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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

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

    77 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  2. The Acid3 Test (2008)

    77 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  3. An Explanation of the Rendering Equation [video]

    77 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  4. Software ideas are born: step-by-step guide on generating one for 2019

    77 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  5. The first synthetic element

    77 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

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

    77 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  7. A Critique of Standard ML (1992) [pdf]

    76 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  8. Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media

    76 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  9. Avo: Better X86 Assembly Generation from Go

    76 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  10. Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns

    76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  11. Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches

    76 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  12. How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2M concurrent SSL connections (2017)

    76 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  13. Mapping Who Lives in Border Patrol's '100-Mile Zone' (2018)

    76 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  14. HIV status of over 14,000 people leaked online, Singapore authorities say

    76 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  15. 'Hidden Figures' NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson to Release Autobiography

    76 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  16. Mapping the Brain at High Resolution

    76 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  17. The Rationalization of the Attention Market

    76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  18. China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt

    76 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  19. Tesla increases Supercharging prices to the point that gas might be cheaper

    76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  20. Time Running Out for Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas

    75 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  21. Tensor Considered Harmful Part 2

    75 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  22. Black Hole Evolution Traced Out with Loop Quantum Gravity

    75 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  23. Hints for Computer System Design (1983) [pdf]

    75 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  24. Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee

    75 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  25. Class of 2019: artists and writers whose works have entered the public domain

    75 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  26. Open-sourcing bioinstruments

    75 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  27. A Quantum Experience

    75 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  28. Ask HN: Improving the world as a software developer

    75 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  29. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich and Americans Agree

    75 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  30. Potential Employer Cancels Return Flight

    75 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  31. Opinion: A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities

    75 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  32. List of hilarious and useless things at CES

    75 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  33. Show HN: Startup jobs of 2018, visualized

    74 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  34. Xenix tales: 8086 and Xenix 386 networking

    74 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  35. Availability of the Government of the United States

    74 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  36. In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes on Tricky Public Health Role

    74 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  37. Photograph Your Work

    74 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  38. Antedating “datatype” all the way to Plankalkül (2017)

    74 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  39. Analog computation, Part 1: What and why

    74 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  40. Prague: A European capital cobbled with Jewish gravestones

    74 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  41. Indigenous civilizations are far older and more complex than history suggests

    74 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  42. Generate your document site in 3 seconds

    74 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  43. Show HN: ASCII Art with Overstrike

    74 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  44. LA is using ride-hailing startup Via to shuttle people to public transit

    74 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  45. Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them

    74 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  46. How shutting out men from the conversation is an obstacle to change

    74 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  47. Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar

    73 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  48. Seminal deep learning papers

    73 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  49. Things you should know about the Ottoman Janissaries

    73 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  50. Ledger Live: A mobile companion app for Ledger hardware wallets

    73 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  51. Night of a cascading failure

    73 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  52. IBM Q System One

    73 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  53. The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End

    73 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  54. Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen?

    73 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  55. Apple Had Five Ways to Fuel Earnings. Only One Still Works

    73 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  56. A Giant Speaker in Taiwan Is About to Switch on Again (2018)

    73 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  57. Cars People Keep for 15 Years or More

    73 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  58. Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook

    72 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  59. San Diego’s Smart Streetlights Yield a Firehose of Data

    72 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  60. Venture Capitalists are much less ambitious than their private equity siblings

    72 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  61. Train ferry

    72 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  62. Renewables overtake coal as Germany's main energy source

    72 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  63. The blind mind: No sensory visual imagery in aphantasia

    72 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  64. Amazon is becoming more powerful than we realize

    72 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  65. Patrick Collison on Innovation and Scientific Progress [audio]

    72 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  66. Data Structures for coding interviews

    72 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  67. Euro area is back on the brink of recession

    72 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  68. Haskell I/O and XPath

    72 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  69. Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers

    72 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  70. Ask HN: Are there any online lawyer services?

    72 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  71. Rational rendering and floating bar

    72 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  72. FoundationDB Summit: video roundup

    72 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  73. eBay CEO Has a Stark Choice: Show Growth or Break Up Company

    72 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  74. Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone’s Head

    72 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  75. Language-Agnostic Sentence Representations

    72 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  76. They Own the System: Amazon Rewrites Book Industry by Marching into Publishing

    72 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  77. The Golden Age of Hollywood Tax Avoidance

    71 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  78. 12.1T Digits of Pi

    71 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  79. Rent-a-sister: Coaxing Japan’s young men out of their rooms [video]

    71 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  80. Insurance market for football evaporating, causing major threat for NFL

    71 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  81. NLP Architect by Intel AI Lab

    71 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  82. Gunk: Modern front end and syntax for Protocol Buffers

    71 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  83. Migrating from Redshift to ClickHouse

    71 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  84. Ask HN: Why is it easier to get a raise with a new job?

    71 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  85. Desalination Is Booming. But What About All That Toxic Brine?

    71 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  86. TiDB open sources its MySQL/MariaDB compatible data migration tool

    71 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  87. How I Organize My GitHub Repositories

    71 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  88. Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies

    71 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  89. Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 2: What, Why, and How

    71 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  90. What a Student Loan 'Bubble' Bursting Might Look Like

    71 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  91. CRISPR-baby scientist fired by university

    70 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  92. Almost everyone developing Tor was or is funded by the US government (2014)

    70 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  93. Ten Years of Bitcoin

    70 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  94. Millions of Americans Flood into Mexico for Health Care

    70 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  95. Using Perl 6 Grammars: Decompressing Zelda 3 GFX

    70 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  96. Show HN: List of serverless failure stories

    70 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  97. Hospitals Must Now Post Prices. But It May Take a Brain Surgeon to Decipher Them

    70 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  98. Flow-Based Deep Generative Models

    70 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  99. Learn about Neural Networks and Backpropagation

    70 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  100. Livox Mid-40 lidar sensor

    70 points • comment • jan 20, 2019