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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Put 1.7MB onto 1.44MB Floppies (1999)

    111 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  2. Talkshow – Team videos in non-real-time

    111 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  3. Facebook Team Lands at Delhi Man's House for ID Verification over Political Post

    111 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  4. Building China: Rise of the Superblock

    111 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  5. Back in the Day: Unix, Minix and Linux

    111 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  6. Netherlands makes trains free on national book day for those who show a book

    111 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  7. Calling a real estate robocaller back

    111 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  8. How to Fly the B-25 Mitchell Bomber (1944) [video]

    110 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  9. Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

    110 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  10. Ireland blocks the world on data privacy

    110 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  11. An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace

    110 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  12. The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences (1960) [pdf]

    110 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  13. Checking Email Less Often Leads to More Productive Workdays

    110 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  14. A wander through a weird landscape to the heart of compilation [pdf]

    110 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  15. Gum bacteria implicated in Alzheimer's and other diseases

    109 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  16. The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear

    109 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  17. Wac: Minimal WebAssembly interpreter written in C

    109 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  18. Chinese tech firms are throwing out applicants over the age of 30

    109 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  19. Show HN: My interview with patio11 and other profitable side project hackers

    109 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  20. House of Representatives Passes Net Neutrality Protections

    109 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  21. Minetime.ai – A Calendar for the 21st Century

    109 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  22. AmpliGraph: A TensorFlow-Based Library for Knowledge Graph Embeddings

    109 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  23. Fixed Layout Prototyping – Hexagonal Electronics Breadboard

    109 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  24. Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf]

    109 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  25. World's deepest pool to open in Poland

    109 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  26. Unseen Clockwork Orange 'Follow-Up' by Anthony Burgess Unearthed

    108 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  27. Mutiny at HQ Trivia Fails to Oust CEO

    108 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  28. Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America

    108 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  29. Native image lazy-loading for the web

    108 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  30. Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders

    108 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  31. Chomsky on the arrest of Julian Assange [video]

    108 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  32. New aircraft rises 'like a balloon'

    108 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  33. SpaceVim v1.1.0 released

    108 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  34. Xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture

    108 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  35. World's tallest tropical tree discovered and climbed in Malaysian Borneo

    108 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  36. Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?

    108 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  37. Realsense T265 tracking camera

    108 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  38. Hacker dumps thousands of sensitive Mexican embassy documents online

    108 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  39. How healthy is the internet?

    107 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  40. Loop invariants can give you coding superpowers

    107 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  41. Google Cloud CEO says that he’s borrowing from the Oracle playbook

    107 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  42. Configuring and hardening Firefox privacy, security and anti-fingerprinting

    107 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  43. Rockset – Serverless search and analytics engine

    107 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  44. In its fight to keep drug prices high, big pharma leans on charities

    107 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  45. Half of Instacart’s drivers earn less than minimum wage, labor group claims

    107 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  46. Traditional journalists may abandon WikiLeaks’ Assange at their own peril

    107 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  47. Radiation concerns halt Brussels 5G development, for now

    107 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  48. The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing

    107 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  49. Why Rent Control Doesn't Work

    107 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  50. Mark Shuttleworth sees increased demand for enterprise Ubuntu Linux desktop

    106 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  51. The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its tech secrets

    106 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  52. New video of Intelsat 29e satellite reveals dramatic “anomaly”

    106 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  53. Saudi Arabia beheads man for sending messages about protests when aged 16

    106 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  54. Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)

    106 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  55. The Problem With Hexagons

    106 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  56. A look at IBM S/360 core memory: In the 1960s, 128 kilobytes weighed 610 pounds

    106 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  57. Electrical jolts to brain restored memory of elderly to that of 20-year-old

    106 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  58. A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes

    106 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  59. Ways to Lie with Charts (2014)

    106 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  60. Anarchists Who Took the Commuter Train

    106 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  61. Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery

    106 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  62. Why aren't figs considered vegan?

    106 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  63. Firefox banning noisy video from autoplaying

    106 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  64. Berkeley Blue – Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware

    105 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  65. Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking

    105 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  66. With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close in on an Explanation

    105 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  67. The Fargate Illusion

    105 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  68. El Grapho: High Performance WebGL Graph Data Visualization Engine

    105 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  69. 540M Facebook Records Exposed

    105 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  70. Godson-3: A Scalable Multicore RISC Processor with x86 Emulation (2009)

    105 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  71. Kidnapping: An Efficient Business

    105 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  72. Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians During World War II (1988) [pdf]

    105 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  73. How much can forests fight climate change?

    105 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  74. Lobbyists rewrote Washington state’s privacy law

    105 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  75. Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge

    104 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  76. Making the obvious code fast (2016)

    104 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  77. Report deems Russia a pioneer in GPS spoofing attacks

    104 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  78. Bosque Programming Language

    104 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  79. How does it feel to be watched at work all the time?

    104 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  80. Tim Cook: Apple doesn't donate to political candidates and PACs shouldn’t exist

    104 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  81. Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2019 Release

    104 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  82. Hackers publish data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents

    104 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  83. Lidar mapping techniques using multiple sensors

    104 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  84. Artists Are Reviving the Idea of the Medieval Guild

    104 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  85. Italy’s austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone

    104 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  86. Under-18s face 'like' and 'streaks' bans on social media

    104 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  87. Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (1981)

    104 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  88. Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name

    103 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  89. Huawei’s claim of 100% employee ownership false, may be state-owned: paper

    103 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  90. Nana: A modern C++ GUI library

    103 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  91. China is working to silence critics of its prisonlike re-education camps

    103 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  92. Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth

    103 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  93. Darpa wants to make a better, more secure, version of WhatsApp

    103 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  94. Librem 5 April Update

    103 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  95. Buster Keaton: Anarchitect

    103 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  96. New Satellite Photos Show Climate Change Is Sweeping Europe

    103 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  97. Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds

    103 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  98. College Kids Are Living Like Kings in Vancouver’s Empty Mansions

    103 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  99. Giistr – Search, filter and help on GitHub issues

    103 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  100. Robert A. Caro on the means and ends of power

    103 points • comment • apr 07, 2019