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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Getty Images Sued Again for Trying to License Public Domain Images

    287 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  2. Ola Bini, Swedish Software Developer with Ties to Assange, Arrested in Ecuador

    287 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  3. Relearning Matrices as Linear Functions

    287 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  4. OpenBSD 6.5

    287 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  5. Learning Parser Combinators with Rust

    286 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  6. How to Ace the Google Interview: Ultimate Guide

    286 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  7. You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014)

    286 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  8. China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining

    285 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  9. AJIT, a ‘Made in India’ Microprocessor

    285 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  10. Ask HN: What does your ML pipeline look like?

    285 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  11. Can Uber ever make money?

    284 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  12. 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds

    283 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  13. Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contract finalists

    283 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  14. Aphex Twin Speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)

    282 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  15. Giving up on wlroots-rs

    281 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  16. People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps

    281 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  17. Announcing Building Git

    278 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  18. Rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat

    278 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  19. Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running native in browser at desktop speed

    278 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  20. A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science

    277 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  21. The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought

    276 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  22. What Is a Manifold?

    276 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  23. Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide

    275 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  24. Tell HN: GitHub deleted anti-censorship activist repositories

    274 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  25. NYC scientist fired after raising questions about a DNA test gets $1M settlement

    274 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  26. Monotype launches the first redesign of Helvetica in 35 years

    273 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  27. The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks

    273 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  28. Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers

    273 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  29. Leisure Is Our Killer App

    272 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  30. Show HN: Ethical Resources – 300 ethical alternatives to mainstream stuff

    272 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  31. Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State

    271 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  32. Vancouver Airport blocking ads with information on travellers’ privacy rights

    270 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  33. Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a Mistake

    270 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  34. I let a stranger watch me work for a day and I've never been more productive

    270 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  35. Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'

    269 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  36. Now dev – Serverless on localhost

    268 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  37. Overview of differential equations [video]

    268 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  38. Why isn't 1 a prime number?

    268 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  39. SQL databases come up with algorithms you’d never have dreamed of (2017) [video]

    268 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  40. The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections

    267 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  41. The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally Makes That Plain

    267 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  42. Zig 0.4.0 Released

    266 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  43. Network Determines Success More Than People Realize

    265 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  44. Rust: Beyond the Typechecker

    265 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  45. Paint Is Colored Glue

    265 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  46. Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg but can’t do anything

    264 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  47. Nations of the Amazon are seeking “shared governance” of the .amazon TLD

    264 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  48. UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018)

    263 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  49. Jailbreaking Subaru StarLink

    263 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  50. The future of undersea Internet cables: Are big tech companies forming a cartel?

    262 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  51. Librem One – A growing bundle of ethical services

    262 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  52. Rust's 2019 Roadmap

    260 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  53. VW’s Former CEO Charged in Germany Over Diesel Rigging

    260 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  54. Deep learning outperformed dermatologists in melanoma image classification task

    259 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  55. Ultra Low Latency WebRTC Streaming – Open-Source Media Server

    259 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  56. The U.S. just had the most Q1 layoffs in a decade

    258 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  57. I’m only making business card sized games now

    258 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  58. Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws?

    257 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  59. GameBoy CPU Manual (2013) [pdf]

    257 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  60. Fastly S-1

    257 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  61. I'm Joining CloudFlare

    257 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  62. Instagram hides Like counts in leaked design prototype

    256 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  63. Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM should have been

    256 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  64. IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery

    255 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  65. EU votes to create gigantic biometrics database

    254 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  66. Base Web, Uber’s New Design System for Building Websites in React

    253 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  67. U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks

    253 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  68. Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation

    253 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  69. Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics

    253 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  70. Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

    252 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  71. The Dutch East India Co was richer than Apple, Google, Facebook combined (2017)

    252 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  72. Meshroom: Open Source 3D Reconstruction Software (2018) [video]

    251 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  73. Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates

    251 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  74. How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a color printout

    250 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  75. Brain signals translated into speech using AI

    250 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  76. Explaining Sex Rate Changes

    250 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  77. Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film finally hits the big screen after 25 years

    249 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  78. A former lead designer of Gmail fixes Gmail with a Chrome extension

    249 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  79. Jack Ma Again Endorses Extreme Overtime as Furor Rages On

    249 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  80. Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists to ICE

    249 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  81. Show HN: Applying the Unix philosophy to neural networks

    248 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  82. Microsoft loses control over Windows Tiles

    248 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  83. Notarizing Your App Before Distribution

    248 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  84. Ask HN: Machine learning resources for audio processing

    247 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  85. Biological Function Emerges from Unsupervised Learning on 250M Protein Sequences

    247 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  86. Should I Resign from My Full Professor Job to Work Fulltime on Cocalc?

    245 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  87. Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google

    245 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  88. They think they are above the law: the firms who own America's voting system

    245 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  89. A Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1k

    245 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  90. Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership

    244 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  91. U.S. blocks Amazon efforts to stop shareholder votes on facial recognition

    244 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  92. Land of Lisp (2010)

    243 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  93. Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in web pages

    243 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  94. Sweden will vote against the copyright deal/article 13

    243 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  95. Cloud Run beta pricing

    243 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  96. Mass Production of iPhones to Start in India

    242 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  97. Tech Industry-Funded Think Tanks Work to Overturn California Privacy Law

    242 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  98. A fork() in the road

    242 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  99. Show HN: A minimalist blog based on Tufte CSS

    242 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  100. A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday

    242 points • comment • apr 11, 2019