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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. Why Are Some Societies More Entrepreneurial than Others?

    152 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  2. Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for leaving games early

    152 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  3. Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

    150 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  4. Show HN: The Whole Code Catalog

    150 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  5. The Terraform Plugin for the Dominos Pizza Provider

    150 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  6. Most programmers don't know what Expect can do for them

    150 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  7. Data Structures Part 3: Arrays of Arrays

    150 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  8. Margrethe Vestager stays on as EU competition head in blow for tech giants

    150 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  9. Parasite SEO

    150 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  10. Sticky Footer

    150 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  11. WeWork, Bankers Have Discussed Laying Off One-Third of Workforce

    150 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  12. Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on the 405

    150 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  13. Edward Snowden says he would like to return home

    150 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  14. Skin cancer: Half of people surviving advanced melanoma

    150 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  15. Simple SFTP Hosting

    149 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  16. Trillion-dollar coin

    149 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  17. Square wants to be a bank but not be taxed like one

    149 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  18. Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics

    149 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  19. Universal Resume Template

    149 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  20. Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda

    149 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  21. The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway

    148 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  22. Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

    148 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  23. The Future of Mathematics? [pdf]

    148 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  24. The ancient world teemed with birds

    148 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  25. Good Code Design from Linux

    148 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  26. Review of Moneyland by Oliver Bullough (2018)

    148 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  27. I revoked $1M worth of EV certificates

    148 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  28. AWS Fargate Deep Dive

    148 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  29. Amazon Echo Buds

    147 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  30. Statement Regarding Repurchase Operations

    147 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  31. A Kubernetes/GKE mistake that cost me thousands of dollars

    146 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  32. Snowden calls on France’s Macron to grant him asylum

    146 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  33. NYC Subway is replacing printed maps with low-resolution digital maps

    146 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  34. The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella

    146 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  35. Show HN: A simple way to write standalone C programs for i386

    146 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  36. New games for the Atari Lynx

    146 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  37. India locates lander lost on final approach to moon

    145 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  38. Overstock Has Had a Wild Week

    145 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  39. Are black holes made of dark energy?

    145 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  40. Volkswagen unveils the ID.3, its first affordable long-range electric car

    144 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  41. What Happened to the Real Time Strategy Genre?

    144 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  42. NSA Official: We Need to Prepare for the Future of War

    144 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  43. Positional Scarcity

    144 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  44. For Sale: America’s Largest Private Grove of Giant Sequoias

    144 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  45. Now Streaming on YouTube: Confessions from a Presidential Hit Squad in Gambia

    144 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  46. McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs

    144 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  47. Slack Shared Channels

    144 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  48. Ask HN: What is key to good technical documentation?

    144 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  49. Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C

    143 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  50. The dude that built DudeRanch.com

    143 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  51. A nice app on Elm street

    143 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  52. X Window System Basics (2014)

    143 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  53. Rekursiv

    143 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  54. Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?

    143 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  55. A ‘Grass-Roots’ Campaign to Take Down Amazon Is Funded By Its Biggest Rivals

    143 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  56. Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towering Panopticon (2017)

    142 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  57. SQL Window Functions

    142 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  58. A Game That Made Rats Jump for Joy

    142 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  59. Generating natural-sounding synthetic speech using brain activity

    142 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  60. Test-driven development: A great idea hiding behind a terrible implementation?

    142 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  61. Cloudflare-sync – Tool for using Cloudflare as a dynamic DNS provider

    142 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  62. Show HN: Ansible Crash Course

    142 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  63. Keybase iOS Has a Backdoor

    142 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  64. The largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete, can power 1M homes

    142 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  65. Bounded Integer: Header-only C++ library replaces integers, adds explicit bounds

    141 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  66. Tethered Jailbreaks Are Back

    141 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  67. A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe

    141 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  68. Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding

    141 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  69. New micro-robots can break apart and remove biofilm or plaque from a tooth

    140 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  70. Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism

    140 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  71. Take a Look at the Crossrail Station Under Bond Street

    140 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  72. I Lost My $50k Twitter Username

    140 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  73. We Need a PBS for Social Media

    140 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  74. How U.S. Banks Took Over the World

    140 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  75. Suicide Data Reveal New Intervention Spots, Such as Motels and Animal Shelters

    139 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  76. At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds

    139 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  77. Squirrels listen in to birds' conversations as signal of safety

    139 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  78. Ask HN: Are available domain names still important when naming a company?

    139 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  79. Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Years

    139 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  80. Exim – remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges

    139 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  81. The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the remote workforce

    139 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  82. Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast

    139 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  83. Lego to open 160 new stores as other toy retailers suffer

    139 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  84. Neqo, an Implementation of QUIC Written in Rust

    138 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  85. Was Etsy too good to be true?

    138 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  86. TypeScript 3.7: The Biggest Features and How to Use Them

    138 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  87. U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than by burning coal

    138 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  88. The Psychology of Colour

    137 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  89. Parallelism in Crystal

    137 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  90. Show HN: Enter your URL and view CVEs affecting your stack over last 6 months

    137 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  91. Tesla has applied for a patent for a new electromagnetic windshield-wiper system

    137 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  92. Two California hikers found a family's message in a bottle and helped save them

    137 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  93. NanoLog – a nanosecond scale logging system for C++

    137 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  94. A Philosopher Reviews Judea Pearl's “The Book of Why”

    136 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  95. Four Column ASCII (2017)

    136 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  96. Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project, effective immediately

    136 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  97. Show HN: Rust Toolchain for iOS Bitcode

    136 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  98. Debugging WebAssembly outside of the browser

    136 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  99. Sanders wants to replace credit reporting companies with public credit registry

    136 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  100. Gombe Chimpanzee War

    135 points • comment • sep 09, 2019