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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (2017)

    56 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  2. Netflix Has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle

    56 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  3. Ask HN: Advice on balancing family life at a startup

    56 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  4. It’s Never Been Easier to Be a CEO, and the Pay Keeps Rising

    56 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  5. Argon-16 Computer

    55 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  6. Microsoft hints at new modern Windows OS with ‘invisible’ background updates

    55 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  7. Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might Be the Worst Idea in Tech

    55 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  8. Same-sex marriage legalization associated with reduced antigay bias

    55 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  9. Anxiety might be alleviated by regulating gut bacteria

    55 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  10. Code Review from the Command Line (2018)

    55 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  11. Japan: Streets at Night (Photography)

    55 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  12. Voice Pitch Predicts Labor Market Success Among Male CEOs (2012) [pdf]

    55 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  13. Listen to jungle sounds with the SAFE project

    55 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  14. Intel Process Technology Update: 10nm Server Products in 1H 2020, 7nm in 2021

    55 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  15. An eBPF overview, part 5: Tracing user processes

    55 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  16. Amnesty loses new New York Headquarters because China

    55 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  17. From Collisions to Chosen-Prefix Collisions Application to Full SHA-1 [pdf]

    55 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  18. VPN service for hosting public-facing services on non-hosting ISP circuits

    55 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  19. WebAssembly in Redex

    55 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  20. The Missing Readline Primer

    55 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  21. At $2.1M, Novartis gene therapy will be world’s most expensive drug

    55 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  22. Show HN: Web Components for Dynamic Scripture References

    55 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  23. Atari 800 vs. Commodore 64 – The Brief Tale of Two 8-Bit Home Computers

    55 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  24. Multi-Person Pose Estimation with Enhanced Channel-wise and Spatial Information

    55 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  25. Using Ed25519 signing keys for encryption

    55 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  26. It's 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning – Ted Chiang

    54 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  27. RCE Without Native Code: Exploitation of a Write-What-Where in Internet Explorer

    54 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  28. Drivers group plans work stoppage at Uber, Lyft in NYC

    54 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  29. The Antonine Wall was the real final frontier of the Roman Empire

    54 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  30. CrowdStrike S-1

    54 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  31. Beyond Quantum Mechanics [video]

    54 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  32. In search of a truce in the autism wars

    54 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  33. Show HN: Python 3 TSP solver based on LKH (cross platform)

    54 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  34. A 600-Page Textbook About Modern Monetary Theory Has Sold Out

    54 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  35. These may be the first images of dogs, and they’re wearing leashes (2017)

    54 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  36. Strache Caught on Camera in Ibiza

    54 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  37. $500k a Year yet Struggling? Let's Do a Double Take

    54 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  38. Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen by 2048

    54 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  39. Security Advisory for the Standard Library

    54 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  40. Simulating A/B tests offline with counterfactual inference

    54 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  41. A Boost for Java on the Client

    54 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  42. APIs for fun personal projects

    54 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  43. Using SPARK to Prove 255-Bit Integer Arithmetic from Curve25519

    54 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  44. Roger McNamee: “Facebook Is Terrible for America”

    54 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  45. Go to Statement Considered Harmful (1968) [pdf]

    54 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  46. Bob Widlar – The Life of an Engineering Legend

    54 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  47. Why Do Lunar Satellites Eventually Crash into the Moon? [video]

    54 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  48. Show HN: Create thousands of videos from a Google sheet

    54 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  49. The rich world is enjoying an unprecedented jobs boom

    53 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  50. Interactive Text Prediction Explainer

    53 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  51. 'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam

    53 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  52. Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Power Plant?

    53 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  53. Recursive Make Considered Harmful (1997) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  54. Found: Stolen Alexander Hamilton Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette

    53 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  55. HP Enterprise Nears Deal to Buy Cray

    53 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  56. She was the “queen of the mommy bloggers”

    53 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  57. The hiring spreadsheet and the clash at The Markup

    53 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  58. Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati

    53 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  59. Handy Keymaps in Vim

    53 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  60. React SVG Drawing Library

    53 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  61. Ask HN: Examples of bad open-source code to learn what to avoid?

    53 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  62. Show HN: Flipt – an open-source feature flag solution

    53 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  63. Moa fossil footprints found in New Zealand river

    53 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  64. USB Snooping Made Easy: Crosstalk Leakage Attacks on USB Hubs (2017)

    53 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  65. Incognito no more: Publishers close loopholes as paywall blockers emerge

    53 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  66. Solder Alloys and Metallurgy

    52 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  67. Ask HN: What jobs can a software engineer take to tackle climate change?

    52 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  68. For many young South Koreans, dating is too expensive, or too dangerous

    52 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  69. When to Stop Fuzzing

    52 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  70. Liverpool Football Club’s reliance on analytics

    52 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  71. Tootdon App sends a copy of every post to a central corporate server

    52 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  72. In a backyard in Erie, Pa., an unusual cardinal may be a gynandromorph

    52 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  73. Netscape's Internet Foundation Classes (1996)

    52 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  74. Digital Doppelgängers Fool Advanced Anti-Fraud Tech

    52 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  75. Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans

    52 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  76. “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture

    52 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  77. The hype about an incoming wave of tech IPOs has underscored SF's tensions

    52 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  78. A Hardware Accelerator for Tracing Garbage Collection

    52 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  79. Salesforce.com tells its customers to stop selling assault-style rifles

    52 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  80. Wingtip Coupling at 15,000 Feet (2000) [pdf]

    52 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  81. First Draft of PostgreSQL 12 Release Notes

    52 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  82. Voynich Manuscript Decrypted by Bristol Academic

    52 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  83. PayPal starts charging 2.9% for refunded sales

    52 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  84. Why do you grab your bag when running off a burning plane?

    52 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  85. Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs

    52 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  86. A case for lease-based, utilitarian resource management on mobile devices

    52 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  87. Tor Browser 8.0.8

    52 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  88. Two amateur sleuths discover ancient rock art in the plains of India

    52 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  89. US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'

    52 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  90. Ask HN: How can I find a good mentor?

    51 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  91. Rio de Janeiro’s police killed a record number of people in three months

    51 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  92. Show HN: Made a new notification tool and I'm looking for some beta testers

    51 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  93. Tesla increases price of all Model 3 variants, even ‘off-the-menu’ base model

    51 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  94. Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News

    51 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  95. The Internet Is Making You Less Free

    51 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  96. This neural net would like to deliver these petitions

    51 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  97. Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languages

    51 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  98. Metamorphic Testing

    51 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  99. Refurbished Samsung Android Phones Sans Google Now Available

    51 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  100. Announcing GraalVM 19

    50 points • comment • may 09, 2019