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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. The state of Android updates is still dire

    136 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  2. After discovering he has at least 17 kids, man sues fertility clinic

    135 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  3. Thanks Gitlab

    135 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  4. Everything Is Private Equity Now

    135 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  5. Fish: A command line shell for the 90s

    135 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  6. The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release

    134 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  7. How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?

    134 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  8. No one working at Newsweek can tell me why it still exists

    134 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  9. California Blocks Police Body Cam Use of Face Recognition

    134 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  10. SiFive Announces First RISC-V OoO CPU Core

    134 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  11. Get Ready for New SameSite=None; Secure Cookie Settings

    134 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  12. String Diagrams for Linear Algebra

    133 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  13. Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets

    133 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  14. No XBL Components Left in Firefox

    133 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  15. The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars

    133 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  16. Trying to improve buffet lines using simulations

    133 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  17. Stańczyk

    133 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  18. Go Interfaces, the Tricky Parts

    133 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  19. Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia

    133 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  20. My own private Iceland

    133 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  21. Stupid Alexa Trick: Speaking French with a Horrible American Accent

    133 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  22. Machine learning in UK financial services

    133 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  23. Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think

    132 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  24. Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses'

    132 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  25. Hash tables

    132 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  26. UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system

    132 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  27. Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning

    132 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  28. The Walking Arm Trebuchet

    132 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  29. How Much Money Do Parking Lots Make?

    132 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  30. 7M Adobe Creative Cloud Accounts Exposed to the Public

    131 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  31. PuTTY 0.73

    131 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  32. Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack

    131 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  33. Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell

    131 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  34. Pigs recorded using tools

    131 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  35. Canada’s fossil fuel subsidies amount to $1,650 per Canadian

    130 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  36. Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Florida

    130 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  37. International Repair Day

    130 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  38. A Phone Company Run by Drug Traffickers

    130 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  39. Show HN: 8086/8088 assembler that runs over 8088 hardware with modern syntax

    130 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  40. Lessons Learned from Building an AI Writing App

    130 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  41. Monzo: How our security team handle secrets

    129 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  42. Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (2006)

    129 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  43. Nth commit must have commit hash with N leading zeros

    129 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  44. A History of Pizza

    129 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  45. Free for Developers

    129 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  46. Veterans want answers as new data shows rise in cancers over two decades of war

    129 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  47. DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH

    129 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  48. Engineers put Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge design to the test

    129 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  49. Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers

    129 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  50. Principal Component Analysis

    129 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  51. Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar Removed from Facebook

    128 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  52. Interview with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard

    128 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  53. Is Crispr the Next Antibiotic?

    128 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  54. Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming

    128 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  55. The Birth of Standard Error (2013)

    128 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  56. YouTube Regrets

    128 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  57. A fake town on Reddit where everybody knows your name

    127 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  58. $2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using It to Arrest People

    127 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  59. Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool

    127 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  60. Tilton

    127 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  61. IMO Grand Challenge

    127 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  62. Japanese KitKats Are Replacing Plastic Packaging with Origami Paper

    127 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  63. Early-career setback and future career impact

    126 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  64. Web Based Qt Design Viewer

    126 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  65. The Kindle is fine, but could’ve been much more

    126 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  66. SoftBank Seeking to Take Control of WeWork Through Financing Package

    126 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  67. My God, It’s Full of Dots

    126 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  68. The Necessity of Nuclear

    126 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  69. Artifact: What Went Wrong?

    125 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  70. We Never Paid for Journalism

    125 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  71. Internet Exchange Map

    125 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  72. Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house

    125 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  73. Vue.js v3 released (pre alpha)

    125 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  74. Someone is stealing Christopher Columbus letters

    125 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  75. Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims

    125 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  76. The Passion Economy and the Future of Work

    125 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  77. SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Speaks to an Almost Empty Room at Saudi Summit

    125 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  78. Why open hardware needs open software

    125 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  79. Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds

    125 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  80. Terror management theory

    125 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  81. AI Detects Heart Failure from One Heartbeat: Study

    125 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  82. Software Is Hard (2007)

    124 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  83. RISC V: A new blueprint for microprocessors challenges the industry’s giants

    124 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  84. ‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram

    124 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  85. DoNotPay app waits on hold for you

    124 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  86. Amish Counter Top Kitchen Appliances Run Off Compressed Air (2012)

    124 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  87. Mir Books

    124 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  88. Apache Arrow Flight: A Framework for Fast Data Transport

    124 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  89. Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters

    124 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  90. The myth of inevitable technological progress

    124 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  91. Drones flying in formation acting as a 3D display (2018)

    124 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  92. SpaCy v2.2

    124 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  93. Kim Peek

    123 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  94. Taboola and Outbrain are merging to create a clickbait giant

    123 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  95. Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1%

    123 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  96. Secrecy, overclassification, and the the CIA’s hidden history

    123 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  97. How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers

    123 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  98. Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [video]

    123 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  99. Unit 731

    123 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  100. If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire

    123 points • comment • oct 01, 2019