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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Why Joy Division? Henry Rollins examines Jon Savage’s oral history of the band

    56 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  2. Visual Studio 2019 goes live with C++, Python shared editing

    56 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  3. Chinook: Sample database for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc (2017)

    56 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  4. Parents and students in Kansas have concerns about the Summit Learning program

    56 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  5. Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management (2017) [pdf]

    56 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  6. Cross-border credit reporting is at last becoming a reality

    56 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  7. Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See the Night Sky for the First Time

    56 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  8. K-Means Clustering: Unsupervised Learning Applied on Magic:The Gathering

    56 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  9. Privacy Pass

    56 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  10. Composition over Configuration

    56 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  11. The misunderstood consequences of electroconvulsive therapy

    56 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  12. You Can't Trust Network Time

    56 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  13. Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences

    56 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  14. Dilemmas with React Hooks: Persistence and Memoization

    56 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  15. AI: More than Human

    55 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  16. Open Source Is Eternal

    55 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  17. Privacy Loss in Apple’s Implementation of Differential Privacy (2017)

    55 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  18. A Pragmatic Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation

    55 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  19. Climate Chaos Is Coming – and the Pinkertons Are Ready

    55 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  20. Load Google Fonts Faster in WordPress

    55 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  21. Robotics startup Anki is shutting down

    55 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  22. T-Mobile-Sprint Deal Runs into Resistance from DOJ Antitrust Staff

    55 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  23. Finding Practical Applications for Origami

    55 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  24. Restoring a Teletype Model 15

    55 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  25. Parrot Detained for Yelling 'Police' to Warn Its Owners About a Drug Raid

    55 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  26. London Home Supper Clubs

    55 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  27. Sex is a biological variable – in the brain too

    55 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  28. Japan’s Self-Defence Forces Are Beginning to Focus on China

    54 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  29. Digital Asset Open Sources Its Smart Contract Language, DAML [pdf]

    54 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  30. Venture capital firms are investing in astrology apps

    54 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  31. Zen and the Art of Divebombing (2016)

    54 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  32. How Banksy Authenticates His Work

    54 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  33. Ask HN: Why doesn't a time travel debugger exist yet for JavaScript?

    54 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  34. Captured DNS Requests from a Huawei P30 Pro Purchased Brand New in Thailand

    54 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  35. How Twitter Users Compare to the General Public

    54 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  36. Free Ross Ulbricht

    54 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  37. Ask HN: What does your development stack look like in your favorite language?

    54 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  38. Harold Bloom: Anti-Inkling?

    53 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  39. The United States Needs a Universal System to Pay for Public Transit

    53 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  40. Medieval Innovations

    53 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  41. Soundness and Completeness: With Precision

    53 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  42. Losing My Perfect Job

    53 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  43. Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning

    53 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  44. We can break up Big Tech

    53 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  45. Alibaba founder defends overtime work culture as 'huge blessing'

    53 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  46. Quick scan through lobsters's source code

    53 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  47. Sleep myths 'damaging your health'

    53 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  48. Bombay Nights

    53 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  49. Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain

    53 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  50. Matrix is hacked, hacker leaves friendly post-mortem on GitHub

    53 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  51. Implementing tile encoding in rav1e

    53 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  52. A New Photo of Tank Man in Tiananmen Square (2009)

    53 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  53. A Revolution Sweeping Railroads Upends How America Moves Its Stuff

    53 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  54. Deep Painterly Harmonization (2018)

    53 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  55. Tools for REST API Monitoring in 2019

    53 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  56. The Mercury logic programming system

    52 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  57. Show HN: My first open-source project release – RandomJson

    52 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  58. Big Brother is smartwatching you: China's workers monitored by wearable tech

    52 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  59. The Milton Bradley Big Trak

    52 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  60. Tech workers are organizing and demanding democracy in the workplace

    52 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  61. New technology enabling scientists to identify origins of illegal timber

    52 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  62. Show HN: Equilibrium in Cryptoeconomic Networks

    52 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  63. Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers

    52 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  64. The Percentage of American Adults Not Having Sex Has Reached a Record High

    51 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  65. Americans Agree: Social Media Is Divisive (But We Keep Using It)

    51 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  66. US Wants to Use Facial Recognition on All Travelers Leaving the Country

    51 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  67. A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data

    51 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  68. Bloodsucking worms from pythons are killing native Florida snakes, study says

    51 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  69. The Burden of Proof: Why People Must Support Their Arguments

    51 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  70. Nasa Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater Than Losses (2015)

    51 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  71. Assessing Unikernel Security [pdf]

    51 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  72. ICANN urges adopting DNSSEC now

    51 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  73. The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines

    51 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  74. The Markup faces staff exodus and funder scrutiny following Julia Angwin ouster

    51 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  75. A realist takes on quantum mechanics

    51 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  76. 48% of Canadians on brink of insolvency, online survey says

    51 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  77. The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors

    50 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  78. In China, tattoos border on illegal – and they're his life's work

    50 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  79. Where do our sexual preferences come from and how flexible are they?

    50 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  80. Astronomers have spotted the universe’s first molecule

    50 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  81. Ask HN: Have you started a business because nobody wanted to hire you?

    50 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  82. We take and store all text you ever write and record every site you visit

    50 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  83. Visibility of IPv4 and IPv6 Prefix Lengths in 2019

    50 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  84. SUSE will soon be the largest independent Linux company

    50 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  85. Anatomy of the 4040 Disk Drive (1988)

    50 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  86. Facebook says it will use AI to determine when someone has died

    50 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  87. Software Career Anti-Patterns

    50 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  88. Linux Benchmark Scripts and Tools

    50 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  89. Andrew Yang's Presidential Bid Is So 21st Century

    50 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  90. NPM staff claimed they were fired after trying to unionize [duplicate]

    50 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  91. Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco (2016)

    50 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  92. Google Play Instant feature plugin deprecation

    50 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  93. China to build moon station in 'about 10 years'

    50 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  94. Alibaba Puts SDK Flutter to the Test

    50 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  95. See with Ears: Auditory Display for Synthetic Vision (2018)

    50 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  96. Ola Bini: privacy defender, free software developer still in detention in Ecuado

    50 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  97. Show HN: Made an AI to Write News Headlines Like Fox News, CNN, Breitbart etc.

    50 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  98. The Efficiency Delusion

    50 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  99. Chinese AI: Year 1 of ChinAI

    50 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  100. Former Mozilla CTO was detained at US border and told he had no right to lawyer

    50 points • comment • apr 05, 2019