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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

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

    208 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  2. A researcher needed three hours to identify me from my DNA

    207 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  3. Google Cloud Healthcare API

    207 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  4. Self-Contained Pure-Go Web Server with Lua, MD, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis Support

    207 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  5. Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layout engine in Rust

    207 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  6. Correctness – A paradigm for sustainable software development

    207 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  7. Ruby's Creed

    207 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  8. Google Will Eat Itself (2005)

    207 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  9. Benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota

    207 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  10. Show HN: I Built Darwin Mail as a Google Inbox Replacement

    206 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  11. You Don't Have to Like Assange to Defend Him

    206 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  12. “Google just started mass banning/limiting Archive Team downloads”

    206 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  13. Inside Erlang – Joe Armstrong tells his story (2014)

    206 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  14. Working as a librarian gave me PTSD symptoms

    206 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  15. Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are 'A Disease'

    205 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  16. It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age

    205 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  17. Speedgate: World’s First Sport Generated by AI

    205 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  18. Optimizing M3: Halving Our Metrics Ingestion Latency by Forking the Go Compiler

    205 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  19. Show HN: Programmatically Generate Diagrams for GitHub Readmes

    205 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  20. Distributism

    205 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  21. Google Staffers Share Stories of ‘Systemic’ Retaliation

    204 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  22. Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)

    204 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  23. Aerobic exercise is an effective treatment for depression

    204 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  24. Subtractive synths explained (2011)

    204 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  25. Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains

    203 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  26. CMU Computer Systems: Self-Grading Lab Assignments (2018)

    203 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  27. Polish general who fought with Washington may have been female

    203 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  28. My Billion Dollar Mistake

    203 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  29. Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack

    203 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  30. How to tell a raven from a crow (2012)

    202 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  31. Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa

    202 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  32. Rise of the Zombie Deer

    202 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  33. Stepping Away from Sass

    202 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  34. Facebook is redesigning its core app

    201 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  35. Typing with a Piano [video]

    201 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  36. The Mueller Report [pdf]

    201 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  37. What comes after open source

    201 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  38. What is ZIL anyway?

    201 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  39. The Remote Manifesto

    201 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  40. Jerks on the Internet: what my first DDoS taught me

    201 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  41. Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text

    200 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  42. Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

    200 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  43. A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus

    200 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  44. FamilyTreeDNA: It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Give FBI Access to Your DNA

    200 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  45. Erlang: The Movie [video]

    200 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  46. Graphical Introduction to Dynamic Programming

    200 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  47. Gitlab 11.10 Released

    199 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  48. Insurers Know How Often American Drivers Touch Their Phones

    199 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  49. Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 pilots 'could not stop nosedive'

    199 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  50. Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro

    198 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  51. Emissions fall in Madrid city center thanks to new traffic restrictions

    198 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  52. DHS Asserting Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers’ Phones and Laptops

    198 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  53. How the Kleiner Perkins Empire Fell

    198 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  54. Jsonnet – A data templating language

    197 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  55. Hardening SSH with 2FA

    197 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  56. At 30, Game Boys live on in unexpected ways

    197 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  57. Google Continues Slump After Ad Revenue Growth Slows

    197 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  58. San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide

    197 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  59. Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry

    196 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  60. Simplify Gmail: Bringing the Simplicity of Google Inbox to Gmail

    196 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  61. What design tools get wrong

    196 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  62. AMP pages displaying your own domain

    196 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  63. Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today

    196 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  64. Samsung warns profit to fall 60%

    196 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  65. Hollywood Upended as Unions Tell Writers to Fire Agents

    195 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  66. Indie Game Removed from Switch After Dev Reveals It Has a Hidden Code Editor

    195 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  67. I miss Facebook

    195 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  68. Cloud Run – Newest member of our serverless compute stack

    195 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  69. Coffee Cups Are Next

    195 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  70. Antarctica: Thousands of emperor penguin chicks died in 2016 weather event

    194 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  71. ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography

    194 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  72. Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel

    193 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  73. How to Make Maps Using Leaflet.js, PostGIS and Chicago Open Data

    193 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  74. Your Android Phone Is a Security Key

    192 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  75. DopplerFi – Communication Between BLE and Wi-Fi by Injecting Doppler Shifts

    191 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  76. Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)

    191 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  77. Credit cards automatically providing updated card info to subscribing merchants

    191 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  78. Can the Law Be Copyrighted?

    191 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  79. Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?

    190 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  80. Mathematica Version 12 Released

    190 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  81. Things Got Weird for Stablecoin Tether

    189 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  82. Stop Memsetting Structures

    189 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  83. Big tech lobbying gutted a bill that would ban recording without consent

    189 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  84. Shenmue's Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today

    189 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  85. A Go implementation of Poly1305 that makes sense

    189 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  86. Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding (2013)

    188 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  87. Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014)

    188 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  88. TeX Live 2019

    187 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  89. Are the dead taking over Facebook?

    187 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  90. How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011)

    187 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  91. The case for rejecting the memristor as a fundamental circuit element (2018)

    187 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  92. Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That's Sinking

    187 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  93. Lyft vs. Uber: A Tale of Two S-1’s

    186 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  94. Netherlands ACM launches investigation into abuse by Apple in its App Store

    186 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  95. Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

    186 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  96. Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole

    186 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  97. How does a relational database work? (2017)

    186 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  98. GCHQ Cracks Frank Sidebottom's Codes

    186 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  99. How I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram

    185 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  100. Google Wing will deliver to about 100 homes in Canberra

    185 points • comment • apr 11, 2019