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Hacker News (Nov 2019)

  1. Something Changed at Tesla

    110 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  2. How to Turn Physics into an Optimization Problem

    109 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  3. How to Steal a Billion

    109 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  4. Doom (1993) Encryption

    109 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  5. DeepPCB: Pure AI-Powered, Cloud-Native Printed Circuit Board Routing

    109 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  6. Instagram to test hiding like counts in the US

    109 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  7. Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM [video]

    109 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  8. Nature’s survey of 6k grad students reveals the turbulence of doctoral research

    109 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  9. Farewell, Cortana

    109 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  10. Tesla Tripp Police Report Released

    108 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  11. The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds on Itself

    108 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  12. Adam Neumann and the Art of Failing Up

    108 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  13. The plot thickens for a hypothetical “X17” particle

    108 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  14. “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

    108 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  15. Early Chinese World Maps (2010)

    108 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  16. Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals Tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks

    108 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  17. Disproved Discoveries That Won Nobel Prizes (2015)

    108 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  18. Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where They're Going (2012)

    108 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  19. Google Is Killing Google Cloud Print

    108 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  20. Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus in mice

    108 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  21. Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS

    108 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  22. Facebook communication and lawsuit documents: 7000 pages leaked

    108 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  23. Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)

    108 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  24. Show HN: 400-Line Binance CryptoCurrency Bot

    108 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  25. Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

    108 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  26. A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists on Guard

    107 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  27. Shields.io: Quality metadata badges for open source projects

    107 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  28. USS Pueblo

    107 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  29. The Fall of WeWork

    106 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  30. SpaceX and Boeing Still Need a Parachute That Always Works

    106 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  31. Inside Macintosh (1985) [pdf]

    106 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  32. World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency

    106 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  33. The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA symbol, /ɧ/ (2016)

    106 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  34. Trends in the San Francisco (mostly dog) poop crisis

    106 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  35. Remove almost all online garbage using Dnsmasq

    105 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  36. AMD unveils world's most powerful desktop CPUs

    105 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  37. Ogre 1.12.3

    105 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  38. Organice – Using Org mode from a smartphone or browser [video]

    105 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  39. The 'Glass Floor' Is Keeping America's Richest Idiots at the Top

    105 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  40. How Cybercriminals Profit by Tapping Your Email

    105 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  41. Dutch antennas unfolded behind the moon

    105 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  42. Costco's Thanksgiving Day Website Crash Cost It Nearly $11M

    105 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  43. A History of APL in Fifty Functions (2016)

    105 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  44. Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in your inbox

    105 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  45. LLVM-tutor: collection of out-of-tree LLVM examples for teaching and learning

    105 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  46. Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos

    105 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  47. Lightweight API Design in Swift

    105 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  48. The U.S. could slash health-care costs with two fundamental changes

    105 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  49. The Case Against Boeing

    104 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  50. Pokémon Sword/Shield causes Roku devices on the same network to crash/bootloop

    104 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  51. We Need to Map the Ocean Floor

    104 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  52. Layers in Software: From Data to Value

    104 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  53. Senate Considers Banning Dial Phones (1930)

    104 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  54. Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]

    104 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  55. Launch HN: Berbix (YC S18) – Instant ID checks to fight fraud and stay compliant

    104 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  56. A New Digital Manifesto

    104 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  57. The Information Apocalypse (2018)

    104 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  58. The Linear Algebra Mapping Problem

    104 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  59. An Attempt to Recreate the Blender 2.8 ToolBox in Qt5

    104 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  60. Show HN: Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas (Python Data Science)

    104 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  61. V-Mail

    104 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  62. Cthulhu Ventures

    103 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  63. “That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism and the Computer Culture (1999)

    103 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  64. Million Short

    103 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  65. Goroutines and APIs

    103 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  66. Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’

    103 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  67. AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race

    103 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  68. Ask HN: What will become possible by 2025 in your field of expertise?

    103 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  69. PyData: A community for developers and users of open source data tools

    102 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  70. Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing?

    102 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  71. The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits

    102 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  72. Show HN: Python package and CLI to generate stylistic word clouds

    102 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  73. Interactive Programming for Artificial Intelligence [video]

    102 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  74. Gitea 1.10.0 Released

    102 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  75. Show HN: OpenCV based multi-object-tracker with various object detection models

    102 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  76. AirPods Pro Page Performance

    102 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  77. Illusory Truth Effect

    102 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  78. Your throat hurts, your brain hurts: the life of the audiobook star

    102 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  79. Wait Wait Tell Me: The Psychology of Loading Screens

    101 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  80. Breach affecting 1M was caught only after hacker maxed out target’s storage

    101 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  81. The Neues Museum claims copyright over 3D-printing files of the Nefertiti bust

    101 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  82. Machine Learning Can Help Unlock the World of Ancient Japan

    101 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  83. Texas Instruments’ Speak and Spell

    101 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  84. Difference Between Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Disaster Recovery (2014)

    100 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  85. The NASA women who inspired 'Hidden Figures' will get Congressional gold medals

    100 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  86. Python should take a lesson from APL: Walrus operator not needed

    100 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  87. Instagram’s Explore Recommender System

    100 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  88. Expansion of cytotoxic CD4 T cells in supercentenarians

    100 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  89. Mu: Sketching out a minimal system programming language

    100 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  90. Ask HN: How do you deal with atomicity in microservice environments?

    100 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  91. Building a CRUD App with Datomic Cloud Ions

    99 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  92. 404 Page Not Found

    99 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  93. Using multi-arch Docker images to support apps on any architecture

    99 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  94. Heliogen targets 1500°C solar thermal

    99 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  95. Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes

    99 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  96. The Story of Tunnel 29

    99 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  97. Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year

    99 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  98. Looka lays off staff as failed rebrand from Logojoy cut revenue in half

    99 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  99. Ray Dalio says the global economy is under threat

    99 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  100. Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool (2016)

    99 points • comment • nov 23, 2019