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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. China Sentences Canadian, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, to Death

    18 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  2. Raise the capital gains tax and treat investment earnings like ordinary income

    18 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  3. Ask HN: What's the most secure smartphone in 2019?

    18 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  4. Norden Bombsight (2004)

    18 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  5. Animations by a NASA Scientist Show the Speed of Light Is Torturously Slow

    18 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  6. Measuring the Age of the Earth (2014)

    18 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  7. How Alexandria Ocacia Cortez Shapes a new Political Reality

    18 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  8. USPTO guidelines to restore software patents

    18 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  9. Openrsync – a clean-room implementation of rsync with a BSD (ISC) license

    18 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  10. Flower Power: Hamilton’s Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature

    18 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  11. An open letter to the mathematical community

    18 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  12. Website detailing difficult guest experiences on AirBnB called “AirBnB Hell”

    18 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  13. Google hit with £44m GDPR fine over ads

    18 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  14. Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials

    18 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  15. Tell HN: Alexa mute button is not hardwired

    18 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  16. End of Apple

    18 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  17. Trump Associates Had More Than 100 Contacts with Russians Before Inauguration

    18 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  18. Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools

    18 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  19. Anime.Js 3.0.0 is out now

    18 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  20. Facebook Lie Files

    18 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  21. Announcing OneDev – open source Git server with unique features

    18 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  22. Why access and API tokens are the new passwords but worse

    18 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  23. Simple Redux–a bare-bones redux implementation for teaching purposes

    18 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  24. Q2VKPT: Fully path-traced Quake 2 fork using RTX

    18 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  25. Theresa May's Brexit deal rejected by 230 votes

    18 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  26. Gitea v1.7.0

    18 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  27. Show HN: All entry level jobs and internships at one place

    18 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  28. Newspack by WordPress.com – A New Publishing Solution for News Organizations

    18 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  29. Apple’s App Store sets record: takes in $1.22B in a week

    18 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  30. Async IO in Python: A Complete Walkthrough

    18 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  31. Skinny genes the 'secret to staying slim'

    18 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  32. Voltaire's Luck (2016)

    17 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  33. The number of pedestrians killed by cars keeps going up

    17 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  34. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie divorce

    17 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  35. Celebrate the women behind the periodic table

    17 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  36. When Broadway Became Broadway

    17 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  37. What happened to the 90,000 cars a day the viaduct carried before it closed?

    17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  38. China just blocked its last major foreign search engine

    17 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  39. The Art of the Pan

    17 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  40. Ford-Owned Shuttle Startup Chariot Is Shutting Down

    17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  41. Show HN: 1800W Balcony Solar/Battery Microgrid that can power your fridge

    17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  42. AMD at CES 2019 Live Stream

    17 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  43. Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js

    17 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  44. Believing without evidence is always morally wrong

    17 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  45. Leaked emails show Apple tried to use Qualcomm modems in iPhone XS/XR

    17 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  46. Facebook is shutting down Moments; here’s how to save all your photos

    17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  47. Tech's diversity problem is because of toxic LeetCode interviews

    17 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  48. Slandering the Unborn (2018)

    17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  49. Steam rises off Lake Michigan in Chicago as temps plunge to –23 degrees

    17 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  50. Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked to Schizophrenia in Largest Study Yet

    17 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  51. SpaceX Hid a Second, Hidden Payload Aboard Falcon Heavy

    17 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  52. ML Digest: TensorFlow Handbook, AutoML Book, Key Papers in RL, code2vec et al

    17 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  53. How to enter into ML?

    17 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  54. Michael Chabon: How to Salvage a 'Wrecked' Novel (2010)

    17 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  55. Were You Laid Off by Tesla? So Was I

    17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  56. Falafel: The staple dish of the Middle East is as contested as the region

    17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  57. Stop Obsessing Over Comments on Hacker News (2015)

    17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  58. The Era of Easy Recycling May Be Coming to an End

    17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  59. Steve Jobs was wrong about middle management

    17 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  60. A Guided Tour of the Data Facebook Uses to Target Ads

    17 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  61. Elon Musk's Tesla to cut about 3,000 jobs as cars 'too expensive'

    17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  62. Ask HN: What lang and web stack is both popular and similar to Ruby and Rails?

    17 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  63. Dark matter on the move

    17 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  64. 17 days into 2019 and companies still haven't updated their copyright year

    17 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  65. Show HN: Stensal SDK: Retrofitting C/C++ code with quasi-memory-safety

    17 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  66. Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Reinvent the Battery

    17 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  67. Ride Along with the Cow Police (2016)

    17 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  68. I bought a Google Home, and now I can't listen to music at work

    17 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  69. Brain researchers warn that lack of sleep is a public health crisis

    17 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  70. Ask HN: Is QA/Tester profession dead?

    17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  71. Show HN: 10 year challenge with browser history back button

    17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  72. HTC Announces New Virtual Reality Headsets Vive Cosmos and Vive Pro Eye at CES

    17 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  73. Dell returns to public stock market after years as private company

    17 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  74. I had a job interview for a position at a company called Web Applications UK

    17 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  75. Marie Kondo, Fast Fashion, and the Thrift-Store Boom

    17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  76. Ask HN: Good technical GDPR resources?

    17 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  77. Ask HN: What’s your go-to investment for protecting cash from inflation?

    17 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  78. C++ at the End of 2018

    17 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  79. Searching for "Antarctica" on YouTube returns conspiracy videos

    17 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  80. Grab and Go: How Sticky Gloves Have Changed Football

    17 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  81. China is transforming Africa into the next 'factory of the world'

    17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  82. Malign incompetence of the British ruling class

    17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  83. Dennis Johnson, Creator of a Rediscovered Minimalist Score, Has Died

    17 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  84. China’s Looming Crisis: A Shrinking Population

    17 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  85. I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them

    17 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  86. C++17 Filesystem – Writing a simple file watcher

    17 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  87. Ring reportedly gave employees access to customer video feeds

    17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  88. Another Side of MeToo: Male Managers Fearful of Mentoring Women

    17 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  89. Google Easter Egg- Translating Monty Python's “funniest Joke Ever” from German

    17 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  90. 1940 WPA San Francisco Model Now Online

    17 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  91. Subtle Asian Dating: Why a Raunchy, Self-Aware Subtle Asian Traits group grows

    17 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  92. Ask HN: How do you come up with side projects?

    17 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  93. Death is no leveller if some live much longer than others

    17 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  94. China deletes 'malicious' mobile apps

    17 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  95. Ask HN: Alternatives to a cell phone for spontaneous communication

    17 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  96. Unsealed docs will detail how Facebook made money off children

    17 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  97. Ducati CEO confirms ‘The future is electric’, says electric Ducati is coming

    17 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  98. The Topography of Disease

    16 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  99. Hack a Tesla 3 Pwn2Own to own a Tesla 3

    16 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  100. Best American History Reads of 2018

    16 points • comment • jan 09, 2019