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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger, with auth and no infra

    231 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  2. 24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible

    231 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  3. Great apes appear to have “theory of mind”

    231 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  4. A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks

    231 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  5. Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded

    231 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  6. Today’s correction isn’t much like the dot-com bubble

    231 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  7. The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement (2013)

    231 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  8. Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64

    231 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  9. Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide

    231 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  10. Baking a Better Loaf of Bread

    230 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  11. No Maintenance Intended

    230 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  12. Chinese farmer 'studies law for 16 years' to defeat dumping of hazardous waste

    230 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  13. The end of uBlock origin for Google Chrome?

    230 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  14. Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you turn off notifications

    230 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  15. Man sues AT&T over 'SIM Swap' hack allegedly involving employees

    230 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  16. Tor Browser 9.0

    229 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  17. Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing

    229 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  18. Show HN: Scale Heaven – Browse and play any scale/chord, chord progression

    229 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  19. The Machine Learning Software Engineering Interview

    229 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  20. Gamers for Freedom: A handbook for protesting at this year's Blizzcon

    228 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  21. Compact Disc Structure

    228 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  22. FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds

    228 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  23. SoftBank to take control of WeWork: Sources

    228 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  24. Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ drinking water

    228 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  25. Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video]

    228 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  26. Plants “panic” when it rains

    227 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  27. Signal: Incoming call can be connected without user interaction

    227 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  28. Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls

    227 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  29. Hong Kong protests: President Xi warns of 'bodies smashed'

    227 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  30. LastPass Extension slows Chrome's responsiveness by up to 50%

    226 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  31. The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht

    226 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  32. Practice Sight-Reading Music

    226 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  33. Tcl: Everything Is a String

    225 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  34. ProtonMail iOS app goes open source

    225 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  35. PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video]

    225 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  36. 3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal

    225 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  37. Python and OpenGL for Scientific Visualization

    225 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  38. Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report

    224 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  39. 35 Year-Old C64 Easter Egg Hidden on Vinyl [video]

    224 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  40. A GUI framework for C# console applications

    224 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  41. Alf.io: open-source ticket reservation system

    223 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  42. Twitter analysis: identifying a propaganda bot network

    223 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  43. The Story of the Team Behind the 6502

    223 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  44. US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site

    223 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  45. I hate living in my tiny house

    222 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  46. 3D animation with sound in 64 bytes of assembler

    222 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  47. We tested Europe’s new lie detector for travelers and triggered a false positive

    222 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  48. Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers

    222 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  49. What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health

    221 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  50. UTF-8 history (2003)

    221 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  51. Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

    221 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  52. Fast inverse chirp z-transform found

    220 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  53. How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres?

    220 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  54. Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely

    220 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  55. TechCrunch published Snap earnings before numbers went public

    220 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  56. Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone

    219 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  57. The iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A Completely New Camera

    219 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  58. What happens when a city bans cars from its streets?

    219 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  59. Why Do People Neglect Maintenance?

    219 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  60. Why Garmin watches have become common in some segments of tactical aviation

    219 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  61. Small C Compilers

    219 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  62. LibreOffice latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

    219 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  63. Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?

    218 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  64. Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify

    218 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  65. How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch

    218 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  66. Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3

    217 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  67. Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices

    217 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  68. Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache

    216 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  69. OpenBSD 6.6

    216 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  70. Looping Music Seamlessly

    216 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  71. Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina

    216 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  72. Rustup 1.20.0

    216 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  73. First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (1856)

    215 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  74. Notarizing Your Mac Software for macOS Catalina

    215 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  75. Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli

    215 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  76. Sourcehut Q3 2019 Financial Report

    215 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  77. Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’

    215 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  78. New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Security Position

    214 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  79. Project MKUltra

    214 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  80. List of software that has free tiers for developers

    214 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  81. Electron 7.0

    214 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  82. California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving

    213 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  83. Chrome 77 Breaking Drag and Drop Events

    213 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  84. Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton

    212 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  85. Scissor Statements: Sort by Controversial

    211 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  86. Rust and C++ on Floating-Point Intensive Code

    211 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  87. Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years

    210 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  88. Most first-time visitors to Japan are struck by how clean the country is

    209 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  89. The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal election – ranked

    209 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  90. Avoid Working Alone

    208 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  91. The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary

    208 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  92. Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid, with weird and useful properties

    208 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  93. Why office workers can't sleep and why that's bad

    207 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  94. Tectonic – TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust

    207 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  95. Japanese ninja history student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink

    207 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  96. Global Illumination in WebGL

    207 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  97. I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)

    207 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  98. Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track

    206 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  99. Hong Kong protests: Authorities to announce face mask ban

    206 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  100. Gridsome – A Vue.js static site generator

    205 points • comment • oct 18, 2019