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I Can’t Answer These Texas Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017) 259 by ilamont | 125 comments

SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home Internet from Space 623 by hsnewman | 395 comments

The Paris Compressed-Air Power Network (2018) 119 by camtarn | 18 comments

Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle 416 by MrXOR | 64 comments

Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking 160 by tshannon | 53 comments

WeWork Files for IPO 261 by idlewords | 263 comments

Jenkins Is Getting Old 385 by zdw | 252 comments

People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps 227 by tptacek | 107 comments

Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes 152 by aberoham | 27 comments

Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layout engine in Rust 177 by emilsjolander | 49 comments

Hundred-Tonne Robots That Help Keep New Zealand Running [video] 141 by protomyth | 36 comments

Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf] 709 by htiek | 67 comments

Launch HN: Trexo Robotics (YC W19) – Robotic Legs for Kids with Cerebral Palsy 106 by manmeet | 14 comments

Insurers Know How Often American Drivers Touch Their Phones 159 by petethomas | 212 comments

Visualizing Collective Trends in Space and Time [pdf] 3 by lichtenberger | 0 comments

Old emotions remain salient in insomnia disorder 10 by charlieirish | 0 comments

Motion Estimation with Optical Flow 84 by ole_gooner | 18 comments

When Proxies Lie: Verifying Locations of Proxies with Active Geolocation (2018) [pdf] 15 by tptacek | 4 comments

Open-source Chrome extension to save the state of a page for further analysis 30 by wingleung | 3 comments

How many ways are there to sort GUIDs? 35 by soheilpro | 16 comments

This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (1992) 147 by andrewflnr | 84 comments

The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View 62 by pseudolus | 26 comments

Rod Rosenstein, who was once accused of treason by the president, exits after a turbulent two years. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2V0Ln4O

The Oscar-nominated African-American director dies at 51, after his family remove him from life support. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2PEPWfd

A Mormon student comes out during his valedictory speech at Brigham Young University in Utah. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2ZKQZyQ

The 26-year-old Muslim convert also allegedly plotted terror attacks on Jews and churches. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2WcVvE9

Halima Aden becomes the first model to wear a burkini in Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2J3WWB2

Officials say more than 700 Americans have been infected, calling the outbreak "completely avoidable". from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2DHmAIp

A US firm has apologised for a job ad that stated it would prefer white candidates. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2Vr0wMr

Lori Kaye was killed after shielding her rabbi from a gunman who opened fire at a Passover service. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2LqmVWr

Intelligence sharing will be at risk if countries use the firm to build 5G networks, official says. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2UJwKhr

Dennis Muilenburg says a safety mechanism was only one factor in two fatal Boeing plane crashes. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2vsjIui

Navy Rear Admiral John Ring was fired as Guantanamo Bay prison commander after a month-long inquiry. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2vuJrlT

Smoke from the recycling plant fire has led people to flee over potentially toxic chemicals in the air. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2Vt3XCc

Rapper Jay-Z, singer Miley Cyrus and the Killers band were booked to play at Woodstock 50 in New York. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2ZIRcmi

The US actress shared an original cast photo from Beverley Hills 90210 to announce the news. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2PA3JUf

Sports bettor James Holzhauer's unusual strategy is paying off as he crushes Jeopardy records. from BBC News - US & Canada https://bbc.in/2L8O5k9

Fox News Breaking News Alert Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein submits resignation 04/29/19 2:26 PM

Fox News Breaking News Alert 'Boyz n the Hood' director John Singleton dead at 51, family announces 04/29/19 1:38 PM

Fox News Breaking News Alert Michael Avenatti pleads not guilty in federal wire, bank fraud case; trial to begin on June 25 04/29/19 10:34 AM

Fox News Breaking News Alert First images emerge of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in five years, intelligence group says 04/29/19 9:30 AM

Shares in Asia fell on Tuesday as readings on China's manufacturing activity failed to meet expectations, underscoring weakness in the world's second-largest economy despite Beijing's attempts to spur growth. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2UNr8mq

Factory activity in China expanded for a second straight month in April but at a much slower pace than expected, an official survey showed on Tuesday, suggesting the economy is still struggling for traction despite a flurry of support measures. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2ZJwx1s

Iran will continue to export oil despite U.S. pressure aimed at reducing the nation's crude oil shipments to zero, Iran President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on Iranian state TV on Tuesday. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2Wfeaz6

Boeing Co CEO and Chairman Dennis Muilenburg emerged with his job intact at an annual meeting on Monday and promised to win back the public's trust after facing tough questions in the wake of two fatal crashes of the 737 MAX plane. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2J31doj

Flydubai's Chief Executive Ghaith al-Ghaith said on Tuesday he is very confident that Boeing will take the right decision regarding the grounded 737 MAX. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2XOByUy

Boeing Co said an alert for angle-of-attack (AOA) sensors on its 737 MAX jets was "not activated as intended" for some customers, responding to reports it failed to tell Southwest Airlines Co and the U.S regulator that the optional feature was deactivated before a crash in Indonesia in October. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2WcstEE

U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his children and seven of his companies filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp to block the banks from complying with federal subpoenas investigating his financial dealings. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2WbPrvv

Islamic State's media network on Monday published a threatening video message purporting to come from its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in what would be his first appearance since declaring the jihadists' now-defunct "caliphate" five years ago. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2DFdv2P

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian national to death on Tuesday for producing and trafficking methamphetamine, amid heightened tension between Beijing and Ottawa over the arrest of a Huawei Technologies executive. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2J5UOsK

Japan's Emperor Akihito prayed to a Shinto sun goddess on Tuesday, starting a day of ceremonies to mark the end of a three-decade reign in which he sought to ease painful memories of World War Two and bring the monarchy closer to people. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2Leu2B9

Japanese expressed warmth and gratitude toward Emperor Akihito ahead of his abdication on Tuesday, but judged his three-decade Heisei era as a period of difficulty and transition for Japan after the economic boom and confidence of the 1980s. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2PBLrSG

The children ran along the narrow enclosure, screaming, fighting and crying for the attention of the prison worker distributing sweets and balloons. Bug-bitten toddlers, too small to walk, clung to the sides of the chain link fence, staring blankly. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2IOQoXF

Erik Prince - the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater and a prominent supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump - has been pushing a plan to deploy a private army to help topple Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicholas Maduro, four sources with knowledge of the effort told Reuters. from Reuters: Top News https://reut.rs/2ZLLFeM