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Hacker News (Nov 2019)

  1. Show HN: Vy – a powerful but retro and minimalist IDE

    135 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  2. Cooperative Threading

    135 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  3. The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)

    135 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  4. GNU Assembler Patches For Optimizing The Intel Jump Conditional Code Erratum

    135 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  5. Coffee may have hastened the Ottoman Empire’s demise

    135 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  6. Factual Inaccuracies of “Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound”

    134 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  7. Origami Levels of Complexity [video]

    134 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  8. Show HN: Autopilot written in Keras for Self Driving Cars

    134 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  9. Jennicam: The first woman to stream her life on the internet (2016)

    134 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  10. IBM System 360 Model 20 restoration: The big push

    134 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  11. Avoiding “OR” for Better Query Performance

    134 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  12. In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)

    134 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  13. Lockout-Tagout

    134 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  14. Power Plant Turns Waste into Energy and Doubles as a Ski Slope and Climbing Wall

    133 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  15. Disc rot is a challenge for both archivists and collectors (2017)

    133 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  16. Have scientists discovered a fifth force of nature?

    133 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  17. Show HN: Building websites from Sketch using deep learning – public launch

    133 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  18. Show HN: LegraJS – Draw using Lego-like brick shapes on Canvas

    133 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  19. Glyphosate in Organic Hydroponic Food Production

    132 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  20. Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup

    132 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  21. Heliogen’s new tech could unlock renewable energy for industrial manufacturing

    132 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  22. Association between gifts from pharma group to drug prescribed by French doctors

    132 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  23. GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries

    132 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  24. What America Lost When It Lost the Bison

    131 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  25. Git-subtrac: all your Git submodules in one place

    131 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  26. Total sleep deprivation impairs attention and higher-order cognitive processes

    131 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  27. Google Interferes with Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results

    131 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  28. The case for banning ads in social media

    131 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  29. Sendy Is Insecure: How Not to Implement ReCAPTCHA

    131 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  30. Practical Examples in Data Oriented Design

    131 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  31. System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops in January 2020

    131 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  32. The Rise of 'Facadism' in London

    130 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  33. Uber Sinks to New Record Low as IPO Share Lockup Expires

    130 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  34. How internet ads work

    130 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  35. Adversarial design printed on a shirt to fool object recognition algorithms

    130 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  36. Amazon’s plan for Alexa

    130 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  37. Boeing faced ‘limited’ safety review from NASA while SpaceX got full examination

    130 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  38. What people get paid to work in journalism

    130 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  39. My Hardest Bug to Debug (2018)

    130 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  40. The NYPD kept an illegal database of juvenile fingerprints for years

    130 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  41. TheForger's Win32 API Programming Tutorial

    130 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  42. Inventing an Operation to Solve x^x = y (2000)

    129 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  43. Show HN: PNGR – Docker-compose for a Postgres-Nginx-Golang-React stack

    129 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  44. Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019

    129 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  45. AI Update, Late 2019

    129 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  46. Excite CEO: Why Excite didn't buy Google (2014) [audio]

    129 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  47. The Misunderstood Roots of FRP

    129 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  48. Effects of Vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty Acid on Biomarkers of Inflammation

    128 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  49. I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike

    128 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  50. Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist

    127 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  51. Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features

    127 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  52. Ask HN: How prevalent is non-cookie-based web tracking today?

    127 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  53. Build OpenJDK for a Nice Speedup

    127 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  54. Bar Chart Race, Explained

    127 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  55. Don’t Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds

    127 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  56. Battle Chess

    127 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  57. Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs

    126 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  58. Experience: My face became a meme [as told by Harold himself]

    126 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  59. Biogrid’s GPU-accelerated world simulation

    126 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  60. Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score

    126 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  61. Empathic concern does not reduce partisan animosity: study

    126 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  62. Wine 4.20

    126 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  63. Tracking down the true origin of a font used in many games and shareware titles

    126 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  64. Vaping Illnesses Are Linked to Vitamin E Acetate, CDC Says

    125 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  65. Against Economics

    125 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  66. We built network isolation for 1500 services

    125 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  67. Why to use ‘python -m pip’

    125 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  68. Keeping Memory Contents Secret

    125 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  69. Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life

    124 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  70. Ask HN: Starting an Anonymous Blog in 2019?

    124 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  71. Consistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode [video]

    124 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  72. Starlink is a big deal

    124 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  73. Data Dictatorships: The Arms Race to Hack Humankind

    124 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  74. It's 2019, but It Sure Feels a Lot Like 1998 for Stocks

    124 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  75. Fastly launches its new compute environment – supports Rust

    124 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  76. Visual Studio online available for public preview

    124 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  77. Found hidden safe, should we crack?

    124 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  78. Deep learning has a size problem

    124 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  79. Go.dev: a new hub for Go developers

    124 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  80. The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker (1985)

    124 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  81. CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers – Stanford University 2017-20

    124 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  82. NoSnoop – Find out if your HTTPS traffic is being monitored

    123 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  83. The Everything Town in the Middle of Nowhere

    123 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  84. My experience being a solo maintainer of open-source software in academia

    123 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  85. Using SDRAM in FPGA Designs

    123 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  86. Multiple ways to compute e in Raku

    123 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  87. Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Research Director

    122 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  88. Hailing a Driverless Ride in a Waymo

    122 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  89. Show HN: Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again

    122 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  90. Evolution of the Scrollbar

    122 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  91. A turf war and a botched contract landed two pentesters in Iowa jail

    121 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  92. Homology

    121 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  93. Army photogrammetry technique makes 3D aerial maps in minutes

    121 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  94. Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design

    121 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  95. Stuxnet was embarrassing, not amazing (2011)

    121 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  96. SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP hybrid files

    121 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  97. Passivhaus Detailing and Design

    121 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  98. Oyo's business model is looking a lot like WeWork's

    121 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  99. Allsorts: font parser and shaping engine implemented in Rust

    121 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  100. Racket v7.5

    121 points • comment • nov 20, 2019