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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. Oft-quoted paper on spread of fake news is retracted

    129 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  2. Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong

    129 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  3. The Norwegian art of the packed lunch

    129 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  4. Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail

    129 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  5. UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019

    129 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  6. Blocking website ads with a hosts file

    128 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  7. In a Hot Labor Market, Some Employees Are 'Ghosting' Bad Bosses

    128 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  8. Remotely compromise devices by using bugs in Marvell Avastar Wi-Fi

    128 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  9. 5G: if you build it, we will fill it

    128 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  10. U.S. Now Says All Online Gambling Illegal, Not Just Sports Bets

    128 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  11. Open Source Radio Telescope [pdf]

    127 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  12. Ask HN: Fastest way to get started with freelancing?

    127 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  13. Airlander 10: World's longest aircraft gets full-production go-ahead

    127 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  14. We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it back

    127 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  15. Spectrum – Image transcoding library for Android or iOS

    127 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  16. GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf]

    127 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  17. Show HN: Nanosecond C message logger

    127 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  18. Only when Mats was dead did his parents understand the value of his game

    127 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  19. Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake

    127 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  20. The cult of rotary mixers

    126 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  21. Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' in Search of More Productive Crops

    126 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  22. Scripting in Common Lisp

    126 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  23. First Sednit UEFI Rootkit Unveiled [video]

    126 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  24. How ‘Magic Angle’ Graphene Is Stirring Up Physics

    126 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  25. Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age (2017)

    126 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  26. Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work

    126 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  27. Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change

    125 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  28. The Dark Side of Zero Knowledge: Masking the initial setup in Zk-SNARK

    125 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  29. Lisp Badge – Self-contained ATmega1284 Lisp computer

    125 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  30. A new law in California requires pet stores to sell only rescue animals

    125 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  31. What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?

    125 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  32. Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?

    125 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  33. Cardiologist-Level Arrhythmia Detection Using a Deep Neural Network

    125 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  34. Amazon Says It Has Over 10k Employees Working on Alexa, Echo

    124 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  35. Geek heroes rescue Tonga from worst case fibre optic cable blackout

    124 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  36. Geoff Hinton Wants Computers to Think More Like Brains

    124 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  37. Oklahoma Department of Securities Leaked Millions of Files

    124 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  38. Torrents with public domain paywalled papers from before 1923

    124 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  39. Slack Plans to Follow Spotify on Unconventional IPO Route

    124 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  40. Google Phishing Quiz

    123 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  41. Massive mortgage and loan data leak gets worse, original documents also exposed

    123 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  42. Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks

    123 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  43. Bash scripting cheatsheet

    123 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  44. Original Bauhaus Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky and More

    123 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  45. Why media layoffs keep happening

    123 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  46. Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan on Mac Users

    123 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  47. C64 / VIC20 / C128 PSU Open Sourced

    122 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  48. 'Metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water

    122 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  49. How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (2014)

    122 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  50. Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me

    122 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  51. Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class

    122 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  52. Study Identifies Effective Mental Strategies for Aversive Challenges

    122 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  53. Computer program that could bypass patents to produce synthetic drugs

    121 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  54. Smalltalk 80 – Blue Book (1983) [pdf]

    121 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  55. A Bridge Too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic

    121 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  56. Reverse engineering GoDaddy's tracking script

    121 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  57. New insights into mitochondria reveal how life expends energy

    121 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  58. Rust 2019: Tame Complexity through Community Involvement Tools

    121 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  59. GIMP and GEGL in 2018

    121 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  60. An Eve Online corporation has been hit with a GDPR request from an ex-member

    121 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  61. A new documentary addresses the stigma of menstruation in India

    120 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  62. When Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist [video]

    120 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  63. Confessions of an Abstraction Hater

    120 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  64. Mapping and visualization

    120 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  65. Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++

    120 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  66. What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

    119 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  67. The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting

    119 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  68. RE:DOM – Tiny turboboosted JavaScript library for creating user interfaces

    119 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  69. Loop, a new zero-waste platform that may change how we shop

    119 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  70. University of the Third Age

    119 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  71. Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

    119 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  72. Anker PowerPort PD 1 USB-C Wall Charger Teardown

    118 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  73. The Holes in the Map: England’s Unregistered Land

    118 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  74. Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants

    118 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  75. Crafting a life

    118 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  76. Hurricane Electric 3D network map

    118 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  77. A command-line installer for Windows

    118 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  78. The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (2017)

    118 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  79. Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info

    118 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  80. Ode to the 767

    118 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  81. Lidar Is a Crutch

    117 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  82. Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab

    117 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  83. Io_submit and Linux AIO – An epoll alternative

    117 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  84. Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued

    117 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  85. Ask HN: IT Directors and VP's – how do you manage your time and projects?

    117 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  86. Show HN: Queueing theory intro for software developers

    117 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  87. Israel airport security stole my laptop

    117 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  88. Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data

    117 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  89. Chinese Spacecraft Nears Landing on Far Side of Moon

    117 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  90. Finland’s plan to train its population in artificial intelligence

    116 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  91. Halo was written with a Lisp dialect called blamscript (2014)

    116 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  92. InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead

    116 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  93. New Method for Compressing Neural Networks Better Preserves Accuracy

    116 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  94. Show HN: Json2graphql – From a JSON file to Postgres-backed realtime GraphQL

    116 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  95. How to get your money’s worth from your startup lawyer

    116 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  96. Autograms: Self-enumerating Sentences

    116 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  97. Ask HN: How did you escape your safe meaningless 9-5 job?

    115 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  98. Una Corda, a piano with one string per note

    115 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  99. Six-Year homelab history in pictures

    115 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  100. HN on second day from launch

    115 points • comment • jan 23, 2019