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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. Shared Emotional States in Ravens

    79 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  2. Scientists Discover New Evidence of the Asteroid That Killed Off the Dinosaurs

    79 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  3. Create FreeBSD Current OpenStack Image on OVH Public Cloud

    79 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  4. Number theorist fears many proofs widely considered to be true are wrong

    79 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  5. Hong Kong protesters messing with the characters, part 2

    79 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  6. State employees authorized courthouse 'penetration,' records show

    79 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  7. The Crane Wife

    79 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  8. The Electoral College and the Knapsack Problem

    79 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  9. Python Is Eating the World

    79 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  10. Hard Times in Silicon Valley? Not for the Payments Startup Stripe

    78 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  11. Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “The Elephant’s Foot,” Is Still Lethal

    78 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  12. No-deal Brexit opponents defeat government

    78 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  13. Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix using a MIP solver

    78 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  14. U.S. Judges Admit Enhanced Interrogation Is Torture

    78 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  15. Trump strips California of power to set auto emission standards

    78 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  16. The Asymmetry of Internet Identity

    78 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  17. Google has secret webpages that feed your personal data to advertisers

    78 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  18. How the invention of the book changed how people read

    78 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  19. Greta Thunberg has done her science homework

    78 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  20. A Criminologist Accused of Cooking the Books

    78 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  21. Show HN: Beating the Turing Test

    78 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  22. Mesa 19.2

    78 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  23. Kickstarter Has Fired Two Union Organizers in 8 Days

    78 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  24. Spaceflight from the Backyard

    78 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  25. What the Apps That Bring Food to Your Door Mean for Delivery Workers

    77 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  26. Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird

    77 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  27. Continuous Compliance

    77 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  28. To Jupyter and Beyond: Interactive Data Science at Scale with OmniSci

    77 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  29. Will there ever be a cure for chronic pain?

    77 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  30. Are We Living in a Post-Happiness World?

    77 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  31. Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah

    77 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  32. Keybase and Stellar Partner on XLM Airdrop Worth $118M

    77 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  33. Radio Tecnico: How the Zetas Cartel Took over Mexico with Walkie-Talkies (2014)

    77 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  34. Mat Dan: 'I became an accidental celebrity 6,000 miles from home'

    77 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  35. Leadership Transition Announced for MIT Media Lab

    77 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  36. Apple’s New Map, Expansion #5: Northeast U.S.

    77 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  37. Whole Foods to cut health-care benefits for 1,900 part-time employees in 2020

    77 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  38. Cities Where Job Growth Is Outpacing New Homes

    77 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  39. The End of Moore’s Law and Faster General Purpose Computing, and a Road Forward [pdf]

    77 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  40. Super Wood (2018)

    76 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  41. Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims (2018)

    76 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  42. Small but significant improvements in Swift 5.1

    76 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  43. Illusions of Sound Perception

    76 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  44. The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi

    76 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  45. Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile (1992)

    76 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  46. Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard [pdf]

    76 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  47. How to Smell (2018)

    76 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  48. Arizona State Students from China Detained at LAX, Denied Entry to US

    76 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  49. Epstein Was a Known Sex Offender. Bezos, Musk and Brin Dined with Him Anyway

    76 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  50. Strike with the Band: The meritocratic failures of classical music

    76 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  51. More than half of the trees that grow only in Europe risk extinction, says IUCN

    76 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  52. Lee Bollinger: No, I won’t start spying on my foreign-born students

    76 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  53. Unbabel (YC W14) raises $60M Series C to become the world’s translation layer

    76 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  54. OpenBSD/loongson is still alive

    76 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  55. Snowden: Why I Decided Not To Delete My Old Internet Posts

    76 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  56. Why I'm Worried About the Repo Market

    76 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  57. Stu Ungar

    76 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  58. Stop Using Internet Explorer

    76 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  59. Buster Keaton and the Art of the Gag (2015) [video]

    76 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  60. The Urban Planning Behind America’s Weirdest McDonald’s

    75 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  61. Most of the Mind Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction

    75 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  62. New ways to make vertical farming stack up

    75 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  63. The End of the Roman Empire Wasn’t That Bad

    75 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  64. Show HN: Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees

    75 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  65. Make a healthy climate a legal right that extends to future generations

    75 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  66. Lambdas for C – sort of

    75 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  67. Full tech report of UK 9th August power outage

    75 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  68. Ask HN: What are some architectural decisions that improved your codebase?

    74 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  69. Mark Twain’s Quest to Bring Affordable Watches to the Masses

    74 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  70. Facebook Says It Has Suspended ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Apps

    74 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  71. Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals

    74 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  72. What’s Up with LIGO?

    74 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  73. The Intelligence of Plants

    74 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  74. A $60k Patrol Boat and a Single Deck Gun Changed the Course of Korean War

    74 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  75. Doubling the speed of std:uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library

    74 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  76. Analysis of Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back Atari ST Floppy Disks (2009)

    74 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  77. Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

    74 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  78. The Price of Self-Delusion

    74 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  79. Team closes in on “holy grail” of room temperature quantum computing chips

    74 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  80. Smalltalk-72 Instruction Manual (1976) [pdf]

    74 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  81. Psychiatric Diagnosis Found to Be “Scientifically Meaningless”

    74 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  82. Rust 1.38.0

    74 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  83. List of selected stars for navigation

    74 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  84. California bill will drive a national debate over how to reshape labor laws

    73 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  85. AES-GMAC-CTR (SIV)

    73 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  86. YouTuber charged fans $199 for ML course that copied other people's GitHub code

    73 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  87. Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

    73 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  88. Australia Will Join U.S. for 2024 Moon Mission, Mars Exploration

    73 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  89. APL Demonstration (1975) [video]

    73 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  90. Bullet charts – Avoid extraneous details in corporate presentations

    73 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  91. Malwarebytes Analysis of Checkm8 iOS Bootrom Exploit

    73 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  92. Pocket Casts Is Now Free

    73 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  93. How Did a Nissan Leaf Beat a Tesla Model S in a Race?

    73 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  94. Google Chrome Update Damages macOS File System

    73 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  95. PHPAlgorithms – PHP algorithm and data structure library

    73 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  96. Fires Globally Have Declined 25% Since 2003

    73 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  97. Transceivers: The Device Between the NIC and the Network

    73 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  98. iOS 13 bug grants third-party keyboards full access to iPhones

    72 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  99. Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings

    72 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  100. Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production

    72 points • comment • sep 07, 2019