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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018)

    38 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  2. Risk of Discovery (2017)

    37 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  3. Blender turns 25 years old

    37 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  4. Proto-internet trolls: Struensee and press freedom in 18th century Denmark

    37 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  5. Blub Paradox (2014)

    37 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  6. Africa by Toto to play on eternal loop 'down in Africa'

    37 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  7. Game in which you build your own CPU

    37 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  8. Revoking JWTs (JSON Web Tokens)

    37 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  9. Wikibook-Bot – Automatic Generation of a Wikipedia Book

    37 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  10. The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess

    37 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  11. The Next American Car Recession Has Already Started

    37 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  12. Measuring Traffic Manipulation on Twitter

    37 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  13. Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made [pdf]

    37 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  14. I'm a Brit and America, your health care system is torturing me

    37 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  15. Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway

    37 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  16. What MDMA Therapy Did for Me

    37 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  17. IPv6 in China

    37 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  18. Guy Says He's the First Person to Attempt Editing His DNA with CRISPR

    37 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  19. What Deep Breathing Does to the Body

    37 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  20. How Astounding Saw the Future

    37 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  21. A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent

    37 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  22. Docker tutorial for beginners

    37 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  23. The steam has gone out of globalisation

    37 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  24. Chinese drone maker DJI uncovers corruption, sees $150M loss

    36 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  25. Mysterious “hair ice” is formed by fungus (2015)

    36 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  26. A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics

    36 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  27. Netflix Joins MPAA, Leaves the Internet Association

    36 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  28. Ask HN: Diabetic Retinopathy Medical Device Help

    36 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  29. Open-source and crowd-sourced book listing

    36 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  30. The perils of relying on output streams in C (2011) [pdf]

    36 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  31. Scientists Identify Gene Pattern That Makes Some Animals Monogamous

    36 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  32. Billiard ball bounces are digits of Pi (YouTube)

    36 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  33. Behind the Technology That Makes Facebook 3D Photos Possible

    36 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  34. Microsoft Project Rome 1.0.0

    36 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  35. Structuring spreadsheets with the “lish” data model (2017)

    36 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  36. China's population shrank last year for the first time in 70 years

    36 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  37. Nobel Prizewinner James Watson Won’t Stop Talking About Race, DNA, and Genetics

    36 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  38. ‘A Minefield’: How Scholars Who Don’t Drink Navigate the Conference Social Scene

    36 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  39. A 4 year old boy trapped in a teenager’s body

    36 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  40. A high-carb diet may explain why Okinawans live so long

    36 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  41. Netflix to raise prices by 13% to 18%

    36 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  42. Computers Determine States of Consciousness

    36 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  43. Freno – Cooperative, highly-available throttler service

    36 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  44. Ganbreeder – Create beautiful, wild and weird images

    36 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  45. The Verified CakeML Compiler Back End [pdf]

    36 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  46. Public Dissection Was a Gruesome Spectacle

    36 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  47. 'Dear NIMBYs' – An Open Letter from a Homeless Woman in LA

    36 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  48. Rewarding Talent – Handbook on stock options for European entrepreneurs

    36 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  49. Understandable Ray Tracing in 256 lines of bare C++

    36 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  50. Plot to Kill George Washington

    35 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  51. Show HN: A Course on Deep Learning Using Google's TensorFlow

    35 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  52. Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Climate Plan

    35 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  53. Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates

    35 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  54. MAG-LEV Audio – Levitating Turntable

    35 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  55. A long read on a former quant coder convicted of stealing algorithms

    35 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  56. I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation

    35 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  57. Tyson chicken nuggets might contain rubber, USDA warns

    35 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  58. Missile interception caught on snowboarder's camera in Golan Heights

    35 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  59. An Overview of Computer Science Concepts for Engineers

    35 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  60. Josiah Royce: The philosopher we need today?

    35 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  61. Retrofuturism: Futuristic car concepts of the 1980s (2018)

    35 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  62. How The SAFE Has Changed And It What It Means For Equity

    35 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  63. Ask HN: How do I stop caffeine intake without losing productivity?

    35 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  64. Capsule Networks- the New Deep Learning Network

    35 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  65. Linux board makers learn how to specialize

    35 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  66. Ask HN: What can we do about spam calls with spoofed numbers?

    35 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  67. Theresa May loses Brexit deal vote by majority of 230

    35 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  68. The Small Batches Principle (2016)

    35 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  69. Farmers and Ranchers Are Completely Screwed by American Healthcare (2017)

    35 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  70. HTTP/1 should die; HTTP/2 can do everything HTTP/1 could, only faster

    35 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  71. ‘Alarming’ burnout is making doctors want to kill themselves

    35 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  72. The Value of Science (1955)

    35 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  73. Behavioral Programming (2012) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  74. The Missing History of the Explorer 1 Satellite

    35 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  75. Waves in Saturn's rings give precise measurement of planet's rotation rate

    35 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  76. Do We Get What We Pay For? (2014)

    34 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  77. Misinformation and Disinformation in Online Games

    34 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  78. Netflix Is Raising Prices. Here’s Why

    34 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  79. A Dog Who Took the Witness Stand

    34 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  80. A new concurrency system for Nim (2013)

    34 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  81. I Took a Couple Years Off of Work to Swing Trade. Here’s What Happened

    34 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  82. Announcing TypeScript 3.3

    34 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  83. “Learn to Code”: The Meme Attacking Media

    34 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  84. Tech writer suggests '10 Year Challenge' may be collecting data for algorithm

    34 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  85. Basketball in Tibet

    34 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  86. Altruistic Autonomy: Beating Congestion on Shared Roads

    34 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  87. I Spent $925 on a Fake Canada Goose Coat

    34 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  88. Tularosa Study: Experimental Quantify the Effectiveness of Cyber Deception [pdf]

    34 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  89. 'Silicon cowboys': The underdog story of personal computing (2016) [audio]

    34 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  90. For now at least, China's citizens are embracing social-credit systems

    34 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  91. RFC: Automatic variable initialization

    34 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  92. M.U.L.E. for MSX2

    34 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  93. Worst Union in America (2012)

    34 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  94. How Holidify Bounced Back to Hit 5M Users

    34 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  95. Gitea 1.7.0 is released

    34 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  96. The Case of the Bumbling Spy: A Watchdog Group Gets Him on Camera

    34 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  97. RACK: a time-based fast loss detection algorithm for TCP (2018)

    34 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  98. European Medicines Agency (EMA) closes London office with loss of 900 jobs

    34 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  99. ICE set up a fake university; 100s enrolled, not realizing it was a sting op

    34 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  100. 'Traditional masculinity' labeled 'harmful' by the American Psychological Assc

    34 points • comment • jan 10, 2019