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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. A team of scientists think they may have found first complete cure for cancer

    10 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  2. Meet Virginia Stopher, 19-Year-Old “Girl Hobo” of the 1920s

    10 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  3. Telegram is the hot new source for pirated content (2018)

    10 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  4. 5 Things You Need to Know to Successfully Build Side Projects

    9 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  5. It's Surprising How Much of 'Red Dead Redemption 2' Doesn't Actually Matter

    9 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  6. How Wrong Should You Be?

    9 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  7. Slow-Motion Footage Captures Rubber Band Ripples

    9 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  8. List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

    9 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  9. British Parliament votes EU divorce deal down

    9 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  10. Microcredit was a hugely hyped solution to global poverty. What happened?

    9 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  11. Jannie Duncan: “Beautiful Human” or Fugitive Killer?

    9 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  12. Tim Cook Is a Failure at Operations

    9 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  13. How to progress in cyber sec

    9 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  14. Is Religious Belief in Decline?

    9 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  15. American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerous Myth

    9 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  16. Japanese Government to compile list of insecure IOT devices

    9 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  17. Google will Collapse (2017)

    9 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  18. Show HN: Vue-router-prefetch – Prefetch links that are only visible in viewport

    9 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  19. A package for verifying Google reCaptcha v3 responses in Go

    9 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  20. Understand TensorFlow by mimicking its API from scratch

    9 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  21. Future of digital journalism as BuzzFeed and HuffPost lay off 1,000

    9 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  22. The First Image Ever of a Hydrogen Atom's Orbital Structure

    9 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  23. Print out your code. On paper

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  24. The Roger Stone indictment shows a conspiratorial comedy of Opsec errors

    9 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  25. U.K. Parliament Rejects Theresa May's Brexit Deal in Pivotal Vote

    9 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  26. How Can I Get Vaccinated If My Parents Are Anti-Vaccine?

    9 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  27. Operable Software

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  28. A neural network can learn to organize the world it sees into concepts

    9 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  29. Embracing Apple's Boring Future

    9 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  30. Ask HN: What book will make me a better big project programmer?

    9 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  31. Apple Leak Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone

    9 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  32. Brain Cells That Make Pain Unpleasant Identified

    9 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  33. Notes on why deep neural networks are able to generalize well

    9 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  34. Angora, mutation-based coverage guided fuzzer was open sourced

    9 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  35. PGPG&E E Files for Bankruptcy Following California Wildfires

    9 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  36. What is preventing humans from going to Mars in 2019?

    9 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  37. Ask HN: Anyone above 30-35 applied to YC?

    9 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  38. Ask HN: Do any real world systems use Functional Relational Programming?

    9 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  39. Show HN: 7 Cheatsheets for Python, JS, and More, Built with Markdown and LaTeX

    9 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  40. An epic Twitter thread on venture capital, startups, and zebras

    9 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  41. The men who stay awake so India's rich can sleep

    9 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  42. Understanding Rust Lifetimes

    9 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  43. Chrome Extension Manifest V3 (draft) may end uBlock Origin

    9 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  44. BitMex CEO Warns, Once Cash Is Gone, Bitcoin Is Society’s Best Hope for Privacy

    9 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  45. Notes on the Hawaii false alarm, one year later

    9 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  46. I Tried to Block Amazon from My Life. It Was Impossible

    9 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  47. Apple stock trading halted; pending news imminent

    9 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  48. Unprovability comes to machine learning

    9 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  49. Hopepunk, the latest storytelling trend, is all about weaponized optimism

    9 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  50. Amazon is reportedly building a Netflix-like service for video games

    9 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  51. MUMPS

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  52. Verizon will offer free spam protection to all of its customers

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  53. Show HN: +100 Pitch Friendly Tech Journalists

    9 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  54. Show HN: Timeops, a fake API for testing or educational purposes

    9 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  55. Venezuelan Army Defectors Coordinating via WhatsApp

    9 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  56. The Importance of Originality in Growth Hacking

    9 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  57. Developing event-driven systems at scale

    9 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  58. Ask HN: Best architecture for offline-first, cloud-synced mobile app?

    9 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  59. Ask HN: How to learn to write a compiler and interpreter?

    9 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  60. A Wake-Up Call for Tech Managers: Listen to Your Programmers

    9 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  61. Show HN: Esgy – Easily remind yourself of links you'd like to see again

    9 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  62. Hollywood's Portrayals of Science and Scientists Are Ridiculous

    9 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  63. On bounties and buffins

    9 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  64. What Engineers Found When They Tore Apart Tesla's Model 3

    9 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  65. Right Wing Nerds vs. The New Common Sense

    9 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  66. Facebook and Twitter consult with CAIR over who gets banned from platforms

    9 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  67. Apple's New Keyboards Also Still Plagued with Issues (2019) [video]

    9 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  68. I studied buttons for 7 years and learned why people push them

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  69. Natural Language Preprocessing

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  70. Less beef, more beans. Experts say world needs a new diet

    9 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  71. Let's Build: a 2-hr YouTube clone

    9 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  72. Tim Brady on Leadership Challenges in Fast-Growing Companies

    9 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  73. Dutch Startup Converts Heat into Cold via a Stirling Engine

    9 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  74. Rare 'Super Blood Wolf Moon' will be visible this weekend

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  75. California island offers $130,000 for new lighthouse keepers

    9 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  76. Trillion Dollar Inheritance: The World’s Biggest Family Fortunes

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  77. Defining the tracking practices that will be blocked in Firefox

    9 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  78. Show HN: Security Checklist – resources to improve online privacy and security

    9 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  79. How does Diffie-Hellman Work?

    9 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  80. A Screaming Boss Helped Steve Blank Develop His Brilliant Startup Philosophy

    9 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  81. The history of science reveals how to talk to science deniers – Quartz

    9 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  82. Vegetarian diet is associated with poorer health, researchers say

    9 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  83. How do perceptions of beauty vary across the globe? (2015)

    9 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  84. Great Britain's longest linear walk without crossing a road – Ordnance Survey

    9 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  85. GStreamer WebRTC: A flexible solution to web-based media

    9 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  86. Why free software evangelist Richard Stallman is haunted by Stalin’s dream

    9 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  87. Utah starting $2.5M debt forgiveness program for tech grads

    9 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  88. Lastpass is down

    9 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  89. CheXpert/MIMIC-CXR datasets: ~600,000 labeled chest X-rays from Stanford and MIT

    9 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  90. The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over

    9 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  91. Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never

    9 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  92. Lessons Learned – A Year of Going “Fully Serverless” in Production

    9 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  93. Consumption of dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans

    9 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  94. A short glossary of tech industry terms [satire]

    9 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  95. Aliases, hard links, symlinks, and copies in Mojave’s APFS

    9 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  96. Hackers Threaten to Leak 9/11 Files That Will ‘Top Snowden’s Finest Work’

    9 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  97. Ask HN: What is the product development process at your company/startup?

    9 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  98. Transparency advocate group releases trove of hacked Russian documents

    9 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  99. DHS prepares emergency order to prevent DNS hijacking

    9 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  100. Flat organizations are the most hierarchical

    9 points • comment • jan 10, 2019