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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Why Climbers Die on Mount Everest
15 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Apple CEO Tim Cook to the class of 2019: ‘My generation has failed you’
15 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Three great startups I could build if Google would give me access to their data
15 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Investing in the Podcast Ecosystem in 2019
15 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?
15 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Adam Savage on Lists, More Lists, and the Power of Checkboxes
15 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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See the world’s oldest trees by starlight
15 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Sperm counts are on the decline – could plastics be to blame?
15 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Why People Use Curl
15 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Microsoft ION decentralized identity platform
15 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Branch Prediction
15 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Olive – Professional open-source NLE video editor
15 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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LightSail 2 set to launch next month aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
15 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Adobe Warns Customers of Potential Legal Action for Using Older App Versions
15 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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The new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive [video]
15 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Setting up a ROCKPro64 (powerful single-card computer)
15 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Toronto’s Google-linked smart city draws opposition over privacy, costs
15 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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China offers 5-year tax breaks to chip makers, Sw Developers to bolster industry
15 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters
15 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Storm: Fast transactional dataplane for remote data structures [pdf]
15 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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DJI will add airplane and helicopter detectors to new drones in 2020
15 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Carmageddon Sinks Tesla’s Bonds
15 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Eating Roadkill Is Illegal in California. But That May Change
15 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Why I've started using NoScript
15 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Show HN: BlurPage – A browser extension to hide sensitive information on webpage
15 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Ex-Facebook security chief Stamos says Zuckerberg should hire new CEO
15 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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It wasn't a tracking pixel, it was actual malware
15 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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The official Go brand book [pdf]
15 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Henri Bergson, Celebrity
15 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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'Walking ice' of river Lena filmed around the city of Pokrovsk in Yakutia
15 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Thousands of cancer diagnoses tied to a poor diet, study finds
15 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Ask HN: How to hire digital nomads nearby?
15 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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40% of India's MPs face criminal charges, including rape and murder
15 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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The Global Helium Shortage Has Gotten So Bad, Party City Is Closing 45 Stores
15 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
15 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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What Changed My Mind About Climate Change
15 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively
15 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Levi's found a way to make hemp feel like cotton
15 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
15 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Microsoft tells IT admins to nix 'obsolete' password reset practice
15 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Coinbase Bans Milo Yiannopolous
15 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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NOAA warns of threat to weather forecasts from 5G spectrum
15 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Windows Console Tools
15 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Foreign buyers snap up Sicilian homes at €1 auction
15 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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San Francisco bans credit-only stores
15 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Mark Zuckerberg's personal security chief accused of harassment, racist remarks
15 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Getting the Most Out of Your PostgreSQL Indexes
15 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Swiss Startup Innolith Claims 1000 Wh/Kg Battery Breakthrough
15 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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DHS warns of 'strong concerns' that Chinese-made drones are stealing data
15 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you determine leadership qualities in an interview?
15 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Obesity poised to overtake smoking as leading preventable cause of cancer
15 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Show HN: Reddigram – A familiar looking client for Reddit
15 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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How to Get Better at Coding Interviews
15 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus
15 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Ask HN: How to get a B2B SaaS idea, and get cutomers?
15 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Scientists traced a uranium cube to Nazi Germany’s nuclear reactor program
14 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Illinois might charge $1k/year to own an electric vehicle
14 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Why Reverse Tabnabbing Matters (An Example on Reddit)
14 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Free Isn’t Cheap Enough – The Blog of Palmer Luckey
14 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Recruiters are scraping your email from Slack
14 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Ask HN: How to Negotiate for Job Offer?
14 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Trail Runners Are Lazy Parasites
14 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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How Mapping Shots in the NBA Changed It Forever
14 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Hestia Pi: An open source, smart thermostat
14 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Musk's leaked email shows Tesla to make record deliveries in second quarter
14 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Paul Graham: “Airbnb happened because its founders could not pay their rent”
14 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Molecule-sized motors that drill through the surface of cancer cells
14 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Can I charge all these employers for wasting my time?
14 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Ex-CIA Officer Jerry Chun Shing Lee Admits to Espionage Conspiracy with China
14 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Open source FLoydHub for launching ML jobs
14 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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NPM isn't all that great
14 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Eosdis Worldview
14 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Ask HN: How are you dealing with meetings and meeting creep?
14 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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FCC Chairman Statement on T-Mobile/Sprint Transaction [pdf]
14 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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World’s First AMD-Based NUC Mini-PC Showcases Ryzen R1000
14 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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VS Code Remote Development
14 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The State Is Trying to Suppress Your Right to Boycott
14 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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There is no middle ground for deep disagreements about facts
14 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Show HN: Super Easy Forms – Generate responsive HTML contact forms for free
14 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Cyber Security Tools for 2019
14 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Security flaws in 100 Jenkins plugins put enterprise networks at risk
14 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Amazon made video games for its workers to reduce tedium of warehouse jobs
14 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Show HN: Pair.sh – Pairing Made Simple
14 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Global Manure Map
14 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Assembly Bill No. 168
14 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Jeff Bezos unveils his sweeping vision for humanity’s future in space
14 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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How You Talk Yourself Out of Reporting a Bug
14 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Create and Explore AI Experiments
14 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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World's least-visited countries: Why you should travel to them
14 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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The Asus Prime Utopia is a radical concept for the future of motherboards
14 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Huawei can’t officially use microSD cards in its phones going forward
14 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Migrating 23TB from Amazon S3 to Backblaze B2 in Just Seven Hours
14 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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InterpretML – Fit interpretable models. Explain blackbox machine learning
14 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Julian Assange shows psychological torture symptoms, says UN expert
14 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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More HTML and CSS Features You Didn't Know Existed
14 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Chrome is right to remove the webRequest extension API
14 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise
14 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Ask HN: StackExchange down for anyone on Firefox specifically?
14 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot Requires Significant Driver Intervention
14 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Baseball Trajectory Calculator – 3D version (2018)
14 points • comment • may 30, 2019