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New best story on Hacker News: GitHub Package Registry

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New best story on Hacker News: IT Runs on Java 8

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Lyft’s revenues double, losses quintuple – and prospects darken

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2019/05/11/lyfts-revenues-double-losses-quintuple-and-prospects-darken Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19877822 Points: 16 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://econ.st/2Q3T7xv via

Show HN: git-rebase.io: A comprehensive guide to Git rebase

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Lyft’s revenues double, losses quintuple – and prospects darken

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Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia

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40% of Merchants on Amazon Based in China

Article URL: https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/40-of-merchants-on-amazon-based-in-china Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19877499 Points: 9 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PTP1Yq via

Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications

Article URL: https://blog.broulik.de/2019/05/next-generation-plasma-notifications/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19877130 Points: 9 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VYMEsM via

Show HN: git-rebase.io: A comprehensive guide to Git rebase

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40% of Merchants on Amazon Based in China

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Next Generation KDE Plasma Notifications

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Air Pollution Seems to Cause Dementia

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Open source firmware is important for security

Article URL: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/why-open-source-firmware-is-important-for-security/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19870406 Points: 547 # Comments: 90 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2LxOsoH via

Google launches new “portal” HTML element

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Streak (YC S11) is profitable, well funded and hiring in Vancouver

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Streak (YC S11) is profitable, well funded and hiring in Vancouver

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Why I’m making my family German (2017)

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/03/why-im-making-my-family-german Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19877223 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2soCIHm via

Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy

Basically share anything. Advice. Warnings. Stories. About the time you considered and also actually starting a consultancy. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19876825 Points: 14 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2H9OEpU via

Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy

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Why I’m making my family German (2017)

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Goodbye Nest, and Privacy, Hello Google Nest

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/nest-the-company-died-at-google-io-2019/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19877124 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2PTePUw via

Weissman Score

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Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008)

Article URL: https://johntopley.com/2008/08/19/database-ids-have-no-place-in-uris/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19876901 Points: 25 # Comments: 44 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VeQcCL via

Jeff Bezos Unveils Blue Origin’s Vision for Space, and a Moon Lander

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/science/jeff-bezos-moon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19876573 Points: 12 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://nyti.ms/2HcfZrB via

Goodbye Nest, and Privacy, Hello Google Nest

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Cross-ISA Machine Instrumentation Using Fast/Scalable Dynamic Binary Translation [pdf]

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Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008)

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Jeff Bezos Unveils Blue Origin’s Vision for Space, and a Moon Lander

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Weissman Score

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Icecream – A little debugging library

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The Missing Introduction to Containerization

Article URL: https://medium.com/devopslinks/the-missing-introduction-to-containerization-de1fbb73efc5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19876355 Points: 19 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2D4ZxqO via

Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancers

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/article/153744/gig-economy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871323 Points: 17 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VIuP15 via

Harper Lee's Lost True Crime Book

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/04/and-the-missing-briefcase-the-real-story-behind-harper-lees-lost-true-book Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19870607 Points: 20 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GUPcyJ via

The Beauty of Calculus [video]

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The Missing Introduction to Containerization

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New best story on Hacker News: Open source firmware is important for security

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Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancers

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Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords

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WebAssembly Micro Runtime – From Intel

Article URL: https://github.com/intel/wasm-micro-runtime Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19875884 Points: 8 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2YeUfRq via

ClojureScript: Graal.js REPL Environment

Article URL: https://clojurescript.org/news/2018-11-02-release#_graal_js_repl_environment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19875335 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2He6bgY via

WebAssembly Micro Runtime – From Intel

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ClojureScript: Graal.js REPL Environment

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Why Go makes it easier (than Python or Java) to write good code

Article URL: https://yourbasic.org/golang/advantages-over-java-python/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19875531 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UXJI09 via

Raising a Ladder to the Moon, Under the Sea

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Why Go makes it easier (than Python or Java) to write good code

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It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video

Article URL: https://www.singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av1-video/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19870701 Points: 270 # Comments: 261 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GXOwtI via

MS Office in Wonderland [pdf]

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Google releases 53 gender fluid emoji

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Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers, Senior Python Engineer

Article URL: https://www.tesorio.com/careers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19875613 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2cpioyK via

Google releases 53 gender fluid emoji

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/90343461/google-releases-gender-fluid-emoji Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19875602 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VLDJuT via

