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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation (2007)

    104 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  2. Ask HN: Can we write a programming language for biology?

    104 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  3. OpenStreetMap Foundation investigation into unusual membership signups [pdf]

    104 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  4. Tox – An encrypted, p2p chat protocol that does not rely on central servers

    104 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  5. C++ Headers are Expensive

    104 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  6. How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong

    104 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  7. Introduction to Dart VM

    103 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  8. Poker player bets $100k he can last 30 days in pitch black solitary confinement

    103 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  9. Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060

    103 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  10. Tesla Q4 2018 Earnings Letter

    103 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  11. Firefox shows ads for Booking.com in New Tab page

    103 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  12. Chezmoi: manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines

    103 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  13. ChrysaLisp

    103 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  14. Zero-knowledge attestation

    103 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  15. I was mistaken for a call girl

    103 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  16. The cerebellum is your “little brain”, and it does some pretty big things

    102 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  17. Show HN: ASCII TV – Stream ASCII movies in your terminal with curl

    102 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  18. The pros and cons of placebo buttons

    102 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  19. The China Conundrum – are we headed for a supply chain meltdown?

    101 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  20. Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news warnings

    101 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  21. Structure of recent philosophy (2017)

    101 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  22. Google Board Sued for Hushing Claims of Executive Misconduct

    101 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  23. Dyson moves vacuum giant's HQ to Singapore

    101 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  24. Threema – Seriously secure messaging

    101 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  25. Why are pianos traditionally tuned “out of tune” at the extremes?

    101 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  26. Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer

    101 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  27. Show HN: Shiny.js simulates reflections on the web for mobile devices

    101 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  28. Chicago’s Deep Tunnel: The solution to urban flooding, or a cautionary tale?

    101 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  29. Adding Glue to a Desktop Environment

    101 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  30. World's oldest periodic table chart found in St. Andrews

    101 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  31. The Weight I Carry

    100 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  32. Modchips of the State

    100 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  33. 1859 Carrington Event

    100 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  34. Measuring the size of the Earth by watching a shadow on a wall

    100 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  35. Mozart.js

    100 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  36. Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale

    100 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  37. Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

    100 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  38. Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration

    100 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  39. Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more

    100 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  40. The Story of Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself (1997)

    99 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  41. At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work

    99 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  42. Apple Priced Itself Out of Shrinking Chinese Smartphone Market

    99 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  43. FreeCAD BIM development news December 2018

    99 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  44. New Ethereum Dev Tools from 0x

    99 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  45. Blockstream Satellite API: Pay with BTC via Lightning to Broadcast Data Globally

    99 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  46. Go 1.11.5 and Go 1.10.8 are released

    99 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  47. OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project

    99 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  48. Researchers develop a new houseplant that can clean home air (2018)

    99 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  49. A Tiny Austrian Town Has the Coolest Bus Shelters (2014)

    98 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  50. Capitalism and Inequality

    98 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  51. Show HN: Whapp-irc – A simple WhatsApp IRC gateway

    98 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  52. Lapis Lazuli: A Blue More Precious Than Gold

    98 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  53. Dirty lenses (2016)

    98 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  54. Toyota Lifts the Veil on Its Guardian Driver-Assist System

    98 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  55. Dave Cutler’s five-decade-long quest for quality (2016)

    98 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  56. Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable

    98 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  57. Insulin Wars: How insurance companies farm out dirty work to doctors patients

    98 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  58. Being collateral damage in the culture wars of the West

    98 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  59. Ask HN: How to deal with internet addiction?

    98 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  60. Facebook to Invest $300m in Supporting Local News

    98 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  61. Saudi Arabia’s Great Run Seems Headed for Trouble

    97 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  62. An addictive “murder map” of medieval London

    97 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  63. Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity

    97 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  64. JavaScript iterator patterns

    97 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  65. Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like

    97 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  66. Down the Rabbit Hole – Part I: A Journey into the UEFI Land

    97 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  67. Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows

    97 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  68. Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable: permanent snaps

    97 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  69. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

    97 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  70. DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (1999)

    97 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  71. Coming Soon to a Police Station Near You: The DNA ‘Magic Box’

    96 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  72. Netheads vs. Bellheads (1996)

    96 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  73. Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual maps (2016)

    96 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  74. MDT9100

    96 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  75. Experiment finds under 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored content from articles

    96 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  76. Inside the booming business of background music

    96 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  77. People Renting Out Their Facebook Accounts for Cash and Free Laptops

    96 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  78. My journey applying AI to horse racing

    96 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  79. Drone Sighting Halts Departures at Heathrow Airport

    96 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  80. Intel Core I9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only

    95 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  81. Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats to Marine Life

    95 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  82. Fever effect

    95 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  83. 99% code coverage (2017)

    95 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  84. Libc on macOS invokes Perl as a subprocess for string processing (2017)

    95 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  85. Surprising importance of spontaneous order and noise to how we think

    95 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  86. Purism Librem 5 Pre Order

    95 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  87. The Firecracker virtual machine monitor

    95 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  88. Schumpeter on Strategy

    95 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  89. Canada's Toughest Border Crossing

    94 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  90. uLisp: Lisp for microcontrollers

    94 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  91. The rise and fall of the skills gap

    94 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  92. How Atari created the Star Wars arcade game (2017)

    94 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  93. Writing custom tools with Swift

    94 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  94. 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017)

    94 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  95. How Coca-Cola shaped obesity science and policy in China

    94 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  96. The ABCs of Jacobin

    94 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  97. List of review articles on ML and AI that are on arXiv

    94 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  98. Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go

    94 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  99. Python with a Cocoa GUI on MacOS

    94 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  100. Living and working in Sweden as engineers

    93 points • comment • jan 01, 2019