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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. A horrifying globalThis polyfill in JavaScript

    153 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  2. U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones

    153 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  3. PyPI now offers two-factor auth

    153 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  4. Simple KVM Firmware in Rust

    153 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  5. China Uses High-Tech Surveillance to Subdue Minorities

    152 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  6. Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam

    152 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  7. Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug

    152 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  8. eBPF Can't Count?

    152 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  9. I forgot how to manage a server

    152 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  10. GKE Sandbox: Independent operating system kernel to each container

    152 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  11. Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars

    152 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  12. Ask HN: How to initiate or respond to small talk (not the programming language)?

    151 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  13. A Guide to Rust Graphics Libraries as of 2019

    151 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  14. The Origin of ‘Script Kiddie’

    151 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  15. Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

    151 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  16. Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered with Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics

    150 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  17. The geometry of an electron determined for the first time

    150 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  18. Tesla's solar factory is exporting most of its cells

    150 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  19. A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012)

    150 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  20. Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation

    150 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  21. Show HN: PugSQL, a Python Port of HugSQL

    150 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  22. Apple App Store Principles and Practices

    150 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  23. Robinhood Is Set to Raise at Least $200 Million in New Funding

    150 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  24. My Childhood in a Cult

    150 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  25. California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires

    150 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  26. Sam Altman’s leap of faith

    150 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  27. Viruses Can Scatter Their Genes Among Cells and Reassemble

    149 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  28. Neal Stephenson Explains His Vision of the Digital Afterlife

    149 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  29. A Single Component Can Brick Older Teslas

    149 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  30. Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but few do (2018)

    149 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  31. Nasa Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago Thanks to China, India

    149 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  32. Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003

    149 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  33. Depression is increasing among Americans reaching middle age

    149 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  34. Zero to Kubernetes on Azure

    148 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  35. Hedge Fund Private Investigators

    148 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  36. Scientific Errors in Nat Geo Milky Way Photos

    148 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  37. Shell Completions in Rust

    148 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  38. Hackers can fake radio signals to 'hijack' aircraft landing systems

    148 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  39. C++ UI Libraries

    147 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  40. What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?

    147 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  41. City residents live with mental illness at higher rates than general population

    147 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  42. Ten Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans (2018)

    146 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  43. Translating an ARM iOS App to Intel macOS Using Bitcode

    146 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  44. EU must adopt ‘EU English’ as its official working language after Brexit (2017)

    146 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  45. Peermaps

    146 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  46. A Decade Ago, Suicides Rocked a French Telecom Firm – Now Its Execs Stand Trial

    146 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  47. Show HN: Eigengrau's Generator – A procedural city generator for tabletop gaming

    146 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  48. An Invisible City Beneath Paris

    146 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  49. The sorry state of OpenSSL usability

    145 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  50. Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online

    145 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  51. Windows Implementation Libraries: type-safe C++ interfaces for Windows patterns

    145 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  52. Payment gateways for startups: a guide for founders

    145 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  53. New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011

    145 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  54. What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux?

    145 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  55. Debugging in Vim

    145 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  56. Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit

    145 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  57. Open-sourcing the Lightning Web Components framework

    145 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  58. Fingerprinting iPhones

    144 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  59. Gameboy.live: A basic Gameboy emulator with terminal “cloud gaming” support

    144 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  60. Pip3 install videoflow – new Python library to do computer vision on video

    144 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  61. Building a Stateless API Proxy

    144 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  62. Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law

    144 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  63. Field Notes: Highlights from Huawei

    144 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  64. Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory

    144 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  65. Using Anki and Spaced Repetition

    144 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  66. Show HN: IPFS-Deploy – Zero-Config CLI to Deploy Static Websites to IPFS

    144 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  67. Jumping Back and Forth

    144 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  68. Refunds for 300M phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales

    143 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  69. Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups, with code examples

    143 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  70. Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley

    143 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  71. Seattle police use family DNA, latest science to identify killer 52 years later

    143 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  72. Hong Kong activists wanted by police gain protection in Germany

    142 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  73. Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log

    142 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  74. New Causes of Autism Found in Noncoding DNA

    142 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  75. Nasa’s New UAV Is 80% 3D-Printed

    142 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  76. QEMU 4.0 adds micro:bit emulation support

    142 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  77. Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta

    141 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  78. Airport Made Fence Holes for Planespotting Photographers

    141 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  79. Open-Sourcing Ax and BoTorch: New AI Tools for Adaptive Experimentation

    141 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  80. Beekeepers hit hard by thefts of hives

    141 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  81. Billionaire Robert F. Smith pledges to pay Morehouse 2019 grads’ student loans

    141 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  82. The Empty Promise of Data Moats

    141 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  83. Hedgehog Ethereum wallet: Build DApps like apps, without centralized keys

    141 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  84. The Race to Develop the Moon

    141 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  85. Show HN: Easy intro book to Clojure and immutability

    141 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  86. Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other

    141 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  87. The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones

    141 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  88. Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollout

    140 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  89. Outschooling

    140 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  90. The Spycraft Revolution

    140 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  91. Public DNS in Taiwan the Latest Victim of BGP Hijack

    140 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  92. TLA+: design, model, document, and verify concurrent systems

    140 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  93. Sony's Deal with Microsoft Blindsided Its Own PlayStation Team

    140 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  94. Amazon Ring is hiring editors to push local crime news to its users

    140 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  95. Benefits of a Monorepo

    139 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  96. Fly over a reconstruction of 4th century Rome [video]

    139 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  97. H-1B visa: Government says work ban for H-4 spouses coming this month

    139 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  98. What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today

    139 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  99. Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science (1947)

    139 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  100. Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe

    139 points • comment • may 07, 2019