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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban

    284 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  2. Racket 7.3

    283 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  3. Introducing Windows Terminal

    283 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  4. Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882

    283 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  5. Dallas Has Now Lost 82 Cases Against Robert Groden (2016)

    283 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  6. 3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces

    282 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  7. Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python

    280 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  8. Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

    280 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  9. “Users want control” is a shoulder shrug

    279 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  10. GitHub Learning Lab

    279 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  11. When we say “Everest is crowded,” this is what we mean

    279 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  12. Getting my personal data out of Facebook

    278 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  13. My Product Is Unexpectedly Being Used to Help People with Dementia

    276 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  14. Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995)

    275 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  15. Terraform 0.12

    275 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  16. Fundamental design principles for non-designers

    275 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  17. Let's Get Going with Org-Mode

    275 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  18. Details about MIDI 2.0

    275 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  19. Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'

    274 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  20. PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8

    274 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  21. Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017)

    271 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  22. GDPR After One Year

    271 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  23. Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

    271 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  24. When Engineers Become Whistleblowers

    271 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  25. Show HN: Koonchi – Convert Photo to Hand-Painted Painting by Artists from India

    270 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  26. Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Texts (2016)

    270 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  27. Update on await syntax in Rust

    269 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  28. Containers, microservices, and service meshes

    269 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  29. Salesforce enables ‘modify all’ in user profiles

    268 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  30. Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode

    268 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  31. Genomics – A programmer’s guide

    267 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  32. Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?

    267 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  33. Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

    267 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  34. Proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – study

    267 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  35. Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous

    267 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  36. I.M. Pei has died

    267 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  37. GitHub Package Registry

    266 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  38. Angular v8.0

    265 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  39. Show HN: A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js

    265 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  40. Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

    264 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  41. The Case for Rooms

    264 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  42. Python built-ins worth learning

    263 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  43. Better Bash History (2012)

    262 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  44. Four Years of Rust

    261 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  45. Show HN: The Cyber Plumber's Handbook – SSH Tunnel Like a Boss

    261 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  46. Google and Binomial Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format

    261 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  47. America is turning against facial-recognition software

    261 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  48. Inheritance versus Composition

    261 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  49. Mystery meat OpenJDK builds strike again

    261 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  50. Openpilot – open-source self-driving agent

    261 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  51. California is cracking down on the gig economy

    260 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  52. Why Recycling Doesn't Work

    258 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  53. Chelsea Manning released from jail with expiration of grand jury

    257 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  54. Economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal

    257 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  55. TypeScript 3.5

    256 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  56. Ask HN: Is freelance web development still a viable path in 2019?

    254 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  57. Set Theory and Foundations of Mathematics

    254 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  58. Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK beaches: study

    254 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  59. 'One Ring' Phone Scam

    254 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  60. Google – My Activity

    253 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  61. Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings

    253 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  62. MyCPU – Homebrew Computer from Discrete Logic Gates

    252 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  63. The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2003) [pdf]

    251 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  64. Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in California

    251 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  65. MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs

    251 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  66. Intermediate Vim

    251 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  67. Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority over GDPR

    250 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  68. Creating a Great Team Culture, and Why It Matters

    250 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  69. Rust Koans (2015)

    250 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  70. Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them access to GitHub

    249 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  71. Pollen: the book is a program

    248 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  72. Efficient IO with io_uring [pdf]

    248 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  73. How I manage customer feedback for my bootstrapped SaaS

    246 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  74. Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs

    245 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  75. Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at DCA causing artificial price surges

    245 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  76. ‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns

    245 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  77. Ask HN: Starting Your Own LLC?

    245 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  78. Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray

    244 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  79. Google Now Forces Edge Preview Users to Use Chrome for the Modern YouTube

    244 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  80. ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei

    243 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  81. California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roundup cancer trial

    243 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  82. One SQL to Rule Them All: Management of Streams and Tables

    242 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  83. Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data scraped and exposed

    242 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  84. Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage

    241 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  85. Unity Editor for Linux

    241 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  86. Burnout is an official medical diagnosis, WHO says

    241 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  87. CPU.fail

    240 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  88. The Common Lisp Cookbook

    239 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  89. US cosmetics are full of chemicals banned by Europe

    239 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  90. Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

    239 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  91. Announcing Rust 1.35.0

    238 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  92. System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances

    238 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  93. U.S. business contributes smallest share of federal taxes in a generation

    238 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  94. The Feynman Lectures on Physics now free

    237 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  95. Why We’re Switching to gRPC

    237 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  96. UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told

    237 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  97. Spaced Repetition

    237 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  98. Unexpected Surge in Global Methane Levels

    237 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  99. Tesla's Screen Saga Shows Why Automotive Grade Matters

    235 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  100. SpaceX Raptor: Methane fueled full-flow staged combustion cycle engine

    235 points • comment • may 25, 2019