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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project

    246 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  2. Worms fail to thrive in soil containing microplastics: study

    246 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  3. My Talk at Microsoft

    246 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  4. The Rise of the Electric Scooter

    245 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  5. Web Development Simplified with Svelte

    245 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  6. Employer health plans are getting pricier and skimpier

    245 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  7. Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers'

    244 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  8. Little Alchemy 2

    244 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  9. The growing science of memory manipulation

    243 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  10. A guide to Oauth2

    243 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  11. Warcraft 3: Remastered Will Work with Old Custom Maps

    243 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  12. Facebook is trying to register BOOK as trademark in Europe

    242 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  13. What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video]

    242 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  14. The Awkward but Essential Art of Office Chitchat

    242 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  15. Rust in Large Organizations

    242 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  16. Six U.S. Cities Make the List of Most Surveilled Places in the World

    242 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  17. Another Interstellar Object Detected in the Solar System

    242 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  18. Homebrew removes MongoDB from core formulas

    241 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  19. How Do Developers Promote Open Source Projects?

    241 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  20. When TCP sockets refuse to die

    240 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  21. Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood

    240 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  22. New Mac Pro Tech Specs

    240 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  23. French city of Dunkirk tests out free transport

    240 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  24. Memcached 1.5.18 can now recover its cache between restarts

    239 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  25. Update from Chef

    238 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  26. Health system sues thousands of patients, seizes pay and puts liens on homes

    238 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  27. In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’

    238 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  28. Don't Let Congress Hand Patent Abusers Their Ultimate Wishlist

    238 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  29. Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents

    238 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  30. Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4

    237 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  31. Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration

    237 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  32. How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers

    237 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  33. WeWork CEO gives back $5.9M from 'We' trademark after criticism

    235 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  34. Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?

    235 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  35. Too Much Dark Money in Almonds

    235 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  36. Creating a Magical Videobooth for a Wedding

    235 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  37. Attempto Controlled English

    234 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  38. Building a Better Go Linker

    234 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  39. Ethiopia beats its goal and plants over 350M trees in 12 hours

    233 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  40. How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing

    233 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  41. What Is a Tech Company?

    233 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  42. Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures

    232 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  43. Ask HN: Good Remote Work Literature?

    232 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  44. Money as a System of Control (2017)

    232 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  45. Show HN: Instant, Self-Destructing Websites

    232 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  46. Yogababble

    232 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  47. Voidcall – Making of 13kb JavaScript RTS Game

    230 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  48. Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused

    230 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  49. Great products do less, but better

    229 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  50. Ask HN: Will getting a PhD lead to a more interesting life?

    229 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  51. Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students

    229 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  52. Show HN: A simple Unix-like operating system that runs Doom

    229 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  53. Uncomfortable AWS Truths

    228 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  54. A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’

    228 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  55. Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul

    228 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  56. String Lengths in Unicode

    227 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  57. The effects of Portal 2 and Lumosity on cognitive and noncognitive skills

    227 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  58. Reddit was down for over two hours

    227 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  59. Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide

    227 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  60. At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power

    227 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  61. Weighted blankets might ease insomnia and anxiety

    227 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  62. China's slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17.5-year low

    227 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  63. IBM introduces z15 mainframe

    225 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  64. Sally Floyd, who helped things run smoothly online, has died

    225 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  65. 600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias

    225 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  66. Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties

    225 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  67. Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to price per byte

    225 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  68. You're doing it wrong: B-heap 10x faster than binary heap (2010)

    224 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  69. Beginner's Guide to Linkers (2010)

    224 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  70. Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning

    224 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  71. Brain research on boys’ preference for video games and girls’ for social media

    224 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  72. Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?

    223 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  73. It’s not just p=0.048 vs. p=0.052

    223 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  74. Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a factor of about 3x

    223 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  75. Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?

    223 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  76. The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (2017)

    223 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  77. Show HN: Best of Show HN

    222 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  78. When I Took My Zipcar Into the Wilderness

    221 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  79. Git Blame-Someone-Else

    221 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  80. An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++

    221 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  81. Handshake: Decentralizing DNS to Improve the Security of the Internet

    220 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  82. Amazon AWS had a power failure, their backup generators failed

    219 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  83. Open offices are a dead end

    219 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  84. We asked three companies to recycle plastic and only one did

    218 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  85. China sows disinformation on Hong Kong using porn accounts on Twitter

    218 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  86. The exponential function is a miracle

    217 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  87. Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

    217 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  88. Being ‘Indistractable’

    217 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  89. Creating the Go Programming Language [audio]

    217 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  90. Unexpected cracking found on critical Boeing 737 Next Generation part

    217 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  91. How Apple's Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls

    216 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  92. Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa

    216 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  93. New Lithium Battery Design Eliminates Costly Cobalt and Nickel

    216 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  94. Sandstorm Oasis Is Shutting Down

    216 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  95. Dissatisfied with Docker

    216 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  96. Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers

    215 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  97. Linus’s rules on keeping Git history clean (2009)

    215 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  98. NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack [pdf]

    215 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  99. Ask HN: What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer?

    214 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  100. Build a 6502 Computer

    214 points • comment • sep 14, 2019