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Hacker News (2019)

The Puzzles of Thermopylae
54 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
A reflection about automatic transcription of music (2018)
54 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (2016)
54 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
It’s China’s World
54 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
Microsoft Japan’s 4-day workweek experiment sees productivity jump 40%
54 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Medieval Innovations
53 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
AI Winter
53 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Bombay Nights
53 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
US Electricity Markets Aren't Designed to Handle 100% Clean Energy
53 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
A strange-looking fish washed up on a California beach
53 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Movim 0.16 – A federated web-based social XMPP client
53 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Cancer Isn’t a Logic Problem (2017)
53 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
How is the internet still obsessed with Myers-Briggs?
53 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
Recursive Make Considered Harmful (1997) [pdf]
53 points • comment • may 26, 2019
VDSO, 32-bit time, and seccomp
53 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
We can break up Big Tech
53 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
US: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on users
53 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Akhenaten: mad, bad, or brilliant? (2014)
53 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
P99: Preprocessor Macros and Functions for C99 and C11 (2012)
53 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Handy Keymaps in Vim
53 points • comment • may 27, 2019
A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England
53 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Japan plans new driver's license system for elderly as accidents surge
53 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Quantum Interference Between Light Sources Separated by 150M Kilometers
53 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Show HN: Progress Dashboard – A dashboard to stay productive with progress bars
53 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
The “Strong Towns” Book Is Out Today
53 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Show HN: A hand-picked selection of the worst computer puns on the Internet
53 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Substantial Rise in Catalytic Converter Thefts
53 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Interactive Text Prediction Explainer
53 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze
53 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati
53 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Low-Memory Neural Network Training: A Technical Report
53 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
More young men dropping out of job market to spend time in an alternate reality
53 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Sonos requires access to your location to install a Sonos system
53 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam
53 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Ask HN: Stuck with an unpronounceable product name
53 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
USB Snooping Made Easy: Crosstalk Leakage Attacks on USB Hubs (2017)
53 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Amazon is sending me packages I didn't buy
53 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Former NFL Player, After Settling Title IX Lawsuit, Plots a Comeback
53 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Thoughts on Presenting (2014)
53 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
The Fastest Growing SaaS Companies of 2018
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
The Evolution of the Hard Hat
53 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Owl Feathers and Flight (2015)
53 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Facebook to face fresh anti-trust investigation
53 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Philadelphia Is First U.S. City to Ban Cashless Stores
53 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Shields Down (2016)
53 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
SageDB: a learned database system
53 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
Grand Theft Auto maker has paid no UK corporation tax in 10 years
53 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
ForwardCom: Proposal for forward compatible instruction set architecture (2018)
53 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Storing Data in Music
53 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Soundness and Completeness: With Precision
53 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
CIA Photo Taken Just Before Its Operatives First Entered Afghanistan After 9/11
53 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
The Brain Is Not a Computer (2016)
53 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Anyscale, from the creators of the Ray distributed computing project, launches
53 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Tiny Indian state proposes world’s biggest experiment with guaranteed income
53 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are struggling to stay online today
53 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Expanding Access: Engineering Uber Lite
53 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
GitHub’s latest security features
53 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
How to quit your job in 837 easy steps
53 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Oral History of Donald Knuth (2007) [video]
53 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Ask HN: What paths for a software engineer are age-resilient?
53 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Association of Neurocognitive and Physical Function with Gait Speed in Midlife
53 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Dropbox adds a device limit to free accounts
53 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
K Language: Remarks on Style (1995) [pdf]
53 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Tales of an Aging Gamer: We keep getting older, the games stay the same
53 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law has broadened
53 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
RIAA Lawyers Botched a Big One Against flvto.biz – So What’s Next?
53 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
Device vanishes on command after military missions
53 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Software patents poised to make a comeback under new patent office rules
53 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
French application of international rules to cyberwarfare
53 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Launch HN: Nala (YC W19) – Internet-Free Mobile Payments App for Africa
53 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
The $100M ARR Club
53 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
The College Scam Is Exposing All the Legal Ways Rich People Game Society
53 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Ask HN: How to get better at Data structures and Algorithm?
53 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Elements of Dance Etiquette (2005)
53 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
ElastiQuill: A modern blog engine built on top of Elasticsearch
53 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
Improved Doxygen documentation and search for C++ projects
53 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Smart speaker system uses white noise to monitor infants' breathing
53 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
A Manually-Curated Dataset of Fixes to Vulnerabilities of Open-Source Software
53 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
Writing Boot Sector Code (2007)
53 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Power Plant?
53 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Computing in the Soviet Space Program (2005)
53 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
States are looking to jam T-Mobile and Sprint’s proposed $26.5B merger
53 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
New Windows Terminal Preview
53 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
Removal of Safe Harbor Protection for Rebates
53 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
Shared e-scooters aren’t always as green as other transport options
53 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Op amp on the Moon: Reverse-engineering a hybrid op amp module
53 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
YouTube Blacklist Censors Content Containing Certain Keywords
53 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
Incognito no more: Publishers close loopholes as paywall blockers emerge
53 points • comment • may 16, 2019
The ‘circle of trust’ behind the world’s first gene-edited babies
53 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Russia Criminalizes the Spread of Online News Which 'Disrespects' the Government
53 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Moloch – Open-Source Large Scale Indexed Packet Capture and Search System
53 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Goodbye Medium
53 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
YourLanguageSucks
53 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Reflections on the State of AI: 2018
53 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
General Balanced Trees (1999) [pdf]
53 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
Atrazine in Australian water affects male fertility
53 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
The Decade of Swift
53 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Millennials still recognise songs from music’s 1960s-90s golden age, study finds
53 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Container Platform Security at Cruise
53 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Ask HN: Examples of bad open-source code to learn what to avoid?
53 points • comment • may 19, 2019