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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Urql: a GraphQL client library
208 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Math teachers should be more like football coaches
207 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Buying an IBM Mainframe
207 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mover” for Las Vegas
207 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Kite Plans
207 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Huawei’s Ace in the Hole: Undersea Cables
207 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify
207 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (2011)
207 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Show HN: WildDuck – Self-hosted modern email server
207 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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PayPal's Beautiful Demonstration of Extended Validation FUD
206 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Svgbob: Convert your ASCII diagram scribbles into happy little SVG
206 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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How to get every email returned
206 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Security lapse exposed a Chinese smart city surveillance system
206 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Chelsea Manning sent back to jail after refusing to testify before a grand jury
206 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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A new core playlist for VLC 4
205 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Show HN: Write code using natural language
205 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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ZetaSQL – A SQL Analyzer Framework from Google
205 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Next-Paradigm Programming Languages: What Will They Look Like?
205 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Steep decline in nuclear power would threaten energy security and climate goals
204 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO
204 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Moving Camera, Moving People: A Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction
204 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results for AMP Stories
204 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Chinese Spies Got the NSA’s Hacking Tools, and Used Them for Attacks
204 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit
203 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Crossfit Inc. suspends use of Facebook and associated properties
203 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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JupyterHub 1.0
203 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Dependabot is joining GitHub
203 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Don't Waste Time on User Onboarding
202 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Malaysia will return contaminated plastic waste to the countries that shipped it
202 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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The humble receipt gets a redesign
202 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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U.S. cancels $929M in California high speed rail funds after appeal rejected
202 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration
200 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Americans can opt out of airport facial recognition
200 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Demystifying Database Systems: An Introduction to Transaction Isolation Levels
200 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Luakit – fast, extensible, and customizable web browser
199 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia
199 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Amazon Jumps into Freight Brokerage
199 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Algorithm Solves Graph Isomorphism in Record Time (2015)
199 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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OP-Z Synthesizer
198 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Smarter Training of Neural Networks
198 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Medium pressured freeCodeCamp to put the articles behind the firewall
198 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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A Norwegian town built a giant mirror to deflect the sun (2017)
198 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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AdNauseam: Browser extension to fight back against tracking by ad networks
198 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Let’s Talk about the North Face Defacing Wikipedia
198 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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A Mechanised Cryptographic Proof of the WireGuard VPN Protocol
197 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Lsd: The next gen ls command
196 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Preaches Privacy, but Evidence Is Elusive
196 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001) [pdf]
196 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and Now Residents Know Why
196 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Privacy-Preserving Ad Click Attribution for the Web
196 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Space firm founded by billionaire Paul Allen closing operations
195 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
195 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Why is a Rust executable large? (2016)
194 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Show HN: Faast.js – Serverless Batch Computing Made Simple
194 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Russ Cox’s response to “Go Is Not a Community Driven Project”
194 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal
194 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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San Francisco bans facial recognition technology by municipal agencies
194 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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More Productive Git
193 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Show HN: Person Identification by Keyboard Typing
193 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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True Surprise
193 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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One whole-body MRI could replace multiple cancer scans
193 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Underground network of microbes that connects trees mapped for first time
193 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Apollo 10 Stopped Just 47k Feet from the Moon
193 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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What Happened with Supermicro?
193 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is no longer the standard kilogram
192 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Lisp System Implementation
192 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0?
192 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format
192 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users
191 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Judge Alsup Slams Patent Troll
191 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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F() vs. F(void) in C vs. C++
190 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Show HN: Full Help – Self-hosted help desk and knowledge base software
190 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Smartphones Are Toys First, Tools Second
190 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfair and Inefficient?
190 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Uses This: Joe Armstrong
190 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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A World Run with Code
189 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Why is the ‘race to 5G’ a race?
189 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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GraalVM 19.0
189 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Tesla is raising up to $1.5B through convertible note and share sale
189 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Do Elephants Have Souls? (2013)
189 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments
189 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Google bans apps that facilitate sale of marijuana
189 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Microsoft launches a drag-and-drop machine learning tool
189 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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macOS X GateKeeper Bypass
188 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing (2014)
188 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Long Before Boeing 737 Max Crash, Ethiopian Air Pilot Warned of Dangers
188 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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We can't judge another programmer's abilities in a 60 minute interview
188 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Antergos Linux Project Ends
188 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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San Francisco proposes “IPO tax” on eve of Uber offering
188 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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A Rocket Built by Students Reaches Space
188 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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EU plans first satellite fleet to monitor CO2 in every country
188 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Chess-playing neural network LC0 beats Stockfish in 100-game match
187 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning
187 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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GM fungus can rapidly kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, study suggests
187 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
186 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Swarm of bees follow car for over 24 hours (2016)
186 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup
186 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Rails 6: B-Sides and Rarities
186 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Training the Brain to Eat Less Sugar
186 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks
186 points • comment • may 20, 2019