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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

  1. When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition

    185 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  2. It was Bill Joy's password, not Ken Thompson's, that had a control character

    185 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  3. Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices

    185 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  4. Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018)

    185 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  5. SQLite is easy to compile

    184 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  6. Migrating Russian eagles run up data roaming charges

    184 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  7. Show HN: I've made a rotary dial number input, because why not?

    184 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  8. Designing a COM Library for Rust

    184 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  9. Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)

    184 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  10. Frab – free and open conference management system

    184 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  11. Credit Suisse scandal shakes Zurich’s elite

    184 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  12. China Says ‘Stay Tuned’ for Retaliation over U.S. Tech Blacklist

    184 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  13. Show HN: Change Python code while it's running using a reloading loop

    183 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  14. How to write fast code in Ruby on Rails

    183 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  15. ET Don't Phone Home

    183 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  16. We moved our servers to Iceland

    183 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  17. Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis available to all users

    182 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  18. Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure

    182 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  19. How bullying may shape adolescent brains

    182 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  20. Visa, Mastercard, Others Reconsider Involvement in Facebook's Libra Network

    182 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  21. Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer

    182 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  22. Preparing for 25 Years

    182 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  23. Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says

    181 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  24. Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays off hundreds of employees

    181 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  25. Which Way Do You Run?

    181 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  26. Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for facial recognition

    181 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  27. Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?

    181 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  28. Indian nuclear power plant’s network was hacked, officials confirm

    181 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  29. A Useful Thing in Bash

    181 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  30. Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet

    181 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  31. Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little

    181 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  32. A New R6RS Scheme Compiler

    180 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  33. Faces of Open Source

    180 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  34. Working with Errors in Go 1.13

    180 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  35. Fractional Brownian Motion for Terrain Generation

    180 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  36. Biology Is Eating the World

    179 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  37. Logs were our lifeblood, now they're our liability

    179 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  38. Why some software developers hate Agile

    179 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  39. $15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants

    179 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  40. Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

    179 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  41. The Isle of Man is not in the UK

    179 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  42. BPF at Facebook and beyond

    178 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  43. How oral contraceptives may affect women’s minds

    178 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  44. Key Change

    178 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  45. Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years

    178 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  46. The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2

    177 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  47. NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet

    177 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  48. Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital Assistant

    176 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  49. The best-kept secret of Dutch biking: the Dutch hardly bike at all

    176 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  50. Tina is not a CMS

    176 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  51. Destroying x86_64 instruction decoders with differential fuzzing

    176 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  52. Court says FCC’s net neutrality repeal can’t stop state laws

    176 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  53. Why It’s Hard for Startups to Create Wealth in Europe

    176 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  54. Pontevedra, Spain’s Happy Little Carless City

    176 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  55. Victor Mono – A free programming font

    175 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  56. U.S. Seeks to Heighten Scrutiny of Foreign Investment in Tech, Infra, Data

    175 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  57. Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says

    174 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  58. Betrayal at Krondor

    174 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  59. The first high-resolution map of America’s food supply chain

    174 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  60. I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece (2018)

    174 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  61. Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping

    174 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  62. Ask HN: What do you automate in your life and work?

    174 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  63. Focusmate – Virtual Coworking Helps You Get Things Done

    174 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  64. Hams must remove repeaters from CA mountaintops or pay huge fees [pdf]

    173 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  65. Brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way

    173 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  66. Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420

    173 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  67. Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes

    173 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  68. Kubernetes Networking: Behind the Scenes

    172 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  69. The crisis in physics is not only about physics

    172 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  70. Copernicium Is a Strange Element Indeed

    171 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  71. Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material

    171 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  72. A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster

    171 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  73. Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%

    171 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  74. New 'unremovable' xHelper malware has infected 45,000 Android devices

    171 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  75. The $10m Engineering Problem

    171 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  76. Twitter “Silenced” Dissenting Voices During Protests in Egypt: Research

    171 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  77. New chips for machine intelligence

    171 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  78. Decades of diesel use in Europe have created a public health crisis

    171 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  79. Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak

    170 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  80. The privacy trade-offs of cheap Android smartphones

    170 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  81. RaptorCS's redemption: the POWER9 machine works

    170 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  82. A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend

    170 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  83. Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop

    170 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  84. One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be flooded by a dam

    170 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  85. The Greening of Paris Makes Its Mayor More Than a Few Enemies

    169 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  86. The Internet and the Third Estate

    169 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  87. A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015)

    169 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  88. The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks

    169 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  89. Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservices

    169 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  90. We Don't Want to Run This Ad but Forced To

    168 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  91. Mailgun Acquires Mailjet

    168 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  92. Startpage is now owned by an advertising company

    168 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  93. Show HN: Magic Sandbox – hands-on Kubernetes training on real infra

    168 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  94. US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules

    168 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  95. Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals

    168 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  96. Kitty Hawk reveals its secret project, Heaviside

    167 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  97. Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?

    167 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  98. Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids

    167 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  99. Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy

    167 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  100. Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand

    167 points • comment • oct 15, 2019