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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

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

    92 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  2. Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables (2013)

    91 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  3. Debugging hidden memory leaks in Ruby

    91 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  4. Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball

    91 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  5. Why are adult daughters missing from ancient German cemeteries?

    91 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  6. On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm

    91 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  7. Parenting and Panic

    91 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  8. Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience

    91 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  9. The 5 foot ground rod and its use in the National Electric Code (2018)

    91 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  10. Fibers aren’t useful for much any more

    91 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  11. Amazon Plans $800M Data Center in Argentina

    91 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  12. Show HN: Make a video of any word forming out of candy

    91 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  13. iPadOS Discoverability Trouble

    91 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  14. Go Is the New Ruby

    90 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  15. Wisconsin's Foxconn Boondoggle Is Getting Worse

    90 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  16. The Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie (2012) [pdf]

    90 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  17. The Ever-Present Glow of LED Greenhouses

    90 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  18. Highlight negative results to improve science

    90 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  19. Startup options are better than they look (2017)

    90 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  20. MVPs and $100k AWS Bills: Reflections on our launch

    90 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  21. Diagnosing the Steel Failure in the SF Transit Center

    90 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  22. Show HN: Policy_sentry, an AWS IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator

    90 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  23. Man wins French Scrabble championship without speaking a word of French (2015)

    90 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  24. Whales Keep Carbon out of the Atmosphere (2017)

    90 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  25. Giant Molecules Exist in Two Places at Once in Quantum Experiment

    89 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  26. Offshore wind to become a $1T industry

    89 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  27. Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool

    89 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  28. Protests in Catalonia against referendum trial verdict

    89 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  29. 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V. in Pakistani city of Ratodero

    89 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  30. Xi Jinping's daughter has returned to US to resume studies at Harvard

    89 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  31. Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions in sudo

    89 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  32. Effects of acute wild blueberry supplementation on the cognition of children

    89 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  33. Cyber memo warns of new risks to White House network

    89 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  34. Egypt uncovers 'huge cache' of ancient sealed coffins

    89 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  35. Hundreds shot and beaten as Chile takes to the streets

    89 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  36. $100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home

    89 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  37. The IT revolution and southern Europe's two lost decades

    89 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  38. College admissions officers rank prospective students before they apply

    89 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  39. A historian's critique of popular conceptions of witchcraft

    89 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  40. On the way to being the most downvoted post ever on StackOverflow:Meta

    89 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  41. ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer

    89 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  42. Dietlibc – a Libc optimized for small size

    88 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  43. Show HN: CyberWeb – Building a Web Browser from Scratch on Windows 2000 [video]

    88 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  44. Battle to wipe out debilitating Guinea worm parasite hits 10 year delay

    88 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  45. HAMR – 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image

    88 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  46. Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open source developers

    88 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  47. A Prenup Is the Latest Must-Have for Tech Startup Founders in Love

    88 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  48. Recent advances in 3D content understanding

    88 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  49. Creativity is bad for UI design (2018)

    88 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  50. The Decline of Stack Overflow

    88 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  51. Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (2005)

    88 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  52. ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days

    88 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  53. K-means clustering using sklearn and Python

    88 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  54. Computational survivalist

    87 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  55. Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

    87 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  56. A New Aristocracy: Yale Law School Commencement Address (2015) [pdf]

    87 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  57. Ask HN: How do you build applications that require zero maintenance?

    87 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  58. Sunset Geometry (2016)

    87 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  59. Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium

    87 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  60. Bill Clinton and American Financiers Armed China

    87 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  61. Notice of Retraction due to a programming error

    87 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  62. Why printk() is so complicated, and how to fix it

    87 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  63. China’s Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears

    87 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  64. Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm

    87 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  65. Evidence of market manipulation on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange?

    87 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  66. A U.S. Citizen Was Detained While Trying to Pay for a Gift for His Daughter

    86 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  67. Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available

    86 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  68. Computational Photography with Luminar 4

    86 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  69. Joint Statement on the GNU Project

    86 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  70. #Script Lisp

    86 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  71. What S.M.A.R.T Stats Can Tell You About a Business

    86 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  72. Tall Buildings of the Last Fifty Years

    86 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  73. CVE-2019-14287: Sudo Bug Allows Restricted Users to Run Commands as Root

    86 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  74. XMPP: A Communication Protocol for the Internet of Things

    86 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  75. Show HN: Easy Serverless GraphQL APIs with Serverless Framework AppSync

    86 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  76. Show HN: Layoffs.at – helping people laid off find work

    86 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  77. Managing by Outcomes

    86 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  78. Function Currying in Go

    86 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  79. Show HN: Webwide – a discussion community for web designers, devs and makers

    86 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  80. The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people

    86 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  81. NBA commissioner Silver says Chinese government asked him to fire Rockets GM

    86 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  82. What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1

    85 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  83. Blizzard Removes Mei Statue from Gear Shop as Hong Kong Embraces Her as Mascot

    85 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  84. Robel: Robotics Benchmarks for Learning with Low-Cost Robots

    85 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  85. A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket Launchers

    85 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  86. Remote war is bad war

    85 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  87. Dog Ownership and Survival

    85 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  88. NHS opens clinic to help child addicts of computer games

    85 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  89. Morpheus: A Vulnerability-Tolerant Secure Architecture [pdf]

    85 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  90. Notre Dame: a blow-by-blow account of the restoration process

    85 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  91. The Catch-22 of Building a Business on Apple’s APIs

    85 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  92. You may never see Studio Ghibli’s movies on streaming services

    85 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  93. Ask HN: Does old concrete reveal information about air quality?

    85 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  94. Show HN: A New Tool to Understand and Visualize the News

    84 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  95. AndOTP Removed from the Google Play Store Due to Donation Link

    84 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  96. ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria

    84 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  97. When Introverts Act Like Extraverts (and Vice Versa)

    84 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  98. Ivan Sutherland: 6 Legged Walker: CMU 1982 and 1983 [video]

    84 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  99. The 2018 Olympics Cyberattack

    84 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  100. LoCHAid – An ultra-low-cost, affordable and accessible hearing aid device

    84 points • comment • oct 21, 2019