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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. ‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’

    295 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  2. LLVM 9.0

    294 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  3. Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash (2001)

    294 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  4. HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future

    293 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  5. WeWork Parent Weighs Slashing Its Valuation in Half

    293 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  6. How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters

    292 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  7. Cash/Consent: The war on sex work

    292 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  8. The Riemann Hypothesis

    292 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  9. ORMs Are Backwards

    289 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  10. You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face

    288 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  11. Show HN: Array with Constant Time Access and Fast Insertion and Deletion

    287 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  12. The more you learn, the faster you can learn

    287 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  13. New Query Language for Graph Databases to Become International Standard

    287 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  14. Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

    286 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  15. How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?

    286 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  16. Four common mistakes in audio development (2016)

    285 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  17. Ban kids from loot box gambling in games

    285 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  18. Maturity

    285 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  19. Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

    284 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  20. No, it wasn’t a virus; it was Chrome that stopped Macs from booting

    283 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  21. Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week

    283 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  22. CA Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes to Profit from Endorsements

    283 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  23. Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns

    281 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  24. Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft

    279 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  25. Building a Dark Web Crawler in Go

    279 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  26. Open-Source Seeds

    279 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  27. What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?

    276 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  28. NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014)

    276 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  29. Show HN: Shiori v1.5 – Self hosted bookmarks manager, now with archival support

    276 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  30. Ways to Tweak Slow SQL Queries

    276 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  31. Google collects face data now – what it means and how to opt out

    274 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  32. Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf]

    274 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  33. To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight

    273 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  34. Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)

    273 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  35. Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them

    273 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  36. Charts show how little progress has been made in limiting greenhouse emissions

    273 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  37. Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance

    273 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  38. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 32-core CPU is more bad news for Intel

    272 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  39. Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

    272 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  40. Sorry, we can't join your Slack

    272 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  41. Fairphone 3 Teardown

    271 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  42. Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2007)

    271 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  43. Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day

    269 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  44. PineTime Is a $25 Smartwatch / Companion for PinePhone Linux Phone

    269 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  45. Spam in Your Calendar? Here’s What to Do

    268 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  46. EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed

    268 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  47. Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness

    267 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  48. The One Man MMO Project

    267 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  49. Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs, a startup for controlling computers with the mind

    267 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  50. Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded

    266 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  51. The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)

    266 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  52. The Myth of the Wealthy Welder

    265 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  53. Simple words that save lives: lessons from “expert talkers”

    264 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  54. WebGPU and WSL in Safari

    264 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  55. Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ

    263 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  56. Learn Just a Little Awk (2010)

    263 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  57. Interview with Edward Snowden

    263 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  58. Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++

    263 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  59. United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden

    262 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  60. DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer

    262 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  61. How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (2017)

    261 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  62. How the UK Security Services neutralised The Guardian

    261 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  63. Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster

    261 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  64. South African authorities admit to mass surveillance

    260 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  65. America’s New Sex Bureaucracy

    260 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  66. Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language

    260 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  67. Crafting Interpreters: Closures

    260 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  68. Unencrypted patient medical information is being broadcast across Vancouver

    259 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  69. Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

    259 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  70. NLP's Clever Hans Moment Has Arrived

    258 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  71. Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data

    258 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  72. Forever 21, Which Helped Popularize Fast Fashion, to File for Bankruptcy

    257 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  73. Drilling open a smart door lock in 4 seconds

    257 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  74. Three Tribes of Programming (2017)

    256 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  75. OpenBSD was right to disable hyperthreading [video]

    255 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  76. Against Against Pseudoaddiction

    254 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  77. Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool, free project management platform

    253 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  78. Physicists finally nail the proton’s size, eliminating an anomaly

    253 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  79. Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline in Just Two Months

    253 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  80. Google to stop showing news snippets for French users

    253 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  81. Culture Fit Interview Questions

    253 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  82. Gaussian Processes, not quite for dummies

    253 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  83. Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in the U.S.

    252 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  84. US Files Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden for Violation of CIA and NSA NDAs

    252 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  85. I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015)

    251 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  86. Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?

    250 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  87. Functor, Applicative, and Monad

    250 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  88. Enabling developers and organizations to use differential privacy

    250 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  89. Welcoming Semmle to GitHub

    250 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  90. An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

    249 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  91. SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips

    249 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  92. Show HN: Face Generator

    249 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  93. Escher-Like Spiral Tilings

    249 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  94. Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

    248 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  95. Uber stopped its own investigators from reporting crimes to the police

    248 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  96. Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed

    248 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  97. The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

    247 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  98. Going Fast Slowly

    247 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  99. Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1M miles

    247 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  100. Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project

    246 points • comment • sep 27, 2019