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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Shutting down social media does not reduce violence, but rather fuels it

    7 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  2. Shakespeare in the Bush (1966)

    7 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  3. The Laser Scans That Could Help Rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral

    7 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  4. Apple Owes Everyone an Apology and It Should Start with Me, Specifically

    7 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  5. A Graser Breakthrough at Los Alamos (1986) [pdf]

    7 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  6. Cilium 1.5: Scaling to 5k nodes and 100k pods, BPF-based SNAT, and more

    7 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  7. What is the MIT style of teaching calculus?

    7 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  8. Swift Gradient in 4 lines of code

    7 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  9. Michigan Rock Hunter Discovers Glowing 'Yooperlites' on Lake Superior Beach

    7 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  10. Mozilla: End of Firefox for Android Slated for 2020 as Fenix Rises

    7 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  11. Colorado Tried a New Way to Vote: Make People Pay–Quadratically

    7 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  12. YouTube algorithm under fire for boosting sexist conspiracy about Katie Bouman

    7 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  13. Arsenic Contamination in Bottled Water

    7 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  14. What seven years at Airbnb taught me about building a company

    7 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  15. The Minimal Persuasive Effects of Campaign Contact in General Elections (2017) [pdf]

    7 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  16. Themis crypto library adds Rust support in 0.11

    7 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  17. Chinese national charged after entering Mar-a-Lago resort carrying thumb drive

    7 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  18. Visual Studio 2019: Code Faster. Work Smarter. Create the Future

    7 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  19. Why Apple Settled with Qualcomm

    6 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  20. Mozilla should give up on Firefox and go with Chromium too

    6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  21. Tiny light-up barcodes identify molecules by their twinkling

    6 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  22. MIT scholar surprised by Amazon’s hostile response to her face-recognition work

    6 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  23. Show HN: List of Tools for Bootstrappers

    6 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  24. Four Steps Facebook Should Take to Counter Police Sock Puppets

    6 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  25. Disney+ to Launch in November $6.99 Monthly including 30 Seasons of the Simpsons

    6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  26. A woman reported a burglar locked in her bathroom. It was a trapped Roomba

    6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  27. 'Assange smeared feces in Ecuador embassy,' says president

    6 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  28. Tinder’s Move to Kubernetes

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  29. Former HTC official convicted of trade theft

    6 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  30. How to 10x Your Own Productivity as a Manager Through Writing

    6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  31. Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2018 edition

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  32. The holy grail for solving IT problems?

    6 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  33. The Incredible Shrinking Apple

    6 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  34. Fake reviews: How the Facebook 'factories' are still ripping us off

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  35. California Eyes Ban on Contracts with All Tech Companies That Work with ICE

    6 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  36. An interstellar meteor may have hit Earth

    6 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  37. Here Come AI-Enabled Cameras Meant to Sense Crime Before It Occurs

    6 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  38. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by outages, as downdetector shows

    6 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  39. US Troops Are Slowly Being Poisoned by Lead in Their Bones

    6 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  40. Apple to unlock iPhone NFC to read secure data from passports

    6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  41. I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape

    6 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  42. Invisible Malware Is Here and Your Security Software Can't Catch It

    6 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  43. Ask HN: What’s one quirky habit that adds a lot of value to you?

    6 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  44. Will AI radically change the fast food industry?

    6 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  45. Handling storage and backup as a photographer

    6 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  46. Sen. Warren Proposes Jail Time for CEOs over Consumer Data Breaches

    6 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  47. Introducing a More Seamless Navigate on Autopilot

    6 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  48. “Hey Google, how many legs does a horse have?”

    6 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  49. How The New York Times Thinks About Privacy

    6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  50. Tolkien’s Guide to Contemporary Politics

    6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  51. Henrik Ibsen invented realistic theater, and now he bores. Why?

    6 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  52. DIMMer: A case of turning off DIMMs in clouds (2014) [pdf]

    6 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  53. Student used ‘USB Killer’ to destroy $58000 worth of computers

    6 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  54. Automatic 3Dification of Nintendo Games: The GlEnd() of Zelda

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  55. Ask HN: What Are the KPIs or Metrics for Success in 'Developer Relations'?

    6 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  56. Mark Zuckerberg: Contents of His Trash Revealed by New York Times

    6 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  57. The End of Empathy

    6 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  58. Ask HN: Which Recent Programming Languages Do You Recommend to Have a Look At?

    6 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  59. Star Wars: Episode IX – Teaser

    6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  60. Chase Fails to Read the Room

    6 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  61. Today's Biggest Threat: The Polarized Mind

    6 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  62. Matrix.org and Riot.im is down for emergency security maintenance

    6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  63. What Has Irony Done for Us Lately

    6 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  64. Reverse Engineering a North Korean Sim City Game

    6 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  65. Dotgrid is a distractionless vector tool

    6 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  66. Consumer Reports: Tesla Must Prove Safety Before Claiming “Self-Driving” Ability

    6 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  67. PayPal Targets Identity Ownership with Its First Blockchain Investment

    6 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  68. Trump Is Removing US Secret Service Director

    6 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  69. Zapping Nuclear Waste in Minutes Is Nobel Winner’s Holy Grail Quest

    6 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  70. Colorful printed patch makes you pretty much invisible to AI

    6 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  71. UK Government in email privacy blunder

    6 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  72. How the Chicago School Changed the Meaning of Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  73. Cadaverine (Wikipedia)

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  74. About Editor in Chief Julia Angwin’s Firing from the Markup

    6 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  75. Robotic driving instructors are here to make lessons less stressful

    6 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  76. When Zora and Langston Took a Road Trip

    6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  77. The Dead Code Society

    6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  78. External Interrupts in the x86 system. Part 1. Interrupt controller evolution

    6 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  79. Do AI, Automation and the No-Code Movement Threaten Our Jobs?

    6 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  80. Symbolic Regression, Genetic Programming or If Kepler Had R

    6 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  81. 'One more thing': Apple fails in legal bid over Swatch trademark (Australia)

    6 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  82. A Non-Expert’s Guide to a Black Hole’s Silhouette

    6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  83. AI can now emulate human behaviors – soon it will be dangerously good

    6 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  84. We need more computer scientists in biology and biomedical research

    6 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  85. Why myths and metaphors are pivotal to philosophical thinking–not opposed to it

    6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  86. Non-GNU Standards

    6 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  87. Everything's broken and nobody's upset (2012)

    6 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  88. Show HN: Tensor product analogy – functional currying

    6 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  89. Show HN: Any UX suggestions for my auto dealer website?

    6 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  90. Design Systems Dot Com

    6 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  91. Show HN: Create AI Models from an Excel Spreadsheet

    6 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  92. College student slain after mistaking a car for her Uber ride

    6 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  93. How We Improved the Range of Semtech's Lora IoT Radio by 300%

    6 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  94. Missoula Floods

    6 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  95. Feds dropping child porn cases instead of revealing software details

    6 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  96. Man gets plane all to himself when flight unintentionally sells only one ticket

    6 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  97. Proofree – Free Proofreading by Humans

    6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  98. Mobile Malware Analysis: Tricks Used in Anubis

    6 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  99. Hackers tricked a Tesla, and it's a sign of things to come to fool AI

    6 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  100. Holes in herd immunity led to a 25-year-high in U.S. measles cases

    6 points • comment • apr 30, 2019