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New best story on Hacker News: Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

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New best story on Hacker News: Intel Exiting 5G Modems

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Self-Described Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright Sues a Podcaster for Libel

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What Is Suspension Trauma (a.k.a. Harness Hang Syndrome)?

Article URL: https://www.dynamicrescue.com/blogs/news/13262417-ask-a-pro-what-is-suspension-trauma-aka-harness-hang-syndrome Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19699396 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Gm861g via

Days since last Facebook scandal

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AI is not coming for you

Article URL: http://blairreeves.me/2019/04/18/ai-is-not-coming-for-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698991 Points: 62 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UKh6qT via

Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac Beta

TimeSnapper has been a windows-only product for a decade, we’re now at beta stage in our Mac version which you can use by joining here: http://www.secretgeek.net/ts_mac_beta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698363 Points: 8 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2V9CQM7 via

Self-Described Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright Sues a Podcaster for Libel

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What Is Suspension Trauma (a.k.a. Harness Hang Syndrome)?

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Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac Beta

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AI is mostly hype. Be more worried about the humans behind it

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How much can forests fight climate change?

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Fastly S-1

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517413/000119312519111675/d702138ds1.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698834 Points: 18 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IITtrs via

Ask HN: How do you secure your Windows PC?

Like the similar thread about Mac[1], how do you secure your Windows PC? [1]: http://bit.ly/2VLIa5G Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698620 Points: 14 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DqSjgR via

Learning Parser Combinators with Rust

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Fastly Files Registration Statement for Proposed IPO

Article URL: https://www.fastly.com/press/press-releases/fastly-files-registration-statement-proposed-initial-public-offering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698464 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IIIsqa via

Huawei’s claim of 100% employee ownership false, may be state-owned: paper

Article URL: https://technode.com/2019/04/19/who-owns-huawei-clearly-not-its-employees-paper/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698235 Points: 17 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Gw8Dir via

Learning Parser Combinators with Rust

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Fastly S-1

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Do people become happier after 40?

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Fastly Files Registration Statement for Proposed IPO

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The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors

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Ask HN: How do you secure your Windows PC?

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Huawei’s claim of 100% employee ownership false, may be state-owned: paper

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Show HN: Why you should not use feature branches

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Collapsing Towers of Interpreters (2018) [pdf]

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Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake

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How to register a comany in the USA: the most comprehensive guide for founders

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Visualizing Commodore 1541 Disk Contents

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Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake

Article URL: https://theoutline.com/post/7315/apple-keyboards-still-suck-insanely-bad?zd=1&zi=qklqjspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697122 Points: 46 # Comments: 41 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DpEqj8 via

Austrian Government Seeks to Eliminate Internet Anonymity–With Severe Penalties

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US halts recent practice of disclosing nuclear weapon total

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How to register a comany in the USA: the most comprehensive guide for founders

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Visualizing Commodore 1541 Disk Contents

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Canadian Cops Will Scan Social Media to Predict Who Could Go Missing

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US halts recent practice of disclosing nuclear weapon total

Article URL: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/04/18/us-halts-recent-practice-of-disclosing-nuclear-weapon-total/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697823 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VOAGi1 via

Austrian Government Seeks to Eliminate Internet Anonymity–With Severe Penalties

Article URL: http://derstandard.at/2000101677286/Government-Seeks-to-Eliminate-Internet-Anonymity-With-Severe-Penalties Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698003 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DpVKo1 via

The Parker Vacumatic (2016)

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Bangka Island: The WW2 massacre and a 'truth too awful to speak'

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Bangka Island: The WW2 massacre and a 'truth too awful to speak'

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Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s

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Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-the-birth-of-machine-bias?href= Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694377 Points: 42 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IwBm8W via

A Pragmatic Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation

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Sorbet: A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby

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New best story on Hacker News: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent

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New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns

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New best story on Hacker News: EU gives 'high-level' protection to whistleblowers

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Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole

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Sorbet: A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby

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Streak (Google Partner of the Year) Is Hiring in Vancouver

Article URL: https://www.streak.com/offices/vancouver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697520 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2G9nfVL via

