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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

Empathy and subjective experience in programming languages
18 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
When to Switch to Python 3.8
18 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Ask HN: Why does your web development team not support Firefox?
18 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
The Banality of Systemic Evil
18 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Ask HN: What are current problems or trends regarding cybersecurity?
18 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Is Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) the Concrete of the Future?
18 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Siraj Raval found plagiarizing “neural qubit” paper
18 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Will Smith Cracked the Code on Making Real Money in Hollywood
18 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Ask HN: Recommended reading for building a chatbot?
18 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Ask HN: What to do if you're not great at your job
18 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Most Americans Say Parents Do Too Much for Their Young Adult Children
18 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Assange displayed signs of torture in courtroom farce
18 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Would you give up Google for $17,000 a year? The Fed wants to know
18 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Softbank to Take Control of WeWork
18 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Elizabeth Warren bites back at Zuckerberg’s leaked threat to K.O. the government
18 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Chemotherapy may spread cancer and trigger more aggressive tumours
18 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Architecting petabyte-scale analytics by scaling out Postgres with Citus
18 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Show HN: JavaScript broughlike tutorial
18 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Google Experiments – Paper Phone
18 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Musk Hired Convicted Felon to Dig Up Dirt on the Cave Rescuer
18 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Ask HN: Are there any famous non-tech people that use Linux on a regular basis?
18 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
San Francisco Wants to Require Permits Before Rolling Out 'Emerging Technology'
18 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
A revolution in Chile sparked by U.S.-style economics
17 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
LXC 1.0 blog-post-series (2013)
17 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
On Lying
17 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Ancient Greek ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria
17 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
The lean startup is not for creating radically new products and markets
17 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Ask HN: Finding a job as a software developer without having a degree?
17 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
C for Everyone: Fundamentals
17 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
I got serious about delegating
17 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Cyber’s Most Wanted – FBI
17 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Show HN: Serverless Components – Provision Infra with Serverless Framework
17 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
U.K. science minister says DARPA-like agency is in the works
17 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Male brain is programmed to seek out sex over food (2015)
17 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval and Vannevar Bush's Memex (2007)
17 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Illinois red-light cameras have collected more than $1B from drivers since 2008
17 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Harvard's policies do not discriminate against Asian Americans – Federal Judge
17 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Show HN: I made a website for developers and digital designers
17 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
How Guilty Should You Feel About Flying?
17 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)
17 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Why are these L.A. people sleeping in pods stacked on top of each other?
17 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
(I-=-1)
17 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
America’s sex recession could lead to an economic depression
17 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Empire Files: NSA Whistleblower: Government Collecting Everything You Do
17 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
How Italians Became 'White'
17 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Children told lies by parents subsequently lie more as adults
17 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
A Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics (2011)
17 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high
17 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Electrical Brain Implants Enable Man to Control Prosthetic Limbs with ‘Thoughts’
17 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Enlightenment-Era Ghosts and the History of Technology
17 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5
17 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Interview with Paul Salopek of the “Out of Eden” Walk
17 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Ask HN: Where can I work as a software engineer to combat large global problems?
17 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Where do all the censored developers go?
17 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
To change your life, learn to write
17 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Reddit has broadened its anti-harassment rules and banned a major incel forum
17 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Confessions of a “Stroke Surgeon” [video]
17 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
The Pipe Holds Them All Together
17 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Meritocracy harms everyone, even the winners
17 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary
17 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
The Semantic Apocalypse (2008)
17 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Is Guy Fieri in Your Node.js Packages? (2016)
17 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
This Guy Just Found a Faster Way to Multiply
17 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
The Fantasy of Opting Out
17 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Logic Analyzer on Chips (2017)
17 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
A note to readers: Paywall down – L.A. Times California fire coverage free today
17 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
U.S. patent board is unconstitutional, but problem can be fixed: appeals court
17 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Show HN: eBook repository for the permaweb
17 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Birthplaces of Software Developers in U.S.
17 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Apple removes ‘Quartz’ news app from App Store at request of the government
17 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Babies in the womb have lizard-like hand muscles
17 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Why Learn Vim in 2019?
17 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
AWS Lambda Firefox
17 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
The Redshift Hate Logs
17 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Blood on the Ice
16 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
I accepted a 6 figure salary at 23 and quit 6 months later. Here’s why
16 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
The Placebo Effect Works and You Can Catch It from Your Doctor
16 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
16 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Ask HN: As a VC, What Are the Top Things You Look For?
16 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Twitter to ban political advertising on its platform
16 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Ask HN:Ok to be in programming if you hate the process but love the result?
16 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News
16 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Adding Static Code Analysis to Stack Overflow
16 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Amazon Care
16 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Ex-Google, current Coda Architect shares personal remote stories
16 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Hacking 20 high-profile dev accounts could compromise half of the NPM ecosystem
16 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Marco Arment: “I hope Apple wise enough to start removing themselves from China”
16 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
UK phone number transfers between networks are handled through a Yahoo Group
16 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Ant Design
16 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
I Don't Focus on Generating a Quick Profit
16 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
When “naming things” is done right
16 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Welcome to the Land
16 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
A Few Bad Apples
16 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Spoof UK Government’s Brexit Propaganda
16 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
The homeland of modern humans
16 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Dreamboard
16 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
How Much Money Do We Make?
16 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Gentle Introduction to Blockchain with Lisp
16 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Windows Terminal 1910 Release
16 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
Bruce Schneier on how insecure electronic voting could break the United States
16 points • comment • oct 25, 2019