The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2018

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Completely Silent Computer tp69.wordpress.com · signa11 · 15 May 2018

1.1k pts 489 comments

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John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories m.facebook.com · _mlxl · 14 May 2018

1.1k pts 366 comments

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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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AI winter is well on its way blog.piekniewski.info · wei_jok · 30 May 2018

993 pts 492 comments

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How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas indiehackers.com · ChanningAllen · 18 May 2018

986 pts 143 comments

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Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions ccn.com · drexlspivey · 23 May 2018

973 pts 531 comments

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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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Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think) medium.com · ndiscussion · 4 May 2018

910 pts 384 comments

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Safe ways to do things in bash github.com · signa11 · 13 May 2018

892 pts 240 comments

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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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GDPR: Don't Panic jacquesmattheij.com · grabeh · 18 May 2018

863 pts 800 comments

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Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal theguardian.com · HoppedUpMenace · 29 May 2018

805 pts 221 comments

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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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UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? zachholman.com · bpierre · 29 May 2018

757 pts 304 comments

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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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Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality theverge.com · kposehn · 16 May 2018

754 pts 228 comments

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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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A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign wikipedia.fivefilters.org · yasp · 19 May 2018

748 pts 366 comments

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Subscription Hell techcrunch.com · Semirhage · 6 May 2018

745 pts 597 comments

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De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds money.cnn.com · bkohlmann · 29 May 2018

733 pts 439 comments

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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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Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award blog.jupyter.org · williamstein · 2 May 2018

714 pts 133 comments

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82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding aarp.org · joering2 · 21 May 2018

709 pts 214 comments

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Too Clever by Half epsilontheory.com · moat · 16 May 2018

704 pts 244 comments

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Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food modernfarmer.com · clumsysmurf · 10 May 2018

691 pts 316 comments

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Make front end shit again makefrontendshitagain.party · katpas · 13 May 2018

681 pts 220 comments

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GDPR will pop the adtech bubble blogs.harvard.edu · mpweiher · 13 May 2018

668 pts 437 comments

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Python startup time: milliseconds matter mail.python.org · vanni · 2 May 2018

662 pts 378 comments

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Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch' reuters.com · petethomas · 3 May 2018

661 pts 462 comments

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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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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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Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python facebook.com · jimarcey · 11 May 2018

640 pts 516 comments

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Gnome has moved to GitLab about.gitlab.com · fiveFeet · 31 May 2018

640 pts 201 comments

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Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative gitea.io · amjd · 6 May 2018

638 pts 234 comments

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ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money eff.org · davegauer · 10 May 2018

634 pts 236 comments

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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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How a domain registrar can kill your business uptimechecker.io · richeyrw · 16 May 2018

633 pts 274 comments

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An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression novaspivack.com · airesearcher · 18 May 2018

626 pts 179 comments

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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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Facebook announces Clear History feature facebook.com · anigbrowl · 1 May 2018

608 pts 344 comments

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$36k Google App Engine RCE sites.google.com · louis-paul · 21 May 2018

602 pts 155 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018) whoishiring · 1 May 2018

587 pts 1.2k comments

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I put all my personal data on eBay olifro.st · olifrost · 28 May 2018

587 pts 146 comments

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You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS techcrunch.com · willsinclair · 8 May 2018

585 pts 321 comments

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Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home inc.com · mpweiher · 11 May 2018

583 pts 295 comments

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Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies crypto51.app · xur17 · 28 May 2018

581 pts 218 comments

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Proton Native – React Native for the desktop proton-native.js.org · zengid · 2 May 2018

575 pts 283 comments

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Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems queue.acm.org · matt_d · 16 May 2018

572 pts 50 comments

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Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video snr.stanford.edu · jremmons · 1 May 2018

568 pts 73 comments

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I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned twitter.com · sus_007 · 22 May 2018

563 pts 188 comments