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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About?

    321 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  2. Hacker‘s Manifesto (1986)

    320 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  3. Do you have a problem? Write a compiler

    320 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  4. It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?

    318 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  5. Web Graphics Done Right

    317 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  6. Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?

    316 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  7. Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet

    316 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  8. SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering

    316 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  9. Show HN: pg_flame – flamegraph visualizations of PostgreSQL query plans

    315 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  10. An Interview with Jose Valim, Creator of Elixir

    315 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  11. Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service

    315 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  12. Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf]

    315 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  13. Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy

    314 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  14. List of open source applications for macOS

    314 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  15. Goodbye, Flash

    314 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  16. Juul Shipped At Least 1M Contaminated Pods, New Lawsuit Says

    313 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  17. Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS and ML [pdf]

    311 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  18. Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival

    309 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  19. How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017)

    309 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  20. Successful machine learning models: lessons learned at Booking.com

    309 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  21. Everything Is Getting Louder

    309 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  22. Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization

    308 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  23. Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path

    306 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  24. NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020

    305 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  25. How to fuck up software releases

    304 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  26. Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

    304 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  27. Uber Go Style Guide

    303 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  28. Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection

    302 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  29. Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman

    301 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  30. Exxon accurately predicted 2019's climate change and CO2 emission in 1982

    300 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  31. AWS' Sponsorship of the Rust Project

    299 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  32. Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads

    299 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  33. Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is?

    299 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  34. Ghost 3.0

    297 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  35. Before Deadly Crashes, Boeing Pushed for Law That Undercut Oversight

    297 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  36. By removing “extremist content,” platforms are purging human rights evidence

    296 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  37. Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline

    296 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  38. A Gentle Introduction to Bayes’ Theorem for Machine Learning

    296 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  39. Congressman's phone password is 111111

    294 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  40. Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust

    294 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  41. FireEye confirms APT41 hacked TeamViewer, may have accessed billions of devices

    294 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  42. Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels

    293 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  43. New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics

    292 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  44. To hire neurodiverse workers, one firm got rid of job interviews

    291 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  45. Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability

    291 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  46. Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite

    291 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  47. Make More Land

    290 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  48. How Bash Completion Works

    290 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  49. Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

    290 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  50. How to Become the Best in the World at Something

    289 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  51. Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

    289 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  52. The Open Book Project

    289 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  53. Hellvetica.ttf – Kern in Hell

    289 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  54. Auto-Antonyms

    288 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  55. ML From Scratch, Part 1: Linear Regression

    288 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  56. String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet

    288 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  57. Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50-year run

    288 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  58. Rockbox – Free music player firmware

    288 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  59. Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017)

    288 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  60. Reflections on My Career at Microsoft

    288 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  61. Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, has died

    288 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  62. GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract

    287 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  63. .NET Core 3.0 Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project

    287 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  64. CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)

    287 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  65. What are the most indispensable books for indie hackers?

    286 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  66. Grafana Labs raises $24M

    286 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  67. DJI Mavic Mini

    286 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  68. Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers

    285 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  69. An Update to Our Community and an Apology

    285 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  70. Rwanda just released the first smartphone made entirely in Africa

    284 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  71. Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?

    283 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  72. Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by Half

    282 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  73. Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?

    282 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  74. Ionic React

    282 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  75. Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]

    282 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  76. Mastodon 3.0

    282 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  77. Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language

    281 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  78. Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf]

    281 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  79. Show HN: Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy

    280 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  80. A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World

    279 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  81. Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors embrace Saudi Arabia again

    279 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  82. Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks

    279 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  83. Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb

    279 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  84. Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query

    278 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  85. Cache Poisoned DoS Attack: Shutdown any CDN Website with One HTTP Request

    278 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  86. Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf]

    277 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  87. An apology to our community, and next steps

    276 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  88. Don Valentine has died

    276 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  89. How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

    276 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  90. Why Japan lost its comparative advantage in producing electronic parts

    275 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  91. What Is Good About Haskell?

    274 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  92. AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering

    274 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  93. Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients?

    273 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  94. Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15

    273 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  95. Ask HN: I just wrote an O(N) diffing algorithm – what am I missing?

    273 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  96. Pharma companies continue to raise drug prices at rates well above inflation

    272 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  97. What should have been an IMG element became this

    271 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  98. The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market

    271 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  99. FOIA request for NROL-39 surveillance satellite logo

    270 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  100. Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth

    269 points • comment • oct 21, 2019