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Hacker News (2019)

Raytracer.jl: A Differentiable Renderer That Supports Parameter Optimization [pdf]
75 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Scissors Congruence
75 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Habitat (video game)
75 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
The New World of Notebook Publishing
75 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
Show HN: Git-remote-s3 – push and pull Git repos to/from s3, encrypted using GPG
75 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Swimmers Beware of Deep Brain Stimulation
75 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Commit messages are not titles (2015)
75 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Most of the Mind Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction
75 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes on Tricky Public Health Role
74 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Small proton charge radius from an electron–proton scattering experiment
74 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Programming language ray tracing benchmarks project
74 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change
74 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Illegal toxic waste dumping in Italy (2014)
74 points • comment • may 19, 2019
Work Is a Queue of Queues
74 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Open-source Chrome extension to save the state of a page for further analysis
74 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
Einstein, Symmetry and the Future of Physics
74 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
The Baghdad Battery
74 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
E3 accidentally leaks personal details of journalists, YouTubers and analysts
74 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (1976) [pdf]
74 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
The Long Game of Research
74 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
A Working Mathematician’s Guide to Parsing
74 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Facebook Says It Has Suspended ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Apps
74 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms
74 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Creating a Collaborative Editor
74 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
What Was the Happiest Day on the Internet This Decade?
74 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Ex-Joyeur
74 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Network Solutions’ scammy bullshit signup funnel
74 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Publishing Simple Books with Jekyll
74 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
A napalm attack, an orphan, and a message three decades later
74 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Japan's Women Opt Out of Marriage
74 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize 'magic mushrooms'
74 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
In the rush to harvest body parts, death investigations have been upended
74 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Apple patents MacBook with key switches under a flexible touchscreen keyboard
74 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
FAA Considers Relaxing Licensing Requirements for Rockets
74 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Availability of the Government of the United States
74 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control
74 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them
74 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
What Is a 'Nautical Mile'? (2011)
74 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
Running TensorFlow at Petascale and Beyond
74 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
No One Is Safe: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear
74 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Cannabis Smoking Associated with Higher Sperm Count, Study Finds
74 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
BSD Sockets Addressing
74 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Phoenix: LiveView
74 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
European Investment Bank to phase out fossil fuel financing
74 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
The unsolved mystery of the soldier who died in the watchtower
74 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
BPF Theremin, Tetris, and Typewriters
74 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Who Controls Diners’ Data? OpenTable Moves to Assert Control
74 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
You have to follow the recipe
74 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
Teen Gets Vaccines During Measles Outbreak, Despite Mom's Belief
74 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
Most Functional Compiler
74 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Analog computation, Part 1: What and why
74 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
The Hydrocarbon Era’s Spectacular End
74 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Startups Lose in a Low-Rate World, and the Fed Is Blaming Itself
74 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Boom Supersonic (YC W16) XB-1 Fuselage Construction Underway
74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
The Era of General Purpose Computers Is Ending
74 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
Mining Social Media
74 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
How shutting out men from the conversation is an obstacle to change
74 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Magical, Mystical JavaScript Transducers
74 points • comment • jun 29, 2019
Tenure-Based Ownership – A distributed equity model for worker ownership
74 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (2017)
74 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Launch HN: Withfriends (YC W19) – Memberships for Small Businesses
74 points • comment • may 02, 2019
The Measure of Intelligence: towards more human-like artificial systems
74 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Did blind orchestra auditions benefit women?
74 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Ask HN: Partial Bootstrap for a SaaS Startup
74 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Show HN: Startup jobs of 2018, visualized
74 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Smalltalk-72 Instruction Manual (1976) [pdf]
74 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Deep Learning Optimizer Visualization
74 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
Fries of the Future
74 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Photograph Your Work
74 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
Arcs of Seniority
74 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
On the S-Box of GOST Streebog and Kuznyechik
74 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Launch HN: Together (YC S19) – App to facilitate employee-employee mentoring
74 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Indigenous civilizations are far older and more complex than history suggests
74 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study says
74 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Antedating “datatype” all the way to Plankalkül (2017)
74 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Rotary Jails
74 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
We are not nearly as determined by our genes as once thought
74 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Golden Ratio
74 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
What an Extinct Bird Re-Evolving Says About “Species”
74 points • comment • may 25, 2019
Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach
74 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
How I Built and Sold My Company in 18 Months
74 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Psychiatric Diagnosis Found to Be “Scientifically Meaningless”
74 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Algebraic Structures for Untyped Racket
74 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
No More Shiny Tomorrows: Futurism Needs to Get Real
74 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
The Incredible Proof Machine (2016)
74 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals
74 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
World's rivers 'awash with dangerous levels of antibiotics'
74 points • comment • may 28, 2019
List of selected stars for navigation
74 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Alternative Periodic Tables
74 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Disney: Bob Iger bets the company (and Hollywood's future) on streaming
74 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Geohash in Golang Assembly (2018)
74 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Burgundy wine investors have beaten the stock market
74 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Prague: A European capital cobbled with Jewish gravestones
74 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Andrew Yang’s math on the robot takeover doesn’t check out
74 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Cone Programming Langauge
74 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Volkswagen boss criticizes Germany’s decision to privilege coal over nuclear
74 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day Working Productively
74 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
YouTube says it has ‘no obligation’ to host anyone’s video
74 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Generate your document site in 3 seconds
74 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Why do we think cats are unfriendly?
74 points • comment • oct 31, 2019