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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. What I learned as a VC filling in as a startup CEO for 4 months

    104 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  2. Baba Is Turing Complete: A Sketch of a Proof

    104 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  3. Abandoning the fiduciary rule was a mistake

    104 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  4. Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudio and ALSA

    104 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  5. Ecuador has begun giving the US some of Julian Assange’s possessions

    104 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  6. The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)

    104 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  7. Gmail really wants me to say yes

    103 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  8. Tertill Weeding Robot

    103 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  9. Mathematical Jargon Failures

    103 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  10. Stealing Downloads from Slack Users

    103 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  11. Jsonpath – a query language for JSON in Postgres [pdf]

    103 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  12. The Evolution of Web Design (2016)

    103 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  13. Whaling in the Soviet Union

    103 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  14. Boom in Dodgy Wall Street Deals Points to Market Trouble Ahead

    102 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  15. Security for Elasticsearch is now free

    102 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  16. Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (2012)

    102 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  17. Beam: Distributed knowledge graph store written in Go by eBay

    102 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  18. The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay

    102 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  19. Tracking logo found in Navy email to Navy Times amid leak investigation

    102 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  20. Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg

    102 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  21. Google Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags

    102 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  22. Comicgen: Comic Creator

    102 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  23. Serving Vue.js Apps on GitHub Pages

    101 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  24. Racket: John Carmack’s VRScript Samples (2015)

    101 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  25. Why is chicken so cheap? [video]

    101 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  26. Tesla researcher is 'excited' about new battery tech developed by the Army

    101 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  27. Crimes in Concrete

    101 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  28. Ebtrees: Elastic Binary Trees (2011)

    101 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  29. Microbots Are on Their Way

    100 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  30. The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill

    100 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  31. Let's Build a Compiler (1995)

    100 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  32. The speed of BGP network propagation

    100 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  33. Bloom Filters by Example (2013)

    100 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  34. China’s Rover Reveals Moon’s Hidden Depths

    100 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  35. If the number of children is not growing, why is the population still increasing

    100 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  36. Samsung announces first 3nm PDK

    99 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  37. Interactive exploration of earnings by age and industry (2018)

    99 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  38. Alexa, what are you doing with kids' data?

    99 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  39. Lenovo stole a fan's video to promote the foldable Motorola RAZR

    99 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  40. Japanese railway company starts testing 249mph bullet train speeds

    99 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  41. WestJet pilot’s eyes struck by laser on flight from Newfoundland to Florida

    99 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  42. Manning refusing to testify at grand jury probing WikiLeaks

    99 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  43. I don't want to be a full-fullstack developer

    99 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  44. Investor Funnels for Series As

    99 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  45. King Alfred and India

    99 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  46. The oldest vegetarian restaurant

    98 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  47. Across the rich world, an extraordinary jobs boom is under way

    98 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  48. Swift for Tensorflow 0.3.1

    98 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  49. Flashrom – flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM and expansion cards

    98 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  50. Building better software with better tools: sanitizers vs. Valgrind

    98 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  51. Information Security Mental Models

    98 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  52. A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep? (2014)

    98 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  53. Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning

    98 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  54. Free Solo and Economic Growth

    98 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  55. The AI That's Too Dangerous to Release

    98 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  56. Solid: Data ownership as well as improved privacy (2017)

    98 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  57. A small town, a chemical plant and the residents' desperate fight for clear air

    97 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  58. Charity is no substitute for humanity

    97 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  59. Make the Leap from JavaScript to PureScript

    97 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  60. France to ban electric scooters from pavements in September

    97 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  61. The Lavish Roman Banquet: A Calculated Display Of Debauchery And Power

    97 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  62. Why I’m rewriting my SaaS

    97 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  63. Show HN: jTools – a collection of JavaScript web components with MIT license

    97 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  64. Software Engineering Lessons from Aviation

    97 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  65. Fujifilm’s GFX 100 – A medium format mirrorless camera

    97 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  66. Without heart disease, daily aspirin may be too risky

    97 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  67. DHS to start DNA testing to establish family relationships on the border

    97 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  68. U.S. Army: “How has serving impacted you?”

    96 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  69. Unencumbered Open Source Commodore 64 ROMs

    96 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  70. Humane by Design

    96 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  71. Cybersecurity Checklist for Political Campaigns

    96 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  72. Dear Programming Job Applicants (2010)

    96 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  73. Pinebook – Powerful, Metal and Open Source ARM 64-Bit Laptop

    96 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  74. Self Driving Desktop

    96 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  75. Google I/O Developer Keynote [video]

    96 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  76. How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? (2018)

    96 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  77. Making Nuclear Energy Smaller, Cheaper And Safer

    96 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  78. GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank and Honda

    95 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  79. Show HN: A dead-simple Trello-like TODO manager

    95 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  80. ‘Cybersovereignty’ Splits the Once World Wide Web

    95 points • comment • may 02, 2019

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

    95 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  82. Wisconsin bar owner uncovers 134-year-old circus poster

    95 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  83. GNU Hyperbole 7.0.3

    95 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  84. Saving a Million People from a Cyclone

    95 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  85. Scotland to House Largest Tidal Turbine

    95 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  86. American life is improving for the lowest paid

    95 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  87. Robocrop: world's first raspberry-picking robot set to work

    95 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  88. How NLP can help cure cancer? [pdf]

    95 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  89. Dungeons and Back Alleys: The Fate of the Mentally Ill in America

    95 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  90. Ask HN: How common is it to work on projects with no testing?

    95 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  91. Boeing’s Own Test Pilots Lacked Key Details of 737 Max Flight-Control System

    95 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  92. Fallout: Reading Kernel Writes from User Space

    95 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  93. Uber IPO underwriter so certain IPO was overpriced they shorted it themselves

    95 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  94. An End-to-End AutoML Solution for Tabular Data at KaggleDays

    94 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  95. Text rendering using multi channel signed distance fields

    94 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  96. Joe Armstrong Obituary

    94 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  97. Ask HN: Do you miss 90s simplicity?

    94 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  98. Amazon can't yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions

    94 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  99. Debugging Firmware with GDB

    94 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  100. New brand

    94 points • comment • may 01, 2019