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Hacker News (May 2019)
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The word “dessert” renders as “stressed” in Chrome (bidirectional Unicode)
6 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Siemens Sees a Future for Electric Trucks Powered by Overhead Lines
6 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Congress' Latest Move to Extend Copyright Protection Is Misguided (2018)
6 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Theresa May to resign as UK prime minister
6 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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AMD at Computex 2019
6 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Electric Zine Maker (Beta)
6 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Ask HN: What offline encryption methods do you use?
6 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Physarum Art
6 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Ask HN: Being part of a US based company as a foreigner
6 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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What Austen Allred from Lambda School Did to Survive in Silicon Valley
6 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Cancer Research Points to Key Unknowns about Popular “Antiaging” Supplements
6 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Visual Studio Code extensions for productivity
6 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Ask HN: Is programming ability inversely correlated to sociability?
6 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Huawei has immediately lost access to Android and Google
6 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Mercury Vortex in a Magnetic Field
6 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Show HN: JavaScript Fractal implementation in a single tweet
6 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Show HN: Impartial crowdsourced guide to the Australian federal election
6 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Leaked OPCW report suggests Syria gas attack was 'staged'
6 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Parents are spending thousands on YouTube camps that teach kids how to be famous
6 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Researchers violate Bell's inequality with remotely connected qubits
6 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Show HN: Open Directory – Organize the Bitcoin (SV) Blockchain
6 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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The Myth of ‘Wage Stagnation’
6 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Trans-Inclusive Design
6 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Apple and WhatsApp condemn GCHQ plans to eavesdrop on encrypted chats
6 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Jacob Wohl’s Business Plan: ‘Make Shit Up’ to Game Political Betting Sites
6 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Hunter-gathering seems to have been easier than farming
6 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Show HN: Compound Interest Spreadsheet with Salary Increases
6 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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How to Stay Fit Physically and Mentally and Keep Coding
6 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Radical desalination approach may disrupt the water industry
6 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images
6 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Gutter Oil
6 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Peter Mayhew, the actor who brought Chewbacca to life, has died
6 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Airpods are losing capacity over time
6 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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The First 3D Color X-Rays
6 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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The Blockchain Solution to Our Deepfake Problems
6 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Starlink Satellite Network Topologies
6 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Owner personality and their cat's wellbeing parallels parent-child relationships
6 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Ask HN: Wouldn't it make sense to calculate karma on comments, not submissions?
6 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Automating PCB Fabrication Outputs with KiCad and Git
6 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Don't Put Anonymous Speech on the Chopping Block
6 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Google Nest: Why Google finally embraced Nest as its smart home brand
6 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Pepsi is suing four Indian farmers for growing the potato used to make Lay’s
6 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Tiny-Curl
6 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise
6 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Chernobyl has become a refuge for wildlife 33 years after the nuclear accident
6 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Kelly’s Heroes: Lockheed’s five finest airplanes
6 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Reddit Is Down
6 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Anthropocene now: influential panel votes to recognize Earth’s new epoch
6 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Amazon After is a concept to help you get rid of all that stuff you buy online
6 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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The Boy in the Photo
6 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Students advised to falsely claim to be racial minorities for college admissions
6 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Show HN: Web Template Converter..React JavaScript/TS CSS/Styled Components, Vue
6 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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F-35 fighter jet fails to impress pilots who prefer old F-22 model
6 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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The Missing Introduction to Containerization
6 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Show HN: offlinenotepad – an offline-first notepad that can sync across devices
6 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Leonardo DiCaprio Has Quietly Donated $100M to Fight Climate Change
6 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Kyshtym disaster: radioactive contamination accident from 1957
6 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
6 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Charged with Violating Espionage Act
6 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Samsung leak exposed source code, passwords and employee data
6 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Retain Taipei ties, Pacific nations urged
6 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Boosting learning efficacy with non-invasive brain stimulation
6 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Announcing GitHub Sponsors: a new way to contribute to open source
6 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Army discovery opens path to safer batteries
6 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Transgender Researcher Briefly Suspended by Twitter for Sharing His Findings
6 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Make Linux Fast Again: Disable All Mitigations
6 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Ask HN: How to Bootstrap a Startup Effectively?
6 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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NAPS2 – Document Scanning in .NET
6 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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UN chief concerned nuclear 'coffin' leaking in Pacific
6 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped (2015)
6 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Visual Studio Code Remote Development May Change Everything
6 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Microsoft Sptag
6 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Visual Identity Tips (That Work) for Brands
6 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Monitoring Linux Processes Using Prometheus and Grafana
6 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Announcing WSL 2
6 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Delivery Apps Like Grubhub, Seamless, and UberEats Continue to Hurt Restaurants
6 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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I'd blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education
6 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Hudway Drive
6 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Researchers hope a blood test can reveal early signs of cancer
6 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Where on Earth Is Sam Sayers?
6 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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WhatsApp's End-to-End Encryption Is a Gimmick
6 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Tesla founder launches new electric car battery startup and there's a twist
6 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Awful products that succeeded (sales-wise) because of great marketing
6 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Taiwan legalizes same-sex marriage in historic first for Asia
6 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Google releases 53 gender fluid emoji
6 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Show HN: One Dashboard for AWS and Google Cloud
6 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Scientists uncover exotic matter in the sun's atmosphere
6 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Family Sues Tesla After Model X Accident
6 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Shadama: A Particle Simulation Programming Environment for Everyone (2017)
6 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Facebook still can’t control the far-right political propaganda monster it built
6 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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GitHub is announcing a brand new product on Friday at 1:30pm PST
6 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Estonia Is Building a “Robot Judge” to Help Clear Legal Backlog
6 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Examining the Transformer Architecture – Part 1: The OpenAI GPT 2 Controversy
6 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The Thin Line Between Surgery and Mutilation
6 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Ask HN: What is your best way to learn a new programming language?
6 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Apple releases iOS 12.3, macOS 10.14.5, watchOS, tvOS updates
6 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Experimental presentation based user interface for PowerShell
6 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Ask HN: How to handle sales tax for SaaS side projects?
6 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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LinkedIn is not a dating site
6 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Conan O’Brien: Why I Decided to Settle a Lawsuit over Alleged Joke Stealing
6 points • comment • may 10, 2019