HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (byorgey.wordpress.com)

2074 points by weatherlight on May 7, 2018 | 310 comments

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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

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US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data (zdnet.com)

1630 points by voctor on May 16, 2018 | 625 comments

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The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written (quora.com)

1493 points by graposaymaname on May 18, 2018 | 481 comments

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Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US (alexa.com)

1361 points by Mahn on May 30, 2018 | 584 comments

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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

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Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact (kiro7.com)

1314 points by spking on May 24, 2018 | 710 comments

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Google YOLO clickjacking (blog.innerht.ml)

1304 points by bobross on May 11, 2018 | 229 comments

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Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention (signal.org)

1224 points by jboynyc on May 1, 2018 | 496 comments

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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

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Completely Silent Computer (tp69.wordpress.com)

1087 points by signa11 on May 15, 2018 | 489 comments

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John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories (m.facebook.com)

1075 points by _mlxl on May 14, 2018 | 366 comments

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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

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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

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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