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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. Digitized minutes of Royal Society meetings taken between 1686 and 1711

    213 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  2. OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects

    212 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  3. Microsoft decides IE 10 has had its fun: Termination set for Jan 2020

    212 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  4. I have magnets implanted in my hands

    212 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  5. Cleaning restaurant floor for $1000 per night

    212 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  6. The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (1999)

    211 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  7. Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters

    211 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  8. Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (2018)

    211 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  9. An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms

    211 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  10. Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (2005)

    209 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  11. An Astronaut Accidentally Called 911 from Space

    209 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  12. SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript

    209 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  13. Nuclear – Popcorn Time for music

    209 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  14. Tilt – Local Kubernetes development with no stress

    209 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  15. Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf debuts new plant-based burger

    207 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  16. Did Australia Poke a Hole in Your Phone’s Security?

    207 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  17. Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an invisible beam

    206 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  18. Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust

    205 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  19. No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income if You Find a Job

    205 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  20. Judge unseals trove of internal Facebook documents from 2012 legal action

    205 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  21. Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saudi Arabia

    204 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  22. Sacklers Directed Efforts to Mislead Public About OxyContin, Documents Indicate

    204 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  23. Why isn't bamboo wood a bigger industry?

    204 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  24. AMD GCN Radeon Support in GCC 9

    204 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  25. ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0

    204 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  26. Lines of bare C++: raytracing made simple

    204 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  27. A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes

    204 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  28. Company Update

    203 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  29. Analyzing Core I9-9900K performance with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations

    203 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  30. Flat Design vs. Traditional Design: Comparative Experimental Study (2015)

    203 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  31. Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released

    202 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  32. DiffEqFlux.jl – A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations

    202 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  33. Despite promises, cell carriers are still selling your real-time location data

    202 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  34. A Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old into a Rap Legend

    202 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  35. SF restaurants are suffocating

    201 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  36. Texas has enough sun and wind to quit coal, Rice researchers say

    201 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  37. PostgreSQL: Backend Flowchart

    200 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  38. Google gives Wikimedia millions

    200 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  39. The state of gRPC in the browser

    200 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  40. Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038

    200 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  41. Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems

    200 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  42. One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer

    199 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  43. The 40M dollar job

    199 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  44. Airbnb Is Moving Faster at Scale with GraphQL and Apollo

    198 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  45. Inside the C Standard Library

    198 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  46. Tesla Autopilot HW3 details

    198 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  47. The AI Threat to Open Societies

    197 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  48. WebGL + Rust: Basic Water Tutorial

    197 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  49. Drawing is the best videogame

    197 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  50. Nintendo Makes It Clear That Piracy Is Only Way to Preserve Video Game History

    197 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  51. BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers

    197 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  52. Tinyalloc: replacement for malloc/free in unmanaged, linear memory situations

    197 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  53. Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game

    197 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  54. Using Fourier Transforms to Multiply Numbers

    196 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  55. Field notes: London, England (2018)

    196 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  56. More Data Is Not Better and Machine Learning Is a Grind

    196 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  57. Movfuscator – Single instruction C compiler

    196 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  58. TypeScript Tricks: Type Guards

    196 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  59. The Sounds That Haunted US Diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn Crickets, Scientists Say

    195 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  60. Nim in 2018: A short recap

    195 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  61. Who is horse_js?

    195 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  62. Attention Economy Is a Malthusian Trap

    194 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  63. Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (2012)

    193 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  64. The “Bug-O” Notation

    193 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  65. How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel (2015)

    193 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  66. Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support via Android Runtime

    192 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  67. Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS

    192 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  68. Google cans the Chromecast Audio

    192 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  69. Is there hope for IPv6?

    192 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  70. CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR

    191 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  71. Special Cases Are a Code Smell

    191 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  72. The Making of Nefertiti 1kb (2018)

    191 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  73. Prisons Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints

    191 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  74. Flutter: Futures, Isolates, Event Loop

    190 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  75. Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux (2018)

    190 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  76. Some Day, You’ll Have a Telephone with a Screen and Be Able To Dial a Book

    190 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  77. Avoiding a transit of the United States

    189 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  78. The money, job, marriage myth: are you happy yet?

    189 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  79. “The Linux of social media” – How LiveJournal pioneered, then lost, blogging

    189 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  80. An Introduction to Ray Tracing (1989)

    189 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  81. Olive, a new non-linear video editor

    189 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  82. Hacking PostgreSQL [pdf]

    188 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  83. Samsung to Replace Plastic Packaging with Sustainable Materials

    188 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  84. Rust at speed – building a fast concurrent database [video]

    188 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  85. We wasted $50K on Google Search Ads and the insights we got on the way

    188 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  86. Napster: A New Killer Internet App (1999)

    187 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  87. Kubernetes Security Best Practices

    187 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  88. Netflix Flexes

    187 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  89. Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t

    187 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  90. From “Hello World” to VP of Engineering at Reddit (2017)

    187 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  91. Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017)

    187 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  92. San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city

    187 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  93. Show HN: Postmake – A directory of tools and resources for your projects

    187 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  94. Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc

    187 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  95. Facebook deliberately allowed “friendly fraud” to avoid harming revenue

    187 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  96. Starting a Company Outside Silicon Valley Just Saved Me $1.1M

    187 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  97. Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his camera

    186 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  98. Crev: dependency vetting with a web of trust

    185 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  99. Maze-solving algorithm implemented in sed

    185 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  100. A Primer on Type Systems

    185 points • comment • jan 30, 2019