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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations

    234 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  2. Logical fallacies in software engineering

    234 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  3. Air Pollution in Our Homes

    233 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  4. A Revolution in Your Pocket

    233 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  5. Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS

    233 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  6. To ORM or Not to ORM

    233 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  7. Ask HN: How does your development team handle database migrations?

    233 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  8. Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon

    232 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  9. As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage

    232 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  10. Has the Python GIL Been Slain? Subinterpreters in Python 3.8

    232 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  11. News Websites Are Dumpster Fires

    232 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  12. Don Norman on how design fails older consumers

    232 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  13. Moody’s downgraded Equifax from “stable” to “negative” due to cybersecurity

    232 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  14. PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released

    231 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  15. Update to Security Incident

    231 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  16. The lingua franca of LaTeX

    230 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  17. I Made a Deal in a Bike Race

    230 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  18. Google launches new “portal” HTML element

    230 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  19. CSS Grid Generator

    230 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  20. TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning

    230 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  21. WhatsApp security breach may have targeted human rights groups

    230 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  22. London police fine pedestrian for trying to cover face from camera

    229 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  23. OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 model

    229 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  24. Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker

    229 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  25. The realities of 'owning' a Japanese convenience store

    229 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  26. Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text

    228 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  27. Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

    228 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  28. LED light can damage eyes, French health authority warns

    228 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  29. Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroying subway commute

    228 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  30. Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting

    227 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  31. Libmill: Go-Style Concurrency in C

    227 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  32. Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful

    227 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  33. Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area

    227 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  34. Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network from Scratch in Python

    226 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  35. Syntax highlighters are wrong (2014)

    226 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  36. Car Owners Should Control Data Collected by Cars

    226 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  37. Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by fungi

    225 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  38. How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?

    225 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  39. Numpy Clone in Common Lisp

    225 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  40. WebAssembly Micro Runtime

    224 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  41. Rückzugsorte – Map of areas in Berlin which are the furthest away from a street

    224 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  42. Alexis Ohanian speaks out against “always-on” work culture

    224 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  43. Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All the Time

    224 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  44. Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk

    223 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  45. Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix

    223 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  46. Amadine – Vector graphics software for Mac

    223 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  47. Abuses show Assange case was never about law

    222 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  48. Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time Employees

    221 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  49. Glass Enterprise Edition 2

    221 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  50. The Art of Thinking Long-Term Even When Money Is Running Out

    220 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  51. Boden – Native mobile cross-platform applications

    219 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  52. Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy

    219 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  53. ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search Electronic Devices

    219 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  54. JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999

    219 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  55. To reinvent the processor

    218 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  56. Experiments find higher social class more likely to have inflated sense of skill

    218 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  57. How Fragmented Is Android?

    218 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  58. A city for the rich, built poorly: The construction of Hudson Yards

    218 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  59. U.S. blacklists Huawei

    218 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  60. Common Muscular Weaknesses

    218 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  61. Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Allow SSH As Root

    217 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  62. Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventually be true of Docker

    216 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  63. During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw

    216 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  64. Matrices as Tensor Network Diagrams

    216 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  65. Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Layer: Eastern China

    215 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  66. GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe

    215 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  67. Belly.io – Curated List of Programming Coding Streamers

    215 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  68. The Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution Is Vanishing (2015)

    215 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  69. The End of an Era for EasyDNS

    215 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  70. Billions in Dirty Cash Helped Fuel Vancouver's Housing Boom

    214 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  71. Improving support for adult content on Mastodon

    214 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  72. Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash

    214 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  73. FeX: Forum Explorer – Rethinking how we interact with threaded conversations

    213 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  74. GCC 9.1 Released

    213 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  75. How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics

    213 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  76. Ask HN: Low self confidence and self esteem. How to improve?

    213 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  77. Tetris clone written in Zig running on WebGL and WebAssembly

    213 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  78. Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [video]

    213 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  79. AMD Immune to MDS Vulnerabilities

    213 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  80. Faux Rogan

    213 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  81. Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Their Lives, Survey Finds

    213 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  82. You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs

    213 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  83. Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next

    212 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  84. Prevented mortality from historical and projected nuclear power (2013)

    212 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  85. Lyft’s revenues double, losses quintuple and prospects darken

    211 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  86. Microsoft Launches React Native for Windows

    211 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  87. Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition

    211 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  88. Delisted Overnight: A Cautionary Tale for Indie iOS Developers

    211 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  89. Bored Lonely Angry Stupid

    211 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  90. A Tale of Query Optimization

    210 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  91. A Psychedelic Renaissance

    210 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  92. VMware to Acquire Bitnami

    210 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  93. Integrated Circuits Can Be Easy to Understand with the Right Teachers

    210 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  94. Tests that sometimes fail

    210 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  95. There Is Too Much Stuff

    210 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  96. A new memory profiler for Linux written in Rust

    209 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  97. An Amateur Porno Set Off a Federal Witch Hunt

    209 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  98. Tell Me More, Nginx (2017)

    208 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  99. Full Disk Images of Earth from GOES-17

    208 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  100. How to Do Nothing (2017)

    208 points • comment • may 09, 2019