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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees

    58 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  2. History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

    58 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  3. Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry

    58 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  4. Library Music

    58 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  5. APIs are the next big SaaS wave

    58 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  6. Dickmann's Autonomous Cars, 1980s [video]

    58 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  7. Alex Honnold's next summit: the rest of his life

    58 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  8. IBM 7030 Stretch

    58 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  9. Large Waterloo student rental companies get hacked over shady business practices

    58 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  10. London’s Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and Cafés

    57 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  11. You don’t have to be “pro-nuclear” or “anti-nuclear.”

    57 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  12. Leaked screenshots show how Apple's tracker tags might work

    57 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  13. Hundreds of Army PSYOP Specialists to be promoted this month

    57 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  14. Improving our homemade JavaScript obfuscator

    57 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  15. Emulating a PlayStation 1 (PSX) Entirely with C# and .NET

    57 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  16. Major Saudi Arabia oil facilities hit by Houthi drone strikes

    57 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  17. Who cares about functional programming?

    57 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  18. Dead Reckoning

    57 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  19. Maintaining the Kernel's Web of Trust

    57 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  20. A Prison Lifer Comes Home

    57 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  21. Train advice from the Man in Seat 61 How to travel by train worldwide

    57 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  22. Poland takes on more temporary foreign workers than USA and Germany – report

    57 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  23. 'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters

    57 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  24. Ask HN: Best ways to spend money towards climate efforts

    57 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  25. A Eulogy for Objective-C (2015)

    57 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  26. ImageNet Roulette

    57 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  27. New zine: HTTP: Learn your browser's language

    56 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  28. Ask HN: Is there any point in trying to clear your online footprint

    56 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  29. The Ancient World's Longest Underground Aqueduct (2009)

    56 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  30. Hong Kong Protestors Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block: Usage Up 3685%

    56 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  31. Ask HN: Which email software do you use on Linux?

    56 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  32. Draw your own circuits with liquid metal

    56 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  33. Top 500 supercomputers by processor family

    56 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  34. American Emergency Rooms Confront a Crisis of Violence

    56 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  35. Book Summary: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

    56 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  36. Hong Kong can be a gateway to liberal values for China

    56 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  37. Show HN: Segment Functions

    56 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  38. Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998)

    56 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  39. Impossible to fix vulnerability (giving root) to all iPhones from 4s to X

    56 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  40. Growing a SaaS: Avoid Confusing Dual Offers

    56 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  41. America’s aging population is leading to a doctor shortage crisis

    56 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  42. Public Suffix List Problems

    56 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  43. Pain Points of Web Development with WordPress

    56 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  44. Some doubts about human-centered design

    56 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  45. Woman treated by doctors after her blood turned blue

    56 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  46. GoodRx is coming for subscription prescription

    56 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  47. Bloomberg’s American Mall game (2018)

    56 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  48. The Lisp Curse by Rudolf Winestock (Again, Sorry)

    56 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  49. Ask HN: What are some of your recent failures?

    56 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  50. Django 3.0 alpha 1 released

    56 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  51. McCharge: McDonalds Is Now Charging EVs

    56 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  52. We Need More Doctors Who Are Scientists

    56 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  53. Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills? (2018)

    55 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  54. Uranium Chemistry (2008)

    55 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  55. Talking Is Throwing Fictional Worlds at One Another

    55 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  56. Health Insurance That Doesn’t Cover the Bills Has Flooded the Market

    55 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  57. Leaks in Persistent Memory

    55 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  58. The discovery of the ancient Greek city of Tenea

    55 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  59. Is There a Case for Skepticism of Psychedelic Therapy?

    55 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  60. HTTP/3 spin bit [pdf]

    55 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  61. Potemkin Village

    55 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  62. Stallman's final interview as FSF president

    55 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  63. Ask HN: Where is Julian Assange, what's happening to him now?

    55 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  64. Simjacker: SIM card flaw lets hackers hijack any phone by sending SMS

    55 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  65. Oracle’s Larry Ellison Calls Uber and WeWork ‘Almost Worthless’ – Barron's

    55 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  66. Why do we use word embeddings in NLP?

    54 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  67. Blue Peacock

    54 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  68. An ecologist who wants to map everything

    54 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  69. Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (2016)

    54 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  70. Almost one-fifth of Britons 'do not use internet'

    54 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  71. Show HN: Square Game

    54 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  72. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell

    54 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  73. A Better Lesson

    54 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  74. A maze puzzle hidden within an Atari 2600 video game

    54 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  75. It’s China’s World

    54 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  76. Google Has My Dead Grandpa’s Data and He Never Used the Internet

    54 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  77. “Stubs” in the .NET Runtime

    53 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  78. The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law has broadened

    53 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  79. Facebook to face fresh anti-trust investigation

    53 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  80. Substantial Rise in Catalytic Converter Thefts

    53 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  81. Low-Memory Neural Network Training: A Technical Report

    53 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  82. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze

    53 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  83. Interactive Hand Pose Estimation Using a Stretch-Sensing Soft Glove

    53 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  84. Binance.us opens for US customers today

    53 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  85. CIA Photo Taken Just Before Its Operatives First Entered Afghanistan After 9/11

    53 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  86. Economists don’t understand much about the macroeconomy

    53 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  87. How is the internet still obsessed with Myers-Briggs?

    53 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  88. Soul on wheels: How music for the roller rink impacted the club

    53 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  89. What Is Gradual Typing? (2009)

    53 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  90. French application of international rules to cyberwarfare

    53 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  91. The rights to Ms. Pac-Man are caught up in a messy legal battle

    53 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  92. Observations on Observability

    53 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  93. Debian 10 Buster: First impressions on a 2017 laptop with an M.2 NVMe SSD

    52 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  94. China’s internet warriors going to battle over Hong Kong

    52 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  95. Emergences: A Talk by Danny Hillis

    52 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  96. Town in Iceland Paints 3D Zebra Crosswalk to Slow Down Speeding Cars

    52 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  97. Semantic Validation in Rust

    52 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  98. Why No One Is Beating Tesla's Range

    52 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  99. Avoid Most Rebase Conflicts

    52 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  100. Stories About My Brother

    52 points • comment • sep 26, 2019