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Hacker News (2019)

A predicted superconductor might work at a record-breaking 200° Celsius
73 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks
73 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
The Problem of the Aging Surgeon (2009)
73 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
FCC struggles to convince judge that broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
73 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
Show HN: Design System Playground
73 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Price Fixing: The Legal Argument That Could Destroy Uber
73 points • comment • may 21, 2019
What was it like to be an executioner in the Middle Ages?
73 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
Show HN: Gita – a CLI tool to manage multiple Git repos
73 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Australia Will Join U.S. for 2024 Moon Mission, Mars Exploration
73 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
The many human errors that brought down the Boeing 737 Max
73 points • comment • may 02, 2019
U.S. government staff told to treat Huawei as blacklisted
73 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Apple Had Five Ways to Fuel Earnings. Only One Still Works
73 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Building hybrid blockchain/cloud applications
73 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
I've Listened to Loud Rock Music All My Life. Now My Hearing Is Paying the Price
73 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Kernel analysis with bpftrace
73 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Could an Eye Doctor Diagnose Alzheimer’s Before You Have Symptoms?
73 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
73 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
73 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
America’s Pistachio Industry Came from a Single Seed
73 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G era approaching
73 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Targeted ads are one of the world's most destructive trends
73 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Facebook blames a server configuration change for yesterday’s outage
73 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Monads, or Programmable Semicolons (2014)
73 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
One Day With the Squad That Removes Needles and Feces From Downtown Portland
73 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards
73 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Show HN: Map of Polish Composers
73 points • comment • may 08, 2019
How Did a Nissan Leaf Beat a Tesla Model S in a Race?
73 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
The Fusion Reactor Next Door
73 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Hobbes – A Language and an Embedded JIT Compiler
73 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Night of a cascading failure
73 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (1851)
73 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Court orders Germany to question US drone strikes
73 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
The Hedonic Treadmill
73 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen Steps Down
73 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Artists Should Be Allowed to Fail
73 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Writing Documents at Amazon
73 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force
73 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Things you should know about the Ottoman Janissaries
73 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Our team's troubles writing automated UI tests
73 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
73 points • comment • may 07, 2019
What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life (2018)
73 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Doomed Jets Lacked 2 Safety Features That Boeing Sold as Extras
73 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Blockchain takes us back to medieval times
73 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Dadamachines Doppler: FPGA open music hardware
73 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
We Really Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video]
73 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
An Elusive Whale Is Found All Around the World
73 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Smartphone Sales Are in Freefall, and That’s Okay
73 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Instantbox: Spins up temporary Linux systems with webshell access from a browser
73 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Fires Globally Have Declined 25% Since 2003
73 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Experts say demographic shifts, not AI, create the biggest challenges for work
73 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
MetaCall: Inter-language foreign function interface calls
73 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good
73 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Federation is the Worst of all Worlds (2018)
73 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
“The China Study” and Longevity
73 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Ask HN: D programmers, what does your development setup look like?
73 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Biggest Breach of U.S. Secrets Pleads Guilty
73 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Infosys settles with California over alleged visa scam, tax evasion
73 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Serial art thief arrested again
73 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world
73 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Ask HN: Tools for rational decision making?
73 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Google Chrome Update Damages macOS File System
73 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
A Giant Speaker in Taiwan Is About to Switch on Again (2018)
73 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
My Journey from Free Market Ideologue, Part 5: Commercial Development
73 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End
73 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
V8 Release v8.0
73 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Git-signatures – Multiple PGP signatures for your commits
73 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Anchor Says Buckingham Palace Pressure Killed ABC's Story on Epstein
73 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big
73 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Show HN: pgcmd – An alternative to psql with JSON output
73 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
I’ve used Dvorak for 10 years, and it’s not all that
73 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Iceland Grey Listed for Inadequate Money Laundering Policies
73 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Multi-Level Intermediate Representation Compiler Infrastructure
73 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
‘Deepfakes’ Trigger a Race to Fight Manipulated Photos and Videos
73 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Shows Recipients Are Happier and More Secure
73 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes
73 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye
73 points • comment • may 25, 2019
Where the Bodies Are Buried
73 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Using Artificial Intelligence to Engineer Materials’ Properties
73 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Can You Overdose on Happiness?
73 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go
73 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
73 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
The Cost of Fixing Things
73 points • comment • may 12, 2019
No Shenanigans
73 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Activation Atlases
73 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Some Employees Chafe as Google’s New Internal Rules Take Hold
73 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
A novel data-compression technique for faster computer programs
73 points • comment • may 19, 2019
How Helsinki Built ‘Book Heaven’
73 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Cars People Keep for 15 Years or More
73 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
C++20 Is Feature Complete; Here’s What Changes Are Coming
73 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Show HN: Comfygure – A small CLI to manage application configurations
73 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Year-round daylight time will cause ‘permanent jet lag,’ sleep experts warn
73 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Cold plasma can inactivate or remove airborne viruses, UMich study shows
73 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Espresso-hole – EspressoBin-based personal router with ad blocking
73 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
It is your moral obligation to use Firefox
73 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Traffic Vis: Traffic Theory Explained Visually
73 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Structuring Legal Documents with Deep Learning
73 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Gyrocar
73 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Seminal deep learning papers
73 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Sweet.js – Hygienic Macros for JavaScript
73 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
The Ancient Secrets of Computer Vision: The Evolution of Human Vision
73 points • comment • may 03, 2019