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Hacker News (2019)

Most polluted cities of 2018
32 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Show HN: Million Dollar Jobs, a platform for jobs with $1M+ annual compensation
32 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Anti-Stokes excitation of solid-state quantum emitters for nanoscale thermometry
32 points • comment • may 04, 2019
AT&T redefined the word ‘bonus’ as a $10 price hike for data you didn’t ask for
32 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Why Emacs keys are painful (2007)
32 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
We’ve Got a Better Idea of US Surveillance Satellites
32 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
Announcing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator
32 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost
32 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Antarctic Weddell expedition targets Shackleton's lost ship
32 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999)
32 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Lattice Boltzmann
32 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies
32 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Configurable Types in Swift
32 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
A “FaceApp” to enlarge breasts? It’s here, and there’s more to it than [ ]
32 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
UK energy bills 'used to subsidise nuclear submarines'
32 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Ornate netsuke were practical status symbols
32 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
The elite that failed
32 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
David Foster Wallace’s Pen Pal
32 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Behind one of the most iconic computer games is a theory of how cities die
32 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
How to Dress for Space
32 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Bug: true and false are not Posix (2016)
32 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Found: A Stash of Mystical Charms and Amulets in Pompeii
32 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Ask HN: Startup coworker underperforming
32 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday AI Challenge
32 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone, Android as it kills off Windows phones
32 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Hong Kong Police Shoot a Protester, 18, with a Live Bullet for the First Time
32 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Animating Doodles with Autoencoders and Synthetic Data (2018)
32 points • comment • jun 29, 2019
Another Person Has Died After Rationing Insulin
32 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant
32 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
Ask HN: Best way to grow an arts startup?
32 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Retired equipment lives on in new physics experiments
32 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Drones replace patrol ships on Mediterranean
32 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
After Amazon-Led Tax Rebellion, Seattle's Homeless Aid Stalls
32 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Hacker News is partially blocked in China now
32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
White House Might Put Colleges on the Hook for Student Loans
32 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and Happy New Year
32 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Chinese Dominance of Rare-Earth Metals Threatens to Disrupt U.S. Manufacturing
32 points • comment • may 30, 2019
How to make a flat lens
32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Gmail, Google Drive down in apparent outage
32 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Raiders of the Lost Web (2015)
32 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
I tried to make Facebook's news feed random and fun
32 points • comment • may 09, 2019
From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how a prison's internal economy works
32 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
We Ported a Qt App from C++ to Python (2018)
32 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
Sonic Devices Play High-Pitched Noises to Repel Teens
32 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Catch-up immunization schedule for persons aged 4 months–18 years who start late
32 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Secret Court: FBI “Backdoor Searches” of Americans Violated the 4th Amendment
32 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
AT&T Is Dragging HBO's Streaming Strategy Out of the Dark Ages
32 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Can one earthquake trigger another on the other side of the world?
32 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Public Domain Day: Works Enter Public Domain for the First Time in 21 Years
32 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
USAF Unit Moves Reveal Clues to RQ-180 Ops Debut
32 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Log-Spherical Mapping in SDF Raymarching
32 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
A Note on the Use of Dictionaries (2012) [pdf]
32 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Old Stone Walls Reveal How Earth’s Magnetic North Changes over Time
32 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries?
32 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
A Brief History of Zork (2014)
32 points • comment • may 18, 2019
Tesla announces new Giga factory near Berlin
32 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Oxford places ban on donations and research grants from Huawei
32 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Google whistleblower launches project to keep tech ethical
32 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
32 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
Ask HN: Pinterest for Text?
32 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
How to tame an ornithopter
32 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Secret Terrorism Watchlist Found Unconstitutional in Historic Decision
32 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet (2015)
32 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Rural ISP delivers proof of illegal Comcast billing
32 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
What Lies Beneath
32 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
The U.S. Health Care System Found a Way to Make Peanuts Cost $4,200
32 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
What happens when Google says “we aren’t going to pay your fines”?
32 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
The World Has a Germany Problem: Debt Obsession Ate the Economy
32 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Contributing to OSS considered “dangerous advice”
32 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
TIL humans have consumed 9.2b tons of plastic. 6b will never meet recycling bin
32 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
AOC and Ted Cruz agree on bill banning Congressmen from becoming lobbyists‬
32 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Tesla Cybertruck vs. a Ford F-150: It's All About Friction
32 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
How Good Are FiveThirtyEight Forecasts?
32 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Literature-Based Discovery
32 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Long, strange trip: How U.S. ethanol reaches China tariff-free
32 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
Micro Front end done right
32 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Fast LSTMs in PyTorch
32 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
The Billionaires Are Getting Nervous
32 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
VSCode June 2019 (v1.36)
32 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Private Space Race Targets Greenhouse Gas Emitters
32 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Cost Comparison of Deep Learning Hardware: Google TPUv2 vs. Nvidia Tesla V100
32 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month
32 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
California Restaurants Are Dying Due to High Labor Costs
32 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Britains ancient yews – mystical, magnificent, and unprotected
32 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered
32 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Congress asks if developing slightly fewer medicines is OK if it lowers prices
32 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Leaks Reveal US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons
32 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Clean Go Code
32 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Parser as Prototype: why choice-based games are more interesting (2013)
32 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
Rotating the Indiana Bell Building (2014)
32 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Writing an API at the Edge with Workers and Cloud Firestore
32 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
Windows 10 features we're no longer developing
32 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Metformin for cancer prevention, longevity: popular in Silicon Valley
32 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
Ask HN: Going from 12 years of self-employment to tech job?
32 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Fuzzing para-virtualized devices in Hyper-V
32 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
You Know You're in a Big Company When...
32 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
The History of Email (2017)
32 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Tesla’s competitors find that going electric has its own set of problems
32 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages
32 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
A static file server in x86 Assembly
32 points • comment • jul 21, 2019