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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. Quietly another drug candidate disappears

    72 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  2. French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law

    72 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  3. Khashoggi children have received houses in Saudi Arabia and monthly payments

    72 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  4. Gatekeeper – Policy Controller for Kubernetes

    72 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  5. Making the Mind: Why we've misunderstood the nature-nurture debate (2003)

    72 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  6. The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup

    72 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  7. Ask HN: Resources for Learning about Databases

    72 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  8. Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars by InSight

    72 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  9. Mathematics as a Cultural Force

    72 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  10. Minimum unit pricing may have helped reduce alcohol-related deaths in Glasgow

    72 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  11. Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production

    72 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  12. Modern Applications at AWS

    72 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  13. College, Calculus, and the Problem with the SAT

    72 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  14. Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based database

    71 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  15. Venus’ Ocean of Air and Clouds

    71 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  16. Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble

    71 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  17. Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers

    71 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  18. Safari 13 Is Out

    71 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  19. What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves

    71 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  20. Andreessen Horowitz Returns Slip, According to Internal Data

    71 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  21. The Meritocracy Trap

    71 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  22. A bad cup of tea and the birth of modern statistics

    71 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  23. Reverse Engineering – The Golden Age of Computer Hacking (2018)

    71 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  24. Small world with high risks: a study of security threats in the NPM ecosystem

    71 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  25. Ask HN: Cons of Being on a Remote/Distributed Team?

    71 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  26. LED multiplexing layouts for hand-crafting

    71 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  27. Fine-Tuning GPT-2 from Human Preferences

    71 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  28. Ask HN: How did you prepare for being a first-time parent?

    71 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  29. New PDFex attack can exfiltrate data from encrypted PDF files

    71 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  30. Show HN: Making pro weather data free for Hurricane Dorian

    71 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  31. First Librem 5 Smartphones Are Shipping

    71 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  32. Waveglow Inference in CUDA C++

    71 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  33. The worrying state of Mediterranean fish stocks (2017)

    70 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  34. Mont Blanc: Glacier in danger of collapse, experts warn

    70 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  35. Anti-intellectualism in American Life

    70 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  36. Lingua::Romana::Perligata — Perl in Latin

    70 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  37. How streaming is changing songs

    70 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  38. OpenBSD Disabled DoH by Default in Firefox

    70 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  39. Should you buy your stock options when you quit?

    70 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  40. Rivals aim to document Facebook, Google strong-arming

    70 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  41. Xilinx FPGA Board for Arduino

    70 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  42. We need decentralized communication

    69 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  43. Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850k malware infections

    69 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  44. The Gradual Design System: How We Built Slack Kit

    69 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  45. Goodhart’s Law: Are Academic Metrics Being Gamed?

    69 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  46. How War Made the Cigarette

    69 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  47. Where Dollar Bills Come From

    69 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  48. Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs

    69 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  49. Show HN: Cherry2.0 – text classification without ML knowledge needed

    69 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  50. The Handshake Network wants to reinvent DNS

    68 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  51. A Low-Fare Loophole for International Travelers

    68 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  52. The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (1995)

    68 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  53. Orangutan with Human Rights Begins New Life in Florida

    68 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  54. Libraries Are Scanning Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain

    68 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  55. Representing and Editing JSON with Spreadsheets (2018)

    68 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  56. Former developer at software company deletes his code to protest its ties to ICE

    68 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  57. Climate capitalists have serious money in climate-friendly investments

    68 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  58. DOMPurify, Security in the DOM, and Why We Really Need Both [pdf]

    68 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  59. Why Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Epstein’s money

    68 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  60. The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (2013)

    68 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  61. Avoid 100vh on Mobile Web

    68 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  62. Please, My Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick

    68 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  63. Ask HN: Why does Google index pages I cannot access?

    68 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  64. Starship – a cross-shell prompt written in Rust

    68 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  65. Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC Approach, Integrated 5G

    67 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  66. I study collapsed civs. Here’s my advice for a climate change apocalypse

    67 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  67. I Have No Idea What “Hard Work” Means

    67 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  68. Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work

    67 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  69. Energy of the 229 Th nuclear clock transition

    67 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  70. A recent study of Harvard’s admissions practices

    67 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  71. The Inevitable Death of VMs: A Progress Report [pdf]

    67 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  72. An innovative approach to making electricity from the wind

    66 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  73. Houses are assets, not goods

    66 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  74. A Taxonomy of Moats

    66 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  75. SoftBank and WeWork Are as Bad as Each Other

    66 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  76. Coleslaw: Static Site Generator in Common Lisp

    66 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  77. Daimler stops developing internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars

    66 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  78. Lithium-ion test results to be used as benchmarks for new battery technologies

    66 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  79. Python is not context free (2012)

    66 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  80. Going beyond images with basic video for the web

    66 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  81. On the Leaked Google/NASA Quantum Supremacy Paper

    65 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  82. Ask HN: React Native or Flutter?

    65 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  83. GNU Wget2 1.99.2 (Beta)

    65 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  84. The Psychology of Serial Killer Movies

    65 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  85. President Tyler, born in 1790, still has two living grandsons (2018) [video]

    65 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  86. Andreessen Horowitz Returns Slip, According to Internal Data

    65 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  87. Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences

    65 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  88. Show HN: Quickly generate REST API (for Postgres db)

    65 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  89. Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace

    65 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  90. Extreme Light Intensities Using Optically Curved Relativistic Plasma Mirrors

    65 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  91. A Reflection on the Departure of RMS

    65 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  92. Acknowledging public sex changed how walkers interacted with Paris

    65 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  93. Conference Speakers, Check Your Egos

    65 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  94. SEC Charges Comscore Inc. and Former CEO with Accounting and Disclosure Fraud

    65 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  95. A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism

    65 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  96. I dropped out of MIT and started a new college in San Francisco, AMA

    65 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  97. Classroom Technology Doesn’t Make the Grade

    65 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  98. Preventing GPS spoofing is hard, but you can at least detect it

    65 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  99. Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors

    65 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  100. Z – A dynamic functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript

    64 points • comment • sep 13, 2019