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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. Jian-Wei Pan, China’s “father of quantum”

    42 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  2. OpenChird – An Open Source Platform for IoT with Support for LoRaWAN

    42 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  3. No Great Technological Stagnation (2016)

    42 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  4. Modern dining philosophers

    41 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  5. Immigration in American Economic History (2017) [pdf]

    41 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  6. Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung TVs

    41 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  7. In China they’re closing churches, jailing pastors, and even rewriting scripture

    41 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  8. Over 9,000 Cisco RV320/RV325 routers are vulnerable to CVE-2019-1653

    41 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  9. Study: Bias Drops Dramatically for Sexual Orientation and Race – But Not Weight

    41 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  10. How the Boston Molasses Disaster Ushered in the Era of Modern Regulation

    41 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  11. Typeful Programming (1993) [pdf]

    41 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  12. Qualcomm Puts Aside $1.5B in Funds Required to Enforce iPhone Sales Ban in DE

    41 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  13. Student debt hinders millennial homeownership

    41 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  14. Babies don’t have a sweet tooth, so why is their food full of sugar?

    41 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  15. Community-based, human-centered design

    41 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  16. One Hundred Users in Two Weeks

    41 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  17. Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley, accuses it of selling out America

    41 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  18. Signal v Noise exits Medium

    41 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  19. Detecting Ghosts by Reverse Engineering: Who Ya Gonna Call?

    41 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  20. Show HN: OTPCL – Tcl-Flavored Erlang

    41 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  21. Show HN: Deep Learning – All You Need to Know for a Great Start

    41 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  22. I Am Not a Real Programmer

    41 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  23. Protein mania: the rich world’s new diet obsession

    41 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  24. Florence Knoll Bassett, Designer of the Modern American Office, Has Died

    41 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  25. Cleaving to the Medieval, Journeymen Ply Their Trades in Europe (2017)

    41 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  26. NordVPN transfers data to tracking service

    41 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  27. GitHub is returning 502

    41 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  28. My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over

    40 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  29. Ride That Nearly Killed Me Changed How I Think About Ride-Hailing Apps

    40 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  30. The New War on Comedy

    40 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  31. MegaProcessor (2017) [video]

    40 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  32. PROCJAM’s Seeds zine – Issue 3

    40 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  33. JavaScript January: a curated collection of blogs and tutorials, published daily

    40 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  34. The Department Store Guitar

    40 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  35. Archaeologists stumble on Neolithic ritual site in Suffolk (2018)

    40 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  36. Color – Cloudflare Design

    40 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  37. How big data has created a big crisis in science

    40 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  38. Which American accent do you have? (2007)

    40 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  39. The Verified CakeML Compiler Backend (2018) [pdf]

    40 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  40. Ask HN: Best online courses for machine learning?

    40 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  41. Virtual Reality Version of Second Life with Open Source Code

    40 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  42. The Book of Shaders: Noise (2015)

    40 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  43. Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of the Telephone (1977)

    40 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  44. Blood transfusion startup Ambrosia is now up and running

    40 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  45. Nigeria has now lost 96% of it's forest. Here is an animated map to demonstrate

    40 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  46. 2019 UI and UX Design Trends

    40 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  47. Boeing overhauls quality controls: more high-tech tracking but fewer inspectors

    40 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  48. In High-Tech Cities, No More Potholes, but What About Privacy?

    40 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  49. I wanted to like this book

    40 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  50. Show HN: FBP editor for music/vfx with [three, tone, tensorflow].js nodes

    40 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  51. Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago

    40 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  52. Germs and ancient migrations help explain our world of 'haves' and 'have nots'

    39 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  53. Two-Factor Authentication Might Not Keep You Safe

    39 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  54. How to Linear-Fit a Noisy Signal with Regular Discontinuities

    39 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  55. Is the Universe a conscious mind? (2018)

    39 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  56. Disturbing Rise of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

    39 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  57. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome

    39 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  58. Did Salinger Go Awry?

    39 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  59. A BlockTogether list for election propaganda bots on Twitter

    39 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  60. L.A.'s Measure M Voters Fund Transit, but Don't Use It

    39 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  61. Facebook employees caught leaving 5-star Amazon reviews for Portal

    39 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  62. The impact of color palettes on the prices of paintings (2017)

    39 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  63. Coinbase bans the accounts of Gab and its founder

    39 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  64. Cruise's new video showing driverless car navigating very tricky traffic in SF

    39 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  65. They Build Spacecraft and Fight Epidemics; Shutdown May Scare Them Away

    39 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  66. Why are the Maltese so competitive?

    39 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  67. Miami Woos New York Homebuyers Fleeing Over Tax Law

    39 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  68. Two Monkeys

    39 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  69. Netflix to Raise Price from $11 to $13 a Month

    39 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  70. Google's Widevine L3 DRM has been broken

    39 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  71. Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails

    39 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  72. Slow CI: real problem or easy excuse for developers?

    39 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  73. VLC media player has been downloaded 3 billion times

    39 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  74. A Science Journal Funded by Peter Thiel Dismisses Climate Change and Evolution

    39 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  75. Testing Hawking radiation in laboratory black hole analogues

    39 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  76. Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

    39 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  77. 30th anniversary of the Macintosh SE/30

    39 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  78. Running Fast SQL on DynamoDB Tables

    38 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  79. History of Teaching Machines

    38 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  80. An audio message improved our conversion rate by more than 50%

    38 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  81. No training required: Exploring random encoders for sentence classification

    38 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  82. Dismantling of a U.S. workplace safety rule

    38 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  83. Portland’s Land Rush for New ’Opportunity Zone’ Tax Breaks

    38 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  84. Vietnam's Draconian Cybersecurity Bill Comes Into Effect

    38 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  85. Cost breakdown for Solar PV with lithium-ion storage

    38 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  86. MONIAC – Monetary National Income Analogue Computer

    38 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  87. What high school teachers never tell their students

    38 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  88. C++, C# and Unity

    38 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  89. It Appears China Is Building a Massive Espionage Database on America

    38 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  90. Sorry, Ajit: Comcast lowered cable investment despite net neutrality repeal

    38 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  91. Single-wire electric power system for renewable-based electric grid (2018) [pdf]

    38 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  92. Voynich Manuscripts Problematic Pipes (2018)

    38 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  93. SpaceX Layoffs Include Positions at California Headquarters

    38 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  94. How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat

    38 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  95. More buildings should be made of wood

    38 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  96. Perceptions of Randomness: Why Three Heads Are Better Than Four (2009) [pdf]

    38 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  97. New Pricing for G Suite Basic and Business Editions

    38 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  98. Using Bots to Solve Developer Drudgery

    38 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  99. Instrumenting HTTP requests in Node

    38 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  100. Darpa Wants to Build Conscious Robots Using Insect Brains

    38 points • comment • jan 13, 2019