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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. Gridsome – A Vue.js static site generator

    205 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  2. Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

    205 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  3. Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn

    205 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  4. Show HN: Spotify for the Terminal Written in Rust

    205 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  5. College Students Just Want Normal Libraries

    205 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  6. The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways

    204 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  7. A father knitted his baby’s first year of sleep pattern data into a blanket

    204 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  8. Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft

    204 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  9. Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture

    204 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  10. Ask HN: Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?

    203 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  11. Clash over Surveillance Software Turns Personal in Germany

    203 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  12. Obsessed fan finds Japanese idol's home by zooming in on her eyes

    203 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  13. My transition to an Ubuntu workstation

    203 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  14. Making Instagram.com faster: Part 3 – cache first

    203 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  15. Ask HN: Getting started in biology with a software background

    203 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  16. AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance

    202 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  17. DuckDuckGo Terminal Interface

    202 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  18. How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

    202 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  19. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019

    202 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  20. The IBM Pentium 4 64-Bit CPU

    201 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  21. 80x25

    201 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  22. Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language

    201 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  23. Unsteady income in young adulthood linked to thinking problems in middle age

    201 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  24. Typestates in Rust (2018)

    201 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  25. The Wave that changed the world (2017)

    201 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  26. Building a constraint programming solver in Julia

    200 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  27. Restricting Manhattan’s 14th street to buses has been a success

    200 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  28. Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning

    200 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  29. Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time

    199 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  30. Starving cancer by cutting off its favorite foods

    199 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  31. Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition

    199 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  32. RLSL: a Rust to SPIR-V Compiler

    199 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  33. Mark Hurd Has Died

    199 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  34. Sonos smart speaker controller API and CLI written in Rust

    198 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  35. VeraCrypt 1.24

    198 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  36. United Kingdom Budget Visualization

    198 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  37. Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support

    198 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  38. Feeling stuck? Write a poem

    198 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  39. An Inside Look at Microsoft’s Newest Flight Simulator

    198 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  40. A German word for:“It only works when I try to show you how it does not work”?

    197 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  41. Severely deficient autobiographical memory in healthy adults (2015)

    197 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  42. Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associated with Reddit

    197 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  43. PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures

    197 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  44. Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament

    196 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  45. Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects

    196 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  46. Ask HN: What are some resources to improve speaking skills?

    196 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  47. Uptime 15,364 days – The Computers of Voyager [video]

    196 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  48. France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program

    195 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  49. Thoughts on Cocoa

    195 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  50. Haskell in Production

    195 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  51. Tesla Model 3 = 24% of Small and Midsize Luxury Car Sales in USA

    195 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  52. Oberon Operating System

    195 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  53. The $68k Fish: The future of salmon in the Pacific Northwest

    194 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  54. Car tires biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters

    194 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  55. Containers in 2019: They're Calling It a Hypervisor Comeback

    194 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  56. Boeing Sales and Profits Plummet as 737 Max Crisis Continues

    194 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  57. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions

    194 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  58. Identifying a person through walls from video footage, using only WiFi

    194 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  59. U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage appeal

    193 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  60. Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy

    193 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  61. Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques to operations (2016)

    193 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  62. Waymo to customers: “Completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way”

    193 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  63. Loopless Programming

    193 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  64. Linear Algebra and Applications: An Inquiry-Based Approach

    192 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  65. Rock climbing and the economics of innovation

    192 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  66. A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS (2018)

    191 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  67. Re-writing the site of Norway's largest transport provider in Elm

    190 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  68. Tesla Acquires Canadian Battery Specialist, Hibar Systems

    190 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  69. Canada's Decision To Make Public More Clinical Trial Data Puts Pressure On FDA

    190 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  70. The “Windmill” Problem on the 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad [video]

    190 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  71. The Name of the Rose Background Ambience Generator

    189 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  72. 'Zen curtain' saves birds from hitting glass windows

    189 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  73. We Are All Confident Idiots (2014)

    189 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  74. Streets with Nooks and Crannies Are Beloved and Endangered

    189 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  75. The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)

    189 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  76. Shareable Jupyter Notebooks That Run on Free Cloud GPUs

    189 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  77. Is “Investing in improving structure” better than “Paying off technical debt”?

    189 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  78. Australia Newspapers Redact Front Pages in Media-Freedom Protest

    189 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  79. Pedestrian Bridge Collapse over SW 8th Street in Miami [pdf]

    188 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  80. People don’t want to commute; they just don’t want to miss out

    188 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  81. The voice from our Nest camera threatened to steal our baby

    188 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  82. Million Song Dataset

    188 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  83. What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

    188 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  84. Pop_OS 19.10

    187 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  85. Baltimore Blew Off Ransomware Demand Only to Find Data Had Never Been Backed Up

    187 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  86. Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced

    187 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  87. Unity creates new open source tool for architects

    187 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  88. Zettelkästen?

    187 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  89. PyPy's New JSON Parser

    187 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  90. Trains in Switzerland are not allowed to have 256 axles

    187 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  91. C++ Ecosystem: Compilers, IDEs, Tools, Testing

    186 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  92. Clojure 1.11 planning

    186 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  93. Writing Great Mystery Plots

    186 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  94. Dependency injection is dynamic scoping in disguise

    186 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  95. Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox

    186 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  96. XML is almost always misused

    186 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  97. James Gosling on Richard Stallman [video]

    186 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  98. On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (1994)

    186 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  99. Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams

    186 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  100. The Most Gender-Switched Names in the U.S.

    186 points • comment • oct 28, 2019