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Hacker News (2019)

Most Americans see catastrophic weather events worsening
102 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Using Spotify data to predict what songs will be hits
102 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Scientists reverse aging process in rat brain stem cells
102 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
Finland urges EU to consider banning Brazilian beef over Amazon fires
102 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Why I prefer objects over switch statements
102 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Amazon’s Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx
102 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Eve Online’s communications blackout explained
102 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
SVG Jigsaw Generation in Clojure
102 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay
102 points • comment • may 23, 2019
The perpetuation of bonded labor in Pakistan
102 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
Pay a visit to Cambridge’s computer museum
102 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Fortnite and the Good Life
102 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012)
102 points • comment • may 16, 2019
How to Build a Pyramid
102 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Cold War spy technology we all use
102 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid?
102 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg
102 points • comment • may 20, 2019
The D-Day rehearsal that cost 800 lives (2014)
102 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Groups of Homeless People
102 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
The boring genius of how Atrium kills legal busy work
102 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
The pros and cons of placebo buttons
102 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
Banish missing glyphs with Unifont
102 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
How common was it for parents to lose a child?
102 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Beam: Distributed knowledge graph store written in Go by eBay
102 points • comment • may 05, 2019
A Peer to Peer Voting Algorithm [pdf]
102 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
Boom in Dodgy Wall Street Deals Points to Market Trouble Ahead
102 points • comment • may 16, 2019
How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use
102 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry
102 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
Security for Elasticsearch is now free
102 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Benefits of talking to strangers
102 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Show HN: BepuPhysics – 3D real-time physics simulation library in C#
102 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
I Can Eat Glass
102 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Running Forth Unikernels
102 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ Exploded a Discipline
102 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
The Brain Needs Animal Fat
102 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Creating Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data
102 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
Gardens with a 12,000-person waiting list
102 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
A Comscore Company Distributes a MITM Proxy Spyware Compromising Users Security
102 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
General Electric: A Bigger Fraud Than Enron
102 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Why We're Bootstrapping Readwise (2018)
102 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
How to Teach an Iris Scanner That the Eye It’s Looking at Is Dead
102 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Your throat hurts, your brain hurts: the life of the audiobook star
102 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Pengwin – A Linux Distro Optimized for WSL Based on Debian
102 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Brexit – where now? The flow diagrams
102 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Potato farmers cry foul as PepsiCo sues them
102 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
How researchers discovered we have “two brains” [video]
102 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Natural Language in Python Using SpaCy: An Introduction
102 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"?
102 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
A Machine Learning Guide to Hierarchical Temporal Memory
102 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
The Golden Scale: A Collection of Norwegian Folktales
102 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
AirPods Pro Page Performance
102 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Rust is not a good C replacement
102 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
PyData: A community for developers and users of open source data tools
102 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Hexagonal Cross Stitch
102 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Show HN: Dat-keyserver: a distributed PGP keyserver based on the Dat protocol
102 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Swedish ISP Blocks Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub
102 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Cache tables
102 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
Engineering Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks
102 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
List of Statements Independent of ZFC
102 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
SBCL20 in Vienna
102 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Lefthook: Knock your team’s code back into shape
102 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Google will no longer make its own tablet devices
102 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Notifica – an app for if you're at risk of being detained by ICE agents
102 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Japan wants foreign entrepreneurs, but what's missing?
102 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Illusory Truth Effect
102 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits
102 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Modern Script Loading
102 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Show HN: ASCII TV – Stream ASCII movies in your terminal with curl
102 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Interactive Programming for Artificial Intelligence [video]
102 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
The perilous life of a computer virus cracker making enemies online
102 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.3.1
102 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
Fax machines can be hacked to breach a network, using only its number (2018)
102 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Idaho artifacts show humans came to North America via a water route, not land
102 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
H-1B: Federal judge backs government’s narrower view of ‘specialty occupation’
102 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Neither, and New: Lessons from Uber and Vision Fund
102 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
George Boole and the Calculus of Thought (2018)
102 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
The cerebellum is your “little brain”, and it does some pretty big things
102 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Marree Man
102 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Understanding zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples
102 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
I’m Suing Lyft
102 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Metal Lathe Made from Scrap Auto Parts
102 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
Dollar vans, NYC’s other transit system
102 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Trump Will End California’s Authority to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules
102 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Show HN: OpenCV based multi-object-tracker with various object detection models
102 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Remote Code Execution in Firefox beyond Memory Corruptions
102 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
A framework for creating Python/C++ polyglots
102 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games
102 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Pijul for Git users
102 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritime Military Secrets
102 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
On Tolstoy's “War and Peace”
102 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Google Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags
102 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Launch HN: Saratoga Energy (YC W19), Better Carbon Nanotubes from Carbon Dioxide
102 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Gitea 1.10.0 Released
102 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Tracking logo found in Navy email to Navy Times amid leak investigation
102 points • comment • may 17, 2019
At high pressures, potassium adopts a mix of crystalline and liquid structure
102 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Facebook are frantically trying to find out who leaked thousands of documents
102 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Show HN: Python package and CLI to generate stylistic word clouds
102 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Life of a Pixel 2018
102 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Show HN: JSON Pizza – Beautify your JSON quickly
102 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Deep Learning to Federated Learning in 10 Lines of PyTorch and PySyft
102 points • comment • mar 01, 2019