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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

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

    103 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  2. Double Slit Experiment No Mystery

    103 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

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

    103 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  4. A Machine Learning Guide to Hierarchical Temporal Memory

    102 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  5. I Can Eat Glass

    102 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  6. U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea spillover

    101 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  7. Shenanigans in the Microkitchen

    101 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  8. Show HN: Passbox – Give access to your data only after you're dead

    101 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  9. Andrew Yang's ideas on automation and mass unemployment are not based in reality

    101 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  10. Green AI

    101 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  11. Show HN: Sparkler – A KVM-Based Virtual Machine Manager

    101 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  12. Lost transcription of Tale of Genji chapter found in Japanese storeroom

    101 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  13. Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (2016)

    101 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  14. Less than 6 hours of sleep a night linked to increased risk of early death

    100 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  15. The complicated ethics of Tesla’s Autopilot

    100 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  16. Lessons from Building Node Apps in Docker

    100 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  17. Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice

    100 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  18. India’s elephant-friendly tea garden

    100 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  19. An on-going conversion of Scoopex's Amiga Hardware coding tutorials into C

    100 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  20. The Cloud and Open Source

    100 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  21. Periodic Planar Three-Body Orbits

    100 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  22. Airbnb in the Himalayas

    99 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  23. Show HN: Tool I created to covert tabular data to a 'pretty' table

    99 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  24. YARA – A pattern-matching Swiss knife for malware researchers

    99 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  25. Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'

    99 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  26. Small Clojure Interpreter

    99 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  27. TU Delft researchers design new material by using Artificial Intelligence only

    99 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  28. Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell

    99 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  29. Show HN: A news aggregator for the Python community written in Python/Django

    99 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  30. The Beauty of COBOL (2018)

    99 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  31. Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue

    99 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  32. Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted

    99 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  33. U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran after Saudi oil attack: officials

    99 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  34. “May You Live in Interesting Times”

    99 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  35. Beating C with Dyalog APL

    99 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  36. Apple is not your friend

    98 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  37. Getting started with NodeGUI, a Qt-based library for desktop applications

    98 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  38. The Mail from Budapest (1993)

    97 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  39. Letting Bird’s scooters fly free

    97 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  40. Launch HN: Mutiny (YC S18) – Website Personalization for B2B Companies

    97 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  41. 47 Attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation

    97 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  42. Atari VCS Lead Architect Quits, Claims Six Months of Design Work Went Unpaid

    97 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  43. Guitar Machine

    97 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  44. Typhoon Lands in Japan – Windy Storm-Tracking Platform

    97 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  45. Number of Self-Published Titles Jumped 40% in 2018

    97 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  46. Apple IIa – ROM for the Apple IIe That Compiles Basic (2018)

    97 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  47. Ageing in human cells successfully reversed in the lab (2018)

    96 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  48. Rise of the Mathematicians

    96 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  49. Focused and Diffuse: Two Modes of Thinking

    96 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  50. Fantasy console on a console

    96 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  51. Show HN: A Gnus Back End for HN

    96 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  52. PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this weekend due to fire risk

    96 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  53. My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

    96 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  54. Widget-Maker – A Flutter UI Builder

    96 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  55. Highlights from “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande

    96 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  56. China Is Forcing Tech Companies to Choose Between Profits and Free Speech

    96 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  57. SiFive U8-Series Core IP

    96 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  58. Pernosco: Fast, Fun, Omniscient Debugging

    96 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  59. We Sold Pando

    96 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  60. Eight Tons of Punk

    96 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  61. My 2019 Mathematics a to Z: Linear Programming

    96 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  62. Show HN: React Hook Form – Simple Form Validation

    96 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  63. California Can Expect Blackouts for a Decade, Says PG&E CEO

    95 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  64. Google Announces Nest WiFi

    95 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  65. Enable Pages access control

    95 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  66. Scientists implant "memories" into bird brains to teach them songs

    95 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  67. Non-Green Plants (2013)

    95 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  68. Streamlit launches open-source machine learning application dev framework

    95 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  69. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019

    95 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  70. The Big Interception Flaw in the US-UK Cloud Act Agreement

    95 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  71. Return-oriented programming-based CSGO, BF3, BF4 cheat

    95 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  72. I'm a Google SWE that's coached 50 through the FAANG interview process. AMA

    95 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  73. Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive powers

    95 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  74. Most interesting mathematics mistake? (2009)

    95 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  75. Skydio: $1k Skydio 2 drone launch takes aim at DJI

    95 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  76. Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and no dependencies too)

    94 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  77. Why Palladium Is Suddenly a More Precious Metal

    94 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  78. How a social network could save democracy from deadlock

    94 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  79. Decorators in Go using embedded structs

    94 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  80. Dagen H: the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right (2018)

    94 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  81. Tim Cook’s internal email about HKmap

    94 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  82. A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer

    94 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  83. Heroes and Juniors: Increasing Engineering Team Velocity

    93 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  84. KeePassXC 2.5

    93 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  85. Zombie debts are hounding struggling Americans

    93 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  86. “Special register groups” invaded computer dictionaries for decades

    93 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  87. Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks

    93 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  88. Google gets OK to siphon water for South Carolina plant

    93 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  89. HamWAN: A modern, multi-megabit, IP-based, digital network for amateur radio use

    93 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  90. Jet fuel from thin air: Aviation's hope or hype?

    93 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  91. I tried to hack my insomnia

    93 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  92. Punishing Blizzard for anti-HK partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests

    93 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  93. USB-C Has Finally Come into Its Own

    93 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  94. Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro

    93 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  95. Launch HN: Carve (YC S19) – Rent Cars from Local Dealerships

    92 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  96. Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years

    92 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  97. Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?

    92 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  98. Show HN: New mind mapping tool for learners

    92 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  99. The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source (2015)

    92 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  100. The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft: Command, Data, and Attitude Control (2017)

    92 points • comment • oct 17, 2019