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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. Ask HN: Open-source voice assistants like Siri? Or can I build one on my own?

    42 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  2. Show HN: ExhibitDay

    42 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  3. US experts propose having AI control nuclear weapons

    42 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  4. Quake speedrun record broken after 17 years

    42 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  5. How the world will change as computers spread into everyday objects

    42 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  6. Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box

    42 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  7. SoftBank is asking for the WeWork IPO to be put on hold

    42 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  8. PyTorch – Tensor computation with strong GPU acceleration

    41 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  9. First fully functional 64-bit OS for the Raspberry Pi 4

    41 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  10. ‘Father is Surgeon,’ ‘1 mil pledge’: The Role of Money in USC Admissions

    41 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  11. Scaling in Lower Cost Locations

    41 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  12. Recession Already Grips Corners of U.S., Menacing Trump’s 2020 Bid

    41 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  13. A Unified Finite Strain Theory for Membranes and Ropes

    41 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  14. Show HN: A platform to share your side project

    41 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  15. Trucking 'bloodbath': 4,500 truck drivers lost jobs in August

    41 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  16. Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale

    41 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  17. The Use of Mercury by the First Emperor of China (2015)

    41 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  18. Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD (2010)

    41 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  19. A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man

    41 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  20. Tourists Heeding Utah’s ‘Mighty 5’ Campaign Overpower Moab

    41 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  21. Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud Is Not Always Safe

    40 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  22. Ultrasound can “see” when tumor cells turn genes on and off

    40 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  23. Humans can acquire TB from deer

    40 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  24. Toilet paper startups

    40 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  25. Intel to Launch Core I9-9900KS Next Month: 5 GHz on All Cores

    40 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  26. Great Noir Lives and Dies On Dialogue

    40 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  27. Sorry about Computer

    40 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  28. Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark (2017)

    40 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  29. An AI learned to play hide-and-seek. Strategies it came up with were astounding

    40 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  30. How kiteboarding was invented

    40 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  31. Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil

    40 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  32. A Frightened Optimist On The Future of Humanity

    40 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  33. Chef CEO Defends Contract with ICE

    40 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  34. Automated Reports with Jupyter Notebooks (Using Jupytext and Papermill)

    40 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  35. Candor, Bluntness, Impedance Matching

    40 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  36. Adventures in Curling

    40 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  37. ESA satellite dodges 'mega constellation'

    40 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  38. The economics, risk and ethics of time compression [pdf]

    40 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  39. PoisonTap (2016)

    39 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  40. SMT-COP: Defeating Side-Channel Attacks on Execution Units in SMT Processors

    39 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  41. Show HN: Packagr.app – a private package repository with security scanning

    39 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  42. Ask HN: YC company walked away with customer funds – alert YC?

    39 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  43. I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM

    39 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  44. WeWork’s List of Potential Conflicts Adds to Questions Ahead of IPO

    39 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  45. Enoki: Structured vectorization and differentiation on modern processors

    39 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  46. [Dupe] Richard Stallman Resigns from the FSF after Epstein Comments

    39 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  47. A high-performance, zero allocation, dynamic JSON Threat Protection in pure Go

    39 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  48. Reclaim Unreasonable Software

    39 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  49. Appreciating R: The Ease of Testing Linear Model Assumptions

    39 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  50. Exposing the Myth of Plastic Recycling

    39 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  51. Not a full timer

    39 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  52. Startups are using insect larvae to produce protein-rich animal feed

    39 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  53. Why Are American Houses So Big?

    39 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  54. Ask HN: How do you work with the fear of your own incompetence?

    39 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  55. Sosml: An Interpreter for Standard ML Written in TypeScript

    39 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  56. Historical speed of light measurements in southern California (2014)

    39 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  57. Girls’ advantage in reading explains gender gap in math-related fields

    39 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  58. Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications system

    39 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  59. In the Salary Race, Engineers Sprint but English Majors Endure

    38 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  60. Anatomy of a Coyote

    38 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  61. Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest ever

    38 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  62. Ask HN: How can I comply with GDPR as a solo founder?

    38 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  63. The Two Squares Puzzle

    38 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  64. Doctors say schools should not allow in children who are not vaccinated

    38 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  65. Icelandic farmers' secret ingredient: volcanoes

    38 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  66. Future Posthumous Autobiography

    38 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  67. Linux 5.4 Features Are Huge: ExFAT, New GPUs, Enabling Lots of New Hardware

    38 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  68. Stanford researchers find lead in turmeric

    38 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  69. Reinforcement Learning 10: Classic Games Case Study (2018) [video]

    38 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  70. Expert reaction to study on the clinical effectiveness of sertraline

    38 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  71. The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes, 1919

    38 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  72. More UFOs Than Ever Before

    38 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  73. How to Survive a Lightning Strike (2014)

    38 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  74. Where to park your car, according to math

    38 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  75. Fed cuts rates on 7-3 vote, gives mixed signals on next move

    38 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  76. Show HN: Choose a Word

    38 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  77. Kīlauea volcano eruption fosters algae bloom in North Pacific Ocean

    38 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  78. The Perfection of the Paper Clip (2012)

    38 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  79. Zelda Games on the Philips CD-i

    38 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  80. This place is pryson

    38 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  81. Private Internet Access VPN has been blocked in Hong Kong

    38 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  82. Hong Kong Students Boycott Classes on the First Day of the School Year

    38 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  83. “They Wanted Me Gone” – Edward Snowden New Book Interview

    38 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  84. People trying to save enough to retire by 40

    37 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  85. Ferroelectric RAM

    37 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  86. Using DynamoDB to Track Changes to DynamoDB

    37 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  87. Edwin Drake

    37 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  88. 'Red mercury': why does this strange myth persist?

    37 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  89. Pourquoi-Pas (1908)

    37 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  90. Physicists score double hit in LED research

    37 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  91. The divorce rate has fallen because the demographics of marriage have changed

    37 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  92. An Unholy Alliance Against Public Transit

    37 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  93. Common REST API mistakes and how to avoid them

    37 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  94. Spoofing emails: The trickery costing businesses billions

    37 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  95. NY Post's photo of Epstein has a 10k PGP key embedded

    37 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  96. xkcd: 562k Accounts breached according to haveibeenpwned

    37 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  97. Stellar just sent 100M Lumens (worth $5M USD) to 300k Keybase users

    37 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  98. SoundScape: An Interactive Music Visualizer and Beat Builder for the Web

    37 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  99. The Encyclopedia Reader (2016)

    37 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  100. Cover story: The curious case of a shared database

    36 points • comment • sep 09, 2019