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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. HeidiSQL – GUI client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL

    242 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  2. Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third of all sales

    242 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  3. Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics

    241 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  4. The Tao of Programming (1987)

    241 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  5. Party is over for dirt-cheap solar panels, says China executive

    241 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  6. How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless?

    241 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  7. IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm Running on Haiku

    241 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  8. Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style

    240 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  9. Michael Atiyah has died

    240 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  10. I exploited TLS-SNI-01 issuing Let's Encrypt SSL-certs for any domain (2018)

    240 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  11. If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure?

    240 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  12. China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout

    240 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  13. How to Eliminate the Dreaded “Blind Spot”

    240 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  14. Apple Open-Sources FoundationDB Record Layer

    239 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  15. What Happens When You Try to Sue Your Boss

    239 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  16. Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

    238 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  17. SQLer – Turn Your SQL queries into RESTful APIs without any programming language

    238 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  18. Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones

    236 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  19. The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction

    236 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  20. Uncaptcha2: Defeat ReCaptcha with Google Speech2Text

    236 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  21. Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019

    236 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  22. A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (2017)

    236 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  23. EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition

    236 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  24. Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr City

    236 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  25. Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

    235 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  26. NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7

    235 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  27. Canada's New Food Guide

    234 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  28. Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes

    234 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  29. Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data

    234 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  30. Elixir v1.8 released

    234 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  31. Explore ISS on Google Maps

    234 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  32. Facebook is the worst thing that's ever happened to the internet

    233 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  33. Getting Ahead by Being Inefficient

    233 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  34. ProseMirror – A toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web

    232 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  35. Future JavaScript: what is still missing?

    232 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  36. Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts

    232 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  37. Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school students from 2020

    231 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  38. Huawei Unveils High-Performance ARM-Based CPU

    231 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  39. Language Server Protocol implementation for Swift and C-based languages

    231 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  40. What People Say Before They Die

    231 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  41. Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk

    231 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  42. Functional programming in C++ (2012)

    230 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  43. Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine [video]

    230 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  44. I Nearly Lost All of My Data

    230 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  45. Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

    229 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  46. HandBrake 1.2.0 Released

    229 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  47. Is C++ fast?

    228 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  48. Show HN: Simple Opt Out – Makes it easier to opt out of data sharing

    228 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  49. We value your privacy now, but maybe not later

    228 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  50. Federal HTTPS domains that'll expire soon because of US government shutdown

    227 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  51. Future of TypeScript on ESLint

    227 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  52. Homebrew 1.9.0

    227 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  53. Show HN: Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language

    227 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  54. A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture

    226 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  55. WasmWinforms – .NET WinForms in a browser

    226 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  56. Complete guide to GDPR compliance

    225 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  57. Lego collecting delivers huge and uncorrelated market returns

    225 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  58. India’s largest bank SBI leaked account data on millions of customers

    224 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  59. Tesla laid off my disabled veteran husband then cancelled his sign on bonus

    224 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  60. Professional programming resources

    224 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  61. Rendering of Rise of the Tomb Raider

    224 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  62. 600 days of postmarketOS

    224 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  63. PyPy for low-latency systems

    224 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  64. Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin

    224 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  65. Don't Pay to Acquire Your First Users

    223 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  66. RunJS

    223 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  67. What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

    222 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  68. Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a project?

    222 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  69. Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

    222 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  70. Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

    222 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  71. Monorepo: please do

    222 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  72. Something mysterious is blocking car key fobs from working in an Alberta town

    221 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  73. Particle physics may have reached the end of the line

    221 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  74. A decade-long boom is ending as consumers hang on to devices for longer

    221 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  75. Chess Steganography

    220 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  76. Doom 3 in WebAssembly

    220 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  77. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms

    219 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  78. Thinking Forth – A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (1984) [pdf]

    219 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  79. Why Telegram is insecure (2015)

    219 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  80. How to DIY a Product Launch Video with No Experience, and for Free

    219 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  81. Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog? (2013)

    219 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  82. Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time

    218 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  83. Racket v7.2

    217 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  84. AMD Radeon VII: High-End 7nm Vega Video Card

    217 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  85. Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns

    217 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  86. The Looking Glass – Holographic Display

    216 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  87. We Can't Just Assume that Facebook Will Do Its Best

    216 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  88. How Hacker News Stays Interesting

    216 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  89. Foxconn Expands Operations in India, Vietnam Amid Trade Tensions

    216 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  90. A Lifetime of Systems Thinking

    216 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  91. Asynchronous Programming in Rust book

    216 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  92. Thoughts on Rust, a few thousand lines in

    215 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  93. Bootstrap builder for busy developers

    215 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  94. Extramaze: Using Racket, PostgreSQL, AWS, but no ads or JavaScript (2018)

    215 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  95. Minimalism: Practical Guide to Writing Less Code (2002) [pdf]

    215 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  96. Unprovability comes to machine learning

    215 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  97. Flight Simulator 4 from 1989 running on three immersive monitors (2017)

    215 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  98. A Guide for Adults Going to College

    214 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  99. Show HN: Deep Learning GUI to Create, Train and Visualize Models in a Browser

    213 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  100. Compass Pathways has set itself up to be the first legal provider of psilocybin

    213 points • comment • jan 04, 2019