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Hacker News (May 2019)
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A horrifying globalThis polyfill in JavaScript
153 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones
153 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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PyPI now offers two-factor auth
153 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Simple KVM Firmware in Rust
153 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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China Uses High-Tech Surveillance to Subdue Minorities
152 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam
152 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug
152 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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eBPF Can't Count?
152 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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I forgot how to manage a server
152 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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GKE Sandbox: Independent operating system kernel to each container
152 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars
152 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Ask HN: How to initiate or respond to small talk (not the programming language)?
151 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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A Guide to Rust Graphics Libraries as of 2019
151 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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The Origin of ‘Script Kiddie’
151 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release
151 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered with Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics
150 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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The geometry of an electron determined for the first time
150 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Tesla's solar factory is exporting most of its cells
150 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012)
150 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
150 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Show HN: PugSQL, a Python Port of HugSQL
150 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Apple App Store Principles and Practices
150 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Robinhood Is Set to Raise at Least $200 Million in New Funding
150 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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My Childhood in a Cult
150 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires
150 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Sam Altman’s leap of faith
150 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Viruses Can Scatter Their Genes Among Cells and Reassemble
149 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Neal Stephenson Explains His Vision of the Digital Afterlife
149 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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A Single Component Can Brick Older Teslas
149 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but few do (2018)
149 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Nasa Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India
149 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003
149 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Depression is increasing among Americans reaching middle age
149 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Zero to Kubernetes on Azure
148 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Hedge Fund Private Investigators
148 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Scientific Errors in Nat Geo Milky Way Photos
148 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Shell Completions in Rust
148 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Hackers can fake radio signals to 'hijack' aircraft landing systems
148 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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C++ UI Libraries
147 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?
147 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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City residents live with mental illness at higher rates than general population
147 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Ten Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans (2018)
146 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Translating an ARM iOS App to Intel macOS Using Bitcode
146 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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EU must adopt ‘EU English’ as its official working language after Brexit (2017)
146 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Peermaps
146 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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A Decade Ago, Suicides Rocked a French Telecom Firm – Now Its Execs Stand Trial
146 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Show HN: Eigengrau's Generator – A procedural city generator for tabletop gaming
146 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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An Invisible City Beneath Paris
146 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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The sorry state of OpenSSL usability
145 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online
145 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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Windows Implementation Libraries: type-safe C++ interfaces for Windows patterns
145 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Payment gateways for startups: a guide for founders
145 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011
145 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux?
145 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Debugging in Vim
145 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit
145 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Open-sourcing the Lightning Web Components framework
145 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Fingerprinting iPhones
144 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Gameboy.live: A basic Gameboy emulator with terminal “cloud gaming” support
144 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Pip3 install videoflow – new Python library to do computer vision on video
144 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Building a Stateless API Proxy
144 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law
144 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Field Notes: Highlights from Huawei
144 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory
144 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Using Anki and Spaced Repetition
144 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Show HN: IPFS-Deploy – Zero-Config CLI to Deploy Static Websites to IPFS
144 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Jumping Back and Forth
144 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Refunds for 300M phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales
143 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups, with code examples
143 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
143 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Seattle police use family DNA, latest science to identify killer 52 years later
143 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Hong Kong activists wanted by police gain protection in Germany
142 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log
142 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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New Causes of Autism Found in Noncoding DNA
142 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Nasa’s New UAV Is 80% 3D-Printed
142 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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QEMU 4.0 adds micro:bit emulation support
142 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta
141 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Airport Made Fence Holes for Planespotting Photographers
141 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Open-Sourcing Ax and BoTorch: New AI Tools for Adaptive Experimentation
141 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Beekeepers hit hard by thefts of hives
141 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Billionaire Robert F. Smith pledges to pay Morehouse 2019 grads’ student loans
141 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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The Empty Promise of Data Moats
141 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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Hedgehog Ethereum wallet: Build DApps like apps, without centralized keys
141 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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The Race to Develop the Moon
141 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Show HN: Easy intro book to Clojure and immutability
141 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other
141 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones
141 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollout
140 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Outschooling
140 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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The Spycraft Revolution
140 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Public DNS in Taiwan the Latest Victim of BGP Hijack
140 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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TLA+: design, model, document, and verify concurrent systems
140 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Sony's Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team
140 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Amazon Ring is hiring editors to push local crime news to its users
140 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Benefits of a Monorepo
139 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Fly over a reconstruction of 4th century Rome [video]
139 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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H-1B visa: Government says work ban for H-4 spouses coming this month
139 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today
139 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science (1947)
139 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe
139 points • comment • may 07, 2019