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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. Glibc sysdeps: dl_platform detection effectively performs “cripple AMD”

    213 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  2. EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban

    213 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  3. Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?

    213 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  4. Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics

    212 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  5. The Highest Suicide Rate in the World

    212 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  6. The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving

    212 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  7. Why doesn’t anyone weep for Docker?

    211 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  8. Whatever happened to Six Sigma?

    211 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  9. Types for Python HTTP APIs

    211 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  10. End Software Patents (2007)

    211 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  11. Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable?

    210 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  12. Harvesting LinkedIn data for fun and profit

    210 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  13. Camera sales are falling sharply

    210 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  14. Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resistant to antibiotics

    210 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  15. Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms

    209 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  16. There are no adults in the room

    209 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  17. Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy with $10B plan to settle claims

    209 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  18. OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)

    208 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  19. Increased sedentary behaviour alters metabolism and body composition (2018)

    208 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  20. Absolute Scale Corrupts Absolutely

    207 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  21. An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is retracted

    207 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  22. Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones

    207 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  23. Be wary of functions which take several parameters of the same type

    207 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  24. Wag's new TOS charges users $1000 for going off Wag

    206 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  25. Clarifying ProtonMail and Huawei

    206 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  26. I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    205 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  27. Men Arrested at Courthouse Say They Were Sent to Test Its Security

    205 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  28. Spouse of Ring exec among lawmakers trying to weaken California privacy law

    205 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  29. Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)

    205 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  30. Facebook Horizon

    205 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  31. Tests show bootleg marijuana vapes tainted with hydrogen cyanide

    204 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  32. Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier

    204 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  33. Avoiding Intellectual Phase Lock

    204 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  34. Ristretto: A High Performance, Concurrent, Memory-Bound Go Cache

    204 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  35. Anxious tech workers are going to therapy

    203 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  36. Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes

    203 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  37. A man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyard (2016)

    202 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  38. Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering

    202 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  39. American Phrase Book

    202 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  40. A neural network to auto-complete your thoughts

    202 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  41. We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone

    201 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  42. How do managers get stuck? (2017)

    201 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  43. Metronomes in JavaScript

    200 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  44. End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditional dining car

    200 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  45. Centralised DoH is bad for privacy

    199 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  46. DRM Broke Its Promise

    199 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  47. S0lly's Cellivization – Civ 1 Clone in Excel

    199 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  48. Need a USB Cable? Build One

    198 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  49. Tree traversal without recursion: the tree as a state machine (2007)

    198 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  50. Why industry is going green on the quiet

    198 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  51. When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone

    197 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  52. Billiards Is a Good Game (1975)

    197 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  53. Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python

    197 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  54. Show HN: Ackee – Self-hosted website analytics

    197 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  55. Hong Kong tries and fails to hire PR firms to rebuild image

    197 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  56. The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control

    197 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  57. Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators

    197 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  58. iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs

    196 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  59. Warning: Implicit Backdoor

    196 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  60. AI competitions don’t produce useful models

    196 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  61. Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas

    196 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  62. On Sharding

    196 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  63. IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer

    196 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  64. Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy

    196 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  65. Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe’s Economy Running

    195 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  66. What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by oil wealth?

    195 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  67. China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx

    195 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  68. How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance

    195 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  69. Pre-built solar homes could make renewable energy almost 50% cheaper

    195 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  70. New productivity software startups

    195 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  71. Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes

    195 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  72. Pension funds may be wrecked in a future recession

    194 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  73. How the “Mail & Guardian” got taken down

    194 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  74. Tax Policy Gave Us White Claw

    193 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  75. Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers

    193 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  76. Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead

    193 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  77. Don't build growth teams

    193 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  78. Caesarean babies have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds

    193 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  79. Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions

    193 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  80. Anduril, a startup from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, now valued at $1B

    193 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  81. Don’t Trust Facebook with Your Love Life

    193 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  82. Bloomberg Misreports on Whatsapp Story

    193 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  83. Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against for Reporting Abuse

    192 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  84. Performance metrics for web apps

    192 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  85. Entropic Gravity

    192 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  86. Two Browsers Walked into a Scrollbar

    192 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  87. The Plot to Assassinate Orwell

    192 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  88. A Love Letter to Personal Websites

    192 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  89. Why Positive Cashflow Matters

    192 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  90. US takes 'richest nation on earth' crown from Switzerland

    191 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  91. Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)

    191 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  92. Is Stack Overflow allowing ads to use fingerprinting to track users?

    191 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  93. Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation

    190 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  94. Timeline for Logic, λ-Calculus, and Programming Language Theory (2012) [pdf]

    190 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  95. New York Uncovers $1B in Sackler Family Wire Transfers

    190 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  96. China Telecom's BGP Hijacking [pdf]

    190 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  97. Application Layering – A Pattern for Extensible Elixir Application Design

    189 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  98. Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning

    189 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  99. Linux Kernel 5.3

    189 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  100. The days are long but the decades are short (2015)

    188 points • comment • sep 07, 2019