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PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released

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Bigint Shipping in Firefox

Article URL: https://wingolog.org/archives/2019/05/23/bigint-shipping-in-firefox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19991405 Points: 9 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2JAc4aE via

JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat

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My Attempt to Solve Sudoku in Common Lisp

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My Attempt to Solve Sudoku in Common Lisp

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Bigint Shipping in Firefox

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JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat

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PayPal's Beautiful Demonstration of Extended Validation Fud

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Hashtag Propaganda. Secret UK govt tactics for post-terror planning

Article URL: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mind-control-secret-british-government-blueprints-shaping-post-terror-planning Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19991241 Points: 18 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Hx37fR via

PayPal's Beautiful Demonstration of Extended Validation Fud

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Hashtag Propaganda. Secret UK govt tactics for post-terror planning

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Travels with a Pi (2018)

Article URL: https://petergarner.net/notes/index.php?thisnote=20180202-Travels+with+a+Pi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19990708 Points: 34 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Hx5ZJz via

“Once-in-a-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan

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Artificial general intelligence is here, and it's useless

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A Rocket Built by Students Reached Space for the First Time

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Mozart: Rational Revolutionary

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A Rocket Built by Students Reached Space for the First Time

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“Once-in-a-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan

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Artificial general intelligence is here, and it's useless

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Show HN: Travels with a (Raspberry) Pi

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“Once-in-a-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan

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Mozart: Rational Revolutionary

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Visualizing PostgreSQL Vacuum Progress

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Google faces first investigation European lead authority over GDPR

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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

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The Ecological Limits of Work [pdf]

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Literature as Flattery

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New best story on Hacker News: Technical Debt

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WPF Code Now on GitHub

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Teen shot herself with gunshot through mouth while hands cuffed behind back

Article URL: https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/police-woman-killed-herself-with-gunshot-through-her-mouth-while-hands-cuffed-behind-back Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19989676 Points: 32 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VUqybZ via

Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority (GDPR)

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GitHub Sponsors

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Dependabot Is Joining GitHub

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Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual”

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GitHub Sponsors

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Dependabot Is Joining GitHub

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Instagram data breach 49M users’ sensitive data exposed online

Article URL: https://www.cisomag.com/instagram-data-breach-49-million-users-sensitive-data-exposed-online/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19989309 Points: 21 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2whVpQ8 via

Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting

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Instagram data breach 49M users’ sensitive data exposed online

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How should we critique research?

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New best story on Hacker News: Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System

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New best story on Hacker News: Go is Google's language, not ours

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

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Visualizing PostgreSQL Vacuum Progress

Article URL: http://dtrace.org/blogs/dap/2019/05/22/visualizing-postgresql-vacuum-progress/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19987535 Points: 17 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QjqqMO via

Buying an IBM Mainframe

Article URL: https://blog.mainframe.dev/2019/05/buying-ibm-mainframe.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19988945 Points: 8 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Eupm4i via

WestJet pilot’s eyes struck by laser on flight from Newfoundland to Florida

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/westjet-pilot-eyes-burned-by-laser-1.5144981 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986770 Points: 87 # Comments: 61 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/30zVhd3 via

The Art of Command Line (2015)

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Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System

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The Common Lisp Cookbook

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SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics

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PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's standard library

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Buying an IBM Mainframe

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OP-Z Synthesizer

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Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool

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The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction

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Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroying subway commute

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Google and Binomial Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format

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Curiosity Killed the Mario

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Terraform 0.12

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Airport Made Fence Holes for Planespotting Photographers

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Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban

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Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting

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Show HN: Write code using natural language

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Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978

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E Programming Language

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D4 Project – Open and collaborative network monitoring [pdf]

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Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration

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The Spycraft Revolution

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Amazon Shareholders Rejected Employees' Call to Respond to Climate Change

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Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the Eiffel Tower

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Computing's first 'killer app' changed everything

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Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Layer: Eastern China

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Goto and the folly of dogma (2018)

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China, Leverage, and Values

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Formation of the moon brought water to Earth

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WestJet pilot’s eyes struck by laser on flight from Newfoundland to Florida

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The Art of Command Line (2015)

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Amazon Shareholders Rejected Employees' Call to Respond to Climate Change

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The Common Lisp Cookbook

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OP-Z Synthesizer

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Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration

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Airport Made Fence Holes for Planespotting Photographers

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Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Layer: Eastern China

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China, Leverage, and Values

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Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978

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Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool

Article URL: https://github.com/dagwieers/dstat/issues/170 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986646 Points: 105 # Comments: 68 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VHQsuy via

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

Article URL: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/22/h-1b-visa-government-says-work-ban-for-h-4-spouses-coming-this-month/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986623 Points: 113 # Comments: 102 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bayareane.ws/2WZo20z via

SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics

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Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System

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Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-facial-recognition/amazon-shareholders-reject-facial-recognition-ban-as-concern-grows-in-u-s-congress-idUSKCN1SS28I Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19985956 Points: 224 # Comments: 222 from Hacker News: Front Page https://reut.rs/2HMsUjb via

London’s Tube Network to Switch on Wi-Fi Tracking by Default in July

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PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's standard library

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Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroying subway commute

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Terraform 0.12

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Paris Will Create the City's Largest Gardens Around the Eiffel Tower

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Show HN: Write code using natural language

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New best story on Hacker News: Free Wolfram Engine for Developers

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New best story on Hacker News: Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)

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