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Hacker News (Nov 2019)

  1. Completing Racket's relicensing effort

    167 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  2. Matestack: Rapidly create interactive UIs in Ruby

    166 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  3. SoftBank Reveals $6.5B Loss from Uber, WeWork Turmoil

    166 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  4. Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access

    166 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  5. South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons

    166 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  6. BodyPix: Real-Time Person Segmentation in the Browser with Tensorflow.js

    165 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  7. The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working People – Reading List

    165 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  8. Making Git and Jupyter Notebooks play nice

    165 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  9. Common Mistakes and Missed Optimization Opportunities in SQL

    165 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  10. Surgery for Blocked Arteries Is Often Unwarranted, Researchers Find

    165 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  11. Vulkan Progress Report #5

    165 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  12. Software Updates

    164 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  13. Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists

    164 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  14. Malaysia's last known Sumatran rhino dies

    164 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  15. Sherlock: Find usernames across social networks

    164 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  16. Decentralized VPN Written in Go

    163 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  17. Unofficial Windows XP SP4

    163 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  18. Postgres Health Check and SQL Performance Analysis

    163 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  19. The 80/24 Rule

    163 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  20. Snopes Under Legal Attack from Salon.com

    163 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  21. “Royalty-Free” Music Supplied by YouTube Results in Mass Video Demonetization

    163 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  22. Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)

    162 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  23. GNU Compiler Collection Internals [pdf]

    162 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  24. Show HN: Collective.Energy – Crowdsource climate solutions as a community

    162 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  25. Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years

    162 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  26. Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law

    162 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  27. ksqlDB: Event streaming database for stream processing applications

    162 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  28. The successor of SMS has already been hacked

    162 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  29. Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project

    162 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  30. Multi-Value All the Wasm

    161 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  31. Cityspeak from Blade Runner (2002)

    161 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  32. Colossal Holograms

    161 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  33. A Woman Who Recorded 70k Tapes of American News

    161 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  34. Unknown Fund: Investing and donating to support anonymity

    161 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  35. Building a Large-Scale Distributed Storage System Based on Raft

    161 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  36. Boeing 777X’s fuselage split dramatically during September stress test

    160 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  37. How an Optimizing Compiler Works

    160 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  38. What Grace Hopper meant with “easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission”

    160 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  39. 64 bits ought to be enough for anybody

    160 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  40. Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-Controllable Systems

    160 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  41. Astrophotography with Night Sight on Pixel Phones

    160 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  42. Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (2013)

    159 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  43. America’s Largest Health Insurer Is Giving Apartments to Homeless People

    159 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  44. Physics worth more to EU economy than retail and financial services, says study

    159 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  45. How to Hide a Billion Dollars

    159 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  46. Microsoft’s web-based version of Visual Studio

    158 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  47. X17 Particle

    158 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  48. CUDA Toolkit Release Notes

    158 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  49. Small share of U.S. adults produce majority of tweets on national politics

    158 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  50. Jor1k: Run Linux in the browser with multicore and network support

    157 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  51. Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps

    157 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  52. A Week with Chauffeurs Showed the Major Flaw in a Self-Driving Car Future

    157 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  53. Ask HN: Any “Git diff”-like service but for when terms of conditions changes?

    157 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  54. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

    157 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  55. Music Generates Feelings That Are Only Weakly Bound to the Music

    157 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  56. Nerd Fonts

    157 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  57. AVX register corruption from signal delivery

    157 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  58. How to Begin a Novel

    156 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  59. Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?

    156 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  60. Atom editor still phones home prior to consent dialog

    156 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  61. Opensourcing the Universal Package Manager

    156 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  62. Talent May Be Shifting Away from Superstar Cities: Study

    156 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  63. Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa

    156 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  64. A CS degree is better than teaching yourself how to code?

    155 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  65. OnePlus Hit by Data Breach

    155 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  66. Gross margins and SaaS companies

    155 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  67. Flan Scan: Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner

    154 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  68. Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space

    154 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  69. One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble

    154 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  70. Narcissistic CEOs weaken collaboration and integrity

    154 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  71. A collection of bad practices in HTML

    153 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  72. Krispy Kreme mule will be allowed to continue operating

    152 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  73. 100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static site

    152 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  74. Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?

    152 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  75. This year’s Nobel prizes prompt soul-searching among economists

    152 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  76. What It’s Really Like to Fight a War

    152 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  77. 33 Thomas Street

    152 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  78. Who eats who in open source

    152 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  79. California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E

    152 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  80. Why cement emissions matter for climate change (2018)

    151 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  81. Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet (2010) [pdf]

    151 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  82. The Innocent Pleasure of Trespassing

    151 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  83. For Sale: Sat-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity

    151 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  84. Solar farm has to switch off every second day due to negative prices

    151 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  85. Chaos, and what to do about it (2018)

    150 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  86. South Carolina judges often lack formal training in the law

    150 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  87. Show HN: Space Invaders but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm

    150 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  88. Latency/throughput tradeoffs, illustrated with coffee

    150 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  89. Senators ask if Facebook 'really' lets users opt out of location tracking

    150 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  90. Unsoundness in Pin

    150 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  91. Y Combinator Abruptly Shutters YC China

    150 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  92. Robotics Development Environment with ROS in C++ and Python

    149 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  93. Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model

    149 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  94. Podman and Buildah for Docker Users

    149 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  95. Google Chrome experiment crashes browser tabs, impacts companies worldwide

    149 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  96. A Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy

    148 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  97. Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking

    148 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  98. Ask HN: Does being practical act as a hinderance to one’s imagination?

    148 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  99. What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks on a PC?

    148 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  100. Elephants Rarely Get Cancer, Now We Know Why (2015)

    148 points • comment • nov 08, 2019