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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces

    139 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  2. H-1B visa: Government says work ban for H-4 spouses coming this month

    139 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  3. Time Series Databases to Watch

    138 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  4. Tesla: Insane or Clever

    138 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  5. ELF files on Linux

    138 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  6. I do not use a debugger (2016)

    138 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  7. Ask HN: When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?

    137 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  8. CIA’s Latest Layer: An Onion Site

    137 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  9. Internet Explorer Browser Collection

    137 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  10. Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote

    137 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  11. Chicago successfully taxes streaming services

    137 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  12. Docker Bug Allows Root Access to Host Filesystem

    137 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  13. Electromagnetic interference mapping

    137 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  14. Momo-3 is Japan's first private rocket to reach space

    137 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  15. Graphics Team ships WebRender MVP

    137 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  16. Tanker: End-to-End Encryption SDK for JavaScript

    137 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  17. CQRS and Event Sourcing Intro for Developers

    137 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  18. Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled

    136 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  19. A way to do atomic writes

    136 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  20. The Search for the Extra Pedal (2017)

    136 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  21. Grumpy Cat internet legend dies

    136 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  22. Ask HN: Resources on how Google/Facebook etc. approach software design?

    136 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  23. ‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality

    136 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  24. My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era

    136 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  25. ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (2017) [pdf]

    135 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  26. Grocery Outlet S-1

    135 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  27. Amazon Hit by Extensive Fraud with Hackers Siphoning Merchant Funds

    135 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  28. Remote, in-memory key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone? [pdf]

    135 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  29. AMD Ryzen Mini-STX: ASRock’s DeskMini A300

    135 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  30. The Zig Programming Language

    134 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  31. Depression-Gene Studies Were Built on Shaky Foundations

    134 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  32. Irish Supreme Court Dismisses Facebook’s Complaint on NSA Surveillance [pdf]

    134 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  33. Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?

    134 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  34. I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python

    134 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  35. Microsoft makes AI tool for better search available as an open source project

    134 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  36. Problems with DSLs for non-programmers

    134 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  37. Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China

    134 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  38. Data Science Interview Study Guide

    134 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  39. Sourcehut Q1 2019 financial report

    133 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  40. Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work

    133 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  41. The Problem With Happiness

    133 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  42. The Impact of the Lambda Calculus (1997) [pdf]

    133 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  43. DuckDuckGo Proposes the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019”

    133 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  44. Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by Snowden

    133 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  45. Germany is opening its first electric highway for trucks

    133 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  46. How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year

    133 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  47. Using an Atari ST as Unix/Linux Terminal

    133 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  48. Muse: designing a studio for ideas

    133 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  49. Microsoft Is Building Internet Explorer into Its New Chromium Edge

    132 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  50. CLIPS: A Tool for Building Expert Systems

    132 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  51. Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M

    132 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  52. ClojureScript: Graal.js REPL Environment

    132 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  53. Boeing 737 Max Simulators Are in High Demand, But Flawed

    132 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  54. BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages

    132 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  55. Amazon Shareholders Rejected Employees' Call to Respond to Climate Change

    132 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  56. How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones

    131 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  57. Former Fortnite UX lead digs into ethical game design

    131 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  58. Almost every speed limit is too low (2017)

    131 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  59. Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice

    131 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  60. One of the dumbest things I’ve ever published

    131 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  61. Nancy Pelosi and Fakebook Dirty Tricks

    131 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  62. Introduction to Containerization

    131 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  63. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

    130 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  64. U.S. Air Force has shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test

    130 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  65. Fifteen-year-old Nigerian builds small scale construction machines [video]

    130 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  66. Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light

    130 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  67. Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold with Glass

    130 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  68. An Introduction to Vectorization

    130 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  69. Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012)

    130 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  70. How to set your Google account to delete itself after you die

    130 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  71. Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF/MDS Mitigation Costs on an Intel Dual Core and HT Laptop

    130 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  72. Microsoft Solitaire Inducted into World Video Game Hall of Fame

    130 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  73. Cultural Tattoos Invisible in Wet Collodion Prints (2018)

    130 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  74. System design interview questions for IT companies

    130 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  75. Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis?

    129 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  76. Human Pose Estimation with Deep Learning

    129 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  77. Schoolgirls who defied the Stasi

    129 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  78. Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After the Recession

    129 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  79. U.S. military to analyze 350B social media posts to understand popular movements

    129 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  80. Llvm-mca – LLVM Machine Code Analyzer

    129 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  81. Updates to Works with Nest

    128 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  82. Scientists have created a living organism whose DNA is human-made

    128 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  83. European universities dismal at reporting results of clinical trials

    128 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  84. The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon Neighbors

    128 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  85. ProtonMail is dropping support for Internet Explorer 11

    128 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  86. The Neko Virtual Machine

    128 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  87. The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas

    128 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  88. Banks Look Safer with Deposits

    127 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  89. The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017)

    127 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  90. Bitcoin's First $1k Weekend Since 2017 Marks Nine-Month High

    127 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  91. Ways to break your systems code using volatile (2010)

    127 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  92. MakerLisp: Embedded Lisp Machine

    126 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  93. Singapore Urges U.S. to Accept China's Rise, Spare Other Nations

    126 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  94. Ask HN: Is the “The Art of Computer Programming” Worth the Investment?

    126 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  95. 'Healthiest hearts in the world' found

    126 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  96. Scanning the fintech landscape: disruptive models

    126 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  97. Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web

    126 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  98. How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase

    125 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  99. Blue-collar workers who become white-collar later in life

    125 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  100. Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices

    125 points • comment • may 16, 2019