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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will
22 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Trump declares emergency over IT threats
22 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Tenants win as settlement orders landlords give physical keys over smart locks
22 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Your display contents may be traced by the sound of it using ordinary microphone
22 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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VW to Reshuffle $56B Battery Push as Samsung Deal at Risk
22 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
22 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Ditching processed foods won’t be easy – The barriers to cooking from scratch
22 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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'Deepfake' AI can turn the Mona Lisa into a convincing real person
22 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Americans Are Not Prepared for the Coming Mother of All Stock Market Crashes
22 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Google may be about to kill affiliate marketing links
22 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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One (new) thing you need to know about Google Cloud Bigtable
22 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The calls to reign in Mark Zuckerberg have never been louder
22 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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The Unbearable Lightness of Java
21 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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YouTube commenter threatens to kill employees, drives to HQ with a gun
21 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Two dead after YouTube conspiracy video claims drinking bleach cures autism
21 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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“Confidential” HDMI Specifications Docs Hit with DMCA Takedown
21 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Google’s AI can now translate your speech while keeping your voice
21 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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A History and Survey of Network Firewalls (2002) [pdf]
21 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
21 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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A Fertility Doctor Using His Own Sperm: Ethical and legal considerations
21 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Show HN: Draw “text-mode” diagrams using Braille characters
21 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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'WhatsApp will never be safe': Telegram boss attacks Facebook-owned messaging
21 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Apple offered to buy Tesla back in 2013 for more than it’s worth today – BGR
21 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Ask HN: What technologies should I focus on to enhance my carreer?
21 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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The Mystery of Human Uniqueness (2013)
21 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Should C Programmers Learn C++, Go or Rust? (2018)
21 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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OpenFLIXR – all-in-one media server for automated downloading and serving media
21 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Transparent Solar Panels Will Turn Windows into Green Energy Collectors
21 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Land Lines, Cell Phones, and Their Social Consequences (2011)
21 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Ajit Pai Refuses to Investigate Frontier Telecom Problems in Minnesota
21 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Makepad, 2D CAD Livecoding for Rust
21 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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How San Francisco Broke America’s Heart
21 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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'No other option': Climate change driving many to flee Guatemala
21 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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U.S. Beer Industry Blames Trump Tariffs for 40k Job Losses
21 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Unraveling
21 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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The world's first hack: the telegraph and the invention of privacy (2015)
21 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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On the Road to Irmin v2
21 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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If DARPA Has Its Way, AI Will Rule the Wireless Spectrum
21 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Hybridogenesis in water frogs
21 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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KrispNet – Voice Playback with Deep Learning
21 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Bounty hunters storm home with battering RAM over $750 bond, video shows
21 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Get Off of Twitter
21 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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We Can't Destroy Planet Earth
21 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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SpaceX’s Starlink launch debut to orbit dozens of satellites later this month
21 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Audi will replace the TT with an electric sports car
21 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Secret Huawei enterprise router snoop 'backdoor' was Telnet service
21 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Most male managers are afraid to have one-on-one meetings with female employees
21 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Amazon is 3D-scanning people's bodies in exchange for gift cards
21 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Ask HN: As a creative developer what are your sources for inspiration?
21 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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How Slack impacts workplace productivity
21 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Józef Czapski: painter, prisoner, and disciple of Proust
20 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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The Long Term Stock Exchange
20 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Alphabetical Order in Korean
20 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Ask HN: How to avoid ghosting by potential customers?
20 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you deal with or stop escapism?
20 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Making America Carbon Neutral Could Cost $1T a Year
20 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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As ER Wait Times Grow, More Patients Leave Against Medical Advice
20 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Elite reveal anxiety over ‘class war’ and ‘revolution’
20 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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How does Docker work?
20 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Founding a new computer science program
20 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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D4 Project – Open and collaborative network monitoring [pdf]
20 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Is Prison Necessary?
20 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering Natural World at Unprecedented Pace
20 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Report: Obama’s Spying On The Press Was More Extensive Than Previously Thought
20 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Understanding Fake Agile
20 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Washington becomes first US state to legalise human composting
20 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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The Uber IPO Is a Moral Stain on Silicon Valley
20 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Microsoft’s First Windows XP Patch in Years Is a Bad Sign
20 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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An Astounding Amount of Water Has Been Discovered Beneath the Martian North Pole
20 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Add a Bit of Soviet-Era Super-Computing to Your FPGA
20 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Puppeteers Making Performance Art Weird Again
20 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Why use learning when you can fit?
20 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Americans' Air Conditioning Habit Is Eco-Friendly (2015)
20 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Instagram data breach 49M users’ sensitive data exposed online
20 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Push Them Hard Enough and the Productive Class Will Opt Out of Servitude
20 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Jayapal and Sanders Medicare for All Bills: One Is a Lot Better Than the Other
20 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Remote Python Development in Visual Studio Code
20 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Your Car Knows When You Gain Weight
20 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Facebook Bars Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan and Others from Its Services
20 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Frances Arnold Turns Microbes into Living Factories
20 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Git basics – the only introduction you'll ever need
20 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Opt-IN, No Ads, and No Tracking Solve a Lot of Problems in Society
20 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Boeing 737 slid off the runway and fell into St. Johns River in Florida
20 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Visual Studio Code Remote Development May Change Everything – Scott Hanselman
20 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Binance has been hacked for 7k Bitcoin ($40m)
20 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Faster Script Loading with BinaryAST?
20 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Teslonda: The Tesla / Honda Powered by Raspberry Pi
20 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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SpaceX Starlink Mission: Livefeed
20 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Exploring the Apple Pippin ROM(s), part 7: A lot to digest
20 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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“Bomb Carbon” Has Been Found in Deep-Ocean Creatures
20 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Consumer Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down
19 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Self-made millionaire invented Bug-A-Salt gun, shoots salt at flies
19 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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We Bootstrapped an Open-Source Project to $120k/Month
19 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Mozilla Research Call: Tune Up Tor for Integration and Scale
19 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Jeff Bezos Unveils Blue Origin’s Vision for Space, and a Moon Lander
19 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Air pollution from every power plant in the world, tracked
19 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Docker Bug Allows Root Access to Host File System
19 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Historical Snapshot: Boeing 747 Commercial Transport/YAL-1
19 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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It’s Not About Assange, It’s About Press Freedom
19 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Young White Dudes Are Decidedly Opting Out of the Whole ‘Job’ Thing
19 points • comment • may 26, 2019