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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. MS Office in Wonderland [pdf]

    73 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  2. Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)

    73 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  3. A novel data-compression technique for faster computer programs

    73 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  4. The Ancient Secrets of Computer Vision: The Evolution of Human Vision

    73 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  5. The Fusion Reactor Next Door

    73 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  6. One Day With the Squad That Removes Needles and Feces From Downtown Portland

    73 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  7. Matlab's First Customer

    73 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  8. Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good

    73 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  9. Why Is Infrastructure So Expensive to Build in New York?

    72 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  10. Ask HN: How to performance test React webapps for rendering speed regressions?

    72 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  11. Visualizing PostgreSQL Vacuum Progress

    72 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  12. Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android

    72 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  13. U.S. records 75 new measles cases, 9.8% increase, as outbreak grows

    72 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  14. Prospecting for gold by looking in leaves has proven itself in Australia

    72 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  15. U.S. Judge Orders “Immediate Removal” of Website Critical of Voice Lie Detector

    72 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  16. Language at the End of the World (2017)

    72 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  17. Restoring accidentally deleted files on Linux

    72 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  18. After suggesting a developer drop Linux support, Vivox have released a statement

    72 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  19. Fxmsp Chat Logs Reveal Hacked Antivirus Vendors

    72 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  20. Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

    72 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  21. Fast Compilers for Fast Programs

    72 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  22. A class-action suit imperils California freelancers

    72 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  23. Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features

    72 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  24. Can law firms be liable for fake reviews? Pennsylvania firm says no

    72 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  25. Germany proposes $2,800 fine for parents skipping measles vaccination

    72 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  26. The FDA fails to adequately screen or monitor products

    72 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  27. Using spinach leaf as scaffolding, scientists built a mini heart (2017)

    72 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  28. Hackers breached 3 US antivirus companies, researchers reveal

    72 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  29. Yellow Vest Facebook group with 350k members frozen on European election day

    71 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  30. Who’s at risk for obsessive healthy eating? Toronto research sheds light

    71 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  31. Americans who fled the country to escape their student debt

    71 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  32. Typing in Yiddish

    71 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  33. VR is opening up new ways to experience art

    71 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  34. White House launches tool to report censorship on social media

    71 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  35. Shut down social media platforms, ex-Facebook adviser urges

    71 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  36. Newest coworking space costs just $2.25 an hour, because it is a parking spot

    71 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  37. Nearly 25% of Americans are going into debt to pay for necessities like food

    71 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  38. Lessons from cold fusion, 30 years on

    71 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  39. A controlled blaze in Utah could improve models of how wildfire smoke spreads

    71 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  40. Things I Learnt from fast.ai v3

    71 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  41. In a first, chimpanzees seen smashing and eating tortoises

    71 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  42. Why Workers Without College Degrees Are Fleeing Big Cities

    71 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  43. What We’ve Built Is a Computational Language

    71 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  44. Group f/64

    71 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  45. Apple’s defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple

    71 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  46. Intel offered “reward” to Dutch researchers to downplay MDS vulnerability

    71 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  47. What Uber Left Behind in Asia

    71 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  48. Joins In Steps

    71 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  49. Microamp: Asymmetric Multi-Processing on Microcontrollers

    71 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  50. Tell HN: Work at a Startup Expo will be at YC on Saturday, June 29

    71 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  51. Show HN: Ship Your Enemies GDPR

    70 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  52. Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers

    70 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  53. GitHub's new features show it’s finally listening to developers

    70 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  54. World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions (2015) [pdf]

    70 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  55. Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US hacking

    70 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  56. Show HN: Cloudmarker – Cloud monitoring tool and framework

    70 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  57. Why Airplane Boarding Got So Ridiculous

    70 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  58. Leap Motion Is Dead

    70 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  59. Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents

    70 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  60. UBI without quality public services is a neoliberal’s paradise

    70 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  61. Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues to HR for Political Opinions

    70 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  62. Show HN: Uranus – Memo and Task App

    70 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  63. House spending panel drops U.S. ban on gene-edited babies

    70 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  64. Joe Beef and the Excesses of Restaurant Culture

    70 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  65. Building a Silicon Brain

    70 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  66. Indictment of Julian Assange Poses a Clear Danger to Journalism, Speech

    70 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  67. Heavy water tastes the same as ordinary water (1935)

    70 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  68. Living In A Van in Google's Backyard

    70 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  69. Zuckerberg Smile

    69 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  70. They Got Rich Off Uber and Lyft. Then They Moved to Low-Tax States

    69 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  71. PeaZip – A free cross-platform file archiver utility

    69 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  72. Boeing Admits It Knew of a Faulty Safety Alert in 737 Max

    69 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  73. Hey Google, isn't this black-hat SEO?

    69 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  74. Foxconn Still Trying to Tap Dance Around Its Ever-Shrinking Wisconsin Promises

    69 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  75. Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants

    69 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  76. Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Go

    69 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  77. Remote Development with Visual Studio Code (SSH/Docker)

    69 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  78. Run CP/M on your C64 using emulation

    69 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  79. “I Tested into Stanford Through My Own Hard Work.” JK, Her Parents Paid $6.5M

    69 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  80. Musk Can’t Dodge Tesla Cash Woes Any Longer

    69 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  81. Where does your plastic waste end up?

    69 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  82. Uber’s underwater investors

    69 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  83. Diabetes complications soar in US, but not Canada, as teens become young adults

    69 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  84. What Is Not in Plan Nine (2012)

    69 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  85. San Francisco Considers Ban on Government's Use of Facial Recognition Technology

    68 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  86. Remote code execution through type confusion in Ghostscript

    68 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  87. Writing a Procedural Puzzle Generator

    68 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  88. The Slippery Slope of In-Product Messaging

    68 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  89. Major Azure Outage

    68 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  90. The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation

    68 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  91. Ask HN: What's your preferred way of ensuring complex database integrity?

    68 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  92. China wasn’t ready for the trade war with the United States

    68 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  93. Undercover video suggests Facebook wants extreme and disturbing content

    68 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  94. Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008)

    68 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  95. The Tyranny of Ideas

    68 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  96. List of Free Science Books

    68 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  97. Danone is engaging all 100k employees in the running of the company

    68 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  98. Keybase 4.0

    68 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  99. Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor

    68 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  100. Every Vehicle Should Have an Electric Motor, Even If It Doesn’t Have a Plug

    68 points • comment • may 28, 2019