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Hacker News (2019)

A super-thin slice of wood can be used to turn saltwater drinkable
17 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Digging Up Diderot
17 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Providers Are Sexually Assaulting Patients – and It’s Legal
17 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
What’s inside Python ‘for’ loop?
17 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Mayan-EDMS: Free Open Source Document Management System
17 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
When Broadway Became Broadway
17 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
EU approves 3.2B euro state aid for battery research
17 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Cerebral blood flow and personality: a positron emission tomography study
17 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Interview with Jeremy Howard (Fast.ai) on Future of AI
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery
17 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
DoD Hiring announcement for computer scientists
17 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Has “Homosexual” Always Been in the Bible?
17 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
What Is Commandeer? (Hint: An AWS Desktop GUI) – 1 Minute Video
17 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Producer Playbook: Guidelines, best practices for producers and project managers
17 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Cell Segmentation with U-Net and Others
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program
17 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Epstein donations were made with knowledge of MIT central administration
17 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
We Should Worry About How China Uses Apps Like TikTok
17 points • comment • may 05, 2019
Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables
17 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Optimizing Aggregations in Sql Query Execution
17 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
The Neuroscience of Breaking Out of Negative Thinking (and How to Do It in Under
17 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Steam rises off Lake Michigan in Chicago as temps plunge to –23 degrees
17 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Show HN: Blackpage – A Social Network for the Command Line
17 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
An airline is suing a customer who skipped a leg of his flight to save money
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Something Special Is Happening in Rural America
17 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Elixir 1.9 Released
17 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Show HN: I made a website for developers and digital designers
17 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Software pirates use Apple tech to put hacked apps on iPhones
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Male brain is programmed to seek out sex over food (2015)
17 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them
17 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
U.S. patent board is unconstitutional, but problem can be fixed: appeals court
17 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Metaprogramming: An Introduction to JavaScript (ES6) Proxy
17 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
17 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Bike country No 1': Dutch go electric in record numbers
17 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
Private Instagram Posts Aren’t Private
17 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Costs of building your own data center
17 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
DHS Lacked Tech Needed to Successfully Account for Separated Migrant Families [pdf]
17 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
European Parliament Approves Controversial “Meme Ban”
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Cherokees divided: The acrimony between two 19th century tribal leaders
17 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Introducing the Wealthfront Cash Account
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Burning Man: Death at US Festival Treated as ‘Suspicious’
17 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
Dark matter on the move
17 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Google fired an employee who questioned its work with CBP
17 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Browning Fever: A story of fandom, literary societies, and impenetrable verse
17 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Where do all the censored developers go?
17 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Linux kernel 5.1 data loss bug when using devicemapper and SSDs
17 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Useless
17 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
Full-Stack TypeScript, React, Apollo, and Node Example
17 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter
17 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
You Don't Need MomentJS
17 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Apple warns against storing the Apple Card in leather and denim
17 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
China says Tiananmen crackdown was 'correct'
17 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
The realities of a no-deal Brexit
17 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Ask HN: Which headphones are you using?
17 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
Second stage of open-access restoration of Van Eyck brothers’ masterpiece
17 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
LightSail 2 sends back first signals from solar-surfing test flight
17 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it's time for me to ditch it for Firefox
17 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Senators get classified briefing on UFO sightings
17 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Do not install RVM until they fix the domain name and certificate issue
17 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Building a Simple Single Sign On(SSO) Solution from Scratch in Node.js
17 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention
17 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
In San Francisco, a fight over a homeless shelter
17 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
Sci-Hub Creator Under Investigation by US Department of Justice
17 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry
17 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
The FBI wants to build a data dragnet on Facebook
17 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
Google Bankrolls Oligarch-Owned Media Group in Hungary
17 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
Pre-Launch Tips for Your Startup
17 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
China just blocked its last major foreign search engine
17 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Build Chatbots Using Spreadsheets
17 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Upcoming Changes to Joyent Cloud Business
17 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5
17 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
The Squeal of Data
17 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Top Chinese State-Media Editor Complains About Internet Access, Deletes Post
17 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
How and why did religion evolve?
17 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Facebook's Latest Purchase Gets Inside Users' Heads – Literally
17 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Southeast Asia vows to return mountains of rubbish from West
17 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Teen left blind and deaf by decade-long diet of sausages, crisps, processed food
17 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
A Password-Storage Field Study with Freelance Developers [pdf]
17 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Switzerland switching off its first nuclear plant on Friday
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Security flaws in 100 Jenkins plugins put enterprise networks at risk
17 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Coding styles: Are you Lewis and Clark or building an interstate?
17 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Adi Shamir not permitted to RSA Conference due to lack of visa
17 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Boeing abandons its fuselage robots on the 777X, handing job back to machinists
17 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Show HN: Socialscan – Check email address and username usage on online platforms
17 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
UK could ban the sales of locked phones
17 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Cloudflare Says Its New VPN Service Won’t Slow You Down
17 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Ask HN: How to stand out as a junior engineer
17 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Show HN: Stensal SDK: Retrofitting C/C++ code with quasi-memory-safety
17 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
Shell Startup Scripts (2013)
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Micro – the microservice toolkit 1.0.0 release and beyond
17 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Putin signs law making Russian apps mandatory on smartphones, computers
17 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
My “Dumb” Watch
17 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Show HN: I made a decentralized Push To Talk (walkie talkie) web app
17 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Data Structures and Algorithms practice problems and their solutions
17 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Self-Hosted Dropbox Alternatives
17 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Ask HN: Anyone else write the commit message before they start coding?
17 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
E Ink Introduces “Print-Color” Displays
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Tech's diversity problem is because of toxic LeetCode interviews
17 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
How New York City Became Silicon Valley's Biggest Rival
17 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
17 days into 2019 and companies still haven't updated their copyright year
17 points • comment • jan 17, 2019