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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. I helped Google screw over James Damore

    26 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  2. How to reduce the file size of large background images by over 93%

    26 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  3. History of Computing: Discovering Interactivity

    26 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  4. Tim Cook: You Deserve Privacy Online. Here’s How You Could Get It

    26 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  5. Show HN: Record Heat Maps of your PDF document usage

    26 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  6. Solar will rebound this year with more than 100 GW of new capacity

    26 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  7. Voucher_swap: Exploiting MIG reference counting in iOS 12

    26 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  8. An Interview with Survival Research Labs' Mark Pauline

    26 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  9. Pro Tips for Developer Relations

    26 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  10. This year's Nobel Prize winners gather for a talk [video]

    26 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  11. Highly mutated cancers respond better to immune therapy

    26 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  12. Show HN: LiteCLI – A CLI for SQLite with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

    25 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  13. Quantum computing as a field is obvious bullshit

    25 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  14. Study: number of Monarch butterflies in California falls 86% in a single year

    25 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  15. Jetbrains: Developer Ecosystem Survey 2019

    25 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  16. Dark Messenger: Mobile XMPP Over TOR

    25 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  17. Startup Wants to Put Ads in Low-Earth Orbit to Ruin the Sky for Everybody

    25 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  18. Oculus Quest

    25 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  19. A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism

    25 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  20. A growing body of evidence links Parkinson‘s to the gastrointestinal tract

    25 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  21. Verizon Suffers Cloud Data Leak Exposing Data on Millions of Customers (2017)

    25 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  22. Apple Wanted to Use Qualcomm Chips for 2018 iPhones, Qualcomm Wouldn't Sell Them

    25 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  23. Google shifted $23B to tax haven Bermuda in 2017

    25 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  24. Out-of-this-world spaceship designs based on everyday objects

    25 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  25. German politicans doxxed, massive leak of private information

    25 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  26. California startup lets you finance your rent with high-interest loans

    25 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  27. SoftBank to slash planned WeWork investment

    25 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  28. Show HN: Faker – Struct Data Fake Generator in Go

    25 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  29. Japan’s Pioneering Detector Set To Join Hunt for Gravitational Waves

    25 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  30. Converting Merchant Ships to Missile Ships

    25 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  31. Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2B Records

    25 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  32. Removing JavaScript's *this* keyword makes it a better language

    25 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  33. Micro Sociological Ingredients of Charismatic Leadership (2015) [video]

    25 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  34. CEOs of Seattle area’s biggest companies: We need more middle-class housing

    25 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  35. Munchery swindled a group of women and minority owned companies out of over $50k

    25 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  36. Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman

    25 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  37. Can a Supernova Cause Mass Extinction?

    25 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  38. Chinese spy allegedly caught stealing self-driving car secrets from Apple

    25 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  39. Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns

    24 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  40. The Linux Kernel Likely to See a Hardware Accelerator Subsystem

    24 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  41. #iotashaming

    24 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  42. ES6 Classes

    24 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  43. Issue with GitHub Forks: Private repos can be accessed after being removed

    24 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  44. What we can learn from overweight pets about human obesity

    24 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  45. Inside the Raspberry Pi: The story of the $35 computer that changed the world

    24 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  46. Amazon just screwed over the indie filmmakers that made Prime Video great

    24 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  47. Softbank's Imminent Writedown: The Folly That Was Taking Saudi Money [video]

    24 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  48. Apple has restored Facebook’s enterprise certificate

    24 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  49. Ask HN: How do you find roles as a solo developer?

    24 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  50. Stop Trusting Viral Videos

    24 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  51. Facebook has had its enterprise certificates revoked by Apple

    24 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  52. Buzzfeed paid the teen who made its top quizzes in free swag

    24 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  53. Yorimitsu and Shuten-Dôji: The drunken demon of Kyoto

    24 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  54. Ask HN: How do you get over perfectionism/overthinking in hobby projects?

    24 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  55. Show HN: An isomorphic, configurable JavaScript utility for object deep cloning

    24 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  56. Yelp claims Chicago area's best restaurant is 40 miles away in Waukegan

    24 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  57. How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

    24 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  58. Alphabet's board of directors sued for covering up claims of sexual harassment

    24 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  59. The Mall of Shame

    24 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  60. You are thinking about serverless costs all wrong

    24 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  61. The Intel Xeon W-3175X Review: 28 Unlocked Cores, $2999

    24 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  62. Cause of Alzheimer’s: gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease

    24 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  63. Dad style programming jokes

    24 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  64. Ask HN: Anyone living here completely by your rules and rejecting the “normal”?

    24 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  65. A dirty secret that everybody in your industry knows about

    24 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  66. Gay Penguins of Australia

    24 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  67. 35C3: Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages

    23 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  68. Hypothetical C++: easy type creation

    23 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  69. Veganism: An Engineer's Perspective

    23 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  70. Netflix Chose a New Market Over Free Speech. That Sets a Disturbing Precedent

    23 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  71. German Addresses are Blocked: www.gutenberg.org

    23 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  72. What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (2016)

    23 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  73. Scramble for Africa

    23 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  74. Chrome Extension Manifest V3 Could End UBlock Origin for Chrome

    23 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  75. Tesla’s Secret Weapon: Intense Focus on Batteries

    23 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  76. Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)

    23 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  77. The Private Edward Gorey

    23 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  78. A teenager found Apple's FaceTime bug – and why it was so hard to report it

    23 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  79. A Program Optimization for Automatic Database Result Caching (2017) [pdf]

    23 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  80. Why Is the Music of 1968 So Enduring? 'It Was Allowed to Be Art'

    23 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  81. Data alignment: Straighten up and fly right (2005)

    23 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  82. Uber special investigation unit stressed out and at risk, internal report finds

    23 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  83. Crapularity Aesthetics

    23 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  84. Open source stewardship made practical [video]

    23 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  85. Stack Overflow Developer Desktop Build – 2019

    23 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  86. Ask HN: Are you homeschooling your kids? Why?

    23 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  87. A brief introduction to XDP and eBPF

    23 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  88. Purism

    23 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  89. Vintage Yugoslavian Computer Magazine Cover Girls of the 1980s

    23 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  90. Swizzle Inventor: Data Movement Synthesis for GPU Kernels [pdf]

    23 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  91. Humanity Has Hope: Pro-Gamers Win 1 of 11 StarCraft Matches Against DeepMind AI

    23 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  92. IntelliJ IDEA: 18th birthday

    23 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  93. Seattle’s Homeless Challenge

    23 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  94. World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8B

    23 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  95. Google board tried to cover up sexual misconduct, shareholders allege

    23 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  96. Amazon Architecture

    23 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  97. Future AI: The Explorer and the Philosopher

    23 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  98. Bill Gates warns that nobody is paying attention to gene editing

    23 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  99. They’re dead to us: The Ars Technica 2019 Deathwatch

    23 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  100. With $137B at Stake, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos to Divorce

    23 points • comment • jan 09, 2019