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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. From Google Sheet to #5 on ProductHunt in 10 days

    9 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  2. Spotify cracks down on reverse-engineering and ad blocking

    9 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  3. For those who aren’t quite sure why these media layoffs keep happening

    9 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  4. Linux Mint 19.1: A sneaky popular distro skips upheaval, offers small upgrades

    9 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  5. Awesome-quantified-self

    9 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  6. Dubai held a 'gender balance' awards, and every single winner is a man

    9 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  7. Uncertain Future of Particle Physics

    9 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  8. Teen diving enthusiast's project has removed 50,000 golf balls from off CA coast

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  9. Facebook and fake news: elderly more likely to spread misinformation

    9 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  10. OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion into “Attractive” Anti-Addiction Market

    9 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  11. The Disappearing Poor

    9 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  12. Ask HN: Is Hadoop Dead?

    8 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  13. RPi Camera v2 uses DRM to prevent clones (2016)

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  14. Nancy Pelosi pledges to block Trump State of the Union amid shutdown

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  15. 'Dozens' of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  16. The Case for Free Community College

    8 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  17. Your Flaws Are Probably More Attractive Than You Think They Are

    8 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  18. Show HN: Compare Trends on Hacker News

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  19. “Introduction to Clojure” by Graham Cox

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  20. Scientists discover a process that stabilizes fusion plasmas

    8 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  21. USB-IF Launches USB Type-C Authentication Program

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  22. Changing email address on Twitter for Android unsets “Protect your Tweets”

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  23. Coming Soon to a police department near you: the DNA Magic Box

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  24. Show HN: Source Code Plagiarism Detector

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  25. Ask HN: Open Source Hospital or ER Systems

    8 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  26. The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything we've seen in a century

    8 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  27. YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers’ Extortion Tool

    8 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  28. AngelList Year in Review, 2018

    8 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  29. 10th anniversary of Flight 1549

    8 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  30. Robotic dildo barred from top tech showcase, prompting sexism claims

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  31. McDonald's loses Big Mac trademark after legal battle with Irish chain

    8 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  32. Anonymous Fingerprinting of Device Screens for Off-Line Payment Protection [pdf]

    8 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  33. An Introduction to Quantum Computing

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  34. About Daniel Stenberg (creator of curl)

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  35. Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued

    8 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  36. After three years of decline, carbon emissions rose sharply in the US in 2018

    8 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  37. “This is it.” Alien contact – a Twitter thread

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  38. Netflix Sued by Choose Your Own Adventure Over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

    8 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  39. ‘Age of Tech’ Is Over

    8 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  40. Is it worth the trouble?

    8 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  41. Long Lines for Women’s Bathrooms Could Be Eliminated. Why Haven’t They Been?

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  42. Show HN: Python script to automate filling out Google form using Selenium

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  43. Lambda School – interesting model, only pay for lessons when you get a tech job

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  44. Taking the smarts out of smart TVs would make them more expensive

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  45. Dark markets have evolved to use encrypted messengers and dead-drops

    8 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  46. Apple just made a surprising move – warning that its quarter was a huge miss

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  47. I abused 2FA to maintain persistence after a password change

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  48. Ask HN: Buying farm machinery from Alibaba

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  49. Great Divide in Front-End Development

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  50. Hyatt Hotels launches bug bounty program

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  51. Air pollution 'as bad as smoking in increasing risk of miscarriage'

    8 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  52. Server-side rendering: how to serve authenticated content

    8 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  53. Show HN: Compare Trends on Hacker News

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  54. The Definitive Guide to Contributing to Open Source

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  55. Ask HN: Should Apple buy DuckDuckGo?

    8 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  56. On Weaponised Design

    8 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  57. Download Hundreds of Japanese Fireworks Illustrations from the 1800s

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  58. The Religious Fanaticism of Silicon Valley Elites

    8 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  59. Call for Papers for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  60. Ask HN: Should I jump to OpenJDK 11 now that support for 8 is running out?

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  61. Future Will Be Documented

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  62. Israeli Scientists: We’ll Have a Cure for Cancer Within a Year

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  63. Renegade BBS server inside Docker

    8 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  64. Urbano: New tool for mobility-aware urban design, active transportation modeling [pdf]

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  65. Show HN: TetrEFIs, tetris as an EFI application

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  66. Vermont to pay remote workers 10k to move to the state

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  67. India scientists dismiss Einstein theories

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  68. My game making tool attracts more girls than boys

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  69. US Navy Destroyer Discreetly Tested Hyper Velocity Projectiles at 2018 RIMPAC

    8 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  70. Opinion: Toxic Positivity

    8 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  71. Complicated Sounds: ‘Really the Blues’

    8 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  72. OSTIF and Quarkslab Audit of OpenSSL Is Complete

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  73. Sony is making the same mistake that hobbled Microsoft and almost killed Xbox

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  74. More screen time for toddlers is tied to poorer development a few years later

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  75. AT&T tries to trademark ‘Verge TV’

    8 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  76. Why I'm Grateful About the State of the Web 2019

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  77. Show HN: An awesome portal to awesome sites

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  78. Space Roasters

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  79. The Shutdown Shows Just How Vital Government Scientists Are

    8 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  80. SIM Swapping Victims Who Lost Millions Pressure Telcos to Protect Customers

    8 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  81. Part of Antarctica Was Not Supposed to Be Shrinking

    8 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  82. Ask HN: What have you done with Raspberry Pi so far?

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  83. This Really Is the Next Revolution in TV Technology

    8 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  84. Social brand destruction: A survivor’s account

    8 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  85. Hackers are taking over Chromecasts to promote PewDiePie’s channel

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  86. Maskless photolithographic system using low-cost projector and microscope (2005) [pdf]

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  87. A Brief History of the System: How We Built Dystopia

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  88. Head of Android Security: Locking Out Law Enforcement Is Unintended Side Effect

    8 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  89. The History of the Zeebo, Brazil's First Videogame Console [video]

    8 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  90. Microsoft Acquires Citus Data: Creating the World's Best Postgres Experience

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  91. Elon Musk Sent an Email to Employees at 1:20AM and It May Signal End of Tesla

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  92. Apple warns on Q1 results

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  93. How much does it cost to build an app?

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  94. Serum concentrations of PFASs and exposure-related behaviors in women

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  95. Web site owners can now push notifications to people who bookmarks their site

    8 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  96. Apple buys 50 business class seats to Shanghai daily

    8 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  97. Google confirms it uses dummy phone numbers to record calls with local services

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  98. Dealing with file downloads in puppeteer

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  99. AI is sending people to jail and getting it wrong

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  100. Towards verified compilation of CakeML into WebAssembly [pdf]

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2019