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Hacker News (2019)

Who’s Afraid of a Transit Desert?
17 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Extreme weather is pummeling the Midwest, and farmers are in deep trouble
17 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval and Vannevar Bush's Memex (2007)
17 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
The magical thinking of guys who love logic
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
““The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson“
17 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Go is on a trajectory to become the next enterprise programming language
17 points • comment • may 02, 2019
“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502
17 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Apple’s new iPod touch isn’t for the converted; it’s for the nonbelievers
17 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Ask HN: Finding a job as a software developer without having a degree?
17 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
What's the right amount of swap space for a modern Linux system?
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
Reddit Down?
17 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Brain researchers warn that lack of sleep is a public health crisis
17 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
Boris Johnson’s Parliament Suspension Approved by Queen
17 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Separating Use and Reuse to Improve Both
17 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Don’t Be Evil review – how the tech giants have become too big to fail
17 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
ThinkGeek Is Shutting Down
17 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
ElectroSense – Collaborative Spectrum Monitoring
17 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Liberals and Conservatives Can Believe Fake News, but for Different Reasons
17 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
Vela 1979 event was Israel's treaty violating nuclear weapons test
17 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Thanks to Yao Ming, killing sharks for their fins is down 50%.he’s just started
17 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
An Unnamed Source Who Shouldn’t Be Anonymous
17 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
VMWare to Acquire Bitnami
17 points • comment • may 15, 2019
My Little Optimization: The Compiler Is Magic (2018)
17 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Amazon to offer broadband access from orbit with ‘Project Kuiper’ constellation
17 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure
17 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Consequences of Tidal Dissipation in a Putative Venusian Ocean
17 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Ask HN: On a scale from 1-10, how ugly was your MVP?
17 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Visual Studio Code March 2019 Release (1.33)
17 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Facebook buys maker of BeatSaber VR game
17 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Tail Call Elimination
17 points • comment • may 19, 2019
It costs $1,800 to get an engineering job offer
17 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Additional software problem detected in Boeing 737 Max flight control system
17 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Ask HN: Company quietly did stock split, implications for options?
17 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Google was never serious about tablets
17 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Facebook document leak gives ammunition to investigators
17 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Google is testing sponsored channels on Android TV without user consent
17 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein infiltrated science because it was ready to accommodate him
17 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead
17 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
Project Ihmehimmeli: Temporal Coding in Spiking Neural Networks
17 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
It's never too late to start a brilliant career
17 points • comment • may 05, 2019
Ask HN: What IT certifications should I get for my degree?
17 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
AI Dungeon
17 points • comment • may 02, 2019
COVFEFE Act
17 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Tesla stock down more than 8% after reporting biggest sales drop in its history
17 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
Electrical Brain Implants Enable Man to Control Prosthetic Limbs with ‘Thoughts’
17 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
A Guided Tour of the Data Facebook Uses to Target Ads
17 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
Toronto tech is growing but relying on outside talent
17 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Sad News
17 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Octant: A tool to help devs understand what's going on in a Kubernetes cluster
17 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed by Ray Dalio
17 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
Are Successful CEOs Just Lucky? (2015)
17 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Wikipedia: Terminal Event Management Policy
17 points • comment • may 26, 2019
1 in 3 San Francisco residents wants out
17 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Anti-vaxxer leaflet found inserted in book sold by Amazon
17 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
Fedora Devs Looking to Change Default Editor from Vi to Nano
17 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Magic Leap Raises another $280M ($2.6B total funding!)
17 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Steven Sinofsky Reflects on Steve Jobs' “Bicycle for the Mind”
17 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Show HN: Monitor Your AWS Cost in Slack
17 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Confessions of a “Stroke Surgeon” [video]
17 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
A Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
17 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Yet another explanation of the Quicksort algorithm
17 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
Decades Ago, MDMA Was Used in Marriage Counseling
17 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Cyber’s Most Wanted – FBI
17 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Ride Along with the Cow Police (2016)
17 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Show HN: I made a browser extension that fixes Hacker News' block formatting
17 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
First-of-Its-Kind HIV Therapy Draws Out the Virus, Then Kills IT
17 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
Locked Tesla stolen in 30 seconds in London with fob relay trick
17 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Coming soon: If you’re not sober, you won’t be able to start the car
17 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Former Away employees describe a toxic work environment
17 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
New York Times falls for “obesity probiotic” hype
17 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Californians Can No Longer Be Forced to Join a Posse
17 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
LLVM Adding Support for IBM Mass Library for Power Vectorization
17 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
On the Importance of the Studley Tool Chest
17 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
They were settling into their Airbnb. Then they found a hidden camera
17 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Show HN: The Jumping Jouster, a Godot game I made in my spare time
17 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Pragmatic reasons for choosing Common Lisp (2017)
17 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Apple removes ‘Quartz’ news app from App Store at request of the government
17 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Sweeping Reform Would Tax Capital Gains Like Ordinary Income
17 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Searching for "Antarctica" on YouTube returns conspiracy videos
17 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
China and India Account for One-Third of the Greening
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
The Empty Brain
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Chinese Novelists Are Reimagining Science Fiction
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Purdue infiltrated WHO, manipulated opioid policies to boost sales, report finds
17 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Vector vs. SIMD: Dynamic Power Efficiency
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
1940 WPA San Francisco Model Now Online
17 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
China deletes 'malicious' mobile apps
17 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Italu – An Integral Table Lookup (1967) [pdf]
17 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
FTC fines Facebook $5B, imposes stricter privacy controls
17 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Plsdr. Python-based software-defined radio (SDR)
17 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
Category Theory Lesson 2: Basics of Categorical Abstraction
17 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
HTC Announces New Virtual Reality Headsets Vive Cosmos and Vive Pro Eye at CES
17 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
China is transforming Africa into the next 'factory of the world'
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
Ask HN: How Do Services Like PythonTutor and Repl.it Run Code Safely
17 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Were You Laid Off by Tesla? So Was I
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
Netflix ends AirPlay support in an ongoing souring of its Apple relationship
17 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Falafel: The staple dish of the Middle East is as contested as the region
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
Quillette’s “Antifa Journalists” List Could’ve Gotten Me Killed
17 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Stop Obsessing Over Comments on Hacker News (2015)
17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
A village where every cop has been convicted of domestic violence
17 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
C++ at the End of 2018
17 points • comment • jan 01, 2019