermometer
24 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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In Defense of Fahrenheit
24 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Does Google “20% time” still exist?
24 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Free Courses to Learn Docker in 2019
24 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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According to our capitalist overlords, you're broke because you eat lunch
24 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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The Last Aryans of Ladakh
23 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Sony built an IoT chip with a 60 mile range
23 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Billionaire Marc Benioff donates $30M to research homelessness
23 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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HB 481: Georgia law criminalizes abortion, subjects women to life in prison
23 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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The Blue-Collar Jobs Boom Nobody Seems to Notice
23 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Linux Kernel Prior to 5.0.8 Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution
23 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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I oversaw the U.S. nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned
23 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Kiwix – a cross-platform offline Wikipedia reader
23 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Ask HN: How to lead a stable, happy career as a bad interviewee?
23 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Giant logged long ago but not forgotten (2011)
23 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Show HN: Google Places x Instagram
23 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Notre Dame Re-Imagined with Glass Roof
23 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Java is confusing, Clojure is simple
23 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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MacBook Pro Keyboard Failures [Teardown and Explanations]
23 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Updates to Amazon EKS Version Lifecycle
23 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Never Take the Meeting: How I Tried (and Failed) to Infiltrate a Mentorship Cult
23 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Global Egyptian Museum
23 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Sinking a $3B Indian submarine by forgetting to close a hatch
23 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Chinese driver gets ticket for scratching his face
23 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Uber's IPO caps an era of mediocrity and small thinking in Silicon Valley
23 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Root for the Uber IPO to Fail
23 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Mission Creep: NSA’s System for Iraq, Afghanistan Ended Up on the Mexican Border
23 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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P-bits: Bridging the gap between standard bits and q-bits
23 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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The US Government Interest Expense Was 93% of Military Spending in 2018
23 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Supreme Court seeks Trump administration views on Google-Oracle copyright feud
23 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Airbnb Spawned an Ecosystem of Startups
23 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Making Monkeys Out of the Sohn Investing Gurus
23 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Rust Patterns: Enums Instead of Booleans
23 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom
23 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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More CO2 in the atmosphere today than any point since the evolution of humans
23 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?
23 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Show HN: Thought Train 2 – An app for replacing sticky notes
23 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Did Cooking in HotSprings Make Human's Brainy?
23 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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People in higher social class have an exaggerated belief that they are better
23 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Introducing Mercury OS
23 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Should You Tell the World How Much Money You Make?
22 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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AirPods Are a Tragedy
22 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Amazon MSK – managed streaming for Apache Kafka – now generally available
22 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Lambda Twist: An Accurate Fast Robust-Perspective Three-Point Solver [pdf]
22 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Let’s Not Put the Government in Charge of Moderating Facebook
22 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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A house built to withstand wild weather
22 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Deep learning can now prove half of what expert mathematicians can
22 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Show HN: GitHub Actions for GitHub Pages with Static Site Generators
22 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Useful list of 16 Python libraries that helped a healthcare startup grow
22 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Microsoft warns wormable Windows RDP bug could lead to another WannaCry
22 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Data Scientists Should Be Able to Deploy and Iterate Their Own Models
22 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Guitars can imitate any instrument – this man proves it
22 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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On a Quick Way to Extract Concise Image Descriptors from CNN Models
22 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Google’s lung cancer detection AI outperforms 6 human radiologists
22 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Men Are Paying Sixfold Markups to Feel Cool About Buying Generic Viagra
22 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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New York City turns to dry ice to control its rat population
22 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Tech Veganism
22 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness
22 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Autopilot was active when a Tesla crashed into a truck, killing driver
22 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Elastic energy storage in the shoulder: evolution of high-speed throwing in Homo
22 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Do You Want to Be Doing This When You're 50?
22 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Hedonism, sex and fear – why the Weimar republic is in vogue
22 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Avalanche visualisation using satellite radar [pdf]
22 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Dark Side of the Ring: Pro Wrestling and Americana
22 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Understanding 5G: A Basic Primer
22 points • comment • may 06, 2019