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Hacker News (2019)

States to Move Forward with Antitrust Probe of Big Tech Firms
45 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
The perils of short-termism
45 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Pre-Sliced Bread Was Once Banned in the United States (2010)
45 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
KDE Plasma Mobile weekly update: part 2
45 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Facebook’s $5B FTC fine is an embarrassing joke
45 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
The Government Won’t Let Me Watch Them Kill Bison, so I’m Suing (2015)
45 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Atchafalaya (1987)
45 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
The Graphics Chip Chronicles
45 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
An Ode to Excel: 34 Years of Magic
45 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales Up 20% to $63.4B [pdf]
45 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed Up Their Planets Too?
45 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Product Zeitgeist Fit
45 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Avast, a cybersecurity company, sells its customers' browsing data
45 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
A Hole in the Head
45 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Towards parallel kernel test runs
45 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
Neo.mjs – Webworker-driven UI framework
45 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
All the international brands that have apologized to China
45 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
US begins withdrawal from Paris climate accord
45 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Global Climate Strike Sept 20
45 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
The fusion energy dream is inching toward planet-saving reality
45 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
I would never send my kids to school (2017)
45 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Harried South Koreans pamper pets instead of having kids
44 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Ask HN: What is the best chair for developers?
44 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
The day I became a millionaire (2015)
44 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
What does a healthy game publisher/developer relationship look like?
44 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
DigiCert in-addr.arpa X.509 certificate mis-issuance
44 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
What's new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web search
44 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Elon Musk’s Surprise Pick for Tesla CFO Is a Relative Unknown
44 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
They Published the Perished: NYRB Classics puts masterpieces back in print
44 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
MythBusters Was Banned from Talking About RFID Chips by Credit Card Cos. (2012)
44 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space
44 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir
44 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
Worldwide observations confirm nearby 'lensing' exoplanet
44 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson
44 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
On the Design of Display Processors (1968) [pdf]
44 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Who Were the Pinkertons?
44 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
The promise and peril of the new science of social genomics
44 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Chrome 76 Beta: dark mode, payments, new PWA features and more
44 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
The Overview Effect
44 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Is Life Expectancy Finally Topping Out?
44 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
CHP Arrests Driver Impersonating Chinese Paramilitary Police
44 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Programatically Understand Gaussian Processes: Part 1
44 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Paul Bernays Lectures
44 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Fiberbots: Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system
44 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals (2017)
44 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
A Summer of Julia 2019
44 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Transdep: Find single points of failure in DNS dependency graphs
44 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Notice of Security Incident
44 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Asm-declaration – Embed assembly language code within a C++ program (2017)
44 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Japan's tax laws get in way of more women working full time
44 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
H. G. Wells and the Uncertainties of Progress
44 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
The Banality of Empathy
44 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and how the world looked the other way
44 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
“Good Code Documents Itself” and Other Jokes You Shouldn’t Tell Yourself
44 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environment, not for health
44 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Disco: Modern Session Encryption [pdf]
44 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
A Sleeping Disorder That Turns Life into a Waking Dream
44 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Yoshua Bengio Worries About China's Use of AI
44 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Real-space charge-density imaging with sub-angstrom resolution
44 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Scalable Video Technology for AV1 Encoder
44 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
How to solve a maze using shaders (2017) [video]
44 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Pad Thai was invented by the Thai government
44 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Epstein’s Links to Scientists Are Even More Extensive Than We Thought
44 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Apple, too
44 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
An Initial Look at the IBM POWER9 4c/16t CPU Performance on the Blackbird
44 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Smartphone shipments: Apple down 30%, Samsung down 8%, Huawei up 50%
44 points • comment • may 04, 2019
More on Chrome updates and headers (2018)
44 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar (2014)
44 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Crows love cheeseburgers and are getting high cholesterol
44 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Agatha Christie’s 1926 Disappearance
44 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
NCP, the Predecessor of TCP/IP
44 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
UK joins countries blocking Boeing 737 MAX
44 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Women who win hundreds of sweepstakes per year
44 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Silicon Valley will soon get its own stock exchange
44 points • comment • may 10, 2019
ArXiv Monitor
44 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Men, commit to mentor women
44 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Concern About Global Warming Among Americans Spikes, Report Says
44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
The Fatal Ensnaring of Dan DePew
44 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Python Tips and Tricks, You Haven’t Already Seen
44 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Uber’s IPO means higher fares for rides
44 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Impossible choices: Gregory Bateson saw the creative potential of paradox
44 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Personalized Medicine for Real
44 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Nano-nonsense (2010)
44 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Driverless Cars Tap the Brakes After Years of Hype
44 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Pro (noun.), abbreviation of Professional: born 1798, died 2019, aged 221
44 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Bauhaus: A Failed Utopia?
44 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Is There a Crystal Lattice Possessing Five-Fold Symmetry? (2012) [pdf]
44 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
The $0.006 Object in a Sushi Container
44 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Residents increasingly unhappy with Bay Area life, new poll finds
44 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Buke and Gase built a huge indie rock career–and its own guitars, software
44 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Visual Studio Code – August 2019 (version 1.38) update
44 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
AI-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy
44 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
B-Ber: a framework for publications as websites, EPUBs, etc.
44 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Show HN: WinSpd – create “SCSI disks” as user mode processes on Windows
44 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Creators Say They’ve Cracked YouTube’s Monetization Algorithm
44 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
China ready to hit back at U.S. with rare earths
44 points • comment • may 29, 2019
The Importance of Insect Suffering
44 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Cycles of Optimism and Pessimism
44 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Those People We Tried to Cancel? They’re All Hanging Out Together
44 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
WhatsApp puts limit on message forwarding to fight fake news
44 points • comment • jan 21, 2019