Deadly stupidity during Aeroflot flight 1492 emergency evacuation

Article URL: http://www.askthepilot.com/deadly-stupidity-in-moscow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19875384 Points: 56 # Comments: 40 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Jv8ddS via

Google AutoML finishes 2nd in a Kaggle competition

Article URL: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/05/an-end-to-end-automl-solution-for.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19874954 Points: 22 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2WARCsO via

What to Expect from Marzipan

Article URL: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2019/05/what-to-expect-from-marzipan/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19874835 Points: 63 # Comments: 43 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VoBGxl via

Billions in Dirty Cash Helped Fuel Vancouver's Housing Boom

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-10/billions-in-dirty-cash-helped-fuel-vancouver-s-housing-boom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19874745 Points: 83 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2YidhXh via

Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry from US marketplace

Article URL: https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-ferguson-amazon-must-remove-toxic-school-supplies-kid-s-jewelry-marketplace Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19874516 Points: 176 # Comments: 109 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2HfmABP via

Chelsea Manning released from jail with expiration of grand jury

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/chelsea-manning-released-from-jail-where-she-had-been-held-for-refusing-to-testify-in-wikileaks-case/2019/05/09/dbbbac4c-70ff-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.95393ab8d565 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19874431 Points: 141 # Comments: 52 from Hacker News: Front Page https://wapo.st/2HiyDNc via

A Fourier Synthesis Character Generator

Article URL: http://www.glensstuff.com/fouriersynthchargen/fouriersynthchargen.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873079 Points: 53 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1LIiRqF via

Diffeq.jl v6.4: Full GPU ODEs, Neural ODEs with Batching on GPUs, and More

Article URL: http://juliadiffeq.org/2019/05/09/GPU.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873059 Points: 112 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Hb3gEn via

The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter

Article URL: https://onezero.medium.com/the-global-attention-span-is-getting-shorter-ee652a7e09b8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19872821 Points: 60 # Comments: 28 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2LtkrX8 via

Blue Moon

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Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)

Article URL: https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19872364 Points: 138 # Comments: 39 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/1Qlo2fl via

TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning

Article URL: https://medium.com/tensorflow/introducing-tensorflow-graphics-computer-graphics-meets-deep-learning-c8e3877b7668 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19872185 Points: 178 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2LznQDJ via

Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage

Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/05/technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-add-on-outage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871989 Points: 324 # Comments: 199 from Hacker News: Front Page https://mzl.la/2DXyJJu via

Unencumbered Open Source Commodore 64 ROMs

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Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet

Article URL: http://blog.eladgil.com/2019/05/markets-are-10x-bigger-than-ever.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871243 Points: 87 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2YjJ622 via

Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?

Article URL: https://blog.mecheye.net/2019/05/why-is-2d-graphics-is-harder-than-3d-graphics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871207 Points: 233 # Comments: 61 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VhXINy via

We Can Do Better Than SQL

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Darpa Seeks Tools to Capture Underground Worlds in 3D

Article URL: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2019-03-07 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19870942 Points: 54 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DTxqv5 via

New best story on Hacker News: All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

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New best story on Hacker News: We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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New best story on Hacker News: Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

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Deadly stupidity during Aeroflot flight 1492 emergency evacuation

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What to Expect from Marzipan

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Why open source firmware is important for security

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Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage

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Blue Moon

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Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?

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Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers, Senior Python Engineer

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How to Do Nothing (2017)

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TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning

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Diffeq.jl v6.4: Full GPU ODEs, Neural ODEs with Batching on GPUs, and More

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Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry from US marketplace

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Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)

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It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video

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Billions in Dirty Cash Helped Fuel Vancouver's Housing Boom

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Amazon Hit by Extensive Fraud with Hackers Siphoning Merchant Funds

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We Can Do Better Than SQL

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Google AutoML finishes 2nd in a Kaggle competition

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Faster Arithmetic by Flipping Signs

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Getting Featured on Hacker News

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Chelsea Manning released from jail with expiration of grand jury

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The Myth of Convenience

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Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant infection

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A Fourier Synthesis Character Generator

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Harper Lee's Lost True Crime Book

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Unencumbered Open Source Commodore 64 ROMs

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Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet

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U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing mostly on smartphones

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The Global Attention Span Is Getting Shorter

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Darpa Seeks Tools to Capture Underground Worlds in 3D

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On a Quick Way to Extract Concise Image Descriptors from CNN Models

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