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Hacker News (Nov 2019)

  1. How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results

    241 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  2. Recursive Mono and Sans, a free variable type family

    241 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  3. Firefox Preview 3.0

    241 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  4. The war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds

    241 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  5. California’s Criminal Cops

    240 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  6. Moving towards a faster web

    240 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  7. Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub

    239 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  8. Hospitals are a weak spot in U.S. cybersecurity

    238 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  9. Discovering less-known Postgres v12 features

    238 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  10. How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native

    237 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  11. Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]

    237 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  12. Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think

    237 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  13. Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral

    237 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  14. Internet in Iran gradually shuttting down due to protests

    236 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  15. Ableton Connection Kit (2016)

    236 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  16. New York State Attorney General Investigating WeWork

    236 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  17. Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale

    236 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  18. The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system and ACLU is suing

    236 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  19. Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe

    235 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  20. “We would like to apologize to the user for the error on our part this morning”

    235 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  21. Algebraic Data Types: Things I wish someone had explained about FP

    235 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  22. Why 50 Ohms?

    234 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  23. A Look at PureDarwin – An OS Based on the Open Source Core of macOS

    234 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  24. How to make your C codebase Rusty: rewriting keyboard firmware keymap

    234 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  25. OpenSSH's Support for U2F/Fido Security

    233 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  26. Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules

    233 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  27. Some Favorite Non-Technical Books (2018)

    233 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  28. Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons

    233 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  29. ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter – DNW

    233 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  30. Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)

    233 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  31. Satya Nadella Added $850B to Microsoft

    233 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  32. How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramento Kings

    232 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  33. If you care about user privacy, don’t use Facebook JavaScript SDK

    232 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  34. Lack of cdnjs activity

    232 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  35. DNA database that found Golden State Killer is potential national security leak

    231 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  36. “What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects”

    231 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  37. Diagram.codes

    231 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  38. Designing better data tables (2017)

    231 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  39. WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core

    230 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  40. You can fool some of the people, all of the time

    230 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  41. Telling users why their content was removed reduces future issues [pdf]

    230 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  42. Google App Engine and Cloud Datastore Outages

    230 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  43. After WeWork, SoftBank’s Startup Bookkeeping Draws Scrutiny

    230 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  44. Information Is Physics

    229 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  45. Minimal Viable Programs (2014)

    229 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  46. Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies

    229 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  47. A Dead-Simple Web Stack in Haskell

    229 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  48. Homebrew Cray-1A

    228 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  49. Security assessment techniques for Go projects

    228 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  50. Ants trapped for years in an old bunker

    228 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  51. Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day

    228 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  52. Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have Never Been Approved’

    228 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  53. Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

    228 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  54. Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security firm for US intelligence

    227 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  55. McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality

    227 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  56. Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search?

    227 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  57. LocalStack – A fully-functional local AWS cloud stack

    226 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  58. Python adopts a 12-month release cycle

    226 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  59. HPE Drive fail at 32,768 hours without firmware update

    226 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  60. Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode

    226 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  61. Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed

    225 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  62. GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to DCLXVI

    225 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  63. Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey

    225 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  64. Distilling knowledge from neural networks to build smaller and faster models

    224 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  65. Stop Teaching Code, Solicit Predictions Instead

    224 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  66. Is Inequality Inevitable?

    223 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  67. Domes are overrated

    223 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  68. CRDT: Conflict-free replicated data type

    222 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  69. Why is everyone a bank?

    221 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  70. Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

    221 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  71. Overview of Rust error handling libraries

    220 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  72. Fastmail – 20 Years Old

    220 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  73. Red Hat Introduces Open Source Project Quay Container Registry

    220 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  74. Garbage Collection (2017)

    220 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  75. Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud

    219 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  76. How Y Combinator Started (2012)

    219 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  77. A Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's

    219 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  78. Ask HN: Do you write tests before the implementation?

    219 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  79. Light pollution is key 'bringer of insect apocalypse'

    219 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  80. Instant stone (just add water) (2018)

    218 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  81. Yahoo Pipes

    218 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  82. CMU 15-721: In-Memory Databases / Advanced Database Systems [video]

    217 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  83. Study of “moral grandstanding” helps explain why social media is so toxic

    217 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  84. Naïve Bayes for Machine Learning

    217 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  85. Mal – Make a Lisp, implemented in 79 languages

    217 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  86. Show HN: Workouts – Learn by doing real developer projects

    215 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  87. Rust 2020: GUI and Community

    215 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  88. Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have to livestream your stay

    215 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  89. Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018)

    215 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  90. Webglstudio.js – Open-source 3D graphics editor in the browser

    214 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  91. Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA

    214 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  92. TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship

    213 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  93. Pwn the ESP32 Forever: Flash Encryption and SEC. Boot Keys Extraction

    213 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  94. Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft

    213 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  95. Crinkle Crankle Wall

    212 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  96. First New HIV Strain in 19 Years Identified

    212 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  97. Cook: ‘China Hasn’t Pressured Us’

    212 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  98. Cops are making fewer arrests since N.J. got rid of cash bail

    212 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  99. OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)

    211 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  100. Neat Rust Tricks: Passing Closures to C

    211 points • comment • nov 25, 2019