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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. Neutralizing Tear Gas

    107 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  2. Requests moved to Python Software Foundation

    107 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  3. Travel without a phone

    107 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  4. Why Is the Amazon Rain Forest Disappearing?

    107 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  5. Nuclear Fusion Could Rescue the Planet from Climate Catastrophe

    106 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  6. Absurd Design – Free Surrealist Illustrations and Vector Art

    106 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  7. Porting my website to Workers Sites and Zola

    106 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  8. Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: object dictionaries

    106 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  9. My derelict pub still got TripAdvisor reviews

    106 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  10. What the Ctenophore says about the evolution of intelligence

    106 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  11. AMD's Upcoming Ryzen 9 3900 Listed with 12 Zen 2 Cores at 65W

    106 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  12. The Legal Gray Zone of Marijuana at Airports

    105 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  13. C++ is not a superset of C

    105 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  14. Announcing Yugabyte DB 2.0 GA: High-Performance Distributed SQL

    105 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  15. G.M. Strike: 50k Union Workers Walk Out Over Wages and Idled Plants

    105 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  16. AndOTP: Open-source two-factor authentication for Android

    105 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  17. Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K at megabar pressures (2018)

    105 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  18. Real-Time Touch Controller for the Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer

    105 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  19. America’s Buses Need Our Love More Than Ever (2018)

    105 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  20. Socrates Was Against Writing (2011)

    105 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  21. US doctors are hoping to start offering women vaginal fluid transplants

    104 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  22. Enoki: Structured vectorization and differentiation on modern processors

    104 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  23. Will the Long-Term Stock Exchange Make a Difference?

    104 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  24. Writing papers for American college students has become lucrative overseas

    104 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  25. Debate in Austria over enshrining use of cash in the constitution

    104 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  26. In Russia’s Space Graveyard, Locals Scavenge Fallen Spacecraft (2018)

    104 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  27. Australia uses new technology to catch drivers on phones

    104 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  28. Inside Bill’s Brain

    104 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  29. RSA: Theory and Implementation

    104 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  30. A German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Anything

    104 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  31. Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization (2013)

    104 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  32. Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do

    104 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  33. Electric version of Renault's low-cost Kwid

    104 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  34. The Porsche Taycan's Two-Speed Gearbox

    103 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  35. What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Does

    103 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  36. On Extractive and Abstractive Summarization with Transformer Language Models

    103 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  37. Belgian police forced to stop using facial recognition (Dutch)

    103 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  38. ‘Unsafe’ levels of antibiotics found in rivers in 72 countries

    103 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  39. We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF

    103 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  40. Arm and TSMC Showcase 7nm Chiplet, Eight A72 at 4GHz on CoWoS Interposer

    103 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  41. F-35's radar invisibility cloak in question

    103 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  42. Neither, and New: Lessons from Uber and Vision Fund

    102 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  43. ‘Fleeceware’ apps overcharge users for basic app functionality

    102 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  44. Creating Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data

    102 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  45. Using Spotify data to predict what songs will be hits

    102 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  46. How common was it for parents to lose a child?

    102 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  47. WeWork Cleans House, Looks to Trim Staff Close to Ex-CEO, Sell Private Jet

    102 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  48. Trump Will End California’s Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules

    102 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  49. Most Massive Neutron Star Ever Detected

    102 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  50. Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.3.1

    102 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  51. Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry

    102 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  52. How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid?

    102 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  53. Most Americans see catastrophic weather events worsening

    102 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  54. I’m Suing Lyft

    102 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  55. Natural Language in Python Using SpaCy: An Introduction

    102 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  56. Modern Script Loading

    102 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  57. Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx

    102 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  58. Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees

    102 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  59. Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"?

    102 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  60. Remote Code Execution in Firefox beyond Memory Corruptions

    102 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  61. Aardvark – Real-time graphics and visualization in F#

    101 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  62. DevOps Topologies

    101 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  63. How Steep Is That Sidewalk? A Digital Map for People with Disabilities

    101 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  64. The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades (2015)

    101 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  65. Jsonbox – A HTTP based JSON storage

    101 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  66. How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust?

    101 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  67. How Amazon Hooked America on Fast Delivery, Avoiding Responsibility for Crashes

    101 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  68. Black Blacker Than Vantablack

    101 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  69. Basecamp's Protest Google Ad

    101 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  70. Ruby One-Liners

    101 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  71. Mozilla Launches a VPN, Brings Back the Firefox Test Pilot Program

    101 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  72. Cobol Web Development

    101 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  73. The Great Public Market Reckoning

    101 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  74. How to Make Medieval Soap

    100 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  75. How two dead accounts allowed remote crash of any Instagram Android user

    100 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  76. The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism

    100 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  77. Flipping your Disk (1981)

    100 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  78. Immer is a library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++

    100 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  79. Repo companies have passively scanned & uploaded locations of 9B license plates

    100 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  80. The brain may actively forget during REM sleep

    100 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  81. Life in China Is Getting Harder With High Prices

    100 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  82. Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

    100 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  83. New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack

    99 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  84. Anatomy of a High-Performance Convolution

    99 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  85. Do we need to rethink what free software is?

    99 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  86. Ways to leak your data: apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system

    99 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  87. Understanding Foreign Interference [pdf]

    99 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  88. How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork

    99 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  89. Transformers 2.0: Deep interoperability between TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch

    99 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  90. The secret life of open source developers [video]

    99 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  91. Schism, a self-hosting Scheme to WebAssembly compiler

    99 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  92. Elasticsearch is a great example of a modern monolithic application

    99 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  93. Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more

    99 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  94. MegaBots calls it a day, puts fighting robot up for sale on eBay

    98 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  95. India’s Restaurants Rebel Against Food Delivery Apps

    98 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  96. Mapping Ancient Rome

    98 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  97. Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial Branch

    98 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  98. Games Economists Play

    98 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  99. Show HN: fast visual-inertial odometry/SLAM for AR/VR/Robotics

    98 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  100. An HTML attribute potentially worth $4.4M to Chipotle

    98 points • comment • sep 26, 2019