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ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography

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Could a popular food ingredient raise the risk for diabetes and obesity?

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Smoke and Mirrors: How Snap and Pinterest Hide User Attrition

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NoScript extension officially released for Google Chrome

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EasyJet bans peanuts on all flights

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Revolut is at risk of losing its European banking licenses

Article URL: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/companies/revolut-kremlin-lithuania-banking-license Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19746734 Points: 39 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IGPjkS via

Antarctica: Thousands of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out in 2016

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Chinese Number Websites: The Secret Meaning of URLs

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websites-secret-meaning-urls Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19746465 Points: 6 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1YvZoOb via

Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)

Article URL: https://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/05/29/cross-platform-gui-trainwreck-2016-edition/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19746440 Points: 28 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GzjSVZ via

Implementing Tile Encoding in Rav1e

Article URL: https://blog.rom1v.com/2019/04/implementing-tile-encoding-in-rav1e/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19746392 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GH6uQY via

The Library Catalogue of Christopher Columbus' Son

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716600905/christopher-columbus-son-had-an-enormous-library-its-catalog-was-just-found Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19744397 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://n.pr/2USTh0g via

Could a popular food ingredient raise the risk for diabetes and obesity?

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NoScript extension officially released for Google Chrome

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Implementing Tile Encoding in Rav1e

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EasyJet bans peanuts on all flights

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Chinese Number Websites: The Secret Meaning of URLs

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The Library Catalogue of Christopher Columbus' Son

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Antarctica: Thousands of emperor penguin chicks wiped out

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Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)

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Revolut is at risk of losing its European banking licenses

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Running WebAssembly and WASI with .Net

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Ask HN: How does your team run the kanban backlog/board?

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Show HN: My first open-source project release – RandomJson

Article URL: https://github.com/mangatmodi/RandomJson#Parallel-creation-of-random-strings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19746336 Points: 11 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DzQpdM via

Is Life Expectancy Finally Topping Out?

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/ethics/is-life-expectancy-finally-topping-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19746016 Points: 11 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DvaYbk via

How healthy is the internet?

Article URL: https://internethealthreport.org/2019/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19745901 Points: 28 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2ZvKLmh via

The Unknowable Artist: Stéphane Mandelbaum

Article URL: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/04/22/the-unknowable-artist-stephane-mandelbaum/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742875 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PnyYlz via

Show HN: My first open-source project release – RandomJson

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The Unknowable Artist: Stéphane Mandelbaum

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Things that are true that almost nobody agrees with me on

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Is Life Expectancy Finally Topping Out?

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AWS Opens in Hong Kong

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Using Wittgenstein for Understanding and Evaluating Technology (2017)

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Mozilla's Internet Health Report 2019

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Why Markdown Sucks (2016) – From Joe Armstrong's “Erlang and Other Stuff” Blog

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Why Markdown Sucks (2016) – From Joe Armstrong's “Erlang and Other Stuff” Blog

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AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy

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AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/23/18512529/laundroid-laundry-folding-robot-seven-dreamers-bankrupt-ces Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19744558 Points: 33 # Comments: 46 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VfgeKt via

The flame of conviction: Anthony Burgess on writing about D. H. Lawrence

Article URL: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/dh-lawrence-anthony-burgess/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742258 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Ppq0nG via

Trump's washing machine tarrifs cost consumers $815,000 per US job created

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The flame of conviction: Anthony Burgess on writing about D. H. Lawrence

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New best story on Hacker News: Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data

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New best story on Hacker News: Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues

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New best story on Hacker News: Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

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New best story on Hacker News: Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries

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New best story on Hacker News: I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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New best story on Hacker News: I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money

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New best story on Hacker News: Foundations of Databases (1995)

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New best story on Hacker News: OpenShot – Open-Source Video Editor

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New best story on Hacker News: Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark

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Pachyderm Raised $10M and Is Looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer

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Immediate Mode GUI

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A Mother-Son Duo Translating Astrophysics Into Blackfoot

Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/translating-astrophysics-into-blackfoot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19744378 Points: 15 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UKxlEy via

WebAssembly Troubles Part 4: Microwasm

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Insurers balk at paying for some cyberattacks

Article URL: https://thebulletin.org/2019/04/is-cyberwarfare-war-insurers-balk-at-paying-for-some-cyberattacks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19743879 Points: 32 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2XpLvb2 via

Lewis Carroll Puzzles

Article URL: http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~hile/math100/logice.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19743823 Points: 30 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1UU2xVx via

Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare

Article URL: https://www.xilinx.com/news/press/2019/xilinx-to-acquire-solarflare.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19743701 Points: 43 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PvEi6n via

Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/business/tesla-earnings-elon-musk.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19743480 Points: 172 # Comments: 352 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2Zx87bb via

Enterpriseification

Article URL: https://blog.licensezero.com/2019/04/24/enterpriseification.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19743392 Points: 34 # Comments: 22 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2W3xoI4 via

Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa

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Vim.wasm

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NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program

Article URL: https://bgr.com/2019/04/24/nsa-phone-surveillance-spying-program/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742468 Points: 119 # Comments: 57 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2IVRnEX via

Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing?

Article URL: https://lithub.com/are-these-bad-habits-creeping-into-your-writing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742435 Points: 106 # Comments: 53 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CJjrqf via

Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/massachusetts-court-blocks-warrantless-access-real-time-cell-phone-location-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742355 Points: 441 # Comments: 51 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2W0sThu via

The End of Being a Duke Professor and What It Means for the Future of Higher Ed

Article URL: https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/04/the-end-of-being-a-duke-professor-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-higher-education/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742353 Points: 88 # Comments: 34 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PqvXRw via

The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web

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Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/facebook-ftc-fine-earnings.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742270 Points: 475 # Comments: 267 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2Prxgj8 via

Tibetan musical notation

Article URL: http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/tibetan-musical-notation-is-beautiful.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742247 Points: 121 # Comments: 69 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2G2yRsq via

Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

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An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace

Article URL: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/amazon-marketplace-sellers-black-hat-scams-search-rankings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741942 Points: 90 # Comments: 51 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VmyXUs via

Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data

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Vim.wasm

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Immediate Mode GUI

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Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

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Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag

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Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf]

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A Linguistic Introduction to D3

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Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa

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Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues

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NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program

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WebAssembly Troubles Part 4: Microwasm

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The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought

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Tibetan musical notation

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Brain signals translated into speech using AI

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Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing?

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The wave of unicorn IPOs

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Brains of blind people adapt to sharpen sense of hearing: study

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An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace

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The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web

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Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare

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Xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture

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Pachyderm Raised $10M and Is Looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer

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The End of Being a Duke Professor and What It Means for the Future of Higher Ed

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Insurers balk at paying for some cyberattacks

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The Craft of the Adventure (1995) [pdf]

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Ask HN: How to Teach Coding?

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Enterpriseification

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Nasa’s InSight Lander Captures Audio of First Likely ‘Quake’ on Mars

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Lewis Carroll Puzzles

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A Mother-Son Duo Translating Astrophysics Into Blackfoot

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