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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers

    123 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  2. CRISPR therapy may reverse autism gene mutation effects in mice: study

    122 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  3. Seattle looks to rein in state policy used to push back on big projects

    122 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  4. Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999)

    122 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  5. Show HN: USB PD Stand-Alone Sink Controller

    122 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  6. Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game

    122 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  7. I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

    122 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  8. Police blow up innocent man's home. No recompense, court rules

    122 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  9. James Mickens’ Tenure Announcement

    121 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  10. Social Networks That Failed

    121 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  11. Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila

    121 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  12. D at 20: Hits and Misses [pdf]

    121 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  13. Metamath Zero, a bootstrapping theorem prover

    120 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  14. A neural algorithm for similarity search (2017)

    120 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  15. F# RISC-V Instruction Set Formal Specification

    120 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  16. Machine and Deep Learning with OCaml Natively

    120 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  17. Google made large contributions to climate change deniers

    120 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  18. The Nobel Peace Prize 2019

    120 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  19. Cryptocurrency Startup School

    120 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  20. Cortex: Deploy machine learning models in production

    120 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  21. Spain jails Catalan separatist leaders, protesters take to streets

    120 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  22. “Dune” Endures (2013)

    120 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  23. Seam Carving

    120 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  24. Quintillion CEO’s Promise to Wire the Arctic Was $1B Scam

    120 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  25. Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (2007)

    119 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  26. Interpreting Go

    119 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  27. Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks?

    119 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  28. A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse

    119 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  29. From rags to Richer: A business success story built on treating people well

    119 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  30. Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB

    119 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  31. PG&E Outage Darkens Northern California Amid Wildfire Threat

    119 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  32. Show HN: MNML – 1v1 turn-based strategy game built with Rust and HTML5

    119 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  33. Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON

    119 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  34. Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize (2016)

    119 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  35. Lego logic gates and mechanical computing

    119 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  36. A dissident who beats up Tai Chi masters

    119 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  37. WeWork Needed a Bailout, But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire

    119 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  38. Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire from Fact-Checking

    118 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  39. Essential elements of good documentation

    118 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  40. IBM Responds to Google Claims: On “Quantum Supremacy”

    118 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  41. Alloy is a language for describing structures and a tool for exploring them

    118 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  42. Can Computers Prove Theorems?

    118 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  43. Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram

    117 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  44. Taiwan managed to build high-speed rail. Why can't California?

    117 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  45. High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (2017)

    117 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  46. Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world

    117 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  47. Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles

    117 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  48. Norilsk: Otherworldly Photos of an Arctic City

    117 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  49. Sudo vulnerability

    117 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  50. Fall Foliage Map and Nationwide Peak Leaf Forecast

    117 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  51. Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (2016)

    117 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  52. Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing

    117 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  53. Obscure Charges That Utility Companies Add to Bills

    117 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  54. Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor

    117 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  55. Video Architecture Search

    117 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  56. Massacre

    116 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  57. New Cars’ Pedestrian-Safety Features Fail in Deadliest Situations

    116 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  58. Dark color: Things to know about color when adopting dark mode

    116 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  59. E*Trade Announces $0 Base Commissions for Online Stock, ETF, and Options Trades

    116 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  60. A Virtual Museum of Soviet Everyday Life

    116 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  61. The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong

    116 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  62. Royal Society journals are free to access until Oct 27

    116 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  63. Fab in India: India is trying to create an indigenous chip-making industry

    116 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  64. Gio: Portable, Immediate Mode GUI in Go

    116 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  65. Online installment loans have taken the subprime market by storm

    116 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  66. Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch

    115 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  67. Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia

    115 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  68. Picolibc – Libc for Embedded Systems

    115 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  69. Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon

    115 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  70. Ackermann Steering Geometry

    114 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  71. Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs

    114 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  72. Lightning Strikes Twice as Much over Shipping Lanes

    114 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  73. China’s Millennials

    114 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  74. Docker Hub Registry is down

    114 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  75. EU data watchdog raises concerns over Microsoft contracts

    114 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  76. Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

    114 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  77. An Intern's Experience with Rust

    114 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  78. Monty Hall Problem

    114 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  79. DNS over HTTPS–What Is It and Why Do People Care? [pdf]

    114 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  80. The V language now compiles itself in 0.09 seconds

    114 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  81. A push gone wrong in the name of what, exactly?

    113 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  82. Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 Release

    113 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  83. Western firms kowtow to China's increasing economic clout

    113 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  84. Facebook and Speech

    113 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  85. Attempting to Use GNU Guix

    113 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  86. Journalist says CBP withheld passport until he agreed he writes ‘propaganda’

    113 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  87. Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?

    113 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  88. Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet

    113 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  89. High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet, but it won't reform itself

    113 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  90. WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms

    113 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  91. Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

    113 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  92. Perl is dying

    113 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  93. Node.js 13.0

    113 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  94. Planetary 'autopsies' indicate worlds like Earth common in the cosmos

    113 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  95. Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players

    113 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  96. Show HN: Glaze – Illustrations for Products and Presentations

    112 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  97. Swift compiler driver rewritten in Swift

    112 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  98. Super Mario Bros. game was just 31 Kilobytes. How's that possible?

    112 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  99. Cross-Laminated Timber

    112 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  100. Snake game made in Go

    112 points • comment • oct 31, 2019