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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Mercury – Banking built for startups

    151 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  2. The Paris Compressed-Air Power Network (2018)

    151 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  3. Some voters are sick of companies like Amazon paying no corporate tax

    150 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  4. Linux Journal at 25

    150 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  5. Ask HN: How do I improve our data infrastructure?

    150 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  6. Microsoft Build Accelerator – open-source build engine for large systems

    150 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  7. ‘Land Lordz’ Service Powers Airbnb Scams

    150 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  8. Klotho – There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge Your Brain. Who Should Get It?

    149 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  9. Keybase's new Proof Integration Guide

    149 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  10. Yubikey guide for Git Signing, SSH Auth, U2F 2FA, and 1Password (2017)

    149 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  11. Zstandard v1.4.0

    149 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  12. Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)

    149 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  13. Mozilla and independent researchers publish guidelines for an ad archive API

    149 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  14. I Work with Suicidal Farmers

    149 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  15. Exercise as a treatment for depression: a meta-analysis (2016)

    149 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  16. The Army thought a veteran faked his health issues while having lead poisoning

    149 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  17. Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing?

    149 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  18. Show HN: Mockit – Open-source app to create and configure HTTP mocked endpoints

    148 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  19. E*Trade Is Close to Launching Cryptocurrency Trading

    148 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  20. Google’s new AI ethics board is already falling apart

    148 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  21. An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands

    148 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  22. 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners

    148 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  23. Let's Talk About Capacitor Failure

    148 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  24. “Be yourself” is terrible advice

    147 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  25. Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism

    147 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  26. Microsoft Is Winning the Techlash

    147 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  27. 1980 Atari 800 ad: “It will never become obsolete”

    147 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  28. Tbox: A GLib-like cross-platform C library

    147 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  29. The Guide to Writing Online

    147 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  30. Audible and audiobooks, the fastest growing part of publishing

    147 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  31. Tesla’s First-Quarter Deliveries Plummet

    146 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  32. 'Passengers are afraid of this airplane': How Boeing is handling 737 Max problem

    146 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  33. Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine

    146 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  34. James Webb Telescope will run a proprietary JS interpreter by a bankrupt company

    146 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  35. The Mueller Report, Searchable and Accessible on the Archive

    146 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  36. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2019)

    146 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  37. Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows

    146 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  38. MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot

    145 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  39. Go 1.13: xerrors

    145 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  40. Moving on from Rails and What’s Next

    145 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  41. Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

    145 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  42. Why It’s Easy for a Bounty Hunter to Find People

    145 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  43. NVMM: A full, fast and flexible virtualization stack for NetBSD

    144 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  44. I'm Against Podcasts

    144 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  45. Asynchronous Programming in Rust

    144 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  46. How the quantum search algorithm works

    144 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  47. Linux Mint's Sobering Update: A Glimpse into the Personal Struggles Devs Face

    144 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  48. Berkeley HS student tried to rig his own election, exposing cybersecurity flaws

    144 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  49. Stripe Acquires Touchtech

    144 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  50. China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables

    143 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  51. Nikoli Puzzles

    143 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  52. Just 10% of U.S. plastic gets recycled. A new kind of plastic could change that

    143 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  53. Nordic Valley’s brilliant, zero-budget solution to trail/lift status

    143 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  54. SpaceX’s Starlink Constellation construction begins

    143 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  55. HermiTux: A Binary-Compatible Unikernel

    142 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  56. A backdoor in the Ruby gem bootstrap-sass

    142 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  57. CuPy – NumPy-compatible matrix library accelerated by CUDA

    142 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  58. Fooling surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection

    142 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  59. Geek Social Fallacies (2003)

    142 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  60. Patagonia Stops Selling Vests To Some Finance Firms

    142 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  61. The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot (2009)

    142 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  62. Fighting vendor lock-in and designing testable serverless apps

    141 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  63. Google requiring contractors get health care coverage, parental leave

    141 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  64. Malicious remote code execution backdoor discovered bootstrap-sass Ruby gem

    141 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  65. A Measles Case Hits Google's Silicon Valley Headquarters

    141 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  66. Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system

    140 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  67. Canada’s legal pot is going well

    140 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  68. Researchers Made 25-Ton Boulders They Can Move by Hand

    140 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  69. New year, same old plans

    140 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  70. The FreedomBox enables you to control your view of the internet

    140 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  71. EverCrypt, a cryptographic library that is provably secure against known attacks

    140 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  72. Error Handling in Go (2016)

    140 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  73. OpenSSD – Open-Source Solid State Drive (SSD)

    139 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  74. Thomas Kuhn Wasn't So Bad

    139 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  75. A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF

    139 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  76. Show HN: Ddgr – search DuckDuckGo from your terminal

    139 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  77. Norway aviation firm orders 60 all-electric airplanes, drops operation costs 80%

    139 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  78. Android updates are getting slower and slower, despite Google's best efforts

    138 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  79. Anthos – Build and manage modern hybrid applications

    138 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  80. In China, an App About Xi Is Impossible to Ignore – Even If You Try

    138 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  81. Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name

    138 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  82. Notes on AI Bias

    138 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  83. Infrastructure as Code, Part One

    138 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  84. DNS-over-HTTPS Policy Requirements for Resolvers

    137 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  85. The Invigorating Strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche

    137 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  86. Hertz sued Accenture for failing a $32M “digital transformation” project

    137 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  87. The Use of assert() in SQLite

    137 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  88. What Is Suspension Trauma a.k.a. Harness Hang Syndrome?

    137 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  89. Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion

    137 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  90. California’s high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants

    137 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  91. Ice cold archive storage

    137 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  92. Ultra-Time-Efficient Exercise Lowers Blood Pressure, Boosts Brain Function

    137 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  93. Who Killed Lard? (2012)

    137 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  94. PostgreSQL Count(*) Performance Improvements

    136 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  95. Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment

    136 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  96. A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’s history

    136 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  97. F-1 Thrust Chamber

    136 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  98. Ask HN: Sources of remote dev work with minimal human interaction?

    136 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  99. A Woman Who Preserved over 30 Years of TV History

    136 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  100. Search Benchmarking: RediSearch vs. Elasticsearch

    135 points • comment • apr 19, 2019