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Hacker News (2019)

I broke down crying: Canadian video game creators face grueling crunch hours
43 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Scientists cook up new recipes for taking salt out of seawater
43 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
An Archaeologist Challenges Mainstream Scientific Thinking (2017)
43 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
At Pike Place Market, seniors and kids work well together
43 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Notes from Michael Feathers’ “Brutal Refactoring” (2011)
43 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Thomas Mann's War Against Hitler
43 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Disney heir on CEO's $66m pay: 'No one on the freaking planet is worth that'
43 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
Free for Developers List of Programs
43 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
You Had Me, And You Lost Me: Why I don't read Megatokyo (2004)
43 points • comment • may 14, 2019
German university finds misconduct by researcher who promoted cancer blood test
43 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Evergreen, highly scalable library software with GPL
43 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Why Games for AI?
43 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
The Geometry of Reflection Groups (2015) [pdf]
43 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
Challenge: Find Twitter memes with suffix arrays
43 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Thermal Decomposition of CO2 with Nuclear Heat
43 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby
43 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Ask HN: Do you think that people at work like you and enjoy your presence?
43 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
US Customs seized JPMorgan ship after authorities found 39,525 lbs of cocaine
43 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Oculus Quest and Rift S Pre-Orders Are Live
43 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
I got fired from Facebook (for having a YouTube channel)
43 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
ROT13: good version
43 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Turning off less-secure app access to G Suite accounts
43 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
PyTorch 1.1
43 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013)
43 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
The rise of the sober bar
43 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Einstein’s Entanglements
43 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Cashing In: How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work
43 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
How to Save a Dying Language (2013)
43 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Nobody Knows How to Learn a Language
43 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Quantum microphone counts particles of sound
43 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Quantum information in quantum cognition
43 points • comment • may 27, 2019
For six years, man who refuses to identify himself has held in a Canadian prison
43 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Ask HN: Has Google made you pay $15,000 to $75,000 for a security review?
43 points • comment • may 09, 2019
The Rosie Pattern Language
43 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Who pushes the button?
43 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half
43 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Lenny Baum as trader (1982) [pdf]
43 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
ICE arrests 90 more students at fake university in Michigan
43 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
A Student’s Guide to the Digital World (2009) [pdf]
43 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
The wonderful world of insects
43 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
A Medieval Grape Is Still Used to Make Wine
43 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
What wartime ‘munitionettes’ teach us about burnout
43 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Thrill-Seekers Who Sneak into the Super Bowl
43 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
Embryo-like structures created from human stem cells
43 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
GM to lay off 4,250 salaried workers in North America starting Monday
43 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
Visa warns that hackers are scraping card details from gas pumps
43 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Computer for the 21st Century (1991) [pdf]
43 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
Tesla’s Summon-Your-Car Feature Spurs U.S. Safety Inquiry
43 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Reader/Reader blocking in reader/writer locks
43 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Switzerland’s Nation of Hoteliers
43 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
Flu Research Once Banned Because It Was Deemed Too Dangerous Is Set to Resume
43 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
What Is the “Length” of a String?
43 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Important notice for certain AC wall plug adapters and World Travel Adapter Kits
43 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
Trump to Impose Additional 10% Tariff on Chinese Goods
43 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Best Deep Learning Courses and MOOCs
43 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
How to not get scammed hiring remote freelancers on Upwork
43 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
The guy who made a tool to track women in porn videos is sorry
43 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
World’s largest steam locomotive rolls through Chicago area
43 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Mainframe, Interrupted
43 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Rules of the Tribe: Hardcore Punks and Hair Metal in the 1980s (2013)
43 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Are There Problems with the Boeing 737Max? 2nd Deadly Crash Raises New Questions
43 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Guide to Retargeting Someone Else’s Website
43 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Screens might be as bad for mental health as potatoes
43 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)
43 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
U.S. to mandate design changes on Boeing 737 MAX 8 after crashes
43 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Phaistos Disc
43 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Scientists ‘reverse time’ with quantum computer in breakthrough study
43 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
From bitter loss to sweet relief: baking as therapy
43 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Amazon Workers Are Denouncing Unions by Using Suspiciously Similar Tweets
43 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Education publisher Pearson to phase out print textbooks
43 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Generating Fake Conversations by Fine-Tuning OpenAI's GPT on Data from Messenger
43 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
UK CO₂ Emissions Are Lowest Since 1888 Due to Government Intervention
43 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Using Hugo, Gitlab Pages, and Cloudflare to Create and Run a Free Static Website
43 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
Kindness, Wickedness and Safety
43 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Ask HN: What are your favorite board games?
43 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor
43 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Our Thoughts on the New Zealand Massacre
43 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
Ends of the Urth
43 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
The U.S.S. Wasp: Torpedoed, Scuttled, Sunk and Now Found
43 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Wheatstone System
43 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
An Analysis of fear-based enriched extortion attacks
43 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
To appreciate 23rd-century English, look back 200 years
43 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Visual Noises – Noise Algorithms Visualised in 1D and 2D
43 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
We must change food production to save the world, says leaked report
43 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Meth and murder: New kind of drug war makes Tijuana one of deadliest cities
43 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
The Mystery of Lincoln’s First Inauguration Photograph
43 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
Rein in the Four Horsemen of Irreproducibility
43 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Psyche: A domain specific language designed for creating WebAssembly modules
43 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
WHO recommends rescheduling cannabis in international law for the first time
43 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
A newly updated index ranks English proficiency around the world
43 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
I cut off all contact with my mother. It made my life much better
43 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
The Honey Trap on East 71st Street
43 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex? (2014)
43 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Democracy Is for the Gods – Humans Cannot Sustain It
43 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Some thoughts on hylang (2017)
43 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies (2012)
43 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Possible cooked S-boxes in Kuznyechik & Streebog..Russian cipher & hash
43 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Arrests in a String of High-Profile Old Master Forgeries
43 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
What every physicist should know about string theory
43 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Null Island
43 points • comment • dec 22, 2019