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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. The 'doomsday' scenario: what happens if the shutdown drags on

    15 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  2. A thread on coders in newsrooms

    15 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  3. Only Race Cars Should Burnout

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  4. Splunk donates $100k to shutdown employees

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  5. The Vital Engines of Commerce

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  6. I Tried to List All Linux Networking Commands and Scripts

    15 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  7. FreeTier Google Cloud VPS: DNS Adblock+VPN Server to AAPL GOOGL and MSFT Devices

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  8. Alien Life May Exist on Large Planet 30T Miles from Earth: Researchers

    15 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  9. FiveThirtyEight's Data

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  10. Nationalism and the Tech Community

    15 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  11. Machinima, one of YouTube’s biggest and oldest channels, goes dark

    15 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  12. Do they have work/life balance? Investigating potential employers with GitHub

    15 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  13. Ways Elon Musk's Bad Writing Habits Hurt Tesla's Performance

    15 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  14. Netflix put out 90,000 minutes of original series, movies in 2018

    15 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  15. Carbon capture system turns CO2 into electricity and hydrogen fuel

    15 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  16. Facebook Open-sources Spectrum 1.0.0 for better mobile image processing

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  17. Your TV Is Now a Computer, but Not in a Good Way

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  18. Prosecutors Pursuing Criminal Case Against Huawei for Theft of Trade Secrets

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  19. The Web We Have to Save

    14 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  20. Samsung phones don't let users delete Facebook

    14 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  21. The DeepSolar Project

    14 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  22. Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why

    14 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  23. CRT Displays: These Are Not Pixels

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  24. Apple's China Warning “Deflects Deeper Problems” for Firm

    14 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  25. Synology-SA-18:64 Synology Diskstation Manager

    14 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  26. America’s national parks are overrun with trash and overflowing toilets

    14 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  27. With new kernel method, NLP system learns in four hours what used to take 7 days

    14 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  28. Detecting Kernel Memory Disclosure with x86 Emulation and Taint Tracking (2018) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  29. In defense of skepticism about deep learning

    14 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  30. Jiggle syphon

    14 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  31. Zoom.us slow connection

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  32. Waymo CEO: Autonomous cars won't ever be able to drive in all conditions

    14 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  33. Flutter Awesome

    14 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  34. Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  35. EBPF and FUSE = Faster FUSE File Systems [pdf]

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  36. Slack's new logo is "A swastika made of dicks"

    14 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  37. A peek inside Edward Gorey’s modern Gothic world

    14 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  38. Stensal SDK: Retrofitting C/C++ code with quasi-memory-safety

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  39. California’s Camp Fire Was the World’s Costliest Natural Disaster in 2018

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  40. Dennis M. Hope Has Owned the Moon Since 1980 Because He Says So

    14 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  41. Why Science Fiction Authors Need to Be Writing About Climate Change Right Now

    14 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  42. Show HN: Stowbots – Sort image downloads automatically using deep learning

    14 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  43. Quotes for developers

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  44. When Was the First Handshake?

    14 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  45. Two in five tech job applicants don't have the right tech chops, survey finds

    14 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  46. Startup that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with young blood to defeat aging

    14 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  47. Ask HN: Is it worth learning SmallTalk?

    14 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  48. Australia’s beloved kangaroos are now controversial pests

    14 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  49. Wifi antenna made from a tetra-brik juice box

    14 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  50. Amazon accused of knocking off AWS customers' products (2013)

    14 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  51. On the Centenary of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poems

    14 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  52. Down with philanthrocapitalism, says an entertaining polemic

    14 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  53. Delivery Drones Use Bird-Inspired Legs to Jump into the Air

    14 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  54. It’s Not Too Late to Quit Social Media

    14 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  55. MacKenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder

    14 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  56. Show HN: Git Butler – IFTTT for GitHub pull request and issue workflows

    14 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  57. Google asks Supreme Court to overrule disastrous ruling on API copyrights

    14 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  58. Show HN: Beat video game addiction

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  59. Happy New Year

    14 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  60. MacKenzie Bezos likely to be world's richest woman after divorce

    14 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  61. The FL Project: The Design of a Function Language (1989) [pdf]

    14 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  62. Die shot collection of Pauli Rautakorpi, Wikipedia user

    14 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  63. Open Real Time Messaging System: Jabber (1999)

    14 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  64. Learnability can be undecidable (2019)

    14 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  65. A small notebook for a system administrator

    14 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  66. Looking Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018

    14 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  67. Why I am moving away from Vue.JS

    14 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  68. Public Trello board: 100 actionable ideas to your startup's first 100 users

    13 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  69. We are now half-way between the Y2K and the Year 2038 problem

    13 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  70. Thriller Queens: Agatha Christie vs. Patricia Highsmith

    13 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  71. Facebook users don’t know that it records a list of their interests, new study

    13 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  72. Government Shutdown in Real-Time

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  73. Show HN: HFT-Like Trading Algo in 300 Lines of Python

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  74. With workers on edge, SF tech companies offer self-defense classes

    13 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  75. Yale Study Shows White Leftists Dumb Down Their Speech Talking to Minorities

    13 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  76. Show HN: Skit – minimal presentation slides for the CLI

    13 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  77. Show HN: My New HN Browser Extension

    13 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  78. A Cure for Cancer? Israeli Scientists Say They Think They Found One

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  79. Galactic glimmers: of milk and Old Sinitic reconstructions

    13 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  80. The Unsung Heroes of Modern Software Development

    13 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  81. Astronomers Discover a Supermassive Black Hole Rotating at Half Speed of Light

    13 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  82. California Moves, Haltingly, Toward a Post-Lawn Future

    13 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  83. Windows 10 will chew up another 7GB of disk space to make sure it can update

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  84. IINA: A modern video player for macOS

    13 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  85. Bison 3.3 Released

    13 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  86. How I reverse-engineer an application for security assessment

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  87. Bookwheel, the 16th Century Forerunner to the EBook Reader

    13 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  88. Why businesses fail at machine learning

    13 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  89. Customer Review of APL with a Mathematical Accent (2004)

    13 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  90. Using Creative Cold Emails to Acquire Customers

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  91. Lisp Badge – Self-contained ATmega1284 Lisp computer

    13 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  92. The Art of Snaring Dragons (1975) [pdf]

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  93. MIT researchers use Bayesian inference, a form of AI, to make computer programs

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  94. Apple’s power over Facebook ought to worry the rest of us

    13 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  95. James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism

    13 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  96. National park campers cut down protected Joshua trees during government shutdown

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  97. Social media is rotting democracy from within

    13 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  98. How US military cartographers and bad digital mapping created a house of horrors

    13 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  99. What would happen if the government shut down – and never reopened? (2014)

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  100. Google Maps will now display speed limits for its Android and iOS apps

    13 points • comment • jan 20, 2019