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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. Google’s Sidewalk Labs Plans to Sell Location Data on Millions of Cellphones

    30 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  2. Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth by 40%

    30 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  3. Ask HN: Scolded on a job interview for not namespacing

    29 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  4. Mozilla developer fixes Chromium bug caused by Google breaking the spec

    29 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  5. The Mind Wanders (2018)

    29 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  6. A Debt to Education

    29 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  7. Ask HN: What are some examples of 'sell shovels in a gold rush'?

    29 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  8. Preemption Is GC for Memory Reordering

    29 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  9. A judging system that can score a routine from the angles of a gymnast's joints

    29 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  10. Introducing the Ultra EPYC AMD Powered Sun Ultra 24 Workstation

    29 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  11. KSL: Kinematics subroutine library

    29 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  12. Ask HN: What makes you not want to work with a developer?

    29 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  13. If You Can Correctly Pronounce Every Word in This Poem, You’re Among the Elite

    29 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  14. Man raises privacy concerns after car dealership employee turns off his dashcams

    29 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  15. Ask HN: Were you unschooled, or are you unschooling your children?

    29 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  16. PG&E: The First Climate-Change Bankruptcy, Probably Not the Last

    29 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  17. When People Are as Predictable as Water [video]

    29 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  18. What Makes a Great Logo – Four Critical Qualities That Nobody Talks About

    29 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  19. A Short Rebuttal to Searle (1984) [pdf]

    29 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  20. Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established Basis for Search Engines

    29 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  21. The Beat's Holy Grail: The Letter That Inspired 'On the Road'

    29 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  22. Digitally cloning a 1914 Delage Type S engine block

    29 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  23. Powder metallurgy

    28 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  24. Elixir v1.8.0 released: better introspection, faster compilation and speed-ups

    28 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  25. Toyota Supra gets new life: sports car debuts at 2019 Detroit auto show

    28 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  26. Blippar finds life after death; former investor buys assets to relaunch

    28 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  27. 'Bitcoin will go to zero': Davos talks up the future of blockchain

    28 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  28. Taxing Top Incomes in a World of Ideas [pdf]

    28 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  29. Tesla Roadster is going to be able to hover over the ground, says Elon Musk

    28 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  30. Genius cheese dish of slaves

    28 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  31. New Top Score on AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC) Is 53.84%

    28 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  32. CGRP: A new era for migraine treatment

    28 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  33. My self-published book: 11,000 copies, $19,000 royalties, only $3,000 profit!?

    28 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  34. A new cryptojacking tactic involving Wikipedia and downloaded movie files

    28 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  35. Inside the Strange yet Profitable World of Retail Arbitrage

    28 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  36. Apple’s Security Expert Joined ACLU to Tackle 'Authoritarian Fever'

    28 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  37. Microsoft Issues Windows 10 Upgrade Warning

    28 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  38. Can a Machine Learning Model Predict the SP500 by Looking at Candlesticks?

    28 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  39. The Problem with Full Stack

    28 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  40. As the World Melts, an Artist Finds Beauty in Ancient Ice (2018)

    28 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  41. Companies are still designing open plan offices

    28 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  42. Orson Welles’ ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth

    28 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  43. Electrons don’t think

    28 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  44. T-Mobile First to Launch Caller Verification

    28 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  45. Ask HN: What is the best way to add authentication to REST API (for mobile)?

    28 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  46. Woman says her son couldn't afford his insulin – now he's dead

    28 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  47. N-Rays: The Imaginary Radiation That Ruined Its ‘Discoverer’ (2014)

    28 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  48. Outrage after Netflix pulls comedy show criticising Saudi Arabia

    28 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  49. Ask HN: Have you paid for the photos/headshots you use in professional setting?

    28 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  50. Sharon Van Etten found the drive to make music again

    28 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  51. The Hinman Test

    28 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  52. Predictions Scorecard

    28 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  53. Duke Grad program director step down after warning students not to speak Chinese

    28 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  54. Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution

    28 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  55. Forgery Scandal at Der Spiegel

    28 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  56. Ravenmaster Tells of His Relationships with the Tower of London’s Resident Birds

    28 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  57. What Happened to 90’s Environmentalism?

    27 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  58. Condé Nast to Put All Titles Behind Paywalls by Year End

    27 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  59. The Data Colleges Collect on Applicants

    27 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  60. Evolutionary Advantages of an Addictive Personality

    27 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  61. PagerDuty Files Confidentially for IPO

    27 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  62. Marie Kondo and the Life-Changing Magic of Japanese Soft Power

    27 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  63. This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task

    27 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  64. Making Sense of Stream Processing (2016) [pdf]

    27 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  65. Related subreddits based on behavior for Hacker News

    27 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  66. An Andy Warhol Artwork Was Stolen and Never Seen Again

    27 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  67. A 70 percent marginal rate could help, not hurt, innovation

    27 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  68. How to Walk 100,000 Steps in One Day

    27 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  69. I Tried Linux as My Main Dev Environment but Was Forced Back to Windows

    27 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  70. Either bifunctor

    27 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  71. The Puzzle of Proto-Elamite (2013)

    27 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  72. Mini-Mainframe at Home: Installing a Modern OS

    27 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  73. Meet the man behind a third of what's on Wikipedia

    27 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  74. Snowflake Archeology: Early computer animation (1960s) for the DEC PDP-1

    27 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  75. Medicare for All – How Can We Pay for It?

    27 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  76. Growing Caltrain into an 8-Lane Freeway (2018)

    27 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  77. A week in the life of a London murder detective

    27 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  78. Shutting down Google+ for consumer (personal) accounts on April 2, 2019

    27 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  79. Remote Code Execution in apt/apt-get

    27 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  80. A national housing crisis is brewing

    27 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  81. U.S. Navy swapping $38K periscope joysticks for Xbox controllers on subs (2017)

    27 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  82. Tails 3.12 is out

    27 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  83. How tech baffled an elderly Congress

    27 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  84. New Version of the “Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile” Now Avail from W3C

    26 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  85. IBM internal secret docs show deliberate axing of older staff

    26 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  86. Who Is Dead? (2018)

    26 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  87. Millions of College Students Are Going Hungry

    26 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  88. Big Mac trademark cancelled across Europe

    26 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  89. New in Chrome 72

    26 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  90. Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS

    26 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  91. An Empirical Study on Crash Recovery Bugs in Large-Scale Distributed Systems

    26 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  92. Free online WebAssembly Studio

    26 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  93. Show HN: I made this to get up on time, or do good

    26 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  94. U.S. Carbon Pollution Surged in 2018, After Years of Stasis

    26 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  95. Doing more exercise won’t help you burn more calories

    26 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  96. Using the New AWS Secrets Manager for Serverless

    26 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  97. Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility: Exploiting Active Light-Fields (REVEAL)

    26 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  98. Can We Prove Time Protection?

    26 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  99. It’s so cold in Chicago, crews had to set fire to commuter rail tracks

    26 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  100. We do not have 12 years to stop catastrophic climate change

    26 points • comment • jan 03, 2019