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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations
234 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Logical fallacies in software engineering
234 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Air Pollution in Our Homes
233 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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A Revolution in Your Pocket
233 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS
233 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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To ORM or Not to ORM
233 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Ask HN: How does your development team handle database migrations?
233 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon
232 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage
232 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Has the Python GIL Been Slain? Subinterpreters in Python 3.8
232 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
232 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
232 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Moody’s downgraded Equifax from “stable” to “negative” due to cybersecurity
232 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released
231 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Update to Security Incident
231 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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The lingua franca of LaTeX
230 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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I Made a Deal in a Bike Race
230 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Google launches new “portal” HTML element
230 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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CSS Grid Generator
230 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning
230 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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WhatsApp security breach may have targeted human rights groups
230 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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London police fine pedestrian for trying to cover face from camera
229 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 model
229 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker
229 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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The realities of 'owning' a Japanese convenience store
229 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text
228 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows
228 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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LED light can damage eyes, French health authority warns
228 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroying subway commute
228 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting
227 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Libmill: Go-Style Concurrency in C
227 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful
227 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area
227 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network from Scratch in Python
226 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Syntax highlighters are wrong (2014)
226 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Car Owners Should Control Data Collected by Cars
226 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by fungi
225 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?
225 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Numpy Clone in Common Lisp
225 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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WebAssembly Micro Runtime
224 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Rückzugsorte – Map of areas in Berlin which are the furthest away from a street
224 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Alexis Ohanian speaks out against “always-on” work culture
224 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All the Time
224 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk
223 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix
223 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Amadine – Vector graphics software for Mac
223 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Abuses show Assange case was never about law
222 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time Employees
221 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Glass Enterprise Edition 2
221 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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The Art of Thinking Long-Term Even When Money Is Running Out
220 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Boden – Native mobile cross-platform applications
219 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy
219 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search Electronic Devices
219 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999
219 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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To reinvent the processor
218 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Experiments find higher social class more likely to have inflated sense of skill
218 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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How Fragmented Is Android?
218 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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A city for the rich, built poorly: The construction of Hudson Yards
218 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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U.S. blacklists Huawei
218 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Common Muscular Weaknesses
218 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Allow SSH As Root
217 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventually be true of Docker
216 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw
216 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Matrices as Tensor Network Diagrams
216 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Layer: Eastern China
215 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe
215 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Belly.io – Curated List of Programming Coding Streamers
215 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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The Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution Is Vanishing (2015)
215 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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The End of an Era for EasyDNS
215 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Billions in Dirty Cash Helped Fuel Vancouver's Housing Boom
214 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
214 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash
214 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations
213 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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GCC 9.1 Released
213 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics
213 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Ask HN: Low self confidence and self esteem. How to improve?
213 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Tetris clone written in Zig running on WebGL and WebAssembly
213 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [video]
213 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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AMD Immune to MDS Vulnerabilities
213 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Faux Rogan
213 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Their Lives, Survey Finds
213 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs
213 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next
212 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Prevented mortality from historical and projected nuclear power (2013)
212 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Lyft’s revenues double, losses quintuple and prospects darken
211 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Microsoft Launches React Native for Windows
211 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition
211 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Delisted Overnight: A Cautionary Tale for Indie iOS Developers
211 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Bored Lonely Angry Stupid
211 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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A Tale of Query Optimization
210 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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A Psychedelic Renaissance
210 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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VMware to Acquire Bitnami
210 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Integrated Circuits Can Be Easy to Understand with the Right Teachers
210 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Tests that sometimes fail
210 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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There Is Too Much Stuff
210 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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A new memory profiler for Linux written in Rust
209 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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An Amateur Porno Set Off a Federal Witch Hunt
209 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Tell Me More, Nginx (2017)
208 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Full Disk Images of Earth from GOES-17
208 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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How to Do Nothing (2017)
208 points • comment • may 09, 2019