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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Org-mode parser in Rust

    241 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  2. Fireball over US, Wednesday, April 17th 2019 around 02:57

    241 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  3. ‘Bubble Boys’ Cured in Medical Breakthrough Using Gene Therapy

    241 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  4. Lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, prvalues, xvalues, help (2018)

    240 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  5. Scribd taking down the Mueller Report is the future the EU has voted for

    240 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  6. Smoke seen for miles as SpaceX Crew Dragon suffers anomaly at Cape Canaveral

    240 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  7. Linux Network Queues Overview

    239 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  8. Teen Suicide Spiked After Debut Of Netflix's '13 Reasons Why,' Study Says

    239 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  9. Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned

    239 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  10. The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy – It Didn’t Go Well

    239 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  11. IPFS Project Roadmap

    237 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  12. Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers

    237 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  13. Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report

    237 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  14. Prisma – Database tools for modern application development

    237 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  15. Reasons not to reveal your DNA

    236 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  16. Mathematics and Computation [pdf]

    236 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  17. Insulin Pumps, Decapped Chips and Software Defined Radios

    236 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  18. What It's Like to View a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch

    235 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  19. Which programming language is used for making Windows 10?

    235 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  20. Construction has kept rent in Chongqing, China to $75 a month

    235 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  21. Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China

    235 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  22. How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals

    233 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

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

    233 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  24. U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data

    233 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  25. Cadence: Uber's Workflow Orchestration Engine

    232 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  26. Defence Against the Docker Arts

    232 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  27. What's new in Ubuntu 19.04

    232 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  28. The End of Being a Duke Professor and What It Means for the Future of Higher Ed

    231 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  29. Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database

    231 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  30. Splitting atoms in XNU

    231 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  31. Show HN: Top PDFs and Papers Submitted to Hacker News

    230 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  32. Sleep quality and stress level matter more than languages or practices

    230 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  33. The Problem with ‘5 Whys’ (2016)

    230 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  34. Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind

    230 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  35. China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations

    229 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  36. JQuery 3.4.0 Released

    229 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  37. Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology

    228 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  38. Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python (2018)

    228 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  39. Once it was easy to be obscure, but technology has ended that

    227 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  40. GNU Awk 5.0

    227 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  41. IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care

    227 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  42. Olympic medal-winning cyclist Rebecca Twigg is homeless in Seattle

    227 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  43. Anatomy of an ELF executable

    226 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  44. Japanese study uncovers protein that keeps skin youthful

    226 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  45. New version of Stripe Checkout

    225 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  46. The key to loving your job in the age of burnout

    225 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  47. B.C. introduces law to require cars, trucks sold by 2040 be zero emission

    224 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  48. Freelancer.com stole from me and ruined my life

    224 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  49. Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

    224 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  50. Komodo Island Is Closing to Tourists Because People Are Stealing Dragons

    224 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  51. Sorting Algorithm Cheat Sheet

    223 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  52. Who has the fastest website in F1?

    222 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  53. An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy

    220 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  54. Could ImGUI Be the Future of GUIs?

    220 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  55. Ask HN: Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?

    220 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  56. Why the Instagram founders really quit

    220 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  57. Turning the Puzzle Sideways: Sleep, Diet and the Brain-Gut Connection

    220 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  58. How do startups get their content marketing to work?

    220 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  59. Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires

    220 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  60. Less Pizza, More Yoga: E-Sports Embraces Traditional Training Methods

    219 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  61. Apple: Rotate tracking IDs on iPhone each month

    219 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  62. Custard Antenna

    219 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  63. Google blocks China ads that help bypass censorship

    219 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  64. Clojure Concurrency Tutorial

    218 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  65. Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables

    218 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  66. Ask HN: Will there ever be a resurgence of interest in symbolic AI?

    218 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  67. Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says

    218 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  68. The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets (2015)

    218 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  69. Udacity restructures operations, lays off 20 percent of its workforce

    217 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  70. Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine

    217 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  71. Meditations on Moloch (2014)

    217 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  72. Webcam in a Favicon

    216 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  73. It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse

    216 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  74. Withdrawing from the Microsoft MVP Program

    215 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  75. Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)

    215 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  76. Fast Directory Listing on Linux

    214 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  77. Coinbase Debit Card

    214 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  78. Rare Persian manuscripts dating back to 13th century now online

    214 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  79. Facebook asks users for email passwords, then “accidentally” uploads contacts

    213 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  80. Open Source Is Winning, and Now It's Time for People to Win Too

    213 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  81. Nils Nilsson has died

    213 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  82. Study: Two Monitors or One Ultrawide

    213 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  83. The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015)

    212 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  84. Show HN: EdgeDB – Next generation database

    212 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  85. Warren Buffett Sees Most Newspapers as ‘Toast’ After Ad Decline

    212 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  86. 500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time

    212 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  87. 1969 and 1970 at Bell Labs

    211 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  88. How to organize a study group, book club, online group or event

    211 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  89. 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

    211 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  90. Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again

    211 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  91. Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter

    211 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  92. We’re asking Apple to change the advertising ID for each iPhone every month

    210 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  93. Your terminal is not a terminal: An Introduction to Streams

    210 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  94. Heaven or High Water – Selling Miami's Last 50 Years

    209 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  95. NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks

    208 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  96. Chrome, Safari, and Edge to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk

    208 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  97. Y Combinator's Essential Startup Advice – Michael Seibel [video]

    208 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  98. Should that be a microservice? Factors to keep in mind

    208 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  99. Chinese spies stole trade secrets from Dutch chip machine maker ASML: report

    208 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  100. Hackers could read non-corporate Outlook.com, Hotmail for six months

    208 points • comment • apr 15, 2019