The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2018
We track 1,149 stories from May 2018, averaging 246 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 49 stories. Together they drew 146,070 comments, 127 per story on average.
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Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
byorgey.wordpress.com · weatherlight · 7 May 2018
2.1k pts
310 comments
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2
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
ai.googleblog.com · ivank · 8 May 2018
1.9k pts
750 comments
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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
zdnet.com · voctor · 16 May 2018
1.6k pts
625 comments
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4
The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
quora.com · graposaymaname · 18 May 2018
1.5k pts
481 comments
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5
Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
alexa.com · Mahn · 30 May 2018
1.4k pts
584 comments
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The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill
azeria-labs.com · ingve · 26 May 2018
1.3k pts
197 comments
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Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
kiro7.com · spking · 24 May 2018
1.3k pts
710 comments
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8
Google YOLO clickjacking
blog.innerht.ml · bobross · 11 May 2018
1.3k pts
229 comments
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Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention
signal.org · jboynyc · 1 May 2018
1.2k pts
496 comments
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10
LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time
robertxiao.ca · uptown · 17 May 2018
1.2k pts
270 comments
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11
Completely Silent Computer
tp69.wordpress.com · signa11 · 15 May 2018
1.1k pts
489 comments
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12
John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
m.facebook.com · _mlxl · 14 May 2018
1.1k pts
366 comments
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13
AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1
dslreports.com · antoinefink · 2 May 2018
999 pts
367 comments
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14
AI winter is well on its way
blog.piekniewski.info · wei_jok · 30 May 2018
993 pts
492 comments
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15
How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas
indiehackers.com · ChanningAllen · 18 May 2018
986 pts
143 comments
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16
Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions
ccn.com · drexlspivey · 23 May 2018
973 pts
531 comments
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17
Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely
foodtank.com · ryan_j_naughton · 10 May 2018
915 pts
264 comments
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18
Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
medium.com · ndiscussion · 4 May 2018
910 pts
384 comments
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19
Safe ways to do things in bash
github.com · signa11 · 13 May 2018
892 pts
240 comments
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20
I've spent the last two years building a new email client
ivelope.com · muszc-master · 2 May 2018
874 pts
593 comments
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22
Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
theguardian.com · HoppedUpMenace · 29 May 2018
805 pts
221 comments
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23
Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles
openaccess.blogg.kb.se · rreichman · 18 May 2018
784 pts
116 comments
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24
UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?
zachholman.com · bpierre · 29 May 2018
757 pts
304 comments
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25
GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers
apility.io · jgrid007 · 25 May 2018
755 pts
1.5k comments
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26
Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality
theverge.com · kposehn · 16 May 2018
754 pts
228 comments
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27
You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent?
twitter.com · mpweiher · 1 May 2018
751 pts
304 comments
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28
A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign
wikipedia.fivefilters.org · yasp · 19 May 2018
748 pts
366 comments
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30
De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
money.cnn.com · bkohlmann · 29 May 2018
733 pts
439 comments
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31
EFail – Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption technologies OpenPGP and S/MIME
efail.de · Foxboron · 14 May 2018
718 pts
288 comments
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32
Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award
blog.jupyter.org · williamstein · 2 May 2018
714 pts
133 comments
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33
82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding
aarp.org · joering2 · 21 May 2018
709 pts
214 comments
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35
Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food
modernfarmer.com · clumsysmurf · 10 May 2018
691 pts
316 comments
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36
Make front end shit again
makefrontendshitagain.party · katpas · 13 May 2018
681 pts
220 comments
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37
GDPR will pop the adtech bubble
blogs.harvard.edu · mpweiher · 13 May 2018
668 pts
437 comments
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38
Python startup time: milliseconds matter
mail.python.org · vanni · 2 May 2018
662 pts
378 comments
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39
Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'
reuters.com · petethomas · 3 May 2018
661 pts
462 comments
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40
Show HN: Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look
wiredjs.com · shihn · 24 May 2018
650 pts
120 comments
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41
What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
blog.ghost.org · saturdayplace · 16 May 2018
645 pts
173 comments
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42
Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python
facebook.com · jimarcey · 11 May 2018
640 pts
516 comments
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43
Gnome has moved to GitLab
about.gitlab.com · fiveFeet · 31 May 2018
640 pts
201 comments
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44
Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
gitea.io · amjd · 6 May 2018
638 pts
234 comments
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45
ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
eff.org · davegauer · 10 May 2018
634 pts
236 comments
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46
NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report
reuters.com · Jerry2 · 4 May 2018
633 pts
339 comments
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47
How a domain registrar can kill your business
uptimechecker.io · richeyrw · 16 May 2018
633 pts
274 comments
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48
An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression
novaspivack.com · airesearcher · 18 May 2018
626 pts
179 comments
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49
Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)
blog.rekawek.eu · tosh · 23 May 2018
617 pts
95 comments
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50
Facebook announces Clear History feature
facebook.com · anigbrowl · 1 May 2018
608 pts
344 comments
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51
$36k Google App Engine RCE
sites.google.com · louis-paul · 21 May 2018
602 pts
155 comments
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53
I put all my personal data on eBay
olifro.st · olifrost · 28 May 2018
587 pts
146 comments
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54
You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
techcrunch.com · willsinclair · 8 May 2018
585 pts
321 comments
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55
Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home
inc.com · mpweiher · 11 May 2018
583 pts
295 comments
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56
Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies
crypto51.app · xur17 · 28 May 2018
581 pts
218 comments
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57
Proton Native – React Native for the desktop
proton-native.js.org · zengid · 2 May 2018
575 pts
283 comments
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58
Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
queue.acm.org · matt_d · 16 May 2018
572 pts
50 comments
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59
Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video
snr.stanford.edu · jremmons · 1 May 2018
568 pts
73 comments
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60
I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned
twitter.com · sus_007 · 22 May 2018
563 pts
188 comments
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