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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Beating C with Futhark Running on GPU

    112 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

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

    112 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  3. Snake game made in Go

    112 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  4. Swift compiler driver rewritten in Swift

    112 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  5. A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (2016)

    112 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  6. Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Issue with 737 Max in 2016

    112 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  7. Qt for Android better than ever before

    111 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  8. Lyft No Longer Showing What Individual Passengers Pay on Trips

    111 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  9. Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (2017)

    111 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  10. Niantic's apps collect a surprising amount of data about where users go

    111 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  11. Offline-Pedia converts old televisions into Wikipedia readers (2018)

    111 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  12. Brex wants to replace startup bank accounts with Brex Cash

    111 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  13. I Worked at Capital One for 5 Years. How We Justified Piling Debt on the Poor

    111 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  14. Phantom – forward-thinking concept of OS that's not Linux-derived

    111 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  15. Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks (2018)

    110 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  16. Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times

    110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  17. Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

    110 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  18. People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct

    110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  19. Ask HN: Best language to share code between an Android and iOS app?

    110 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  20. Robots to Cut 200k U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says

    110 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  21. Show HN: Interactive visual solver for the traveling salesman problem

    110 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  22. The World's First 20-Hour Airline Flight

    110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  23. Dropbox CTO Resigns

    110 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  24. Please think architecture (2007)

    110 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  25. Causing ZFS corruption for fun, profit, and quality assurance

    109 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  26. Cell and Molecular Biology Animated Textbooks

    109 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  27. Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO

    109 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  28. GoodbyeDPI – Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker / Circumvention Utility

    109 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  29. Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013)

    109 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  30. Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

    109 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  31. Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands the threat of TikTok

    109 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  32. Solving a linear optimization problem on incentive allocation

    109 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  33. A military historian’s analysis of Spartan myth

    109 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  34. A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966)

    109 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  35. Pascal Compiler for the C64: Introducing Turbo Rascal SE

    109 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  36. Learning How to Prove: From the Coq Proof Assistant to Textbook Style

    108 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  37. Goodyear Inflatoplane

    108 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  38. TypeScript 3.7 Beta

    108 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  39. Thai Minister Orders Cafes, Restaurants to Collect Customers’ WiFi Data

    108 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  40. Lambda School is SV big bet on reinventing education but students say is a cult

    108 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  41. Show HN: Trip Planner – A tool for planning a trip itinerary using Google Maps

    107 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  42. Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites

    107 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  43. Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications

    107 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  44. Seizing the Means of Knowledge Production

    107 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  45. Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait for the next recession

    107 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  46. Record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement

    107 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  47. Back from the Blender Conference

    107 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  48. Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks

    107 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  49. The Acid Farmers

    107 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  50. Object-Oriented Programming and Essential State

    107 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  51. Fast HSV to RGB Conversion

    106 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  52. OpenAI's blog post about "solving the Rubik's cube" and what they actually did

    106 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  53. How to adopt an “openness” mindset at work

    106 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  54. Under-Investigated Fields

    106 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  55. What's Coming in Go 1.14 [slides]

    106 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  56. Devurls: A dev news aggregator that automatically pulls from multiple sources

    106 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  57. Bipolar-Zener Combo Takes On CMOS

    106 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  58. Static analysis of an unknown compression format (2012)

    106 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  59. OpenVMS: state of the x86 port

    106 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  60. The Ugliest C Feature: tgmath.h

    106 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  61. Why is Middle School so hard?

    106 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  62. Viktor Frankl: Why believe in others [video] (1972)

    105 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  63. Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992)

    105 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  64. The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor

    105 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  65. “Rule the Waves”: a game of naval strategy (2016)

    105 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  66. Dallas school district starts video game teams on 64 campuses

    105 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  67. J.S. Bach the Rebel: The subversive practice of a canonical composer

    105 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  68. Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere

    105 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  69. Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

    105 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  70. Show HN: Memos – Search engine for your screenshots and photos

    105 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  71. Ask HN: How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?

    105 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  72. Google Announces .new Domain Availability

    105 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  73. Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file?

    105 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  74. Why the NBA Apologized to China over Daryl Morey's Tweet About Hong Kong

    105 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  75. Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server

    105 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  76. Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stack

    104 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  77. Launch HN: zeroheight (YC S19) – UX design docs that stay up-to-date

    104 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  78. New Diagnostic Architecture Overview

    104 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  79. Boeing is facing fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane

    104 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  80. Online Map Leads Archaeologist to Maya Discovery

    104 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  81. Show HN: Transform Data Without Programming

    104 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  82. Yellowstone National Park’s Sound and Video Libraries

    104 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  83. A National Privacy Law Is Nowhere in Sight

    104 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  84. Google – polling like it's the 90s

    104 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  85. Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50

    104 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  86. How to force disgruntled worker not to publicly disclose “GPL'ed code”

    104 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  87. Attorneys say Elizabeth Holmes isn’t paying them

    104 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  88. The PDP-7 Where Unix Began

    104 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  89. Peter Ratcliffe's Nobel Prize Winning Study Was Rejected by Journal

    103 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  90. Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound

    103 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  91. What the Hell Was Modernism?

    103 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  92. Show HN: Eole, a Lévy-optimal lambda calculus evaluator written in Rust

    103 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  93. Math Breakthrough Speeds Supercomputer Simulations

    103 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  94. FAA says Boeing withheld ‘concerning’ messages about the 737 Max

    103 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  95. Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer

    103 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  96. Show HN: Mac toolbar app to show electricity cutoff schedule

    103 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  97. New ‘infrared vision’ technique can help with cancer immunotherapy

    103 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  98. Show HN: Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories

    103 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  99. New York's Strand bookstore fights back over landmark status

    103 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  100. Who does that server really serve? (2010)

    103 points • comment • oct 28, 2019