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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Mu: A Human Scale Computer

    46 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  2. Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility

    46 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  3. The Ties That Bind Facebook's Libra

    46 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  4. Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes

    46 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  5. Physicists searching for dark matter using lead from the bottom of the sea

    45 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  6. KDE Plasma Mobile weekly update: part 2

    45 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  7. Qantas launches inspection blitz after cracks found on Boeing 737 jet

    45 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  8. Ask HN: What happens after no-deal Brexit?

    45 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  9. Legitimate-Ish Use of Alloca()

    45 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  10. A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong

    45 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  11. Nobel Prize: Lithium Ion Battery Creators Led a Revolution

    45 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  12. Engineering a Sort Function (1993) [pdf]

    45 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  13. Why We're Drawn into Darkness

    45 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  14. The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Performance, Battery, Camera

    45 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  15. How I went from stay-at-home-mum to landing my first web developer job

    45 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  16. Postmates’ new IPO delay indicates Wall Street is turning against Silicon Valley

    45 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  17. A Scheduler for the Internet

    45 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  18. Beware of Cranks: Misguided attempts to solve impossible mathematical problems

    45 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  19. What costs are exponentially dropping?

    45 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  20. Catalonia protestors use distributed network to securely organize protests

    45 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  21. Abandoning a Cat

    45 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  22. Lion-Man

    45 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  23. The collapse of Dyson's electric car dream

    45 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  24. Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

    45 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  25. Adult Day Cares in the Rio Grande Valley

    45 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  26. Happy 15th Birthday, Ubuntu

    45 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  27. Sun Belt Cities Are Dangerous Places to Walk

    44 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  28. Tesla, in SEC filing, says U.S. auto sales fell by $2B

    44 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  29. Zuckerberg asserts Facebook stands for free expression

    44 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  30. A Sleeping Disorder That Turns Life into a Waking Dream

    44 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  31. Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts on Microsoft’s New-Found Love for Linux

    44 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  32. On the Design of Display Processors (1968) [pdf]

    44 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  33. They Published the Perished: NYRB Classics puts masterpieces back in print

    44 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  34. Ask HN: Would you switch to a 4-day-a-week schedule if you could?

    44 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  35. A little SSH file copy magic at the command line

    44 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  36. Pro (noun.), abbreviation of Professional: born 1798, died 2019, aged 221

    44 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  37. Apple Removes Quartz News App from Chinese App Store

    44 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  38. Creators Say They’ve Cracked YouTube’s Monetization Algorithm

    44 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  39. Real-space charge-density imaging with sub-angstrom resolution

    44 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  40. The lies I told for insurance companies about 'Medicare for All' worked

    44 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  41. Drivers are killing pedestrians at highest rate in almost 30 years

    44 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  42. The Modular PC: Intel’s New Element Brings Project Christine to Life

    44 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  43. Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the US, 1979-2016

    44 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  44. Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and how the world looked the other way

    44 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  45. Android’s messaging mess is about to get even worse?

    44 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  46. The Origin of the Foot Rail

    44 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  47. Show HN: C++ Implementation of the Paper Median Filter in Constant Time

    44 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  48. Notepad++ 7.8.1 Release “free-uyghur-edition”

    44 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  49. Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal

    43 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  50. Show HN: Managed UniFi Controller Hosting

    43 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  51. The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies (2012)

    43 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  52. Whois++

    43 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  53. Ask HN: I'm losing faith in all we've invested in Apple software, what do I do?

    43 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  54. Game Boy SoC (DMG-CPU) reverse-engineered from the die photos

    43 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  55. Her iPhone died. It led to her being charged as a criminal

    43 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  56. Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, University of Oxford

    43 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  57. How to not get scammed hiring remote freelancers on Upwork

    43 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  58. What Is the “Length” of a String?

    43 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  59. Tesla’s Summon-Your-Car Feature Spurs U.S. Safety Inquiry

    43 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  60. She Heard Her Brain in Action (2013)

    43 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  61. Ask HN: How do you move up in professional status as a remote worker?

    43 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  62. The Dark Side of Light

    43 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  63. Rules of the Tribe: Hardcore Punks and Hair Metal in the 1980s (2013)

    43 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  64. Show HN: Opal implementation of a simple server with Express and Socket.io

    43 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  65. Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test

    43 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  66. Show HN: You will die in X weeks

    43 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  67. Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor

    43 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  68. Iraq army fire on unarmed civilians protesting(video, graphic)

    43 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  69. The Rosie Pattern Language

    43 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  70. UK govt considering facial recognition to verify age of online users

    43 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  71. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says league will not apologize to China

    43 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  72. Robots Are Catching Up to Humans in the Jobs Race

    42 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  73. AT&T Hikes Online-TV Prices Up to 30% in Second Boost This Year

    42 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  74. China’s Youth Are Caught in the Cult of Nationalism

    42 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  75. A Beginner's Guide to Deep Reinforcement Learning

    42 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  76. The Private Life of Lord Byron

    42 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  77. Why the Novel Matters

    42 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  78. The Structure of DNA

    42 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  79. In 1964 a Band of Surfer Dudes Pulled Off New York’s Biggest Jewel Heist

    42 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  80. Facebook may be gathering residential WiFi networks

    42 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  81. What Atul Gawande Got Wrong about U.S. Health Care Spending

    42 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  82. The Story of a Great Monopoly (1881)

    42 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  83. On Gatekeeping, Complicity, and Arrival

    42 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  84. A Remarkable Case of External Hind Limbs in a Humpback Whale (1921) [pdf]

    42 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  85. A Philosopher's Case Against Replay Review

    42 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  86. GNU Binutils 2.33.1

    42 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  87. Notepad++ v7.8.1: Free Uyghur

    42 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  88. Ask HN: How to cope with burnout every 6 months?

    42 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  89. The End of Oz

    42 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  90. ‘Israel’s ancient NYC’: 5k-year-old Canaanite megalopolis may rewrite history

    42 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  91. Using a Raspberry Pi and LED to send morse code to a smartphone

    42 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  92. Voyage Around My Cell

    42 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  93. Courts reshape the rules around AI

    42 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  94. Show HN: Virtual Card Read-Punch – Punch, Read, Execute Virtual Punch Cards

    42 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  95. The Dangers of “Cancel Culture” are Distant and Abstract

    42 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  96. Show HN: Monitor websites for change and get scraped data in a webhook

    41 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  97. An Interactive HashiCorp Vault Shell

    41 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  98. Inland Waterways Europe: Maps and Fleet

    41 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  99. NBA chief Adam Silver says profit can't come before the league's principles

    41 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  100. Fine tuning full text search with PostgreSQL 12

    41 points • comment • oct 31, 2019