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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone

    57 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  2. A Counterintuitive Probability Game

    56 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  3. Why Richard Stallman Doesn’t Matter

    56 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  4. Routine glucose monitoring may be unnecessary for people with Type 2 diabetes

    56 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  5. A Navigator for America's Deadliest Cold War ICBM

    56 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  6. Beachheads and Obstacles

    56 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  7. CERN's Future Circular Collider (FCC) Conceptual Design Report [pdf]

    56 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  8. A Visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum

    56 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  9. The type of char + char

    56 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  10. WeWork Rivals Pitch to Win Back Market Share, Try Not to Gloat

    56 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  11. In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

    56 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  12. DeepSORT: Deep Learning to Track Custom Objects in a Video

    56 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  13. What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers

    56 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  14. Army War College paper predicts possible collapse of US military within 20 years

    56 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  15. How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries

    56 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  16. Erdogan Threatens Europe with New Wave of Refugees: Syria Update

    56 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  17. Google CEO says company genuinely struggling with employee trust

    56 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  18. The Audio Revolution

    56 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  19. If a tweet declares war, is it treason to take it down?

    55 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  20. Publishing on Medium, with the stats they don't make obvious

    55 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  21. Frank Lloyd Wright Loved to Hate New York

    55 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  22. A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's What Goes on Inside

    55 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  23. Southeastern Anatolia, minute by minute

    55 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  24. Zuckerberg threatens “major lawsuit” if Warren tries to break up Facebook

    55 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  25. AWS cross-AZ data transfer costs more than they tell you

    55 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  26. Clustering in R

    55 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  27. “Run from Adobe Creative Cloud”

    55 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  28. How Apple's Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustrating parents

    55 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  29. First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness

    55 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  30. Wazo Platform: build carrier-grade programmable IP communication infrastructures

    55 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  31. China introduces facial-recognition step to get new mobile number

    55 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  32. 404: Disney Scrubs Winnie the Pooh Off the Internet

    55 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  33. The MIT Dropouts Who Created Ms. Pac-Man (2017)

    55 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  34. Cable Company Fees Add $450 to Typical Annual Bill

    55 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  35. Columbia Silences Its Marching Band

    55 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  36. Recommendations from the first meeting of China’s urban policy unit in 38 years

    55 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  37. Mark Zuckerberg Has Quietly Advised Pete Buttigieg on Campaign Hires

    55 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  38. Going from macOS to Ubuntu

    55 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  39. Ask HN: What are your favorite Linux applications?

    55 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  40. The Slave of Seriousness

    54 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  41. Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing

    54 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  42. Scala: A software tool for microtonic, macrotonic and other alternative tunings

    54 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  43. WeTransfer Migrated to Stripe

    54 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  44. Show HN: A simple scheduler for running jobs on GPUs

    54 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  45. Naming and shaming companies who kowtow to Chinese censorship requests

    54 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  46. CME Group Statement on Vanity Fair Article

    54 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  47. Finetuning GPT-2 to Generate Beatles Lyrics

    54 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  48. GitHub Student Developer Pack

    54 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  49. Senators propose near-total ban on worker noncompete agreements

    54 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  50. Resilience is not a DIY endeavour

    54 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  51. TikTok famous: How the app is turning teenagers into celebrities

    54 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  52. The History of Medicinal Lithium

    54 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  53. I hate Xlib

    54 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  54. Stable Memory with Unstable Synapses

    54 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  55. Software Test Desiderata

    54 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  56. The Puzzles of Thermopylae

    54 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  57. Single malt Scotch whisky targeted by United States tariffs

    54 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  58. Ask HN: What Happened to GitHub's Atom?

    54 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  59. Can a Bit of Electricity Improve Your Brain?

    54 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  60. Association of Neurocognitive and Physical Function with Gait Speed in Midlife

    53 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  61. Erdogan threatens to flood Europe with refugees

    53 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  62. Conflicts in the GNU project now affect Guile

    53 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  63. San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless

    53 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  64. Climate and Unsheltered Homeless in the Continental United States

    53 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  65. GitHub’s latest security features

    53 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  66. Smart speaker system uses white noise to monitor infants' breathing

    53 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  67. Houston Rockets general manager apologises for Hong Kong protest tweet

    53 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  68. The “Strong Towns” Book Is Out Today

    53 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  69. Data Laced with History: Causal Trees and Operational CRDTs (2018)

    53 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  70. Detecting and Geolocating Jammers and Spoofers

    53 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  71. The Evolution of the Hard Hat

    53 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  72. A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England

    53 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  73. When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town

    53 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  74. Resilience Engineering Papers

    52 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  75. Xilinx Vitis and Vitis AI Software Development Platforms

    52 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  76. Microsoft Offers Windows 7 Extended Update Support to SMBs

    52 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  77. Mother finds acceptance for autistic son in Moncton's 'geek' community

    52 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  78. Quantum gold rush: private funding pouring into quantum startups

    52 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  79. PG&E Says It Could Impose Blackouts in California for a Decade

    52 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  80. Stop Using the Flesch-Kincaid Test

    52 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  81. Stones and Apples

    52 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  82. Dropbox Hires New CTO and GM

    52 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  83. Edison’s greatest invention was a way of thinking about technology

    52 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  84. Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis

    52 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  85. Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning

    52 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  86. WeWork postponed thousands of layoffs because it can't afford to pay severance

    52 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  87. Vulcain: A REST-Based Alternative to GraphQL

    52 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  88. StackOverflow's apology on the removal of a moderator(post not votable)

    52 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  89. What does it mean for a machine to “understand”?

    52 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  90. The Profitability Challenge for Challenger Banks

    52 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  91. Where do all the censored developers go?

    52 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  92. The Vexed Meaning of Equality in Gilded Age America

    52 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  93. SchemeBBS

    51 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  94. GCC's Assembler Syntax

    51 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  95. Germany's cyber-security agency recommends Firefox as most secure browser

    51 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  96. The Lure of Climate Entrepreneurism

    51 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  97. Penn Jillette’s Surprising Success as a Computer Columnist

    51 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  98. Boeing Engineer Complaint Cites Focus on Profit over Safety on 737 Max

    51 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  99. Steve Wozniak: 'I've given up' on Level 5

    51 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  100. British holidaymakers 'traumatised' after arrest at US border

    51 points • comment • oct 15, 2019