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May 2018 Archive
1.
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (byorgey.wordpress.com)
2074 points by weatherlight on May 7, 2018 | 310 comments
2.
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone (ai.googleblog.com)
1875 points by ivank on May 8, 2018 | 750 comments
3.
US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data (zdnet.com)
1630 points by voctor on May 16, 2018 | 625 comments
4.
The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written (quora.com)
1493 points by graposaymaname on May 18, 2018 | 481 comments
5.
Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US (alexa.com)
1361 points by Mahn on May 30, 2018 | 584 comments
6.
The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill (azeria-labs.com)
1331 points by ingve on May 26, 2018 | 197 comments
7.
Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact (kiro7.com)
1314 points by spking on May 24, 2018 | 710 comments
8.
Google YOLO clickjacking (blog.innerht.ml)
1304 points by bobross on May 11, 2018 | 229 comments
9.
Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention (signal.org)
1224 points by jboynyc on May 1, 2018 | 496 comments
10.
LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time (robertxiao.ca)
1209 points by uptown on May 17, 2018 | 270 comments
11.
Completely Silent Computer (tp69.wordpress.com)
1087 points by signa11 on May 15, 2018 | 489 comments
12.
John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories (m.facebook.com)
1075 points by _mlxl on May 14, 2018 | 366 comments
13.
AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1 (dslreports.com)
999 points by antoinefink on May 2, 2018 | 367 comments
14.
AI winter is well on its way (blog.piekniewski.info)
993 points by wei_jok on May 30, 2018 | 492 comments
15.
How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas (indiehackers.com)
986 points by ChanningAllen on May 18, 2018 | 143 comments
16.
Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions (ccn.com)
973 points by drexlspivey on May 23, 2018 | 531 comments
17.
Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely (foodtank.com)
915 points by ryan_j_naughton on May 10, 2018 | 264 comments
18.
Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think) (medium.com)
910 points by ndiscussion on May 4, 2018 | 384 comments
19.
Safe ways to do things in bash (github.com)
892 points by signa11 on May 13, 2018 | 240 comments
20.
I've spent the last two years building a new email client (ivelope.com)
874 points by muszc-master on May 2, 2018 | 593 comments
21.
GDPR: Don't Panic (jacquesmattheij.com)
863 points by grabeh on May 18, 2018 | 800 comments
22.
Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal (theguardian.com)
805 points by HoppedUpMenace on May 29, 2018 | 221 comments
23.
Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles (openaccess.blogg.kb.se)
784 points by rreichman on May 18, 2018 | 116 comments
24.
UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? (zachholman.com)
757 points by bpierre on May 29, 2018 | 304 comments
25.
GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers (apility.io)
755 points by jgrid007 on May 25, 2018 | 1467 comments
26.
Senate votes to reinstate net neutrality (theverge.com)
754 points by kposehn on May 16, 2018 | 228 comments
27.
You know how HTTP GET requests are meant to be idempotent? (twitter.com)
751 points by mpweiher on May 1, 2018 | 304 comments
28.
A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign (wikipedia.fivefilters.org)
748 points by yasp on May 19, 2018 | 366 comments
29.
Subscription Hell (techcrunch.com)
745 points by Semirhage on May 6, 2018 | 597 comments
30.
De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds (money.cnn.com)
733 points by bkohlmann on May 29, 2018 | 439 comments