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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

    356 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  2. Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

    354 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  3. “Once-in-a-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan

    354 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  4. Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

    352 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  5. Get Your Book, Make It Free

    348 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  6. Researchers identify sleep as a reason why personality traits predict longevity

    346 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  7. A final proposal for Rust await syntax

    346 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  8. Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password

    346 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  9. Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres

    346 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  10. SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships

    344 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  11. Sued for copyright infringement for putting legal materials online

    344 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  12. James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test

    343 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  13. Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX

    342 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  14. TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat

    342 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  15. On SQS

    341 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  16. Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed

    341 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  17. Zero Cost Abstractions

    341 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  18. Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?

    340 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  19. FCC Chairman Proposes Robocall Blocking by Default

    340 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  20. UX clichés

    337 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  21. Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole

    337 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  22. Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?

    337 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  23. Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others

    336 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  24. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

    336 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  25. YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history

    336 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  26. A critical step to reduce climate change

    335 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  27. Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

    335 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  28. Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs

    334 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  29. Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019

    334 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  30. Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”

    332 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  31. A website that runs on a solar-powered server in Barcelona

    331 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  32. Huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission

    331 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  33. What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns

    330 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  34. 500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app

    329 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  35. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search

    329 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  36. Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain

    328 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  37. Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder

    325 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  38. BigInt Shipping in Firefox

    323 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  39. Sony and Microsoft set rivalry aside for cloud gaming alliance

    320 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  40. Show HN: Python Machine Learning – A Crash Course

    320 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  41. A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive

    320 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  42. Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months

    319 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  43. Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki

    318 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  44. Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider

    318 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  45. Notre Dame is unstable: a strong wind could make the walls collapse, report says

    318 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  46. Murray Gell-Mann Has Died

    318 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  47. IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries

    317 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  48. It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video

    317 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  49. United Nations Expert Arrested in Tunisia for Using an RTL-SDR

    317 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  50. Why Racket? Why Lisp?

    316 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  51. Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg

    316 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  52. My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting

    315 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  53. Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs

    314 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  54. Wireguard-docs: Setup, usage, configuration, and a full example

    313 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  55. The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android

    312 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  56. Senate Testimony on Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy

    311 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  57. Show HN: Risp – Lisp in Rust

    311 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  58. Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?

    311 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  59. Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools

    310 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  60. Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software conference

    310 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  61. Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?

    309 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  62. Power Is Overrated

    309 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  63. Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says

    309 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  64. Paying for Open Source Contributions

    308 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  65. Calculus with Julia

    307 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  66. Aggressive Chess Openings (2012)

    307 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  67. Erlang OTP 22.0 is released

    307 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  68. The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack

    305 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  69. Intel Performance Hit 5x Harder Than AMD After Spectre, Meltdown Patches

    305 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  70. The Beauty of Calculus [video]

    305 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  71. Remote-Powered Developer Tools

    304 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  72. OKRs from a development team’s perspective

    304 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  73. Linux distros without systemd

    303 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  74. Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance

    303 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  75. JMAP: A modern, open email protocol

    302 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  76. Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)

    302 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  77. Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP

    302 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  78. Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry from US marketplace

    301 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  79. Show HN: 2D Graphics on Modern GPU

    300 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  80. TaiChi: Open-source computer graphics library

    299 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  81. 40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, according to research

    298 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  82. Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning

    298 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  83. Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials

    297 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  84. Flexible data tables with CSS Grid

    297 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  85. The multi-armed bandit problem (2012)

    297 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  86. ProtonMail Voluntarily Offers Assistance for Real-Time Surveillance?

    295 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  87. Pixel 3a

    295 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  88. This Old House: The Rare Home-Improvement Show That Spotlights Skilled Workers

    292 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  89. America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery

    290 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  90. Cost of serving billions of images per month

    290 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  91. America's loneliness epidemic: A systemic risk to organizations

    290 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  92. Solid Principles: A Software Developer’s Framework to Robust, Maintainable Code

    290 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  93. Security Update

    288 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  94. Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10

    288 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  95. Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database

    288 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  96. They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia

    288 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  97. Keepass.com spreading malware acting as the official password manager site

    287 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  98. To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017)

    286 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  99. Why Was Mini USB Deprecated in Favor of Micro USB?

    285 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  100. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released

    285 points • comment • may 07, 2019