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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. The Folly of Hiring Winners and Firing Losers

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  2. 25 million+ Low Latency IP lookups/month on Infinitely Scalable Serverless

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  3. Assistive tech can't handle the unusual fonts people use on Twitter to be cute

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  4. Only 40% of Boston's valedictorian's make more thank 50k a year

    6 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  5. The 2018 Free Thought Awards

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  6. Mobile/Web game ReelValley made completely in Nim goes open source

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  7. Is Most Life in the Universe Lithophilic?

    6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  8. Which email client provides what is depicted in todays xkcd?

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  9. SQL Injection Fools Speed Traps and Clears Your Record

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  10. The Changing of the Guard (1991)

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  11. Show HN: Creating a Programming Language in Swift

    6 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  12. Southwest Airlines Co-Founder Herb Kelleher Dies – SFGate

    6 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  13. New Picture of Ice-Filled Crater on Mars

    6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  14. Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership

    6 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  15. Every year, millions try to navigate US courts without a lawyer

    6 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  16. Egos and experiments: Andrew Scull on the travails of social psychology

    6 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  17. Ask HN: Are you hiring? I'm working on a project and would benefit from feedback

    6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  18. Simulation of OneWeb, SpaceX and Telesat's Proposed Constellations

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  19. Denver could become the first US city to decriminalize magic mushrooms

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  20. Michael Cohen reportedly gave a tech firm $12,000 to rig polls in Trump’s favor

    6 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  21. Ghostery Plus makes money while blocking publishers from doing the same

    6 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  22. Brexit panic buying: UK police advise shops to hire extra security

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  23. Building a Hybrid x86–64 and ARM Kubernetes Cluster

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  24. Why Chicago train tracks are being set on fire

    6 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  25. Risch Algorithm – An Algorithm for Indefinite Integration

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  26. Mozilla Hubs For Education?

    6 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  27. Apple is going to sell its Apple TV service on Samsung TVs

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  28. Officials rejected Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled

    6 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  29. 1950's TV Character “Trump” Tries to Scare Town into Building a Wall

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  30. Detroit Bar Serves Michigan's First Cannabis-Derived Cocktail

    6 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  31. AT&T wireless CEO on fake 5G complaints: ‘that makes me smile’

    6 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  32. Branca – Authenticated and encrypted API tokens using modern crypto

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  33. Find which ICE agent you most resemble

    6 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  34. Steve Jobs vs. Knuth

    6 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  35. DARPA’s New Self-Guided Bullets Turn in Mid-Flight Following Their Target (2016)

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  36. Planet’s erratic magnetic field forces emergency update to global nav systems

    6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  37. Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets

    6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  38. Ask HN: Conclusive evidence to turn anti vax into anti anti vax

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  39. Bipolar Junction Transistors in Reverse Avalanche Mode

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  40. I lost $1m on Bitcoin

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  41. Developer Ecosystem Survey 2019

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  42. Ask HN: Options for distributed peer-to-peer image datasets?

    6 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  43. AMD Talks Datacenter Share Gains as EPYC's 2X Uplift per Socket Drives Revenue

    6 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  44. Nuance Has Abandoned Mac Speech Recognition. Will Apple Fill the Void?

    6 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  45. Federal workers rally for their jobs at White House

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  46. Show HN: Rubyoshka – composable HTML templating for Ruby

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  47. YouTube Is Still Hosting Graphic Images of Bestiality

    6 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  48. Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019)

    6 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  49. A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern Misrecognition (2016)

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  50. Free EBook from Microsoft: Azure for Architects [pdf]

    6 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  51. Facebook makes its image compression tech available to all

    6 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  52. The blind spot of science is the neglect of lived experience

    6 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  53. 2019 Will Be the Year of the DAO

    6 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  54. Bananas have died out once before

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  55. Alexander the Great ‘was ALIVE while his body was prepared for burial’

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

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

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  57. What NYT Column Gets Wrong on Robots

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  58. What are the pros and cons of elective government budget?(voters decide budget)

    6 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  59. New technology uses lasers to transmit audible messages to specific people

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  60. Lessons in WebAssembly: Client Side Video Editing

    6 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

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

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  62. Can I have my Amygdala removed? (2018)

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  63. MIPS Joins RISC-V as Second Open Source Alternative to Arm

    6 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  64. Problems with crypto market capitalization metric and potential solutions

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  65. Show HN: React Central State – A super easy to use react global state

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  66. Pupils refused hot school dinners due to credit debt

    6 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  67. Where is roadster

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  68. Steven Pinker Responds to Critics of 'Enlightenment Now'

    6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  69. 10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  70. C++, Rust, Go Over Java for Data Intensive Frameworks

    6 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  71. Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths – Or Falling into Old Traps?

    6 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  72. Censoring China’s Internet, for Stability and Profit

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  73. The Pentagon Wants to Stop Enemies from 'Poisoning' AI

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  74. When a programmer thinks not knowing BFS is okay

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  75. 'No one likes being a tourist': the rise of the anti-tour

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  76. One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases

    6 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  77. 50 shades of C++ - Nicolai Josuttis - Meeting C++ 2018 Closing Keynote

    6 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  78. Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog

    6 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  79. Jaguar Land Rover to slash 4,500 UK jobs

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  80. Anonymous found the organization responsible for gangstalking

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  81. Why you should care about generative text

    6 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  82. DiyHue – Philips Hue Bridge Open Source Alternative

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  83. Spurning Erdogan’s Vision, Turks Leave in Droves, Draining Money and Talent

    6 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  84. Federal Court Rules That Patent Troll Can’t Hide Its Machinations

    6 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  85. Federal Shutdown’s Uneven Toll: Some Americans Are Devastated, Others Oblivious

    6 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  86. Reddit detectives are hard at work decoding Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

    6 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  87. AT&T gets burned by rivals over its fake 5G network

    5 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  88. AWS Cost Savings by Utilizing Kubernetes Ingress with Classic ELB

    5 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  89. What Fyre Fest Docs Reveal About Tech’s Cult of Positivity

    5 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  90. Exercise and Its Signaling

    5 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  91. America’s Electric Grid Has a Vulnerable Back Door–and Russia Walked Through It

    5 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  92. Towards a hands-free query optimizer through deep learning

    5 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  93. Launch HN: Cloud Optimizer – Find the cheapest compute at eight cloud providers

    5 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  94. Saturn’s rings were formed when dinosaurs roamed Earth

    5 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  95. Duckduckgo: Anonymous Localized Results

    5 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  96. China Appears to Block Microsoft's Bing Search Engine

    5 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  97. NASA Air Traffic Management Blockchain Infrastructure Based on HyperLedger [pdf]

    5 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  98. Warning Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

    5 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  99. Thoughtcrime and Punishment: Shunning and Law Suits at a Canadian University

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  100. Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants

    5 points • comment • jan 17, 2019