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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. Hospitals Must Now Post Prices. But It May Take a Brain Surgeon to Decipher Them

    70 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  2. Livox Mid-40 lidar sensor

    70 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  3. U.S. issues China travel advisory amid increased tensions

    70 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  4. FBI ‘Can Neither Confirm nor Deny’ That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts

    70 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  5. No Pay Stub? No Problem. Unconventional Mortgages Make a Comeback

    70 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  6. Scans of early RFCs

    69 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  7. Privacy Inequality: The Most Brutal Form of Inequality You’ve Ever Imagined

    69 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  8. Nasa Used Art to Shape Our Vision of the Future

    69 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  9. Paradox of tolerance

    69 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  10. The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 (2005)

    69 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  11. PG&E files for bankruptcy

    69 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  12. Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme–Right?

    69 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  13. Venus – RISC-V Simulator

    69 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  14. Tumblr Opensources Kubernetes Utilities

    69 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  15. A Man’s Obsessive Fight to Reclaim His Cambridge Analytica Data

    69 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  16. C++ : if constexpr isn't broken

    69 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  17. Work on using AI to brain activity into speech

    69 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  18. UN General Assembly adopts record number of resolutions on internet governance

    69 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  19. As Xenophon saw it

    69 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  20. Accounting machines, the IBM 1403, and why printers standardized on 132 columns

    69 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  21. The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines

    69 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  22. How would user-centric payouts affect the music-streaming world?

    69 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  23. Government Shutdown to Affect Some Programming at CES 2019

    69 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  24. GNU Bison 3.3 released

    69 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  25. How the Government Shutdown Warps Time Itself

    68 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  26. GitHub: Partial System Outage

    68 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  27. Save Data Directly to B2 with Backblaze Cloud Backup 6.0

    68 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  28. How to make sure your talk doesn't suck (2011) [pdf]

    68 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  29. Ways to Bring Tech Jobs to Rural Areas

    68 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  30. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer”

    68 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  31. The Supply Chain Africa Needs

    68 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  32. When to Buy Your Own ISBNs

    68 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  33. How McSema Handles C++ Exceptions

    68 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  34. Three Men Charged in ‘Swatting’ Schemes

    68 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  35. How We Think, by John Dewey (1910)

    67 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  36. Show HN: Pipelines – Language for scripting parrallel pipelines with Python

    67 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  37. Abusing Exchange: One API call away from Domain Admin

    67 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  38. Ask HN: What other good careers exist for those without a college education?

    67 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  39. Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

    67 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  40. Another Reason U.S. Fears Huawei: Its Gear Works and It's Cheap

    67 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  41. Anonymous web authentication with Stellar blockchain

    67 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  42. WiFi firmware bug affects laptops, smartphones, routers, gaming devices

    66 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  43. Show HN: The worst ANSI renderer, except for all the others

    66 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  44. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

    66 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  45. \watch ing Star Wars in Postgres

    66 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  46. How MeUndies built a $32M company

    66 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  47. Security researcher cracks Google's Widevine DRM (L3 only)

    66 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  48. Torrent Paradise Creates Decentralized 'Pirate Bay' with IPFS

    66 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  49. Poland arrests Huawei worker on allegations of spying for China

    66 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  50. A new free-software forge: sr.ht

    66 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  51. Machine Learning Feynman Experience: build models from scratch on Google Colab

    66 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  52. Threads Basics (2009)

    66 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  53. A Python cross-version decompiler

    66 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  54. Apple's warning is a bad omen for Wall Street bulls

    65 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  55. Byju’s buys Osmo for $120M to add blended learning to its education business

    65 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  56. Egypt's Aswan Damn

    65 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  57. Who Really Built the First Electric Rock ‘n’ Roll Guitar?

    65 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  58. Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die (2015)

    65 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  59. A Founder's Farewell

    65 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  60. Algol 68

    65 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  61. Joy and Pain of Using Google BigTable

    65 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  62. In Its First Decades, the United States Nurtured Schoolgirl Mapmakers

    65 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  63. The War to Sell Mattresses Is an Internet Nightmare (2017)

    65 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  64. Intro to Docker, React, and Security

    65 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  65. Variational Autoencoders are not autoencoders

    65 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  66. Shutdown Will Be Worse for Economy Than First Thought, White House Says

    65 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  67. The great divide

    65 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  68. Real-time readouts of thinking in rats

    65 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  69. The Prado Museum, Spain’s Cultural Jewel, Turns 200

    65 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  70. Privilege escalation through Kubernetes dashboard

    65 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  71. I automated all of my social media

    65 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  72. Hilbert’s list

    65 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  73. Rust at speed – Building a fast concurrent database [video]

    65 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  74. GNU Bison 3.3

    64 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  75. When a Memory Allocator Hides Security Bugs

    64 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  76. Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip (2018)

    64 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  77. Reinforcement Learning – The different challenges, methods and frontiers

    64 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  78. Show HN: Instantly create a secure URL to your Mac

    64 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  79. Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

    64 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  80. Ask HN: What would your ideal issue tracker look like?

    64 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  81. Luggage found stuffed with 5,000 leeches

    64 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  82. For $29, This Company Swears It Will ‘Brainwash’ Someone on Facebook

    64 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  83. What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle

    64 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  84. How “At the Gates” took 7 years of my life – and nearly the rest

    63 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  85. Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership

    63 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  86. Response to the ASA’s Statement on p-Values

    63 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  87. What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics? (2016)

    63 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  88. Highly Available MySQL Clusters at WePay

    63 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  89. The Best Skin-Care Trick: Be Rich

    63 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  90. How to Setup Your Own PaaS with Dokku and Node and React and Mongodb and Nginx

    63 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  91. To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet

    63 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  92. A Hotel Room Hacking Spree (2017)

    63 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  93. Moving to a Profile per Install Architecture

    63 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  94. Strangeness of Black Holes

    63 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  95. Recording Tom Waits (2004)

    63 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  96. Neuronal Dynamics: From single neurons to networks and models of cognition

    63 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  97. Why is cognitive function impaired at high altitude?

    63 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  98. Deriving Traits in Rust with Procedural Macros

    63 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  99. Security Alert: Ethereum Constantinople Postponement

    62 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  100. A French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation's Biggest Art Heist

    62 points • comment • jan 08, 2019