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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr
356 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow
354 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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“Once-in-a-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan
354 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
352 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Get Your Book, Make It Free
348 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Researchers identify sleep as a reason why personality traits predict longevity
346 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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A final proposal for Rust await syntax
346 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password
346 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres
346 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
344 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Sued for copyright infringement for putting legal materials online
344 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test
343 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Fancy Euclid's “Elements” in TeX
342 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat
342 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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On SQS
341 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed
341 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Zero Cost Abstractions
341 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?
340 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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FCC Chairman Proposes Robocall Blocking by Default
340 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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UX clichés
337 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and Pi-Hole
337 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
337 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others
336 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
336 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history
336 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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A critical step to reduce climate change
335 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked
335 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs
334 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019
334 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
332 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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A website that runs on a solar-powered server in Barcelona
331 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission
331 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns
330 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app
329 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search
329 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain
328 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder
325 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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BigInt Shipping in Firefox
323 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Sony and Microsoft set rivalry aside for cloud gaming alliance
320 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Show HN: Python Machine Learning – A Crash Course
320 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
320 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months
319 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki
318 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider
318 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Notre Dame is unstable: a strong wind could make the walls collapse, report says
318 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Murray Gell-Mann Has Died
318 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries
317 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video
317 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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United Nations Expert Arrested in Tunisia for Using an RTL-SDR
317 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Why Racket? Why Lisp?
316 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg
316 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting
315 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs
314 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Wireguard-docs: Setup, usage, configuration, and a full example
313 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android
312 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Senate Testimony on Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy
311 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Show HN: Risp – Lisp in Rust
311 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
311 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools
310 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software conference
310 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?
309 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Power Is Overrated
309 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says
309 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Paying for Open Source Contributions
308 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Calculus with Julia
307 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Aggressive Chess Openings (2012)
307 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Erlang OTP 22.0 is released
307 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack
305 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Intel Performance Hit 5x Harder Than AMD After Spectre, Meltdown Patches
305 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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The Beauty of Calculus [video]
305 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Remote-Powered Developer Tools
304 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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OKRs from a development team’s perspective
304 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Linux distros without systemd
303 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance
303 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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JMAP: A modern, open email protocol
302 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)
302 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP
302 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry from US marketplace
301 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Show HN: 2D Graphics on Modern GPU
300 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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TaiChi: Open-source computer graphics library
299 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, according to research
298 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning
298 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials
297 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Flexible data tables with CSS Grid
297 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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The multi-armed bandit problem (2012)
297 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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ProtonMail Voluntarily Offers Assistance for Real-Time Surveillance?
295 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Pixel 3a
295 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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This Old House: The Rare Home-Improvement Show That Spotlights Skilled Workers
292 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
290 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Cost of serving billions of images per month
290 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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America's loneliness epidemic: A systemic risk to organizations
290 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Solid Principles: A Software Developer’s Framework to Robust, Maintainable Code
290 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Security Update
288 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10
288 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database
288 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia
288 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Keepass.com spreading malware acting as the official password manager site
287 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017)
286 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Why Was Mini USB Deprecated in Favor of Micro USB?
285 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 released
285 points • comment • may 07, 2019