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Long Before Boeing 737 Max Crash, Ethiopian Air Pilot Warned of Dangers

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Choosing Ruby on Rails for web development project in 2019

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

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Arthur Miller’s Shame

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Microsoft hints at new modern Windows OS with ‘invisible’ background updates

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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires

Article URL: https://bradleytaunt.com/2019/05/29/news-websites-are-dumpster-fires/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038869 Points: 57 # Comments: 38 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EIktVf via

Angular v8.0

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Striped maple trees often change sexes, with females more likely to die

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-striped-maple-trees-sexes-females.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038683 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2WhP0Ep via

Striped maple trees often change sexes, with females more likely to die

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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires

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The preachers getting rich from poor Americans

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Angular v8.0

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Only enterprise Chrome installs will have full ad-blocking

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-extensions/veJy9uAwS00/9iKaX5giAQAJ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038872 Points: 39 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Wcrit7 via

102KB ought to be enough for any email

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/05/102kb-ought-to-be-enough-for-any-email/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038790 Points: 21 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2MgMHgb via

Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web

Article URL: https://trib.tv/2019/05/28/cake-or-death-amp-and-the-worrying-power-dynamics-of-the-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038698 Points: 18 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2K7e0a1 via

What Intuit knows about its users

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/what-intuit-knows-about-you-d4ea9f53-c116-48e1-948f-e204c3767b54.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038493 Points: 38 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2JLWKHK via

Much of reported cryptocurrency trading volume is likely fake

Article URL: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/05/28/up-to-86-of-total-reported-cryptocurrency-trading-volume-is-likely-fake-according-to-analysis-of-exchange-website-visits/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038476 Points: 23 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Me8fd2 via

Genode OS Framework 19.05

Article URL: https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/19.05 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038374 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2KaFUSh via

Why Codeless Software Is Doomed to Fail

Article URL: https://architectofworlds.com/blog/why-codeless-software-doomed-fail/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037962 Points: 35 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2WyiQn6 via

The preachers getting rich from poor Americans

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47675301 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037957 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bbc.in/2Ez7PIb via

New best story on Hacker News: Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default

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102KB ought to be enough for any email

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Only enterprise Chrome installs will have full ad-blocking

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Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web

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Why Codeless Software Is Doomed to Fail

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Genode OS Framework 19.05

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Ask HN: How to avoid ghosting by potential customers?

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Up to 86% of total reported cryptocurrency trading volume is likely fake

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What Intuit knows about its users

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Show HN: Volument – A new take on website analytics

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Malaysia to send up to 100 tonnes of plastic waste back to Australia

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Malaysia to send up to 100 tonnes of plastic waste back to Australia

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/29/malaysia-to-send-up-to-100-tonnes-of-plastic-waste-back-to-australia Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037943 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QtyYks via

Ask HN: Do you think technology progress will flatten out 100 years from now

Other than few areas like interplanetary travel, will there be enough frontiers for humans to explore once we hit the limits of physics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038006 Points: 3 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Xde0bY via

Ask HN: Do you think technology progress will flatten out 100 years from now

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The End of Mobile

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Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Are the Trans Fat Purveyors of Our Generation

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jwmares/status/1133449746792767488 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037763 Points: 6 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/jwmares/status/1133449746792767488 via

Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Are the Trans Fat Purveyors of Our Generation

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Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/google-s-chrome-becomes-web-gatekeeper-and-rivals-complain Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037562 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2MgCuA8 via

The End of Mobile

Article URL: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/5/28/the-end-of-mobile Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20036384 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Kb4Wkr via

Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain

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New best story on Hacker News: Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG

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Awk ' visited[$0]++' or removing duplicate lines from files explained

Article URL: https://iridakos.com/how-to/2019/05/16/remove-duplicate-lines-preserving-order-linux.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037366 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Vv5T9c via

China ready to hit back at U.S. with rare earths

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-rareearth/china-ready-to-hit-back-at-u-s-with-rare-earths-ruling-party-newspaper-idUSKCN1SZ07V Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037160 Points: 13 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://reut.rs/2EGf5C3 via

Show HN: Volument – A new take on website analytics

Article URL: https://volument.com?a=hn1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037116 Points: 13 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/30NdQKV via

Why Ice Lake is Important – a bit-basher’s perspective

Article URL: https://branchfree.org/2019/05/29/why-ice-lake-is-important-a-bit-bashers-perspective/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037019 Points: 22 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2JJb83G via

GNU Hyperbole 7.0.3

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/bua5ex/gnu_hyperbole_703_is_released_and_ready_for_action/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20036833 Points: 44 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2I4lwQl via

Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text

Article URL: https://github.com/penrose/penrose Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20036776 Points: 60 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2T1ZB0e via

If the number of children is not growing, why is the population still increasing

Article URL: https://ourworldindata.org/population-momentum Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20036509 Points: 20 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/30PiqrR via

Show HN: Mr2.js free can help you expose local server to external network

Article URL: https://github.com/txthinking/mr2.js Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20036450 Points: 15 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2YV2FOa via

Wireguard-docs: Setup, usage, configuration, and a full example

Article URL: https://github.com/pirate/wireguard-docs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20036194 Points: 145 # Comments: 20 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Igs2DN via

Awk ' visited[$0]++' or removing duplicate lines from files explained

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New best story on Hacker News: Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence

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New best story on Hacker News: W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM

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New best story on Hacker News: I can see your local web servers

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New best story on Hacker News: Translating math into code with examples in Java, Racket, Haskell, Python (2011)

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New best story on Hacker News: Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg

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Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG

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Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text

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Wireguard-docs: Setup, usage, configuration, and a full example

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Why Ice Lake is Important – a bit-basher’s perspective

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Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence

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Adventures with ffmpeg and color ranges

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Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database

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Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default

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Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010)

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iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms

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Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone

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Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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New Causes of Autism Found in Noncoding DNA

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Show HN: Volument – A new take on website analytics

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Pollution cover-ups exposed in Chinese provinces

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If the number of children is not growing, why is the population still increasing

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GNU Hyperbole 7.0.3

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China ready to hit back at U.S. with rare earths

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Show HN: Mr2.js free can help you expose local server to external network

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Chess-playing neural network LC0 beats Stockfish in 100-game match

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The ABC's of Guiding the Child (1967) [pdf]

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Russ Cox’s response to “Go Is Not a Community Driven Project”

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The after-party balloon effect

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End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning Without Reward Engineering

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Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby (2008)

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Tell HN: Work at a Startup Expo will be at YC on Saturday, June 29

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Huawei’s Ace in the Hole: Undersea Cables

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Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Suppliers

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Translating math into code with examples in Java, Racket, Haskell, Python (2011)

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Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone

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Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG

Article URL: https://zzz.dog/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20036169 Points: 328 # Comments: 28 from Hacker News: Front Page https://zzz.dog/ via

Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzdp5v/police-in-canada-are-tracking-peoples-negative-behavior-in-a-risk-database Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20035983 Points: 74 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2XbWyEN via

The after-party balloon effect

Article URL: https://envirobites.org/2019/05/28/the-after-party-balloon-effect-disastrous-consequences-of-balloon-releases/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20035893 Points: 24 # Comments: 22 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2wzPy9n via

Adventures with ffmpeg and color ranges

Article URL: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2413101932257643&id=100006735798590 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20035818 Points: 108 # Comments: 47 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2WssbwJ via

Pollution cover-ups exposed in Chinese provinces

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New Causes of Autism Found in Noncoding DNA

Article URL: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2019/05/27/autism-noncoding-mutations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20035077 Points: 90 # Comments: 69 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2EvQnUX via

Russ Cox’s response to “Go Is Not a Community Driven Project”

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/6dKNSN0M_kg/Y1yDJRwQBgAJ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20034891 Points: 139 # Comments: 93 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2JJa9QV via

Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence

Article URL: https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dissatisfaction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20034038 Points: 444 # Comments: 388 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2QpzWyh via

Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01551-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033776 Points: 54 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page https://go.nature.com/2K4ZOOK via

Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

Article URL: https://endoflife.date/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033728 Points: 168 # Comments: 51 from Hacker News: Front Page https://endoflife.date/ via

Tell HN: Work at a Startup Expo will be at YC on Saturday, June 29

Last year, we revived the "Work at a Startup" event for YC companies and prospective hires to meet each other in person ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367707 ). The format has proven to work well, so we're doing it again. The 2019 event will be on Saturday, June 29 at YC in Mountain View: https://workatastartup.com/expo Many engineers are interested in working at smaller companies. But there aren't many efficient ways to meet a bunch of them at once, and it's a ton of repetitive work to seek them out one by one. Meanwhile, hiring is the biggest challenge most YC startups are facing. That's an obvious matchmaking problem, and bringing everyone together in one big event is one thing YC can do to help address it. It's a fun and interesting day, too! This year, we're bringing together 40 YC companies in one place. Rapid-fire company presentations—like Demo Day, but for engineers instead of investors—will give you a way to quickly survey the com

Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Suppliers

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