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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Energy consumption increased at a record rate in 2018

    77 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  2. In Venezuela, life has gone from bad to worse. And the world has quit noticing

    77 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  3. Joe Armstrong: The Mess We’re In

    77 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

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

    77 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

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

    77 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  6. Vietnam’s Empty Forests

    77 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  7. A Small Town in the Philippines Banned Gossip

    77 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  8. Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon

    76 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  9. Open-plan offices reduce face-to-face interactions (2018)

    76 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  10. How Germany used radio waves to guide night bombing raids in WWII

    76 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  11. IAM Is The Real Cloud Lock-In

    76 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  12. Regolith Linux – A desktop with less visual bullshit

    76 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  13. The Parker “51” (2018)

    76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  14. IsometricSass – Sass library to make isometric 2D without JavaScript

    76 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  15. Old emotions remain salient in insomnia disorder

    76 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  16. Toxic Positivity

    76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  17. Git Implemented in OCaml

    76 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  18. Positional-only Parameters for Python

    76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  19. Show HN: CryptoTrader.Tax – Tax calculator for your crypto trading

    76 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  20. Quantum Algorithm Zoo

    76 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  21. Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin

    76 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  22. Time protection: The missing OS abstraction

    75 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  23. I Obtained Satoshi's Treasure Keys 1, 2, and 3 in Minutes

    75 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  24. Ask HN: Do you know of any good product taking advantage of NLP?

    75 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  25. Revolut is at risk of losing its European banking licenses

    75 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  26. Jumia is not an African startup

    75 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  27. Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution – Then Came the Bill

    75 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  28. How Amazon's Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine

    75 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  29. Show HN: Python virtual environment, but backed by Docker

    75 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  30. CIA Offers Proof Huawei Has Been Funded by China's Military and Intelligence

    74 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  31. New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall

    74 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  32. Alternative Periodic Tables

    74 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  33. Don’t trust the locals: investigating prevalence of persistent client-side XSS

    74 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  34. The Geography of the Room

    74 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  35. Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (1976) [pdf]

    74 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  36. Research as a Stochastic Decision Process

    74 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  37. The Baghdad Battery

    74 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  38. Estonia is a place for independent minds

    74 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  39. Volkswagen Originalteil Sausages

    74 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  40. Programming language ray tracing benchmarks project

    74 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  41. Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make Mistakes

    74 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  42. Open-source Chrome extension to save the state of a page for further analysis

    74 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  43. Geohash in Golang Assembly (2018)

    74 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  44. Cone Programming Langauge

    74 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  45. Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; we’re not

    74 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  46. The Incredible Proof Machine (2016)

    74 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  47. At Colorado, a Breach in Football’s Wall

    74 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  48. C to Delphi converter (2018)

    73 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  49. Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Shows Recipients Are Happier and More Secure

    73 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  50. People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

    73 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  51. Multi-Level Intermediate Representation Compiler Infrastructure

    73 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  52. Amazon customers will be able to return purchases to any Kohl’s store in July

    73 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  53. Private Space Launch Firms in China Race to Orbit

    73 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  54. Roshi: A large-scale CRDT set implementation for timestamped events

    73 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  55. Activation Atlases

    73 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  56. Cold plasma can inactivate or remove airborne viruses, UMich study shows

    73 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  57. It is your moral obligation to use Firefox

    73 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  58. Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go

    73 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  59. Non-Photorealistic Rendering Using a Painting Robot [pdf]

    73 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  60. “Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”

    73 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  61. J2cl: Transpile Java to JavaScript for Closure Compiler

    73 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  62. Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz

    72 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  63. Giving Generative Art Its Due

    72 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  64. Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms

    72 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  65. Bringing the best of open source to Google Cloud customers

    72 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  66. Teaching machines to triage Firefox bugs

    72 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  67. Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5?

    72 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  68. Mastering Motion: The Journey to Emulate MotionPlus

    71 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  69. Building a Cathedral

    71 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  70. Lyft threatens lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, accusing support of short selling

    71 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  71. After near-disaster, Oroville Dam spillway about to face its first big test

    71 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  72. Integer overflow flaw discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1

    71 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  73. Git9: Git Reimagined for the Plan 9 OS

    71 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  74. Lyft’s IPO Was a Success, Just Not for Investors Who Bought on Friday

    71 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  75. Electronic music reduces host attack and mating success in dengue mosquitoes

    71 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  76. Disembodied pig brains revived: Your questions answered

    71 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  77. Ask HN: Do Udacity nanodegrees get anyone a job without academic background?

    71 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  78. Blocking high-risk non-secure downloads

    71 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  79. DNSSEC Outage on www.cloudflare.com – 2019-03-21

    71 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  80. Model 3 Lease Available

    71 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  81. Andy Grove's Paranoia: Universal Lessons (1996)

    71 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  82. Amazon S3 Batch Operations

    71 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  83. Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU: Initializing Weights

    70 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  84. Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf]

    70 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  85. Handshake: A Peculiar Chat Experiment

    70 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  86. The Terrifying Potential of 5G

    70 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  87. Qgrep Internals

    70 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  88. Tell HN: Hours left to protest ICANN's plan to uncap prices of legacy TLDs

    70 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  89. Password checkup: from 0 to 650k users in 20 days

    70 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  90. The Cold War bunkers that cover a country

    70 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  91. Show HN: Messing with Telnet

    70 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  92. Immune cells may play a role in causing cavities

    69 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  93. Starkey and the Future of Hearing Aids

    69 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  94. An Introduction to René Girard

    69 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  95. An actress lived for decades in this NYC apartment for $28 a month (2018)

    69 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  96. Selfie Deaths in the Outdoors

    69 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  97. We need a new generation of source control

    69 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  98. Gutenberg’s moving type propelled Europe towards the scientific revolution

    69 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  99. Tanks Are Mighty Fine Things (1946)

    69 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  100. J Language – New Website

    69 points • comment • apr 08, 2019