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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. The empathetic humanities have much to teach our adversarial culture

    68 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  2. WeWork Accepts SoftBank Takeover Offer

    68 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  3. I created the same app with React and Redux

    68 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  4. UK Government drops controversial 'porn blocker' plan

    68 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  5. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return

    67 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  6. Implementing a Network-Based Model of Epilepsy with Numpy and Numba

    67 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  7. WeWork founder will get $1.7B to let SoftBank take over his company

    67 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  8. Ask HN: We need a better alternative for Q/A than stackoverflow

    67 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  9. Never Use White Text on Black: Astygmatism and Conference Slides (2017)

    67 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  10. The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets

    67 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  11. How to Disagree Better [video]

    67 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  12. Turkey has begun attacking Syria

    67 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  13. Zuckerberg Hates Warren’s Plan to Break Up Facebook. She Doesn’t Care

    67 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  14. Natural Magick (1584)

    67 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  15. Cloudflare’s service’s questionable practices

    67 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  16. Monarch Butterflies Evolved to Eat Poison

    67 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  17. Norway's largest pension fund KLP exits oil sands companies

    67 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  18. What Happened to the West Village?

    67 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  19. No One Knows Why Humans Can Walk

    67 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  20. World's top banks pour $1.9T into fossil fuel financing since 2015

    67 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  21. We Prefer Coding Challenges

    67 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  22. A Nun’s 450-Year-Old ‘Last Supper’ Makes Its Museum Debut in Florence

    67 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  23. Cars All but Banned on One of Manhattan’s Busiest Streets

    67 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  24. Niklaus Wirth demos Lillith's Modula-2 debugger (1980) [video]

    66 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  25. Public-Health Puzzle: Young People Having Less Sex, Contracting More STDs

    66 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  26. Tesla Is Changing the Used Car Game

    66 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  27. Shackleton's Medical Kit (2012)

    66 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  28. Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels

    66 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  29. The Making of the American Gulag

    66 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  30. Show HN: Closest Volcano

    66 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  31. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris

    66 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  32. How UMAP Works

    66 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  33. Knative = Kubernetes Networking++

    66 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  34. Ludum Dare 45 gamejam starting soon

    66 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  35. Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

    66 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  36. The Shannon Limit (2010)

    66 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  37. Sixers fans say they were ejected from preseason game for 'Free Hong Kong' signs

    65 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  38. Launch HN: Multis (YC S19): online business bank account for cryptocurrency

    65 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  39. Beware of Automated Hiring

    65 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  40. Show HN: Serverless doc writing app built using Cloudflare Workers and KV Store

    65 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  41. How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States

    65 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  42. How BugHerd came back from the brink

    65 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  43. In the Halls of the Mountain Kings

    65 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  44. How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript

    65 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  45. Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

    65 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  46. “I was told to buy a software or lose my computer: I ignored it”

    65 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  47. Ivan Chisov

    65 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  48. New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black hole

    65 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  49. Detailed Agenda for a DDD Design-Level Event Storming

    65 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  50. The True Cost of a PhD: Giving Up a Family for Academia

    64 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  51. The Dream of New York's Forgotten Elevated Subway

    64 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  52. Is “Ass” the Most Complicated Word in English?

    64 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  53. Why Are Mountains So High? Mysterious Anomaly Exposes Limits of Theory

    64 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  54. Show HN: Monolinux – A tiny embedded Linux distro

    64 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  55. European Commission President Juncker tweets that a Brexit deal has been done

    64 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  56. South Park Scrubbed from Chinese Internet

    64 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  57. Two kernel mysteries and the most technical talk I've ever seen

    64 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  58. Amazon Ready to Pour Billions into Policing Products on Its Site

    64 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  59. AlphaStar: Grandmaster Level in StarCraft II

    64 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  60. Czech Trail Marking System (2006)

    64 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  61. Citizen Science Effort Seeks to Survey the Entire Great Barrier Reef

    64 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  62. Combining GNAT with LLVM

    64 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  63. Research continues to show health benefits of coffee, tea, and chocolate

    64 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  64. Knuth – Estimating the Efficiency of Backtrack Programs(1975) [pdf]

    64 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  65. SoftBank’s WeWork Bailout Draws Investor Concern

    64 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  66. How Randomness Can Arise from Determinism

    64 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  67. Boeing Pilot’s 2016 Worry on ‘Egregious’ Max Roils Jet’s Future

    63 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  68. Forget philanthropy. The super-rich should be paying proper taxes

    63 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  69. CVS turned a tobacco ban into a financial win

    63 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  70. New drug overcomes resistance in aggressive breast cancers

    63 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  71. The Moon made twice, at home

    63 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  72. Monica Cellio's account of losing her moderator status on Stack Exchange

    63 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  73. As Trump Administration Downplays Warming, Agencies Chronicle Climate Impacts

    63 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  74. I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator

    63 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  75. The Messy Consequences of the Golden State Killer Case

    63 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  76. Categories: Models of Models

    63 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  77. Ask HN: How do you organize and manage database migrations?

    63 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  78. Malaysian government plans to promote startups by becoming a venture capitalist

    63 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  79. Guides for Getting Started with Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and OpenCV

    63 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  80. Adam Neumann will determine WeWork's fate

    63 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  81. Losing Confidence in Quality: Unspoken Evolution of Computer Vision Services

    63 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  82. The American Corporation Is in Crisis

    63 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  83. Functional Fortran

    63 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  84. On Sitting Still in Nature

    62 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  85. Heavier Than Air (1930)

    62 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  86. Building a Simple Spectroscope (2016)

    62 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  87. Ode to skimming: On reading and our attention spans

    62 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  88. Getting started with regular expressions: An example

    62 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  89. Good design and type safety in Yahtzee

    62 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  90. EU says social platforms can be ordered to take down unlawful content worldwide

    62 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  91. Climate Change: Rail Companies Sign Up to Flight Shame Movement

    62 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  92. Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 50 years?

    62 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  93. Beyond Good and Evil (1886) [pdf]

    62 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  94. The link between middle-wage jobs, wage inequality, and worker welfare

    62 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  95. Water rabbits and logs: The nature of Sun Tzu’s war, reexamined

    62 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  96. Mark-1 The world’s first whole-body MRI Scanner

    62 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  97. Show HN: forthy2 – a higher level Forth-remix in C++

    62 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  98. IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust

    62 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  99. Evaluating the effectiveness of Google's “Testing on the Toilet” program [pdf]

    62 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  100. Learning to Simulate

    62 points • comment • oct 15, 2019