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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. V8: A Year with Spectre

    348 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  2. Advanced NLP with SpaCy

    348 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  3. A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions

    347 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  4. Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other transportation modes

    344 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  5. Google launches an end-to-end AI platform

    344 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  6. Tesla Model 3 becomes best-selling car in Switzerland

    343 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  7. Google makes BigQuery available in Sheets

    342 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  8. NirSoft, a collection of small and useful freeware utilities

    341 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  9. A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing its status as a VC

    340 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  10. The Healing Power of Gardens

    340 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  11. Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out?

    339 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  12. Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]

    339 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  13. Apple has removed or restricted several screen-time and parental-control apps

    338 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  14. How pharmaceutical industry financial modelers think about rare diseases

    338 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  15. Is everything an MLM

    337 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  16. Editor.js – Block Styled Editor

    337 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  17. Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root

    337 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  18. Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports overstate broadband adoption

    336 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  19. When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear too

    336 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  20. Amazon Quits China Market

    334 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  21. Software Projects and Heroes: Lessons Learned from GitHub Projects

    334 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  22. Antenna Theory (2016)

    333 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  23. Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

    333 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  24. A visual proof that neural nets can approximate any function

    332 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  25. Django 2.2

    331 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  26. Quirk – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    330 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  27. Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution

    330 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  28. Mate: Netflix browser extension for learning words via subtitles

    330 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  29. Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y.

    328 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  30. As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned a Blind Eye

    327 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  31. Principles and Techniques of Data Science

    327 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  32. Google Decides to Monetize Maps

    326 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  33. A majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities

    325 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  34. Police misconduct: Search discipline records for thousands of cops

    325 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  35. But I'm Not a Lawyer, I'm an Agent

    325 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  36. Busy Person Patterns (2006) [pdf]

    325 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  37. Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars

    324 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  38. Godot Engine Awarded $50k by Mozilla Open Source Support Program

    324 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  39. OKRs Aren't Going to Fix Your Communication Issues

    324 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  40. An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

    324 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  41. Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions in engineering culture

    324 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  42. Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation

    322 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  43. The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner

    322 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  44. The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway

    320 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  45. Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? [pdf]

    320 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  46. When to Use TypeScript – A Detailed Guide Through Common Scenarios

    319 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  47. A Gentle Introduction to Text Summarization in Machine Learning

    318 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  48. Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio

    318 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  49. Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust

    317 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  50. Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag

    317 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  51. Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (2014)

    316 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  52. Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)

    316 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  53. Web Developer's Guide to DNS

    315 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  54. Matrix.org hacked

    315 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  55. How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook (2018)

    314 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  56. How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (2013)

    313 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  57. The Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Journalism

    313 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  58. Panic’s Next Editor

    313 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  59. YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection

    313 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  60. Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication

    312 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  61. Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations

    311 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  62. How not to hire a software engineer

    311 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  63. I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash

    310 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  64. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015)

    309 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  65. China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media

    309 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  66. Show HN: Thoughter

    309 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  67. EFF’s Tweet About a DMCA Takedown Is Now Subject to an Overzealous Takedown

    306 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  68. Ask HN: How to Teach Coding?

    305 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  69. Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole

    303 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  70. Why Do Buses Bunch?

    303 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  71. Idaho sets record low solar price as it starts on shift to 100pct renewables

    302 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  72. Modern C++ Won't Save Us

    302 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  73. Soul – A language and IDE for audio coding

    301 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  74. Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007)

    301 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  75. QEMU v4.0.0 released

    300 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  76. Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author

    300 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  77. Private Key Extraction from Qualcomm Hardware-Backed Keystores

    300 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  78. Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 in Indonesia

    300 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  79. MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

    299 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  80. Show HN: Sauron – A web framework in Rust that adheres to the Elm architecture

    299 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  81. Menstrual Cups Help Keep Kenyan Girls in School

    298 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  82. Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors

    298 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  83. Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library

    298 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  84. WeWork Files for IPO

    297 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  85. The Notre Dame fire and the future of history

    296 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  86. Unauthorized access to Docker Hub database

    295 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  87. Python overtakes JavaScript as most questioned language on StackOverflow

    294 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  88. Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go

    294 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  89. BASIC Computer Games

    293 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  90. Battery Power's Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas

    293 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  91. Keeping master green at scale

    292 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  92. Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux

    291 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  93. How to register a company in the USA: the most comprehensive guide for founders

    291 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  94. How to Read a Schematic

    291 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  95. Baked MacBook Air: A cautionary recipe

    290 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  96. Single-dose propranolol tied to ‘selective erasure’ of anxiety disorders

    290 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  97. GB Studio – Retro adventure game creator for Game Boy

    289 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  98. The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin

    288 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  99. Machine Learning Books That Helped Me Level Up

    288 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  100. Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat (2013)

    288 points • comment • apr 12, 2019