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Hacker News (Mar 2019)

Saudi Arabia runs a database of women that men use to track them
17 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Israeli Researchers Produce Sustainable Bioplastics with Seawater Algae
17 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
How to Improve 2015 MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals
17 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
Does Erlang Consume Too Much Energy? Answer by Ulf Wiger, AXD 301 Architect
17 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
A Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
17 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Show HN: Chalkscore – Glassdoor for Education
17 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Full Cycle Developers at Netflix – Operate What You Build
17 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Towards Fine-Grained Network Security Forensics and Diagnosis in the SDN Era [pdf]
17 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
The Squeal of Data
17 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Apple Is Lobbying Against Your Right to Repair iPhones (2017)
17 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
Tails 3.13 Is Out
17 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
The Neanderthal Renaissance
17 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
U.S. Secretary of the Navy: Cybersecurity Readiness Review [pdf]
17 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
There’s Another Possibility (2018)
17 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Pony 0.27.0 has been released
17 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
SpaCy v2.1
17 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Writing a minimal x86-64 JIT compiler in C++ (2018)
17 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Bike country No 1': Dutch go electric in record numbers
17 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
Google Bankrolls Oligarch-Owned Media Group in Hungary
17 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
A Password-Storage Field Study with Freelance Developers [pdf]
17 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Producer Playbook: Guidelines, best practices for producers and project managers
17 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry
17 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
The drugs don’t work: what happens after antibiotics?
17 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
E.U. Approves a Brexit Extension, but on New Terms
17 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Startup Off-sites – Why They Matter And How I Run Them
17 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Moving our privacy advocacy forward to protect Australia and you
17 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Spotify’s EU antitrust complaint could be a serious threat to Apple
17 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Petition: Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU
17 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Your Environment Is Cleaner. Your Immune System Has Never Been So Unprepared
17 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Why Facebook and Google don't care about their scandals–or you
17 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Adi Shamir not permitted to RSA Conference due to lack of visa
17 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
In San Francisco, a fight over a homeless shelter
17 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
Collection of Python code snippets and cheatsheets
17 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
Ask HN: How did you adapt to a rapidly-growing startup?
17 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Not a single watcher reported mosque gunman live stream, Facebook says
17 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
What’s inside Python ‘for’ loop?
17 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Microsoft’s new Skype for Web client: An early taste of the browser monoculture
17 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
CIA Implicated in Attack on North Korean Embassy in Madrid
17 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program
17 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Parents who digitize their babies’ lives
17 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
First Detention, Now Demolition: China Remakes Its Muslim Region [video]
17 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
26/43 freelancers chose “plaintext” to store passwords
17 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Costs of building your own data center
17 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Karen Uhlenbeck, founder of geometric analysis, honored with Abel Prize
17 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Designed in China, Assembled in California
17 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
The Myth of Meritocracy
17 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Jibo the social robot announces that its VC overlords have killswitched it
17 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
An Original iPhone Prototype
17 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Why the Left Can’t Stand The New York Times
16 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Git Best Practices
16 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
CFIA: Bottled water smelling of 'old socks' and 'urine,' poses no health risk
16 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Kids surrounded by greenery may grow up to be happier adults
16 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Neptune’s Navy (2007)
16 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Use a relational database instead of NoSQL for your IoT app
16 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Ask HN: What's the oldest software you still use today?
16 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
I Quit Facebook (Tips You Might Use)
16 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Alan B. Krueger, Economic Aide to Clinton and Obama, Dies at 58
16 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
All New York City Public Schools Will Adopt Meatless Mondays
16 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
My Hacker School Pairing Interview (2013)
16 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
How Jeff Bezos Went to Hollywood and Lost Control
16 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs
16 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Apple Cancels AirPower Wireless Charger
16 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
The Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy
16 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Raspberry Pi used in “big business”
16 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
CLI ePub Reader
16 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
All Intel chips vulnerable to new Spoiler (non Spectre) attack
16 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Show HN: A Vulkan Rendering API for JavaScript
16 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
Improving Spoken Programming Through Language Design (2013) [pdf]
16 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Explosive Packages Found at Heathrow, Waterloo and London City Airport
16 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm
16 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Tesla's Model 3 Shatters Record in Electric Car Crazy Norway
16 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Rocket Launch Seen from the International Space Station [video]
16 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
The working prototype of my cyberdeck is complete
16 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
When Women Control the Money, Female Founders Get Funded
16 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
David vs. Goliath: Nauru Rejects'one China'recognizes Taiwan as Nation
16 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Ask HN: How many hours of your job are enjoyable?
16 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Webtor: Stream torrents online
16 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Japanese police charge 13-year-old for sharing 'unclosable popup' prank online
16 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Jsweet – Java to JavaScript Transpiler
16 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
Show HN: M4b-tool 0.3.3 – a tool to merge, split and chapterize audiobooks
16 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
A Comparison of Assertion Libraries
16 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Sharpest bread kitchen knife in the world [video]
16 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
The damaging effects of unplanned work
16 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
A Robotic Leg, Born Without Prior Knowledge, Learns to Walk
16 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Nuclear goes retro – with a much greener outlook
16 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Ask HN: How do you know what your users want?
16 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Kong 1.1 Released with Declarative Configuration and DB-Less Mode
16 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
An exposed database tracked whether 1.8M Chinese women were “breed ready”
16 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Nvidia Announces Jetson Nano: $99 Tiny, yet Mighty Nvidia CUDA-X AI Computer
16 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Constructed Worlds (2017)
16 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Women who refuse to have children until climate change ends
16 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
To See the Elephant
16 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
There is mysterious ‘undocumented technology’ hidden on Intel computer chips
16 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Polish leaders hint Poland will not fully apply EU copyright law
16 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
Wayland McWayface (a tutorial compositor) on the JVM using jextract
16 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
End of Operation of Wow Air
16 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method
16 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
FCC Admits in Court That It Can't Track Who Submits Fake Comments
16 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
One Hour, One Life, One Mess
16 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
On High Heels and Lotus Feet
16 points • comment • mar 14, 2019