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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

    363 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  2. Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression?

    363 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  3. Common Systems Programming Optimizations and Tricks

    362 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  4. The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution?

    361 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  5. The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation

    360 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  6. Tesla Software Version 10.0

    360 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  7. Twitter exec for Middle East is also part-time British army 'psyops' officer

    359 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  8. Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor

    358 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  9. Stop Infinite Scrolling

    356 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  10. Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end?

    354 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  11. Troubles with the AWS web console

    354 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  12. India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon

    353 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  13. Keyhut POS: Free Point-of-Sale Software for DOS

    352 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  14. WeWTF, Part Deux

    349 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  15. A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

    346 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  16. Anti-union activity is heating up ahead of Google contractor's vote to unionize

    344 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  17. Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil

    344 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  18. Popcount CPU instruction

    344 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  19. Rx – Extensible pixel editor implemented in Rust, inspired by Vi

    343 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  20. Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs

    343 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  21. Raising Prices Is Hard

    342 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  22. Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads

    340 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  23. Tom Delonge’s UFO Research Center Is Making Politicians Demand Answers

    339 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  24. .su

    339 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  25. Fossil fuel divestment has ‘zero’ climate impact, says Bill Gates

    338 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  26. DeepFaceLab: A tool that utilizes ML to replace faces in videos

    337 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  27. Go 1.13 Release Notes

    337 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  28. Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes

    335 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  29. Reverse engineering a custom CPU from a single program

    334 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  30. Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier

    333 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  31. Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric

    332 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  32. NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B

    332 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  33. Show HN: I made a jobs board for developers without degrees

    331 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  34. PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

    331 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  35. CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads

    330 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  36. U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

    329 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  37. Lectures in Quantitative Economics with Python [pdf]

    329 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  38. A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)

    329 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  39. Malaria breakthrough as scientists find ‘highly effective’ way to kill parasite

    329 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  40. U.N. postal union clinches deal to keep U.S. in

    328 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  41. Pi-Hole 4.3.2

    328 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  42. Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

    327 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  43. Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Overflow CEO

    327 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  44. Firefox moving to 4 week releases

    327 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  45. China Grew Two Cotton Leaves on the Moon

    326 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  46. Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House

    326 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  47. Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights

    324 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  48. Neovim v0.4.0

    324 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  49. Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup

    323 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  50. Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction

    323 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  51. Science’s pirate queen

    323 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  52. Why is Rust slightly slower than C?

    323 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  53. USB4 Specification

    323 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  54. Irish Teenager Wins Global Science Award for Removing Microplastics from Water

    322 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  55. Google ML/AI Comic

    322 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  56. Checkm8 – Bootrom exploit for many iOS devices

    321 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  57. Show HN: Darklang

    320 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  58. The Saudis Are Lying About Their Oil Production?

    320 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  59. Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data from Scores of Companies

    319 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  60. Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times

    318 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  61. Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT

    318 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  62. WeWork CEO, Adam Neumann, Stepping Down Under Pressure

    315 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  63. Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity

    315 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  64. Apple Music Web Client

    315 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  65. AirSim: open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles

    314 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  66. Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament was unlawful, judges rule

    314 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  67. Building Interactive SSH Applications

    314 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  68. Eyewitnesses describe brutal beatings by HK police

    312 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  69. Project Naptha: Make Text in Browser Images Selectable

    312 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  70. China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans from leaving

    312 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  71. Asciicker – an online 3D game demo rendering to ASCII text

    311 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  72. Cormac McCarthy on how to write a science paper

    311 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  73. Show HN: RemoteMore – We connect developers with full-time remote jobs

    310 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  74. Favorite Interview Questions

    309 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  75. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)

    308 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  76. A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies

    308 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  77. Technical Breakdown of a new NES game written in Lisp

    307 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  78. Apple Watch Series 5

    306 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  79. The Secret History of Dune

    306 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  80. CSRF is really dead

    305 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  81. Hong Kong Exchanges Bids $39B to Take over London Stock Exchange

    305 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  82. From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out

    305 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  83. Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack

    303 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  84. Bulgaria is the world’s fastest-shrinking country

    303 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  85. LastPass bug leaks credentials from previous site

    303 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  86. Strengthening Congressional Independence from Corporate Lobbyists

    301 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  87. Brains are the last frontier of privacy

    300 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  88. Rudder, an open source Segment alternative

    300 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  89. Silicon Valley is one of the most polluted places in the country

    300 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  90. The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell

    299 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  91. Hacker Who Revealed Soccer Secrets Is Charged with 147 Crimes

    299 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  92. A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble

    299 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  93. The SR-71's predecessor used cesium-laced fuel to create radar-absorbing exhaust

    299 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  94. The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries

    298 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  95. Thomas Cook collapses, stranding 150k UK holidaymakers

    298 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  96. How Apple Kills Indie Developers

    298 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  97. TypeScript vs. ReasonML

    298 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  98. How to Cold Email Investors [video]

    298 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  99. Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found

    297 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  100. Why Ada Is the Language You Want to Be Programming Your Systems With

    296 points • comment • sep 10, 2019