Ruby3 Will Have Types

Article URL: https://twitter.com/darkdimius/status/1119115657776209920 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697405 Points: 52 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/darkdimius/status/1119115657776209920 via

Uber’s self-driving unit gets $1B investment from SoftBank

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/18/18507049/uber-atg-self-driving-autonomous-car-investment-softbank-toyota-denso Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697072 Points: 38 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UIKqyb via

Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/instagram-no-like-counter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19696968 Points: 59 # Comments: 37 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2UqN1aL via

Ikonate – fully customisable and accessible vector icons

Article URL: https://www.ikonate.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19696604 Points: 166 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.ikonate.com via

Federal investigation of Facebook could hold Zuckerberg accountable on privacy

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/19/federal-investigation-facebook-could-hold-mark-zuckerberg-accountable-privacy-sources-say/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19696286 Points: 52 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://wapo.st/2XqU2u9 via

After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/after-a-14-billion-upgrade-new-orleans-levees-are-sinking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19696096 Points: 129 # Comments: 149 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IoUO6E via

Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-18/u-s-refused-his-visa-eight-times-now-zoom-ceo-is-a-billionaire Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19696026 Points: 230 # Comments: 141 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2GkywAl via

Mozilla WebThings

Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthings/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19695595 Points: 266 # Comments: 73 from Hacker News: Front Page https://mzl.la/2vaCJBk via

Another ZFS Port on Linux

Article URL: https://www.crossmeta.io/another-zfs-port-on-linux/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19695425 Points: 45 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PhB724 via

Two Winning Pwn2Own JIT Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

Article URL: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2019/4/18/the-story-of-two-winning-pwn2own-jit-vulnerabilities-in-mozilla-firefox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19695347 Points: 19 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2KQ4qKs via

Designing a Full-Time Human Habitat on the Moon

Article URL: https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/04/moon-village-som-mit-esa-space-urbanism-planning-habitat/587482/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19695255 Points: 53 # Comments: 20 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PjFIRp via

Super Mario Bros. has been released for the Commodore 64

Article URL: https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71262 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19695114 Points: 240 # Comments: 82 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GxtWQJ via

‘Our Lying Eyes’: Inaccurate eyewitness identifications and wrongful convictions

Article URL: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/04/18/our-lying-eyes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694356 Points: 50 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Itt1SK via

How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694207 Points: 386 # Comments: 238 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ZopI50 via

Mercury – Banking built for startups

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Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/wipro-intruders-targeted-other-major-it-firms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693726 Points: 61 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GuECzy via

AES-GCM-SIV: Nonce Misuse-Resistant Authenticated Encryption

Article URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8452 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693434 Points: 102 # Comments: 33 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UH0n7K via

Keeping master green at scale

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Optimizing M3: Halving Our Metrics Ingestion Latency by Forking the Go Compiler

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Ikonate – fully customisable and accessible vector icons

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Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype

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Mozilla WebThings

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Super Mario Bros. has been released for the Commodore 64

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Ruby3 Will Have Types

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Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author

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Keeping master green at scale

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After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking

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Streak (Google Partner of the Year) Is Hiring in Vancouver

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World's tallest tropical tree discovered and climbed in Malaysian Borneo

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Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

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Elusive molecule, first in Universe, detected in space

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Designing a Full-Time Human Habitat on the Moon

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A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers

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How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer

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Optimizing M3: Halving Our Metrics Ingestion Latency by Forking the Go Compiler

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Uber’s self-driving unit gets $1B investment from SoftBank

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Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain

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‘Our Lying Eyes’: Inaccurate eyewitness identifications and wrongful convictions

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AES-GCM-SIV: Nonce Misuse-Resistant Authenticated Encryption

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Mercury – Banking built for startups

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Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms

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Modern Clowning in Los Angeles

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Another ZFS Port on Linux

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Anarchists Who Took the Commuter Train

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Two Winning Pwn2Own JIT Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

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Former student destroys 59 university computers using USB Killer device

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The Healing Power of Gardens

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Federal investigation of Facebook could hold Zuckerberg accountable on privacy

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