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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Google SVP Hardware: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home

    37 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  2. Road planning with slime mould (2009)

    37 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  3. Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1 day after deadline

    37 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

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

    37 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  5. Google gets green light to access five years of NHS patient data

    37 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  6. Chisel/FIRRTL Hardware Compiler Framework

    36 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  7. Sanctioned: The Arrest of a Telecom Giant [audio]

    36 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  8. The great nutrient collapse – key crops are getting less nutritious due to CO2

    36 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  9. Telepresence Robots – An Interview With Double Robotics

    36 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  10. Gitlab Makes a U-Turn

    36 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  11. Extinction Rebellion Blockade Google HQ

    36 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  12. Peloton Is Spinning Faster Than Ever

    36 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  13. Show HN: I co-wrote a book on training Deep Learning models in Go

    36 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  14. Ask HN: What software/app do you wish would exist?

    36 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  15. Understanding HTTPS Graphically

    36 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  16. Linus Torvalds: 'I'm not a programmer anymore'

    36 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  17. Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working?

    36 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  18. The Tech Deities

    36 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  19. St James and the Two Faces of Spain

    36 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  20. Introduction to TurboFan

    36 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  21. Spain court gives Catalan leaders long jail terms

    36 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  22. Sator Square

    36 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  23. Ask HN: Chrome activating my microphone on OS X

    36 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  24. Formal Abstracts – express mathematical publications in a computer-readable form

    36 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  25. New York Regulator Probes UnitedHealth Algorithm for Racial Bias

    36 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  26. Free Pascal has now a WebAssembly back end

    36 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  27. Subscription services for plants

    36 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  28. Realtek 2.5 GbE PCIe Cards Now for Sale

    36 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  29. Troubles with Tesla's automated parking summon safety regulators

    36 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  30. Steve Wozniak says he does not expect fully autonomous cars 'in my lifetime'

    36 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  31. UniCredit hit by data breach of Italian client records

    36 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  32. Artificial Intelligence: What’s to Fear?

    36 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  33. PhD candidate made a skirt out of rejection letters

    36 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  34. We got 900 applications on our Developer Position

    36 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  35. Steam Cannon

    36 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  36. Xfce4-panel 4.15.0

    36 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  37. 23 years of software side channel attacks [video]

    35 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  38. Previously rejected uBlock Origin Has Been Approved for the Chrome Web Store

    35 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  39. Currency is popular again, especially the $100 bill

    35 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  40. Humans will not 'migrate' to other planets, Nobel winner says

    35 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  41. Can adding an index make a non SARGable query SARGable?

    35 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  42. Tee-Ball

    35 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  43. Six cars aced new pedestrian detection tests

    35 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  44. Key takeaways from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    35 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  45. South Park has reportedly been banned in China after criticizing censorship

    35 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  46. Flowsheets Visualizations (2017) [video]

    35 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  47. Computers Don't Argue (1965)

    35 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  48. TSC Frequency for All: Better Profiling and Benchmarking

    35 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  49. ‘Silicon Valley,’ Darker Than Ever, Captures the Bleak Mood of Tech

    35 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  50. The worst keyboard ever made

    35 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  51. Show HN: Time Door – A time series analysis API

    35 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  52. How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics

    35 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  53. Point to Point in the Datacenter with Andy Bechtolsheim

    35 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  54. Isopod: Expressive DSL Framework for Kubernetes Config

    35 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  55. A History of Chop Suey

    35 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  56. Thieves return hand stolen from Montreal totem pole, with an apology note

    35 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  57. Orchids: An Ugly History of Beautiful Things

    35 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  58. Unicorn Feces

    35 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  59. Cobol turns 60: why it will outlive us all

    35 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  60. SUVs second biggest cause of emissions rise, figures reveal

    35 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  61. James Flynn's Book Defending Free Speech Has Been Pulled

    35 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  62. Jeopardy's Newest Head Writer

    34 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  63. The Balloon Boy Hoax Solved

    34 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  64. Tutorial: How to Scrape Amazon Using Python Scrapy

    34 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  65. Envoy Proxy Performance on Kubernetes

    34 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  66. Ask HN: Slack Alternatives?

    34 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  67. Snapchat is a cautionary tale against leaving unicorns for dead

    34 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  68. The Limits of Science

    34 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  69. Jack Ma Says 12-Hour Work Week Could Be the Norm

    34 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  70. Airline algorithms may be keeping you from sitting together

    34 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  71. Show HN: Boom.fyi – a link shortening service built for IPFS

    34 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  72. How to host a full mirror of Wikipedia.org

    34 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  73. Topical Keyphrase Extraction with Hierarchical Semantic Networks

    34 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  74. Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool to Squelch Worker Dissent

    34 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  75. Californians Learning That Solar Panels Don't Work in Blackouts

    34 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  76. Xinjiang Re-Education Camps

    34 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  77. When everyone suddenly started using “impressed” as an opener

    34 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  78. What do skateboarding and global health have in common?

    34 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  79. Amazon rainforest 'close to irreversible tipping point'

    34 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  80. How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2019

    34 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  81. Pilotless Black Hawk Will Soon Take Flight

    34 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  82. ‘Mike’s Candyshop’: Behind the Overdose Death of Colin Kroll

    34 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  83. DragonFly 5.6.2 Released

    34 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  84. Next Housing Recession in 2020, Predicts Zillow

    34 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  85. Hong Kong Has Weaponized the City’s Subway Against Protesters

    34 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  86. Learn and use fork(), vfork(), wait() and exec() system calls on Linux

    34 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  87. Top reasons your WiFi is slow

    33 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  88. The richest American family hired terrorists to shoot guns at women and children

    33 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  89. Gaugin and Van Gogh’s Social Networks

    33 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  90. Amid heavy competition, Relativity Space secures $140M in funding

    33 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  91. Demikernel: A library OS for kernel-bypass devices, now with Rust TCP/IP stack

    33 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  92. PG&E to cut power to 800k customers across California early Wednesday morning

    33 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  93. IKEA Will Be Entirely Meat-Free This Christmas

    33 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  94. The Ocean Cleanup Successfully Catches Plastic in Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    33 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  95. Soviet Space Dogs

    33 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  96. Show HN: Curated List of Windows Utilities

    33 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  97. Out of This World: An Oral History of Alf (2016)

    33 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  98. Microsoft gives Satya Nadella a 66% raise, citing 'strategic leadership'

    33 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  99. Ask HN: What are the key processes for a remote-first company?

    33 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  100. What is soundness in static analysis? (2017)

    33 points • comment • oct 12, 2019