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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian

    166 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  2. JetBlue has started using facial recognition instead of boarding passes

    166 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  3. Connecticut moves to help low-paid workers hurt by noncompete rules

    166 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  4. India will soon overtake China to become the most populous country in the world

    166 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  5. Graph Convolutional Networks (2016)

    166 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  6. Crystal 0.28.0 Released

    166 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  7. BlackBerry cofounder Jim Balsillie is sounding the alarm about surveillance

    166 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  8. A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers

    166 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  9. Show HN: Muon, a low-level programming language inspired by C, C# and Go

    166 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  10. Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good, but privately it was ‘the best’

    166 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  11. Filing Your Taxes Is an Expensive Time Sink. That’s Not an Accident

    166 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  12. Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History (2018) [video]

    166 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  13. Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)

    165 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  14. MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon’s Wrath

    165 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  15. Do people become happier after 40?

    165 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  16. Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years

    165 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  17. Zarf’s Interactive Fiction (2017)

    165 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  18. Amazon's Alexa Team Can Access Users' Home Addresses

    164 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  19. Ask HN: How do I ask for a raise?

    164 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  20. Time protection: the missing OS abstraction

    164 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  21. Wasmer: A Python library for executing WebAssembly binaries

    164 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  22. Red Hat Replaces Oracle as OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11 Steward

    163 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  23. Why did Clojure gain so much popularity?

    163 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  24. The bible of doing business with the city of New York

    163 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  25. Ask HN: Non-VC backed founders, any tips on growth?

    163 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  26. The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition, in Beta

    163 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  27. CVE-2019-9193: Not a Security Vulnerability

    163 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  28. The Horror of Hudson Yards Is How It Was Financed

    163 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  29. Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory

    163 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  30. So You Want to Be a Penetration Tester?

    162 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  31. Unofficial new Berlin rapid transit route map

    162 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  32. In California, giant Stratolaunch jet flies for first time

    162 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  33. Nassim Talebs case against Nate Silver is bad math

    162 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  34. Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report

    162 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  35. AMD EPYC Rome 2P Will Have 128-160 PCIe Gen4 Lanes and a Bonus

    162 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  36. The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs

    162 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  37. Ask HN: Was GitHub Hacked or Me?

    161 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  38. In England, rhubarb is grown by candlelight

    161 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  39. Americans Are Delaying Health Care Until Tax Refunds Arrive

    161 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  40. Downsized dwellings: Inside Tokyo's tiny living spaces

    161 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  41. Tibetan musical notation

    160 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  42. Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing

    160 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  43. The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart

    160 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  44. Show HN: Learn to use email with Git

    160 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  45. Sinclair ZX81 1KB Chess vs. Stockfish Chess Engine (2018) [video]

    160 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  46. NSA says warrantless searches of Americans’ data rose in 2018

    160 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  47. Influencers Are Abandoning the Instagram Look

    159 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  48. Why India's rich don't give their money away

    159 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  49. The Nokia N9 Alarm Clock (2014)

    159 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  50. After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On

    158 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  51. Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban

    158 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  52. Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data

    158 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  53. Former student destroys 59 university computers using USB Killer device

    158 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  54. Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted

    158 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  55. Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware

    158 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  56. Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQL

    158 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  57. Ginseng: Keeping secrets in registers when you distrust the operating system

    157 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  58. Not enough jobs for science graduates challenges STEM hype

    157 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  59. The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web

    157 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  60. The Difference Between SQL’s JOIN .. ON Clause and the Where Clause

    157 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  61. Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

    156 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  62. DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016

    156 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  63. GitHub publishes DMCA deletion notifications sent by Bilibili

    156 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  64. Eisvogel: A clean pandoc LaTeX template with a focus on computer science

    156 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  65. Smoke and Mirrors: How Snap and Pinterest Hide User Attrition

    155 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  66. High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment

    155 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  67. Building a front end with no JavaScript

    155 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  68. N-Wheeled Cars

    155 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  69. Surprisingly little evidence for usual wisdom about teeth

    155 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  70. How Venice Works [video]

    155 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  71. A Pentester's Guide: Osint, Breach Dumps, and Password Spraying

    155 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  72. People Lose Their Employer-Sponsored Insurance Constantly

    155 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  73. Hacker Finds He Can Remotely Kill Car Engines After Breaking into GPS Tracking

    154 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  74. The Metrics of Backpacks

    154 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  75. Chessvision.ai – Analyze chess position from websites, images or video

    154 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  76. C#88: The Original C# (2018)

    154 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  77. Boeing software under scrutiny as Ethiopia prepares crash report

    154 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  78. The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

    154 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  79. Tether Says Stablecoin Is Only Backed 74% by Cash, Securities

    154 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  80. Windows 3.1 in my BIOS? It's more likely than you think

    154 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  81. One night of telescope time rules out black hole/dark matter idea

    153 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  82. French court finds Monsanto guilty of poisoning farmer

    153 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  83. You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead

    153 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  84. About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown

    153 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  85. Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)

    153 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  86. How do we know when we’ve fallen in love? (2016)

    153 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  87. O(N^2) in CreateProcess

    153 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  88. Lopdf: Rust library for PDF document manipulation

    153 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  89. God's Number Is 20 (2010)

    152 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  90. Low-earth orbit satellites threatened by debris from Indian anti-satellite test

    152 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  91. U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs

    152 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  92. Blend2D – 2D Vector Graphics Engine

    152 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  93. Trinity Nuclear Test Site Open House – Saturday, April 6

    152 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  94. Two More Cases of Third-Party Facebook App Data Exposure

    152 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  95. Amazon's empire rests on its low-key approach to AI

    152 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  96. Hundred-Tonne Robots That Help Keep New Zealand Running [video]

    152 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  97. Mercury – Banking built for startups

    151 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  98. Writing a Technical Book for Manning

    151 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  99. The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]

    151 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  100. On Startup Capital Efficiency

    151 points • comment • apr 08, 2019