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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

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

    269 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  2. Apparently NordVPN Was Compromised

    269 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  3. Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018)

    269 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  4. A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM

    269 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  5. Ask HN: How did your startup change after an exit?

    268 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  6. Messages via JSON

    267 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  7. NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

    266 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  8. Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process

    265 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  9. The Future of Mathematics? [video]

    265 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  10. In a First, US Doctors Use Crispr Tool to Treat Patient with Genetic Disorder

    265 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  11. A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals

    265 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  12. Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions

    264 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  13. Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015)

    263 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  14. Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off

    263 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  15. Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer

    263 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  16. How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works

    263 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  17. The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms

    263 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  18. Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?

    262 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  19. Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans

    262 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  20. We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management

    262 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  21. China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains

    262 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  22. Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?

    261 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  23. PyTorch Mobile

    261 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  24. In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer

    261 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  25. Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA

    261 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  26. How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?

    259 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  27. Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says

    259 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  28. Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO

    259 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  29. ITA's old “Hiring Puzzles” is still a treasure trove of good problems

    258 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  30. Bazel Release 1.0

    258 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  31. California power outage triggers chaos in science labs

    258 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  32. Telecom Lobbyists Successfully Remove Canada from Wireless Pricing Report

    257 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  33. My Vision of D’s Future

    256 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  34. Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland

    256 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  35. Bill Gates on Windows Usability (2003)

    256 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  36. Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously

    255 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  37. Dutch family 'waiting for end of time' discovered in basement

    255 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  38. Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood

    254 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  39. A Swiss Lesson in Enlightened Street Design

    254 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  40. RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire

    254 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  41. Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy

    254 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  42. The Unix Game

    254 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  43. When XML Beats JSON: UI Layouts

    253 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  44. Show HN: uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart

    252 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  45. Blizzard has blocked the possibility to remove account

    251 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  46. Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé

    251 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  47. How we hit our $30k ARR milestone

    251 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  48. Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault with Boeing and FAA

    250 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  49. Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US

    250 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  50. Working asynchronously

    250 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  51. Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources

    250 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  52. GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic

    249 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  53. Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour

    248 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  54. Why you should have a side project

    248 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  55. China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits

    248 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  56. What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?

    248 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  57. Is Stack Exchange in violation of NY labor law by using volunteer moderators?

    247 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  58. All plastic waste could be recycled into new plastic: researchers

    246 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  59. Unix Turns 50

    246 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  60. Bruno Simon – 3D Curriculum

    245 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  61. Report: Young adults more likely to live with parents than spouses

    245 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  62. Ask HN: What are unintended consequences of new tech you've noticed?

    244 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  63. Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

    244 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  64. Panopticlick

    244 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  65. Visualizing Music with GANs

    244 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  66. Update on free software and telemetry

    244 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  67. Pizza Hut’s First Website

    242 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  68. 2019 Js13kGames Winners

    242 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  69. Assange in Court

    242 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  70. The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5

    242 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  71. When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested

    241 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  72. X-ray technique can reverse-engineer an entire chip without damaging it

    241 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  73. New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness

    241 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  74. DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers

    240 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  75. The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers

    239 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  76. Humans have salamander-like ability to regrow cartilage in joints

    239 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  77. Which Planet Is Closest?

    238 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  78. Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars

    238 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  79. Earliest known draft of the King James Bible discovered

    238 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  80. Homemade IC (2018)

    237 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  81. Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration

    237 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  82. McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

    237 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  83. Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop in Applications

    237 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  84. Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service

    237 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  85. The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI

    236 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  86. Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a toll on society

    236 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  87. What You Can't Say (2004)

    236 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  88. Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field

    236 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  89. Calculus for the Curious

    236 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  90. Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (2017)

    235 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  91. Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicated server and Go

    235 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  92. Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid

    235 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  93. Remove default "terraform" partner_id

    235 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  94. Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight

    235 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  95. My favorite Rust function

    234 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  96. Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents

    234 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  97. Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter

    234 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  98. JavaScript Is C

    234 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  99. Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year

    233 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  100. The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018)

    233 points • comment • oct 24, 2019