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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Show HN: Deep Work Stats – How much time do you have for deep work?

    62 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  2. A Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein That Bill Gates Now ‘Regrets’

    62 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

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

    62 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

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

    62 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  5. Bank of the Underworld (2015)

    62 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  6. Oracle Says Co-CEO Mark Hurd Has Died

    62 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  7. HackPPL: A universal probabilistic programming language

    61 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  8. The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train

    61 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  9. Slog: Cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff

    61 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  10. Finding meteorites with 10cm NEXRAD weather radar

    61 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  11. Grise Fiord, Canada's most northerly community

    61 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  12. The long history of parents complaining about their kids’ homework

    61 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  13. Pathfinder's priority inversion problem, discovered and fixed on Mars (1998)

    61 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  14. The world is sitting on a $400T financial time bomb

    61 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  15. The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’

    61 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  16. Is Amazon Unstoppable?

    61 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  17. Open Sourcing Fuzz Testing Library for JavaScript/Node.js

    61 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  18. Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism

    61 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  19. Inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemporary UK population

    61 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  20. Ancient Greek Scroll's Hidden Contents Revealed Through Infrared Imaging

    61 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  21. Julian Assange extradition judge refuses request for delay

    61 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  22. Thailand judge shoots himself in court after criticising system

    61 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  23. Google clamps down on free storage

    61 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  24. Rob Pike on the reasons for Go’s success

    61 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  25. The Demise of Physical Comedy

    61 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  26. Farmers sue German government over climate change failures

    61 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  27. The Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius

    61 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  28. Scientists pinpoint neural activity's role in human longevity

    61 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  29. Engineers without borders, silos, and vendor walls

    60 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  30. The Google Antitrust Investigations – Learning from Germany’s Facebook Inquiry

    60 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  31. Timing Technology

    60 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  32. Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Marc Benioff

    60 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  33. Designing File Formats (2005)

    60 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  34. Ask HN: I want my tech lead's job

    60 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  35. Google removes Hong Kong protester role-playing app

    60 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  36. Climate change causes Australia to downgrade Great Barrier Reef′s outlook

    60 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  37. Rapatronic Camera

    60 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  38. Frugal Computing

    60 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  39. The Myth of 10,000 hours

    60 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  40. Toru Iwatani, 1986 Pac-Man Designer

    60 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  41. Leaked Zuckerberg audio: 'You go to the mat and you fight'

    60 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  42. At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms

    59 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  43. The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District

    59 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  44. History Is Written by the Losers (2016)

    59 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  45. The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads

    59 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  46. Teaching Ethics in Appalachia Taught Me About Bridging America’s Partisan Divide

    59 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  47. Ask HN: Do we need Google captcha?

    59 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  48. NYC Votes to Close Rikers Island

    59 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  49. California Live Fire Maps

    59 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  50. Ask HN: Do you post your email address publicly?

    59 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  51. War Elephants

    59 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  52. Minimal Wim

    59 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  53. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (October 2019)

    59 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  54. In-Memory-Only ELF Execution Without Tmpfs

    59 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  55. Show HN: ClearBrain (YC W18) – Automated Causal Analytics

    59 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  56. Pagers, faxes and cheques: Things that might seem obsolete, but aren't

    59 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  57. Show HN: Schema.org with GitHub and scripts: A tool to make data more useful

    59 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  58. WeWork's Adam Neumann will reportedly get a $1.7b deal to step down from board

    59 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  59. S3st: Stream data from multiple S3 objects directly into your terminal

    59 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  60. The Crash of Air Moorea Flight 1121: Analysis

    58 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  61. An Unexpected Character Replacement

    58 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  62. Andrew Yang proposes that your digital data be considered personal property

    58 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  63. We’re Entering the Era of Big Podcasting

    58 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  64. Python is not a great programming language

    58 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  65. Government Plans to Begin DNA Testing on Detained Immigrants

    58 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  66. How to change emotions with a word: study (2018)

    58 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  67. The Pioneering Maps of Alexander von Humboldt

    58 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  68. An antique audiotape was a dispatch from D-Day

    58 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  69. Libc++ 9.0.0 adds explicit support for WASI

    58 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  70. Improving maintenance of your Jenkins(file) pipelines

    58 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  71. Trees That Survived California Drought May Hold Clue to Climate Resilience

    58 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  72. Prewarming PostgreSQL I/O caches

    58 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  73. Space: A Major Legal Void

    58 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  74. When GoFundMe Gets Ugly

    58 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  75. U.N. Scientists Think They Can Halt Global Warming for $300B. Here's How

    58 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  76. Jackson Pollock's painting technique

    58 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  77. The Arrogance of the Anthropocene

    58 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  78. How Is Python 2 Supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux After 2020?

    58 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  79. IAU Statement on Satellite Constellations

    58 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  80. Six Nines in Pi

    57 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  81. The Qualified Manifesto on Hiring Software Developers

    57 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  82. Just 6% of US adults on Twitter account for 73% of political tweets

    57 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  83. The Computer as a Communication Device

    57 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  84. Statistics have lost their power (2017)

    57 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  85. Visualizing Airline Flight Characteristics Between SFO and JFK

    57 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  86. Terra Nullius

    57 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  87. CBP Agent Rams Vehicle into Videographer

    57 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  88. The Land and Expand Strategy for Reading

    57 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  89. On Authorship and Style (1860)

    57 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  90. Lifting the lid on Japan’s bento boxes

    57 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  91. Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting

    57 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  92. Logo 15-word challenge (1997)

    57 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  93. Insomnia is now part of Kong

    57 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  94. Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city

    57 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  95. Dnscrypt-proxy 2 – A flexible DNS proxy with support for encrypted DNS protocols

    57 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  96. Teleconsole: Share Your Unix Terminal

    57 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  97. Moving Beyond Types (2017)

    57 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  98. Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone

    57 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  99. Brian May completes stereoscopic 'devil cards' collection

    57 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  100. TREE vs. Graham’s Number [video]

    57 points • comment • oct 27, 2019