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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Astronomers have spotted the universe’s first molecule

    50 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  2. SUSE will soon be the largest independent Linux company

    50 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  3. Brunei implements stoning to death under anti-LGBT laws

    50 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  4. The DEA Demanded Passwords from LastPass

    49 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  5. Istio uses more than 50% more CPU than Linkerd

    49 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  6. Assessing the Global Climate in March 2019

    49 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  7. Two Google employees say management is punishing them for organizing walkout

    49 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  8. The value of friendships in academic success

    49 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  9. The History of Vanilla

    49 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  10. Ask HN: Have you ever felt trapped?

    49 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  11. Measles Cases Top Last Year’s Total

    49 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  12. Ask HN: How to get this fraudulent copy of our website shut down?

    49 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  13. China’s Electric Cars Hit Some Potholes

    49 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  14. Birmingham, Alabama: A city using theatres to reinvent itself

    49 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  15. Ajit Pai wants to cap spending on broadband for poor people and rural areas

    49 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  16. Elusive molecule, first in Universe, detected in space

    49 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  17. Tesla Q1 2019: losses 4x more than expected, revenues 12% less

    49 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  18. The Mobster in Our Midst

    49 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  19. Indian scientists launch preprint repository to boost research quality

    49 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  20. Loud and expensive renovations shattering a formerly quiet block in Manhattan

    49 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  21. Show HN: Offst – A decentralized payment system

    49 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  22. Renaissance Explores Settlement as IRS Seeks Billions in Taxes

    49 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  23. Steganography: An Art of Hiding Data (2009) [pdf]

    49 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  24. Chicago is tracking kids with GPS monitors that can record them without consent

    49 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  25. Wall Street loves socialism for bankers – but not for ordinary people

    49 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  26. Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?

    48 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  27. Why Markdown Sucks (2016)

    48 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  28. Warren Has a Good Beginning for Ending Corporate-Tax Avoidance

    48 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  29. Soon Google May Free You from Having to Think at All

    48 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  30. AWS Asia Pacific – Hong Kong Region

    48 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  31. The black hole picture is both an astonishing achievement and a deceptive image

    48 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  32. Why 'worthless' humanities degrees may set you up for life

    48 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  33. Windows 3.1 Flash Edition

    48 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  34. Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den

    48 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  35. Technology Is Heroin

    48 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  36. Possible blood test for colon cancer

    48 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  37. US10144532B2 – Craft using an inertial mass reduction device

    47 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  38. Vladimir Nabokov, Literary Refugee

    47 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  39. Another new experimental codec from Xiph.Org

    47 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  40. OECD Says 14% of Jobs Will Disappear in Next 10 Years

    47 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  41. Sharks cope with levels of heavy metals in blood that would kill other animals

    47 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  42. Insurers balk at paying for some cyberattacks

    47 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  43. X-Plane 11: World Editor 2.0 Released

    47 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  44. The Library Catalogue of Christopher Columbus' Son

    47 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  45. A Theory of Type Polymorphism in Programming (1977) [pdf]

    47 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  46. Twitter Blocked Tweeting “996.icu”

    47 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  47. Sorbet: A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby

    47 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  48. U.S. Readies $11B in Tariffs on E.U

    47 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  49. What is GraphBLAS?

    47 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  50. The Shrinking World of the Stamp Collector (2012)

    47 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  51. R: Lessons Learned, Directions for the Future [pdf]

    47 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  52. Show HN: Gandul – accessible image lazy loading

    47 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  53. Ask HN: Where are the GUI libraries that aren't bloated?

    47 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  54. Parapsychology in the PRC: 1979 [pdf]

    47 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  55. Orwell's Last Neighborhood

    47 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  56. Enterpriseification

    47 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  57. Idaho legislators approve law requiring transparency for risk assessment tools

    47 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  58. Extreme Learning Machine

    47 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  59. Bank of Japan to be top shareholder of Japan stocks

    47 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  60. Why are Chinese tourists so badly behaved?

    47 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  61. Libraries: Where the world’s memory is stored (2018)

    46 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  62. Show HN: Sprint Cost, automate cost estimation in software projects

    46 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  63. Pipdig Update: Dishonest Denials, Erased Evidence, and Ongoing Offenses

    46 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  64. The Ticket Trap: Front to Back

    46 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  65. Why Vi Rocks

    46 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  66. Ethiopian 737 Max: Aircraft Accident Investigation Preliminary Report [pdf]

    46 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  67. Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

    46 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  68. Liza Alert: searching missing people using machine vision

    46 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  69. Show HN: Use Deep Learning to Automatically Colorize Black and White Photos

    46 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  70. SOA and the Tar Pit of Irrelevancy (2009)

    46 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  71. Did Google Sabotage Firefox?

    46 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  72. Show HN: Room.sh – a simple online meeting space

    46 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  73. Errors – Gotta Catch 'Em All

    46 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  74. Canada warming at twice the global rate, leaked report finds

    46 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  75. Master of web puppets: abusing web browsers for persistent and stealthy

    46 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  76. Enough with The "Electric Cars Pollute More" Bullshit Already

    46 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  77. Polybius (Urban Legend)

    46 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  78. Cello: Higher Level Programming in C

    46 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  79. Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s

    46 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  80. U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system that made them rich

    45 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  81. SEC Charges Former CEO of Jumio Inc. with Defrauding Investors

    45 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  82. Show HN: Beatnik – Streaming Music Sharing

    45 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  83. French government releases in-house IM app to replace WhatsApp and Telegram use

    45 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  84. Tyrian Purple

    45 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  85. Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?

    45 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  86. VSCodium: 100% Open Source Version of vs. Code

    45 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  87. No Medium – Build Your Own Site, Please

    45 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  88. DigitalOcean Acquires Nanobox

    45 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  89. Show HN: MLJAR – build machine learning models without coding

    45 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  90. Carbon dioxide extraction company Carbon Engineering receives $68M investment

    45 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  91. Announcing Rust 1.34.1

    45 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  92. Thousands take to Hong Kong streets to protest new extradition laws

    45 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  93. Show HN: Web App Generators for React, Angular, Vue, SQL, MongoDB or Firestore

    45 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  94. AMD May Add Ray Tracing Feature in Navi 20 GPU

    44 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  95. Elizabeth Warren wants jail time for CEOs in Equifax-style breaches

    44 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  96. John Archibald Wheeler: A Biographical Memoir

    44 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  97. Tumor Specific Immune Receptors Computationally Identifiable

    44 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  98. Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Orbit. His Body Is Not Quite the Same

    44 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  99. An evidence based guide to anxiety in autism [pdf]

    44 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  100. Support of Ruby 2.3 has ended

    44 points • comment • apr 14, 2019