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Hacker News (Oct 2019)

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

    167 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

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

    167 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  3. Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out

    167 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  4. Simple Does Not Mean Ugly

    166 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  5. By Quitting Social Media You Could Read 200 Books a Year

    166 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  6. Email marketing regulations around the world

    166 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  7. U.N., Unicef, Red Cross Under Ongoing Mobile Attack

    166 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  8. We decided to go for the big rewrite

    166 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  9. The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI

    165 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  10. Karatsuba Algorithm

    165 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  11. GE freezes pension benefits for 20k employees

    165 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  12. CorkScrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies

    165 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  13. DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (2016)

    165 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  14. The Inuit agree on a common writing system

    165 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  15. ML from Scratch, Part 2: Logistic Regression (2018)

    165 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  16. Working all night is not 'a badge of pride'

    165 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  17. Gmail Hooked Us on Free Storage. Now Google Is Making Us Pay

    164 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  18. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)

    164 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  19. R is a joy if you treat it like Awk

    163 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  20. Bjarne Stroustrup Answers C++ Questions

    163 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  21. Adam Neumann planned for his children and grandchildren to control WeWork

    163 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  22. IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment for cryptocurrency

    163 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  23. Tiny Acquires Meteor

    162 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  24. Convert Curl Syntax to Python Requests

    162 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  25. 5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach

    162 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  26. State of Health Report Shows Growing Despair Among American Men

    162 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  27. SRE as a Lifestyle Choice

    162 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  28. World's Best-Run Pension Funds Say It's Time to Start Worrying

    162 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  29. Designing Accessible Color Systems

    162 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  30. Reason Won't Save Us

    161 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  31. What I’ve learned about SEO (2018)

    161 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  32. View leaked secrets in Git live

    160 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  33. New Features in Vue 3

    160 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  34. Client-side web programming in Haskell: A retrospective

    160 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  35. Here Dragons Abound: Exploring procedural generation and display of fantasy maps

    160 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  36. Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone following on-stream Hong Kong protest

    160 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  37. Watt: A runtime for executing Rust procedural macros compiled as WebAssembly

    160 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  38. Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond

    159 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  39. The World’s Oldest Tree Lives in Sweden

    159 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  40. Paris zoo unveils a slime mould

    159 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  41. Face-recognition technology is the new norm

    159 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  42. Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)

    159 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  43. Foundations of Data Science [pdf]

    159 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  44. Applying BERT models to Search

    159 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  45. Harold Bloom Has Died

    159 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  46. How Automattic develops software for over 75M websites

    158 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  47. Fancy Believing in the Goblin King (2017)

    158 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  48. Let's discuss the source for the GPLed parts of Tesla cars

    158 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  49. The Myth of Commoditized Excellence

    158 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  50. How to Make a Great Puzzle Game

    157 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  51. The Global Fertility Crash

    157 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  52. A Forty Year Career

    157 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  53. Samsung Kills 'Linux on DeX' with Android 10 Rollout

    157 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  54. Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015)

    157 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  55. ScummVM 2.1.0

    157 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  56. Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years

    156 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  57. Docker Compose reads your “.env” without opt-out

    156 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  58. Things you probably don't know about Go (2012) [slides]

    156 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  59. Banksy's Fake Store Is an Attempt to Abuse Trademark Law to Avoid Copyright Law

    156 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  60. Yes, Estimate Software Projects

    155 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  61. The Founder Dating Playbook

    155 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  62. V8: Workaround for Intel Gemini Lake Processor Bug

    155 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  63. Oppenheimer and the Gita (2014)

    155 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  64. FTC Brings First Case Against Developers of “Stalking” Apps

    155 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  65. Around 30 percent of children in the U.S. don't get enough sleep: study

    155 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  66. 1.5M Packages a Day Bring Chaos to NYC Streets

    154 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  67. UK Government Selects OpenAPI v3

    154 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  68. New Hampshire Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because 'Cellphones Are Throwaways'

    154 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  69. Fair, the SoftBank-backed car startup, lays off 40% of staff, sacks CFO

    154 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  70. SEC blocks the Telegram ICO – what this means, and what happens now

    153 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  71. Conventional Commits: A specification for structured commit messages

    153 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  72. Git Internals, Techniques, and Rewriting History

    153 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  73. The effort to preserve a million letters written by U.S. soldiers during wartime

    153 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  74. Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II

    153 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  75. Gamers propose punishing Blizzard by flooding it with GDPR requests

    153 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  76. PG&E turning off power to protect against fire has created a new disaster

    152 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  77. Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change

    152 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  78. All paid targeting options available on social media platforms

    152 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  79. Websites can change content inside a selection

    151 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  80. Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Fwd Prediction

    151 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  81. PG&E could shut off power across Bay Area on Wednesday and Thursday

    151 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  82. How to Mitigate a Negative SEO Campaign?

    151 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  83. OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits

    151 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  84. We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

    151 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  85. Dyson has scrapped its electric car project

    151 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  86. Scientist Who Discredited Meat Guidelines Didn’t Report Past Food Industry Ties

    150 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  87. Boeing 2016 internal messages suggest employees may have misled FAA on 737 MAX

    150 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  88. Git repository summary on your terminal

    150 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  89. Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991

    150 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  90. The rise of the financial machines

    150 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  91. A 3D Metal Printer Is Churning Out Rockets

    150 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  92. Build you own dial up ISP in 2019

    150 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  93. Really Fixing Getrandom()

    150 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  94. Duck Curve

    150 points • comment • oct 27, 2019

  95. Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (2017)

    150 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  96. Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor

    149 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  97. Ask HN: How many of you have been impacted by a layoff?

    149 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  98. Facebook to Pay $40M Under Proposed Settlement in Video Metrics Suit

    149 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  99. The boy behind the biggest coin-op conversion of the 80s

    149 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  100. Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fees, study says

    148 points • comment • oct 05, 2019