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Hacker News (Nov 2019)

  1. How Magic: The Gathering card sets are designed

    38 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  2. The Treacherous Optimization (2006)

    38 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  3. In MySQL, never use “utf8”. Use “utf8mb4”

    38 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  4. Search warrant overrides 1M users’ choice not to share DNA with cops

    38 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  5. Launch: Basecamp Gets Personal

    38 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  6. Eton College exam question asks students to justify the Army killing protesters

    38 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  7. Does Automating the Metro Save Money? (2017)

    38 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  8. ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

    38 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  9. 'Allow no escapes': leak exposes reality of China's vast prison camp network

    38 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  10. The U.S. Gave Troubled Doctors a Second Chance – Patients Paid the Price

    38 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  11. There are now 200k games on itch.io

    38 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  12. Big Oil’s Favorite Toy: Supercomputers (2018)

    38 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  13. Google employee activist says she’s been fired

    38 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  14. Ask HN: How to get better at taking notes?

    38 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  15. Does malloc lazily create the backing pages for an allocation on Linux? (2009)

    38 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  16. The Mundane, the Mystical, and the Meta

    38 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  17. Observability Pipelines at Kubecon

    38 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  18. Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating

    38 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  19. Paris Helped Shape James Joyce

    38 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  20. Rescuers race to save 14k sheep on capsized cargo ship

    38 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  21. SEC Wins Jury Trial in Layering, Manipulative Trading Case

    38 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  22. Envoy, Ambassador and Istio: A Gzip Adventure

    37 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  23. What WeWork is giving laid-off employees who aren’t named Adam Neumann

    37 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  24. A Vegan Sued Burger King over Its ‘Impossible Whopper’

    37 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  25. IBMs 200K Macs have made the workforce happier and more productive

    37 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  26. The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway

    37 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  27. Ubiquity hardware sends telemetry and it cannot be turned off

    37 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  28. Sheryl Sandberg went from feminist hero to total sellout

    37 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  29. Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo Are the Top Plastic Polluters on the Planet

    37 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  30. The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising

    37 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  31. For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough

    37 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  32. Forcing vegan diet upon kids can lead to jail time in Belgium

    37 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  33. Open Sourcing Fuzz Testing Library for Java

    37 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  34. Turing as a Runner (1999)

    37 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  35. PgFincore – A set of functions to manage pages in memory from PostgreSQL

    37 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  36. E Ink just unveiled a new type of color e-paper

    37 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  37. Gopass – The Team Password Manager

    37 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  38. Three Mysterious Philanthropists Fund Fourth-Largest U.S. Charity (2014)

    37 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  39. Crumpled Outfits Drove Me to Create Origami-Style Dresses

    37 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  40. Facebook Ads removed our permissions, still charges us money

    37 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  41. "My phone's camera is damaged and makes noise upon activation..."

    36 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  42. Apple’s credit card is being investigated for discriminating against women

    36 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  43. Choosing Go at American Express

    36 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  44. RMS: GitHub has done terrible harm to our community

    36 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  45. AMD launches ridiculously cheap overclockable $49 Athlon 3000G processor

    36 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  46. Unpopular Opinions about Tech

    36 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  47. The ‘Silicon Six’ spread propaganda. It’s time to regulate social media sites

    36 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  48. Federal Crime Data Standardization and Analysis

    36 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  49. Deconstructing a Sexploitation Attack

    36 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  50. The Drowned Lands of the Wallkill

    36 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  51. How mantis shrimp make sense of the world

    36 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  52. Potted plants do not improve indoor air quality

    36 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  53. Google to Acquire Fitbit

    36 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  54. Back to Windows after twenty years

    36 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  55. Microsoft says yes to future encrypted DNS requests in Windows

    36 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  56. The Dawn of a New Command Line Interface (2017)

    36 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  57. We Asked People Around the World How They Feel About AI. Here’s What We Learned

    36 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  58. Downloading Large Heroku Postgres Backups

    36 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  59. Risk the kitsch: The life of a concert pianist

    35 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  60. GitRoyalty – First OSS Paywall

    35 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  61. Show HN: HintPod – Reach product/market fit quicker

    35 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  62. Broadband Communism: Jeremy Corbyn gets serious about free internet

    35 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  63. Tim Cook Appears Alongside Trump in Re-Election Campaign Ad Shot

    35 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  64. Announcing Async-Std 1.0

    35 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  65. The Manila Galleons: Cruel Ships of Prosperity (2016)

    35 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  66. Krispy Kreme strikes deal with kid who drives 250 miles to resell its doughnuts

    35 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  67. Mechanically transformative electronics, sensors, and implantable devices

    35 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  68. Show HN: Flowy – A minimal JavaScript library to create flowcharts

    35 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  69. Nearly 1 in 5 Millennial Renters Expect to Rent Forever in Some Metros

    35 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  70. Ralph Merkle on Space Cryonics and Nanotechnology

    35 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  71. Docker is just static linking for millenials

    35 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  72. Minnesota Public Radio sent us one of the weirdest legal threats ever received

    35 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  73. Lessons from APL, a “Lost” Language

    35 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  74. Abe Lincoln Looks West: How the Civil War Changed the Frontier

    35 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  75. Looking Glass 8K Immersive Display

    35 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  76. Tesla tried to have whistleblower SWATTED, arrested, placed mental health hold

    35 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  77. Capital One refused my fraud claim because a chip was used

    35 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  78. Computational analysis concludes that Molière wrote the plays attributed to him

    35 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  79. The top 1% of app store publishers drive 80% of new downloads

    35 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  80. IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display

    35 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  81. T-Fuzz: fuzzing by program transformation (2018) [pdf]

    35 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  82. Python vs. Common Lisp, Workflow and Ecosystem

    35 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  83. Portraits in Oil

    35 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  84. The Humanoid Stain: Art lessons from our cave-dwelling ancestors

    35 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  85. Show HN: Serialize++ – Tiny Data Serialization Library for C++

    35 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  86. The Horizons of Instrument Design: A Conversation with Don Buchla (1982)

    35 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  87. Is Publishing Too Top-Heavy?

    35 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  88. Show HN: Bel language guide and source code with formatting

    35 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  89. Google fires four workers active in labor organizing

    35 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  90. The Case of the Missing Barrels (2017)

    35 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  91. 17th century warships linked to Sweden's historic Vasa found

    35 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  92. Kubethanos a tool to kill half of your pods randomly to test your system

    35 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  93. Ask HN: What is the point of algorithm-heavy interviews?

    34 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  94. Ask HN: Any front end engineers transition to ML/AI engineering? What's it like?

    34 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  95. Calm Before the Storm

    34 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  96. Microsoft Fluent Design System

    34 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  97. PA Supreme Court Rules Police Can’t Force You to Tell Them Your Password

    34 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  98. Open vs. Closed Pipes – Flutes vs. Clarinets (2007)

    34 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  99. Announcing TypeScript 3.7

    34 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  100. Leadership Bits – short podcasts for tech execs

    34 points • comment • nov 02, 2019