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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

Facebook staff demand Zuckerberg limit lies in politcal ads
51 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
British holidaymakers 'traumatised' after arrest at US border
51 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
The economics of streaming is changing pop songs
51 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Our Positions
51 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
SchemeBBS
51 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
SpaceX just filed a request to run 30k more Starlink satellites in orbit
51 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Ubuntu 19.10
51 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Green Bank, WV, is home to a telescope that needs electromagnetic silence
51 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
China is destroying Uigher burial grounds
51 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
The Lure of Climate Entrepreneurism
51 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
GCC's Assembler Syntax
51 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
No Overview Available: A Survey of Apple Developer Documentation
51 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Ask HN: Which online communities do you hang out most on?
51 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Steve Wozniak: 'I've given up' on Level 5
51 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Decoding the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculator: Antikythera Mechanism
51 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Going Vegan Won’t Save the Planet
51 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Git Tricks: Avoiding merge when dealing with remote conflicts
51 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Boeing Engineer Complaint Cites Focus on Profit over Safety on 737 Max
51 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
50 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Fire shuts down cell towers in CA
50 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
A.S.M.R. boyfriend role-play
50 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
When Dickens Met Dostoevsky (2013)
50 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
50 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Abnormal String Hashing
50 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Neanderthalese: A Constructed Language for the 42nd Millennium BC
50 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
The Case for Eliminating Fines on Overdue Library Books
50 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze (2017)
50 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in Real-Time, even when offline
50 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
An Interview with Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer and Former Purism CTO
50 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
SF to Establish Office of Emerging Technology
50 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
The American System of Tipping Makes No Sense
50 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Decisions and Technical Leadership E-book [pdf]
50 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Show HN: See Google's Data on Real User Site Performance for Any Site
50 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
After deaths, Amazon lands on list of most dangerous employers
50 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Shining some light on the history of OS/2, Win9x and NT
50 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love
50 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
The Next Word: Where will predictive text take us?
50 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Fastest ants in world found in northern Sahara, researchers say
49 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
How the Co-Founder of Foursquare Tracks His Life
49 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
A Dumb TV for Consumers
49 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Analogue Pocket
49 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
BMW's Electric Strategy Makes No Sense
49 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Why Is Money in Asia Circles?
49 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
For the first time, workers are paying a higher tax rate than investors, owners
49 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Einstein Analytics and Go
49 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win
49 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Slack Workflow Builder
49 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
What randomisation can and cannot do
49 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
The Flying Crowbar (1990)
49 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?
49 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
A Unix System Implementation for System/370 (1978) [pdf]
49 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
The KeY Project
49 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Why Renaissance Paintings Aren't as Green as They Used to Be
49 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Trains reach record speed in Beijing-Zhangjiakou test run
49 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Windows Exploitation Tricks: Spoofing Named Pipe Client PID
49 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
49 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Ask HN: What products or services do you wish existed for your startup?
48 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
A simple file encryption tool and format
48 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say
48 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
A Guy on Reddit Turns $766 into $107,758 on Two Options Trades
48 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Avast Antivirus confirms it was hacked
48 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Docker Hub Two-Factor Authentication
48 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Primes and Knots [video]
48 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Researchers unearth 'iron dragon' of ancient Queensland outback
48 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Justice for Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman
48 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Potion Lang
48 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
“C is not how the computer works” can lead to inefficient code
48 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
CleanFlicks
48 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Undeclared Martial Law on the Streets of Hong Kong
48 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Why Fiber Is Vastly Superior to Cable and 5G
48 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
A Man Who Went to War with Canada
48 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Show HN: CloudBrowser – Free 30 Minute Internet Cafe for Secure Browsing
48 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Meetup.com payment changes coming soon
47 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
2 in 5 Canadians quit their jobs because of bad bosses
47 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Facebook should ban campaign ads
47 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Call Congress and Tell Them Not to Let a Quasi-Court Bankrupt Internet Users
47 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
What We Know The X-37B Was Up To During Its 780 Days In Space
47 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Secret Air Force Space Plane Lands After More Than 2 Years in Orbit
47 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language (2015)
47 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Millions of Android Phones Are Vulnerable to Israeli Surveillance Dealer Attack
47 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
More Intuitive Calculator Arithmetic (2018)
47 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
Hong Kong protests: NBA fans join anti-China display
47 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
The Troubling Economics of Food Halls
47 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
Reading your DVDs the RAW way (2007)
47 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Sublime Text Build 3211
47 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Calibrating your fear of big bad optimizing compilers
46 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Bohm Dialogue
46 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Qatar now so hot it has started air-conditioning the outdoors
46 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Coca-Cola Named Most Polluting Brand in Plastic Waste Audit
46 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Lifetime Earnings Are 40-50% Heritable
46 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Lessons from the first fully automated hotel
46 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
The Apple TV 4K has a debug Lightning connector hidden in the ethernet port
46 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
The Ties That Bind Facebook's Libra
46 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Tulsa Race Riot
46 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Chart.js 2.9
46 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Mind the Secret Bunker
46 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Getting started with Docker and Kubernetes
46 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
On Binary Search
46 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Whatever Happened to Steampunk?
46 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Study in mice explains how brain can turn pain signals up or down
46 points • comment • oct 16, 2019