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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. China is working to silence critics of its prisonlike re-education camps

    103 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  2. Huawei’s claim of 100% employee ownership false, may be state-owned: paper

    103 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  3. Defeating Racket’s separate compilation guarantee

    103 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  4. New Satellite Photos Show Climate Change Is Sweeping Europe

    103 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  5. Running Forth Unikernels

    102 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  6. Groups of Homeless People

    102 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  7. Engineering Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks

    102 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  8. Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games

    102 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  9. The Brain Needs Animal Fat

    102 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  10. 50 Years of Data Science (2015) [pdf]

    102 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  11. Understanding zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples

    102 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  12. Show HN: BepuPhysics – 3D real-time physics simulation library in C#

    102 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  13. The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person

    102 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  14. Banish missing glyphs with Unifont

    102 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  15. Fortnite and the Good Life

    102 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  16. Pengwin – A Linux Distro Optimized for WSL Based on Debian

    102 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  17. At high pressures, potassium adopts a mix of crystalline and liquid structure

    102 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  18. Potato farmers cry foul as PepsiCo sues them

    102 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  19. LED circuits, theory, applications and tips

    101 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  20. An unusual class of molecules could revolutionise the electronics industry

    101 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  21. Buca di Beppo, America’s Most Postmodern Red Sauce Chain

    101 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  22. The Power of Lifetimes

    101 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  23. From Asylum Seeker to Fields Medal Winner at Cambridge

    101 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  24. Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan forgiveness program

    101 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  25. Verilator: Fast, Free Verilog HDL Simulator

    100 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  26. Visualization techniques for different data sets

    100 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  27. What Is Idempotence?

    100 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  28. The Archetypal Resonance of Classic JRPGs

    100 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  29. Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update

    100 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  30. Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (1994)

    100 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  31. Matrox History: A Computer Graphics Also-Ran’s Second Life

    100 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  32. Roku is no longer a neutral platform after today’s Roku OS 9.1 update

    100 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  33. What happens after rich kids bribe their way into college? I teach them

    99 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  34. Rich countries tend to have a bigger middle-class, except the USA

    99 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  35. Boeing 737 Max Crashes: Sensors Vulnerable to Failure

    99 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  36. Julian Assange Indictment (2018)

    99 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  37. Project Xanadu

    99 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  38. Parable of the Polygons (2014)

    99 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  39. Feds take down $1B Medicare fraud scheme

    99 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  40. For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature Almanacs

    99 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  41. Seven-Dimensional Cross Product

    99 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  42. How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage

    99 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  43. Chicago Has Become the Nerve Center of Competitive Pinball

    98 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  44. Lupin III Manga author Monkey Punch passes away at 81

    98 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  45. The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities

    98 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  46. Building Spotify’s New Web Player

    98 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  47. California Has a Housing Crisis. The Answer Is More Housing

    98 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  48. Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty

    98 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  49. AWS Web Console Down?

    98 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  50. Bye lands orders for nearly 300 electric planes

    98 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  51. QuaterNet: A Quaternion-Based Recurrent Model for Human Motion

    98 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  52. The Mysterious Disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the World’s Biggest Movie Star

    98 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  53. The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-time world

    98 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  54. Dog Breed Identifier: from Keras program to Android app

    98 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  55. A Conversation with Language Creators: Guido, James, Anders and Larry [video]

    97 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  56. Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago

    97 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  57. Timex Is Making Watches in America Again

    97 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  58. I'm a Data Scientist and It's Not My Passion

    97 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  59. Apple censors song about Tiananmen Square protests

    97 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  60. U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change

    97 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  61. Show HN: A minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go

    97 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  62. A Long Adventure: Repairing Ultra-Rare NTSC Amiga Ultima 6

    97 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  63. Launch HN: Atomic Alchemy (YC W19) – Manufacturing Nuclear Medicine

    97 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  64. Ask HN: Mathematicians, what textbooks are best for learning these math topics?

    97 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  65. Perl6: The World's Worst ML?

    97 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  66. Working memory revived in older adults by synchronizing rhythmic brain circuits

    97 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  67. 339 Bytes of Responsive CSS

    96 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  68. Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 Town Hall Meetings

    96 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  69. Yoshua Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are real’

    96 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  70. The high speed of society has jammed our internal clock

    96 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  71. Arctic Has Entered 'Unprecedented State' That Threatens Global Climate Stability

    96 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  72. Motion Estimation with Optical Flow

    96 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  73. Istio Observability with Go, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers-Based Microservices

    96 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  74. Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? [video]

    96 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  75. Big Companies Thought Insurance Covered a Cyberattack

    96 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  76. Work harder or the communists will win

    96 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  77. Two Cathay Pacific captains lose eyesight during flights

    96 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  78. Show HN: PaaS with database and free backups

    95 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  79. If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook?

    95 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  80. Tokyo's Underground Discharge Channel

    95 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  81. SoftBank to invest over $1B in German payment company Wirecard

    95 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  82. Nearly half of young millennials get thousands in support from parents

    95 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  83. NVMe and an interesting technology change

    95 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  84. Pprint: Pretty Printer for Modern C++

    95 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  85. Wikipedia isn’t officially a social network, but the harassment can get ugly

    95 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  86. Cross-Browser NoScript Hits the Chrome Store

    95 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  87. Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags foreign ties

    95 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  88. Reviving a 19 Year Old Gameboy Emulator

    95 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  89. EU Council of Ministers Approves Copyright Directive

    95 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  90. Spent 50 hours on a take-home assignment only to be ghosted

    95 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  91. A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery

    94 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  92. Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”

    94 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  93. Facebook are 'morally bankrupt, pathological liars' – NZ Privacy Commissioner

    94 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  94. Scalable Muscle-Actuated Human Simulation and Control

    94 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  95. Tesla Shakes Up Model 3 Lineup

    94 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  96. Fucking Color Picker

    94 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  97. Creator of Linux: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Are “A Disease”

    94 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  98. A New Era of Video Backends: The Unification of VideoCommon

    94 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  99. The Age of Robot Farmers

    94 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  100. Google Cloud challenges AWS with new open-source integrations

    94 points • comment • apr 09, 2019