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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
284 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Racket 7.3
283 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Introducing Windows Terminal
283 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882
283 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Dallas Has Now Lost 82 Cases Against Robert Groden (2016)
283 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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3D interfaces are usually worse than 2D interfaces
282 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python
280 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter
280 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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“Users want control” is a shoulder shrug
279 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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GitHub Learning Lab
279 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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When we say “Everest is crowded,” this is what we mean
279 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Getting my personal data out of Facebook
278 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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My Product Is Unexpectedly Being Used to Help People with Dementia
276 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995)
275 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Terraform 0.12
275 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Fundamental design principles for non-designers
275 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Let's Get Going with Org-Mode
275 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Details about MIDI 2.0
275 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'
274 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8
274 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017)
271 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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GDPR After One Year
271 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places
271 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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When Engineers Become Whistleblowers
271 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Show HN: Koonchi – Convert Photo to Hand-Painted Painting by Artists from India
270 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Texts (2016)
270 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Update on await syntax in Rust
269 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Containers, microservices, and service meshes
269 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Salesforce enables ‘modify all’ in user profiles
268 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode
268 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Genomics – A programmer’s guide
267 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?
267 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github
267 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – study
267 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous
267 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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I.M. Pei has died
267 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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GitHub Package Registry
266 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Angular v8.0
265 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Show HN: A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js
265 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?
264 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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The Case for Rooms
264 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Python built-ins worth learning
263 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Better Bash History (2012)
262 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Four Years of Rust
261 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Show HN: The Cyber Plumber's Handbook – SSH Tunnel Like a Boss
261 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Google and Binomial Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format
261 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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America is turning against facial-recognition software
261 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Inheritance versus Composition
261 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Mystery meat OpenJDK builds strike again
261 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Openpilot – open-source self-driving agent
261 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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California is cracking down on the gig economy
260 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Why Recycling Doesn't Work
258 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Chelsea Manning released from jail with expiration of grand jury
257 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal
257 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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TypeScript 3.5
256 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Ask HN: Is freelance web development still a viable path in 2019?
254 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Set Theory and Foundations of Mathematics
254 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK beaches: study
254 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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'One Ring' Phone Scam
254 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Google – My Activity
253 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings
253 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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MyCPU – Homebrew Computer from Discrete Logic Gates
252 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2003) [pdf]
251 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in California
251 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs
251 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Intermediate Vim
251 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority over GDPR
250 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Creating a Great Team Culture, and Why It Matters
250 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Rust Koans (2015)
250 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them access to GitHub
249 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Pollen: the book is a program
248 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Efficient IO with io_uring [pdf]
248 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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How I manage customer feedback for my bootstrapped SaaS
246 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
245 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at DCA causing artificial price surges
245 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns
245 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Ask HN: Starting Your Own LLC?
245 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray
244 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Google Now Forces Edge Preview Users to Use Chrome for the Modern YouTube
244 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei
243 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roundup cancer trial
243 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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One SQL to Rule Them All: Management of Streams and Tables
242 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data scraped and exposed
242 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage
241 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Unity Editor for Linux
241 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Burnout is an official medical diagnosis, WHO says
241 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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CPU.fail
240 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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The Common Lisp Cookbook
239 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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US cosmetics are full of chemicals banned by Europe
239 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything
239 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Announcing Rust 1.35.0
238 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances
238 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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U.S. business contributes smallest share of federal taxes in a generation
238 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics now free
237 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Why We’re Switching to gRPC
237 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told
237 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Spaced Repetition
237 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Unexpected Surge in Global Methane Levels
237 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Tesla's Screen Saga Shows Why Automotive Grade Matters
235 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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SpaceX Raptor: Methane fueled full-flow staged combustion cycle engine
235 points • comment • may 25, 2019