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Hacker News (2019)

An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita
69 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Three new FOSS umbrella organizations in Europe (2017)
69 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines
69 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
Did John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA?
69 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Pika/pack – NPM packaging, reimagined
69 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)
69 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Worstsort
69 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a cognitive neuroscientist
69 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?
69 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Amazon won't spin off AWS. That's hurting AWS
69 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Futhark 0.9.1 released – now with CUDA backend
69 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster
69 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Uber’s underwater investors
69 points • comment • may 13, 2019
IMF predicts slowest global economic growth since 2008 financial crisis
69 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Present Timing for Kids (2018)
69 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Turning Over: Why page turners matter
69 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager (2007) [pdf]
69 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
What a Year at a Mechanic Shop Taught Me About Process (2016)
69 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
“I Tested into Stanford Through My Own Hard Work.” JK, Her Parents Paid $6.5M
69 points • comment • may 06, 2019
Major power failure affects homes and transport
69 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 (2005)
69 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Economics Needs a Post-Crash Revolution
69 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
They Got Rich Off Uber and Lyft. Then They Moved to Low-Tax States
69 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Block Storage Issues Across All Regions: Incident Report for DigitalOcean
69 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Computer Scientists Create Reprogrammable Molecular Computing System
69 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Yacht fed their old music to the machine and got a killer new album
69 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
Woven image from 1839 was an important step in the history of computing (2016)
69 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
Known packings of equal circles in a circle
69 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Paradox of tolerance
69 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Verifiable Voting: A Primer
69 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Developers Are the Problem, Not Monoliths
69 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Roger Penrose Discusses Consciousness (2017)
69 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Most Bitcoin Trading Faked by Unregulated Exchanges, Study Finds
69 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
Redis 6 RC1 is out today
69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Cultural Course Correcting: Black Rock City 2019
69 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
Two-Headed Go
69 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Accounting machines, the IBM 1403, and why printers standardized on 132 columns
69 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Where Dollar Bills Come From
69 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
GitHub Classroom and Travis CI Improved Students’ Grades
69 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
Launch HN: Boost Biomes (YC S19) – Microbes for better crop yields, shelf life
69 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Esketamine Drug For Depression Treatment Nears FDA Approval
69 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
Missing Movies (2018)
69 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
The self-made man: on the long and eventful life of Frederick Douglass
69 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
An Opinionated Onboarding Setup for New Hires at Microsoft
69 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Government Shutdown to Affect Some Programming at CES 2019
69 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Goodhart’s Law: Are Academic Metrics Being Gamed?
69 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Hey Google, isn't this black-hat SEO?
69 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (2017)
69 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
What Is Not in Plan Nine (2012)
69 points • comment • may 25, 2019
Show HN: Cherry2.0 – text classification without ML knowledge needed
69 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Xinjiang: Ex-Blackwater chief's security firm linked to China training centre
69 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Who ordered memory fences on an x86? (2008)
69 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
As Xenophon saw it
69 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
Light Tracer – Experimental GPU ray tracer for web
69 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
The Enormous Numbers Behind Amazon’s Market Reach
69 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
How Robert Cottrell of ‘The Browser’ finds the best writing on the web
69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
China destroys 30k ‘incorrect’ world maps, claims Indian terrority
69 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Moore’s Law is not Dead
69 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Go
69 points • comment • may 17, 2019
150 Years of Nature
69 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
A study of ethicists finds they’re no more ethical than the rest of us
69 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
Fertility Fraud: Artificial insemination doctors who used their own sperm
69 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Minimum-wage worker needs 2.5 full-time jobs to afford a one-bedroom apartment
69 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Well, duh (1996)
69 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Why The Intercept closed the Snowden archive
69 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Show HN: I built a site to compare fees and rates for sending money abroad
69 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Venus – RISC-V Simulator
69 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics
69 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
The British-Irish Dialect Quiz
69 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
In Serbia, School Shooter with AK47 Got Beaten Up by PE Teacher
69 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
From AI to ML to AI: On Swirling Nomenclature and Slurried Thought (2018)
69 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Show HN: Ciao – HTTP checks and tests monitoring
69 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Scans of early RFCs
69 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
The Silurian Hypothesis
69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
A Man Who Questioned Everything
69 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Nitinol Engines (1992)
69 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Tanks Are Mighty Fine Things (1946)
69 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
69 points • comment • jun 29, 2019
World Population Cartogram (2018)
69 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
1994 Bolivian earthquake reveals mountains 660 kilometers below our feet
69 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Remote Development with Visual Studio Code (SSH/Docker)
69 points • comment • may 02, 2019
A new business in small satellites orbiting the Earth
69 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Gutenberg’s moving type propelled Europe towards the scientific revolution
69 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
Under pressure from regulators, Facebook is rethinking Libra's design
69 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Work on using AI to brain activity into speech
69 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850k malware infections
69 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
U.K. unveils plan to penalize Facebook and Google for harmful online content
69 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
69 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Pinterest to price IPO below last valuation
69 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
The Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials They Violated My Rights
69 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
A Man’s Obsessive Fight to Reclaim His Cambridge Analytica Data
69 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Buy Low-Tops, Sell High-Tops: StockX Sneaker Exchange Is Worth $1B
69 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
GNU Bison 3.3 released
69 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
'It's unfair': Chicago, where rich live 30 years longer than the poor
69 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Sarah Hörst Creates Exoplanet Atmospheres in Her Lab
69 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Widows on the Pain of Dining Alone
69 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
J Language – New Website
69 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
The Trust Crisis
69 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
The Ghosts of Windows 3.1
69 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Show HN: Gorse – A recommender system back end based on collaborative filtering
69 points • comment • nov 27, 2019