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Hacker News (2019)

Google’s new AI ethics board is already falling apart
148 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Multics: An Ancestor of Unix
148 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Chicken Hypnotism
148 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
148 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
What is the “two-drive trick” that can read Amiga disks on a PC?
148 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Where Have All the Angels Gone?
148 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
The Day the Music Burned
148 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution
148 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
In Defense of YAML
148 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Let's Talk About Capacitor Failure
148 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking
148 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Show HN: Mockit – Open-source app to create and configure HTTP mocked endpoints
148 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
“The artists live their life, and I live my laundry life.”
148 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
No Radical Changes in GNU Project
148 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Amazon Dodges Responsibility for Unsafe Products
148 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent
148 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
CTVT – A contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog
148 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of |
148 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi
148 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway
148 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
The West’s failed fight against China’s ‘Cloud Hopper’ hackers
148 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fees, study says
148 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Why Graphiti?
148 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
148 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom
148 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Shell Completions in Rust
148 points • comment • may 19, 2019
Hedge Fund Private Investigators
148 points • comment • may 02, 2019
To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat
148 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Stuff I Learnt in 2019
148 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
Cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing
148 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
The Essence of Datalog (2018)
148 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Master’s Degrees
148 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
New elevation data triple sea-level vulnerability rise estimates
148 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful
148 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
I revoked $1M worth of EV certificates
148 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Scientific Errors in Nat Geo Milky Way Photos
148 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Google Legally Profits from Fraud on Its Platform
148 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Show HN: A tiny JS library for real-time localization of eye pupils
148 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Enzyme pathway in human gut microbiome that converts A to universal O type blood
148 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Review of Moneyland by Oliver Bullough (2018)
148 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change
148 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Making Games with Kotlin
148 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Httpx: A Ruby HTTP library
148 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Android users in Europe will be asked which browser and search engine they want
148 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Kurt Gödel and the Mechanization of Mathematics
148 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
“Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski
148 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners
148 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Iraq introduces nightly internet curfew
148 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits
148 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
The ancient world teemed with birds
148 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Ask HN: Does being practical act as a hinderance to one’s imagination?
148 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
The relentless honesty of Ludwig Wittgenstein (2017)
148 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
A proposed API for full-memory encryption
148 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Brain imaging study reveals signs of Parkinson’s decades before symptoms appear
148 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Tesla Delivers Record 97,000 Vehicles in Q3
148 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Where will ‘garage orphans’ charge electric cars?
148 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
I got 40 paying customers in 6 months with 0 dollars spent
148 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Finnair Flight 915
148 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
ECG app and irregular rhythm notification on Apple Watch
147 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
147 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
US set to impose tariffs on $7.5B of EU exports in Airbus row
147 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Interesting Tech Markets for 2019
147 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked
147 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations
147 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
Myths about Perl 6
147 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
The Guide to Writing Online
147 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands
147 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
If the universe is 13.8B years old, how can we see 46B light years away? (2018)
147 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Mango leaves: Indian scientists' solution to a $2.5T global shipping problem
147 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Amazon Echo Buds
147 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
City residents live with mental illness at higher rates than general population
147 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Pi-Top 4
147 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Rotating Black Holes May Serve as Gentle Portals for Hyperspace Travel
147 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked to Huawei row
147 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Here is my collection of 600+ “old” digital cameras
147 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Politicians cannot block social media foes: U.S. appeals court
147 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Making C Less Dangerous in the Linux Kernel [video]
147 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
The Editable PDF Initiative
147 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Programming and Programming Languages (2018)
147 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions
147 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Mainland
147 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Kill Instant Messaging
147 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Vanishing Violence
147 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Janet – A dynamic language and bytecode VM
147 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is such a hit it almost outsold Intel’s entire CPU range
147 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
147 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
How to Write a Thesis (1977)
147 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2017)
147 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
An Open Source 4-Port High Power USB Hub
147 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism
147 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
147 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
A Beginner’s Guide to MMT
147 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Lunar Eclipse: An Email to a Daughter and Son-in-Law
147 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
This Page Is Anonymous (2013)
147 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
McDonald's Acquires Machine-Learning Startup Dynamic Yield for $300M
147 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Why Investigators Fear the Two Boeing 737s Crashed for Similar Reasons
147 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
TV detector van
147 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
147 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Why does F = ma?
147 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged at Elite Schools
147 points • comment • oct 30, 2019