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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Computers without clocks (2002) [pdf]

    85 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  2. “Let's bring a goddamn bookstore to the Bronx.”

    85 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  3. A telescope fan sabotaged an astronomy forum. He ended up in prison (2018)

    85 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  4. TSMC and OIP Deliver Industry’s First Complete Design Infrastructure 5nm Process

    85 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  5. Botanists rediscover rare Hawaiian flower thought extinct, thanks to a drone

    85 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  6. The Museum of Soviet Space Travel

    85 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  7. Dangerous Web Security Features

    84 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  8. Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2019 Results

    84 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  9. How to Train Your OpenAI Five

    84 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  10. March Temperatures in Alaska: 20 Degrees Hotter Than Usual

    84 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  11. Crustacean has never been seen away from Lake Merritt, but it's not from Oakland

    84 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  12. Canvas-sketch – A framework for making generative artwork

    84 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  13. Show HN: Talks from successful founders, curated every day

    84 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  14. There is no good reason to buy an inkjet printer (2016)

    84 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  15. A drug rehab program has sent patients to work without pay

    84 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  16. SoftBank founder lost $130M on Bitcoin

    84 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  17. The Physical Sacrifice of Thinking (2015)

    84 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  18. YouTube Flagged Notre Dame Fire as Misinformation, Attached Article About 9/11

    84 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  19. An anatomy of a modern hit job

    84 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  20. Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source

    84 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  21. IPFS Camp 2019

    84 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  22. German chemicals giant Bayer victim of year long cyber attack

    84 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  23. The Growth of Hypercasual Games

    84 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  24. Show HN: JavaScript plugin to build 360-degree images

    83 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  25. Facebook Reports First Quarter 2019 Results

    83 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  26. Statistical mechanics of money (2000)

    83 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  27. Tea: High-Level Language and Runtime System for Automating Statistical Analysis

    83 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  28. The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible (2017)

    83 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  29. Advances in Weather Prediction

    83 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  30. 'PJ paralysis': Why advocates are pushing to get patients out of pyjamas

    83 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  31. Permanent Magnetic Materials Without Rare Earth Metals

    82 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  32. What can we learn from the matrix.org compromise?

    82 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  33. TF-IDF in a Nutshell

    82 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  34. How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle

    82 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  35. Fisher-Price Recalls Rock ’N Play Sleeper Linked to Infant Deaths

    82 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  36. The hunt for the fish pirates who exploit the sea

    82 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  37. Le Bolze: Switzerland's Fifth Language

    82 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  38. Jumbo: Privacy Assistant for iPhone

    82 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  39. Facebook now says its password leak affected ‘millions’ of Instagram users

    82 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  40. How Gmail Happened (2014)

    82 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  41. Growing Our Team with Retrospectives

    81 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  42. US Wages Finally Get Back to Where They Were in 1973

    81 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  43. Hacker from Russian crime group jailed for global blackmail conspiracy

    81 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  44. Geo: Geospatial Primitives and Algorithms for Rust

    81 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  45. Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe (2015)

    81 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  46. A New Approach to Multiplication Opens the Door to Better Quantum Computers

    81 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  47. I Merged My One-Person Software Company with a Bigger Player (2018)

    81 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  48. SEC Charges Two Robo-Advisers with False Disclosures (2018)

    81 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  49. Boolean Circuits are Neural Networks

    81 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  50. Microsoft Helped Build China’s Surveillance [video]

    81 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  51. AMD Poised for Explosive CPU and GPU Sales Growth in 2019

    81 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  52. The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin

    81 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  53. New study shows grim outlook for future of Air Force pilot shortage

    80 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  54. The Nightmare of Human Organ Harvesting in China

    80 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  55. Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours

    80 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  56. Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM

    80 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  57. Proquints: Identifiers That Are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (2009)

    80 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  58. UK government proposes fine or block if website fails to tackle “online harms”

    80 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  59. Puzzle Drawers

    80 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  60. Israeli Scientists 'Print' World's First 3D Heart with Human Tissue

    80 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  61. Interface Dispatch (2018)

    80 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  62. Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers

    80 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  63. Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?

    80 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  64. Microsoft Gives Paint the 11th Hour Reprieve It Deserves

    80 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  65. What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf]

    80 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  66. The Coming Desert

    80 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  67. 3M to cut 2K jobs globally, lowers 2019 profit outlook

    80 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  68. Thinkers and Drinkers

    80 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  69. US Government Admits It Doesn’t Know If Assange Cracked Password for Manning

    80 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  70. Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs

    80 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  71. On DataCamp and sexual misconduct

    80 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  72. UBiome Offices Searched by FBI

    80 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  73. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to Depart Facebook Board of Directors

    80 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  74. The Time Tim Cook Stood His Ground Against the FBI

    79 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  75. Mystery of the Universe’s Expansion Rate Widens with New Hubble Data

    79 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  76. Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser

    79 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  77. New York Implements Congestion Pricing for Cars

    79 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  78. Whistleblowers: Drug company offered 'bribes' to doctors to boost sales

    79 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  79. Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization

    79 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  80. Swift Generics Evolution

    79 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  81. Alternative Musical Keyboards

    79 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  82. Boeing MAX production cut signals long grounding

    79 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  83. Call Me by My Name: Deborah Abrams Kaplan

    79 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  84. The Price We Pay: How Little Most Bay Area Families Can Afford

    78 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  85. What an Aging Population Means for the Future of the Internet

    78 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  86. SaaS vs. Open Core Software: An Introduction

    78 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  87. The Death of an Adjunct

    78 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  88. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (April 2019)

    78 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  89. Webiny – CMS powered by GraphQL and React

    78 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  90. Living Wage Calculator

    78 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  91. Valitor Sentenced to Pay 1.2B ISK over Wikileaks Payment Block

    78 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  92. A Small Town in the Philippines Banned Gossip

    77 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  93. Dan Robbins, artist who created the paint-by-numbers idea in Detroit, dies at 93

    77 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  94. Behind the Buzz: How Ketamine Changes the Depressed Patient's Brain

    77 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  95. Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy

    77 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  96. Vietnam’s Empty Forests

    77 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  97. FPGA/DNN Co-Design: An Efficient Methodology for IoT Intelligence

    77 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  98. Show HN: hncynic – Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

    77 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  99. Apple Hires AI and Deep Learning Expert Ian Goodfellow

    77 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  100. The US govt’s indictment of Julian Assange poses grave threats to press freedom

    77 points • comment • apr 13, 2019