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Hacker News (Nov 2019)

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

    148 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

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

    148 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  3. Budapest declares climate emergency, teases carbon-neutrality

    147 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  4. The Editable PDF Initiative

    147 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  5. Edge vs. Chrome: Microsoft's Tracking Prevention Hits Google the Hardest

    147 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  6. Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform

    147 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  7. Godot 3.2 beta 1

    147 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  8. Some scientists are serious about resurrecting zeppelins for cargo

    147 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  9. Why does F = ma?

    147 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  10. Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands

    147 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  11. An Open Source 4-Port High Power USB Hub

    147 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  12. Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

    147 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  13. Show HN: Hide Likes Everywhere

    147 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  14. Show HN: Excel Sensitivity Analysis Tool

    146 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  15. Show HN: EasyDB – A One-Click Ephemeral Database

    146 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  16. Google search results have more human help than you think, report finds

    146 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  17. Haskell and Rust

    146 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  18. Simon Peyton-Jones on computer science in school curriculums [video]

    146 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  19. Learn Coq in Y Minutes

    146 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  20. Relentlessly Simplify

    145 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  21. Show HN: Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter

    145 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  22. PLANTML: Create Diagrams from Markup

    145 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  23. Oracle built a 1,060 node Raspberry Pi cluster

    145 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  24. Go memory ballast: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the heap

    144 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  25. FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products

    144 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  26. Fleck: A Lisp that runs wherever Bash is

    144 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  27. Hand and Wrist Exercises for Computer Users

    144 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  28. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)

    144 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  29. Show HN: GPG on macOS and YubiKey

    144 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  30. Show HN: Minimal Reader for the ESV Bible, Written in Janet

    144 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  31. Study Finds Wind Speeds Are Increasing, Which Could Boost Wind Energy

    143 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  32. Deep Learning in the Real World: Dealing with Non-Differentiable Loss Functions

    143 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  33. Tim Berners-Lee unveils plan to save the web

    143 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  34. Never mind the 1 percent Let's talk about the 0.01 percent (2017)

    143 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  35. DDR4 SDRAM – Initialization, Training and Calibration

    143 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  36. Show HN: microvm – a minimalist machine type for QEMU inspired by Firecracker

    143 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  37. America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy

    143 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  38. 2000+ Goodies for Nerds

    143 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  39. In Defense of Latin

    143 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  40. An interview with Barbara Liskov

    142 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  41. Scapegoating free software’s failures

    142 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  42. The Configuration Complexity Curse

    142 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  43. Before buying Ring, WEMO or Roku, consider privacy issues

    142 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  44. Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers

    142 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  45. Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires

    142 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  46. Tearing apart printf() (2018)

    142 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  47. Man or boy test

    141 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  48. Apple's New Map: Midwest and Western U.S.

    141 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  49. Gitlab was down

    141 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  50. The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest: 2019 Winners

    141 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  51. Surviving Software Dependencies

    141 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  52. China Set for Coal Expansion in Threat to Climate Goals

    141 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  53. A Pragmatic Approach to Thorny People Problems

    140 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  54. Taking too much slack out of the rubber band

    140 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  55. Illegal drones ground water-dropping helicopters in Maria fire battle

    140 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  56. Burned-Out Flash Trips Up Older Teslas

    140 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  57. Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind and gprof (2015)

    140 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  58. Static Types in SwiftUI

    140 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  59. Let's Encrypt certificate issuance was down

    140 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  60. A Pirate's Guide to Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and Other Scores

    140 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  61. What does “frequency” mean in an image?

    140 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  62. KiCad Joins Linux Foundation to Advance Electronic Design Automation

    140 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  63. Wide Neural Networks of Any Architecture Are Gaussian Processes

    139 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  64. Amazon will stop sales of used first-party Nintendo products starting November 1

    139 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  65. Beating C with 70 lines of Go

    139 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  66. Offshore wind will be a $1T industry by 2040, but it's needed now

    139 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  67. BrowserFS: An in-browser filesystem supports various back ends

    139 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  68. Losing the News: The Decimation of Local News and the Search for Solutions

    139 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  69. Helm (the Kubernetes package manager) 3.0.0 has been released

    139 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  70. California says Facebook dodged privacy subpoenas

    139 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  71. A Thermomechanical Material Point Method for Baking and Cooking [video]

    138 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  72. Show HN: LuaJIT assembler/assembly language for direct bytecode programming

    138 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  73. When Britain and France Almost Merged into One Country (2017)

    138 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  74. Effectively Using Matplotlib (2017)

    138 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  75. Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill available time

    137 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  76. Logic Puzzles with Prolog (2017)

    137 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  77. Over a Third of Americans Battle Job Burnout Every Single Week

    137 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  78. CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough to crash your system

    137 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  79. Life expectancy in the U.S. is declining for middle-aged people of all groups

    137 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  80. YouTube suspends Google accounts of Markiplier's viewers for minor emote spam

    137 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  81. Bad Binder: Android In-the-Wild Exploit

    137 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  82. It's Not Sabotage, They're Drowning

    137 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  83. The Tibetan meditation research of Herbert Benson

    137 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  84. Live video from a fishing boat in New Zealand

    137 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  85. CockroachDB 19.2

    137 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  86. Gremlin Brings Chaos Engineering as a Service to Kubernetes

    136 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  87. Usql – A Universal CLI for Databases

    136 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  88. Is there any data that says secondhand car seats aren’t safe?

    136 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  89. Link between inflammation and mental sluggishness shown in new study

    136 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  90. WebOS OSE 2.1

    136 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  91. Air pollution causes brain structure changes that resemble Alzheimer's disease

    136 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  92. How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct

    135 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  93. Union Types have been accepted for PHP 8

    135 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

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

    135 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  95. Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'

    135 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  96. NSW Digital Driver Licence

    135 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  97. The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)

    135 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  98. Mental Mountains

    135 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  99. Ask HN: How is your mental health?

    135 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  100. A tiny pharmacy is identifying problems with common drugs

    135 points • comment • nov 09, 2019