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Hacker News (May 2019)
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The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k years
185 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages
185 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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YC's request for startups: Government 2.0
185 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Deadly stupidity during Aeroflot flight 1492 emergency evacuation
185 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week
185 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Disney Assumes Full Control of Hulu in Deal with Comcast
185 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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What to Know Before Debating Type Systems (2008)
185 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Qualcomm Tumbles After Losing U.S. Antitrust Ruling
184 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Oracle Wallet Master Key Lost
184 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures Versus Founding Teams (2018)
184 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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20 Years Ago, Microsoft introduced its optical mouse
184 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Make School Hard Again
184 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Epic Games is killing Linux support for games and software it acquired
184 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Docker is vulnerable to a symlink-race attack
184 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Byte Magazine – LISP (1979)
184 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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China defaults hit record in 2018, and the 2019 pace is triple that
183 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr
183 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"
183 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Show HN: RSS Search Engine
183 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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People's sense of control over actions is reduced when angry or afraid: study
183 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order of Japanese names
183 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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South Korea's booming 'webtoons'
183 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Surprising Bash Variables
183 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Choosing Ruby on Rails for web development project in 2019
183 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern
183 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Ethiopian Max Crash Simulator Scenario Stuns Pilots
183 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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SwiftWasm: Run Swift in Browsers
183 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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Amethyst: Data-driven game engine written in Rust
183 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Go makes it easier to write correct, clear and efficient code
182 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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African samurai: The enduring legacy of a black warrior in feudal Japan
182 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Girl’s $143k bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging
182 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Zuckerberg sued over privacy scandals, alleged insider trades
182 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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People see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra: study
182 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit
182 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017)
182 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Systems thinking as important as ever for new coders
181 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again
181 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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BioRender – Professional Science Figures
181 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system
181 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
181 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook
181 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
180 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Classic Minecraft now free online
180 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Networks of Low-Stakes, Casual Friendships
180 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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What Ancient Romans Used Instead of Toilet Paper
180 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codex Atlanticus” Now Online
180 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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How the Apple Store Lost Its Luster
180 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, and Pascal shiny things
180 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Renewables predicted to beat coal for the first time in US later this year
179 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Azure is experiencing DNS issues in all regions
179 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Git ransom campaign incident report
179 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Open source Mali GPU drivers merged
179 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea
178 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993
178 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Next browser – web browser in Common LISP
178 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Urban trees 'live fast, die young' compared to those in rural forests
178 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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NetHack 3.6.2
178 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing
178 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Denver voters consider next frontier in decriminalizing drugs: magic mushrooms
177 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web
177 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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A SHA-1 chosen-prefix collision attack
176 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake
176 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach
176 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road
176 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Tor Browser 8.5
175 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024 moon landing plan
175 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Lithium-ion batteries from Amazon are exploding
175 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Uber’s Arbitration Addiction Could Be Death by 60k Cuts
175 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Eating Jell-O with Chopsticks
175 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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ZFS on Linux 0.8.0
174 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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PyTorch internals
174 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Treat Facebook Like Big Tobacco
173 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Show HN: Imgsquash – My image compression website project
173 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes personality (2017)
173 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work
173 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Books and lectures don't work
173 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Julian Assange: Wikileaks co-founder jailed over bail breach
173 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
173 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Repair delays for Tesla owners
173 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The moon may be tectonically active
173 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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What Happened to 'Miegakure,' the Game That Promised the 4th Dimension? (2018)
172 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Adventures with ffmpeg and color ranges
172 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The Law of Leaky Abstractions
172 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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UN expert says "collective persecution" of Julian Assange must end
172 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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‘eyeDisk’ USB drive secured with iris recognition reveals password in plain text
172 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo
171 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat
171 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean
171 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Diffeq.jl v6.4: Full GPU ODEs, Neural ODEs with Batching on GPUs, and More
171 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often
171 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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From Dead Code to Company: The FullCalendar JavaScript Lib Turns 10
170 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Ring: Advanced cache interface for Python
170 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey
170 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian
170 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Sexy weasels in Renaissance art
170 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Show HN: Nextjournal – seamless data science for teams
169 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Ask HN: How to Self-Study Integrated Circuit Design?
169 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds
169 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting
169 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Building CentOS 8
169 points • comment • may 09, 2019