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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Google Wing will deliver to about 100 homes in Canberra

    185 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  2. Apple Face-Recognition Blamed by New York Teen for False Arrest

    185 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  3. Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future

    185 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  4. This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (1992)

    184 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  5. Gene Wolfe, 'magnificent' giant of science fiction, dies aged 87

    184 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  6. FB plans to pass your photos to advertisers, make users the stars of online ads

    184 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  7. A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the Rules

    184 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  8. r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

    183 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  9. New human species found in Philippines

    183 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  10. The Secret Rules for Getting Hired

    183 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  11. Announcing AMP Real URL

    183 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  12. Nim – Natively compiled language with hot code-reloading at runtime [video]

    183 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  13. NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program

    183 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  14. Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker

    182 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  15. More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat products

    182 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  16. Immediate Mode GUI

    182 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  17. The Fight to Save Coral (2017)

    181 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  18. Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing

    181 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  19. Languages I want to write

    181 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  20. U.S. Web Design System 2.0

    180 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  21. Chinese Number Websites: The Secret Meaning of URLs (2014)

    180 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  22. How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach

    180 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  23. Claude Shannon’s “Creative Thinking” Speech (2017)

    180 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  24. After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking

    180 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  25. Show HN: Xmake, a modern C/C++ build utility

    180 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  26. Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges

    180 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  27. Thinking on Your Feet

    179 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  28. Migrating 23TB from S3 to B2 in 7 hours

    179 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  29. PostgreSQL Performance on Raspberry Pi

    179 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  30. Fedora 30

    179 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  31. A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan

    179 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  32. Why Do People with Depression Like Listening to Sad Music?

    178 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  33. Janet Airlines

    178 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  34. Spurious Justifications for Eliminating Price Caps on .org and Legacy Domains

    178 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  35. Why don't we have Wayland on Raspberry Pi yet? (2018)

    178 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  36. A gentle introduction to symbolic execution

    178 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  37. Flow9 programming language is now open source

    178 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  38. Goldman Sachs will open-source some of its trading software

    177 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  39. Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls

    177 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  40. Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's Cloud-Born Globally Distributed Database

    177 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  41. Two L.A. universities quarantine hundreds students and staff in measles outbreak

    177 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  42. Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details

    177 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  43. Vladimir Komarov went on a space suicide mission to save his best friend, Yuri

    177 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  44. Recursive Drawing

    177 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  45. Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

    177 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  46. x86 Assembly Guide (2018)

    177 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  47. Implementing API Billing with Stripe

    177 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  48. Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong

    176 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  49. Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes (2015)

    176 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  50. Japan's 'vanishing' Ainu will finally be recognized as indigenous people

    176 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  51. Foods for healthier people and a healthier planet [pdf]

    175 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  52. WatchMe – Watch for Changes on a Page

    175 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  53. Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea

    175 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  54. How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the TicTocTrack Watch

    174 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  55. Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license plate readers

    174 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  56. Mail a Letter Online

    174 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  57. Rust – Compile Time Memory Safety

    174 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  58. Green Material for Refrigeration Identified

    174 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  59. “Startup Robs Every Customer They Have for Thousands of Dollars Overnight”

    174 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  60. We All Work for Facebook

    174 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  61. Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

    174 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  62. Combine statistical and symbolic artificial intelligence techniques

    174 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  63. Indonesia election: More than 270 election staff die counting votes

    174 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  64. Why airlines make flights longer on purpose

    173 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  65. Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?

    173 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  66. Dear Mozilla, please stop spamming

    172 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  67. P. gingivalis in Alzheimer's disease brains

    172 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  68. In African Villages, Phones Can Become Ultrasound Scanners

    172 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  69. Write Python inline in your Rust code

    172 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  70. Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for employees to $20

    172 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  71. Show HN: Bsed – Simple, English syntax on top of Perl text processing

    172 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  72. RePalm – Hardware Emulation of PalmOS

    172 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  73. A Specialized B-Tree for Concurrent Datalog Evaluation

    171 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  74. Show HN: WAPM – Package Manager for WebAssembly

    171 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  75. Gimp 2.10.10 released

    171 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  76. How Many Type Parameters Can a Java Method Have?

    171 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  77. The new features of Fortran 2018 [pdf]

    171 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  78. Godot Engine – Announcing the Godot 2019 Showreel

    171 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  79. Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret

    171 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  80. Pig brains partially revived four hours after death

    171 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  81. Lisp Operating System (2015)

    170 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  82. New WebKit Features in Safari 12.1

    170 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  83. OpenCV-Python Cheat Sheet: From Importing Images to Face Detection

    170 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  84. The global population pyramid

    170 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  85. Anvil Firing

    169 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  86. Planet’s ocean-plastics problem detailed in 60-year data set

    169 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  87. Request’s Past, Present and Future

    169 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  88. Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

    169 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  89. Writing an OS in Rust: Testing

    168 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  90. Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate

    168 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  91. A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19)

    168 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  92. Idiomatic Monads in Rust

    168 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  93. Mathematicians are hoarding a type of Japanese chalk (2015)

    168 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  94. France's Basque Region Creates Its Own Currency

    168 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  95. Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes

    168 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  96. Software Heritage and GNU Guix join forces to enable long term reproducibility

    167 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  97. Making email more secure with MTA-STS standard

    167 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  98. Archeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4k-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt

    167 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  99. Many people are getting rare cancers in a small Georgia town

    167 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  100. NPM staff fired after trying to unionize – complaints

    167 points • comment • apr 23, 2019