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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance

    148 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  2. No Radical Changes in GNU Project

    148 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  3. Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fees, study says

    148 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  4. Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew

    148 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  5. Equifax used 'admin' as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit

    148 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  6. Why Graphiti?

    148 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  7. New elevation data triple sea-level vulnerability rise estimates

    148 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  8. Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3

    148 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  9. Httpx: A Ruby HTTP library

    148 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  10. Driverless cars are stuck in a jam

    148 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  11. Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged at Elite Schools

    147 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  12. Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions

    147 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  13. GitHub and US Government Developers

    147 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  14. Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents

    147 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  15. Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations

    147 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  16. US set to impose tariffs on $7.5B of EU exports in Airbus row

    147 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  17. AWS Experiencing Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors

    147 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  18. How to Read “Gilgamesh”

    146 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  19. Apple Q4 Results

    146 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  20. Love Letter to Clojure

    146 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  21. From a life prison sentence to a computer engineering job

    146 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  22. FastSpark: A New Fast Native Implementation of Spark from Scratch

    146 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  23. Oxford Professor Is Accused of Selling Ancient Texts

    146 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  24. Show HN: Slouch Stoppah

    146 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  25. Why EdDSA held up better than ECDSA against Minerva

    146 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  26. Is Death Reversible?

    145 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  27. Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/children of alumni/donors

    145 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  28. ‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room

    145 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  29. Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit

    145 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  30. How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

    145 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  31. Mun Programming Language

    145 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  32. Show HN: Alt-tab-macos – Windows-style alt-tab on macOS

    145 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  33. Software projects written in Haskell

    144 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  34. Dark.fail: Is a darknet site online?

    144 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  35. On Recent Controversial Events

    144 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  36. The Wonders of the Suffix Tree Through the Lens of Ukkonen’s Algorithm

    144 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  37. NixOS 19.09

    144 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  38. New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms

    144 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  39. The myth of the teacher pay gap?

    144 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  40. Bhopal disaster

    144 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  41. I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator

    143 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  42. Swish: SWI Prolog Notebook

    143 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  43. Private firefighters go to work for California's wealthy

    143 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  44. Understanding the OWASP list

    143 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  45. VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback

    143 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  46. A new hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips

    143 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  47. WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

    143 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  48. Scientists create device that cuts desalination costs by 90%

    142 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  49. Microsoft announces dual-screen Surface Neo

    142 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  50. Igloo: A simple Windows automation tool

    142 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  51. When Chinese Employees Ask for Justice, Facebook Silence Their Voices

    142 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  52. Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads

    142 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  53. Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit

    142 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  54. Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (2017)

    141 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  55. An Introduction to Real-Time Subsurface Scattering

    141 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  56. Westworld (1973): the first film with CGI, and its source code (2017) [video]

    141 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  57. Telling Whiskey from Whisky

    141 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  58. The FBI Lost Our Son

    141 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  59. What it feels like to swim in sub-zero waters

    141 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  60. Men hold more positive attitudes towards ex-partners than women do

    141 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  61. Square Canada has a Cuban coffee issue

    141 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  62. Show HN: Small Clojure Interpreter

    141 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  63. Beijing Takes Aim at Prague After ‘One-China’ Dispute Deepens

    140 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  64. Photographing Big Waves at Mavericks

    140 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  65. Dex: A research language for array processing in the Haskell/ML family

    140 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  66. Using Deep Learning to Predict the Olfactory Properties of Molecules

    140 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  67. Zupiter: A Web-Based Modular Synthesizer

    140 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  68. Why async fn in traits are hard

    140 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  69. Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking

    140 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  70. Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video]

    140 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  71. A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)

    140 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  72. We May Not Have to Age So Fast

    140 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  73. The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top

    140 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  74. Tech giants have hijacked the web – Some innovators are developing new platforms

    139 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  75. Lua 5.4.0 beta

    139 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  76. Learn ClojureScript: Discovering Sequence Operations

    139 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  77. Solving the Wrong Problem (2011)

    139 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  78. BZFlag

    139 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  79. Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch

    139 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  80. The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor' (2018)

    138 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  81. Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on Git repositories

    138 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  82. Disney Is Placing Classic Fox Movies into Its Vault

    138 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  83. An Update on Plugin Security

    138 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  84. Skylon’s SABRE Engine Passes a Big Test

    138 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  85. Show HN: Micro CRM, a CRM for People Who Hate CRMs

    138 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  86. Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database

    138 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  87. Craftsmanship – The Alternative to the Four Hour Work Week Mindset (2018)

    138 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  88. Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf]

    137 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  89. Why are cars killing more pedestrians?

    137 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  90. A Landmark Climate Trial Turns on Whether Exxon Cooked the Books

    137 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  91. Open Libra: An open platform for financial inclusion

    137 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  92. Australia’s Darling River is running dry

    137 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  93. VxWorks now with C++17 and Rust support, alongside Ada and SPARK

    137 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  94. Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste, a Nobel winner suggests

    137 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  95. Google and Ambient Computing

    136 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  96. The state of Android updates is still dire

    136 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  97. Potatos are as effective as carbohydrate gels for prolonged cycling performance

    136 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  98. The Founding of Google Maps (2015)

    136 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  99. Show HN: SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down

    136 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  100. Monorepo or Multirepo? Role-Based Repositories

    136 points • comment • oct 12, 2019