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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. REST and GraphQL really aren't that different

    86 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  2. Tip-off from a Nazi that saved my grandparents

    86 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  3. Strongest opponents of GM foods know the least but think they know the most

    86 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  4. Star topics that interest you

    86 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  5. C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of Eudora eMail client

    86 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  6. New High Resolution Image of Ultima Thule

    86 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  7. ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ Review

    86 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  8. Why Carmaggedon never comes – Seattle edition

    85 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  9. Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces

    85 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  10. Student cracks theologian's baffling religious code

    85 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  11. Show HN: A tool that helps you focus on startup metrics that matter

    85 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  12. Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo is moving toward a major city

    85 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  13. Wild monkeys with killer herpes are breeding like crazy in Florida

    85 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  14. Soros at Davos: China's social credit system and Big IT are mortal threat

    85 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  15. Show HN: Snigl – Forth with Lisp in C

    85 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  16. Single C file TLS 1.2/1.3 implementation using tomcrypt

    85 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  17. Chinese rover powers up devices in pioneering moon mission

    85 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  18. Intel Open Image Denoise: High-Performance Denoising Library for Ray Tracing

    85 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  19. Purism announces PureOS Store

    85 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  20. World's Writing Systems

    85 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  21. Show HN: Fnm – Fast and simple Node.js version manager built in ReasonML

    85 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  22. The escape-room games industry is booming

    85 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  23. Period-Tracking Apps Are Monetizing Women’s Extremely Personal Data

    84 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  24. Show HN: A Clojure-based on-demand delivery routing system

    84 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  25. Projecting Unicode to ASCII

    84 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  26. California inmate takes unlikely path to freedom: podcasting

    84 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  27. Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race (2018)

    84 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  28. The Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News (2018)

    84 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  29. Ember v3.7 Released

    84 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  30. How to write code in modern Fortran (2011) [pdf]

    84 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  31. The subscription-pocalypse

    84 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  32. Pipelining Consensus Writes to Speed Up Distributed SQL Transactions

    83 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  33. I'm a millionaire who creates zero jobs. Why do I pay less tax than you?

    83 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  34. Wake Word: An Algorithmic Nightmare Game

    83 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  35. Ask HN: Anyone Interested in Capture the Flag (CTF) Events?

    83 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  36. Radiation-hardened quine (2014)

    83 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  37. RPN calculator implementations in 61 languages

    83 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  38. Machine Learning Music Composed by Fragments of 100s of Terabytes of Recordings

    83 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  39. Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down

    83 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  40. Show HN: Hacker News 2018, Year in Review

    83 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  41. History of the Plan 9 kernel (1990 – 2003)

    83 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  42. Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program (2013)

    82 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  43. Grundig Satellit 650 Radio

    82 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  44. Remastered 1964 films show origins of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

    82 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  45. How To Edit A Low-Budget Blockbuster [video]

    82 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  46. European Union has canceled McDonald’s trademark for Big Macs

    82 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  47. Show HN: Chaoslist – A self-prioritizing todo-list

    82 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  48. South Korea rules pre-installed phone bloatware must be deletable (2014)

    81 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  49. Einstein Summation in Numpy

    81 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  50. ELSA: Efficient Long-Term Secure Storage of Large Datasets

    81 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  51. What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding?

    81 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  52. Why Elon Musk is tweeting about a stainless-steel starship

    81 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  53. China’s Nreal raises $15M to shrink augmented headsets to size of sunglasses

    81 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  54. Rigetti launches the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services

    81 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  55. The Feds Cracked El Chapo's Encrypted Comms Network by Flipping His System Admin

    81 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  56. We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

    81 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  57. Be Moore Like Chuck

    81 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  58. NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed

    81 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  59. How does the brain learn by talking to itself?

    80 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  60. Iridium Completes Constellation Replacement

    80 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  61. Creating Languages in Racket (2012)

    80 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  62. Writing my network protocol in Rust

    80 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  63. Disable Flash support by default in Firefox 69

    80 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  64. How Alan Turing Deciphered Shark Skin

    80 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  65. Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

    80 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  66. Arborists are bringing the “dinosaur of trees” back to life

    80 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  67. DuckDuckGo now fingerprinting visitors

    80 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  68. The Market for Lemons

    80 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  69. It will become easier to buy a house

    80 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  70. Odd History of the SD Logo [video]

    80 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  71. DAN64, an AVR based 8-bit microcomputer

    80 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  72. World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam

    79 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  73. Compile Ruby into WebAssembly

    79 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  74. Lasers vs. Microwaves: A Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage

    79 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  75. You Don't Need to Exercise for Hours a Week to Look and Feel Better

    79 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  76. Skipper – An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition

    79 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  77. A Daughter’s Disability and a Father’s Awakening

    79 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  78. Huawei finds itself in the crosshairs of Western security agencies

    79 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  79. Achieving super low latency for critical real world internet applications (2018)

    79 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  80. Rustic Shelters Called Bothies

    79 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  81. OpenEdge – Extend cloud computing, data and service to edge devices

    79 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  82. Taking Stock of the World’s Debt

    79 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  83. Microsoft’s fonts catch out another fraudster–this time in Canada

    79 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  84. A Waymo One Rider’s Experiences Highlight Autonomous Rideshare’s Shortcomings

    79 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  85. Zero to $1B: Lessons Scaling a Startup

    79 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  86. Yellow vests knock out 60% of all speed cameras in France

    79 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  87. On Concurrency in Go HTTP Servers

    78 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  88. Embedded Rust Experiments: Is My STM32 MCU Running Fast?

    78 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  89. A summary and curation of the top-ranked content on Node.js best practices

    78 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  90. Hubble telescope camera is broken and US government shutdown could delay repairs

    78 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  91. What Data Compression Does to Music (2012)

    78 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  92. A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism

    78 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  93. An Explanation of the Rendering Equation [video]

    77 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  94. Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams

    77 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  95. Firefox Fights for You. We keep your data safe, never sold

    77 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  96. Intrinsic Value of a SaaS Business: A 20 Year DCF

    77 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  97. Revolutionary radio telescope detects bevy of fast radio bursts

    77 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  98. A Verified, Efficient Embedding of a Verifiable Assembly Language [pdf]

    77 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  99. Iberia claims it is part of a department store to avoid Brexit shutdown

    77 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  100. Google transformed Mountain View, is San Jose next?

    77 points • comment • jan 09, 2019