woid

top stories

Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Scientists discover China has been secretly emitting banned ozone-depleting gas

    46 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  2. Stonewall riots 50 years later: 'We were fighting and it was for our lives'

    46 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  3. Redesigning Trust: Blockchain for Supply Chains

    46 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  4. T1: Secure Programming for Embedded Systems [pdf]

    46 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  5. FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators

    45 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  6. Buttons on the Web: Placement and Order

    45 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  7. Designing an end-to-end encrypted CI/CD pipeline with Keybase.io

    45 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  8. Asian shops shun Huawei phone trade-ins on Google suspension worries

    45 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  9. Nasa to fund novel diffractive solar sails

    45 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  10. Knit, Chisel, Hack: Building Programs in Guile Scheme (2016) [video]

    45 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  11. Huawei's alternative OS to Android set to roll out as early as fall

    45 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  12. U.S. Says Russia Might Be Setting Off Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons

    45 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  13. Dr. Bronner’s soap brand became a touchstone of wellness culture

    45 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  14. Claims that breakfast is a health panacea may be unsupported

    45 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  15. Never-Slow Mode a.k.a. Slightly-Fast Mode

    45 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  16. Janus cosmology: what is negative mass?

    45 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  17. Unpaywall Journals

    45 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  18. Reverse Engineering the Dropbox Client

    45 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  19. Windows 10 is getting a Microsoft-built Linux kernel

    45 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  20. Google pulls Huawei’s Android license, forcing it to use open source version

    45 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  21. Latest Firefox Release Is Faster Than Ever

    45 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  22. RaspberryPi Featured on UK Postage Stamp

    45 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  23. Software Design is Human Relationships: Waiters, Changers, and Sufficiency

    45 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  24. The Subtle Art of the Mathematical Conjecture

    45 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  25. Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult

    45 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  26. An Update on Spline Licensing

    45 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  27. China ready to hit back at U.S. with rare earths

    44 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  28. Men, commit to mentor women

    44 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  29. What Happened to Hovertrains? (2018) [video]

    44 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  30. Bitcoin's Rally Masks Uncomfortable Fact: Almost Nobody Uses It

    44 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  31. PX9 Data Compression

    44 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  32. Stockholm's focus on walkability

    44 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  33. Known Issue: Charged full price of Fi device after financing

    44 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  34. Account Hijacking Forum OGusers Hacked

    44 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  35. The low-down on home routers – how to buy, what to avoid

    44 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  36. Remote Development with VS Code

    44 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  37. Universal Math Solutions in Dimensions 8 and 24

    44 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  38. Passive DNS – A tutorial to set up your own passive DNS using D4 project

    44 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  39. Assange is reportedly gravely ill, and hardly anyone’s talking about it

    44 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  40. Over 100 Riot Games Employees Walked Out to End Forced Arbitration

    44 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  41. Hegelian contradiction and the prime numbers (part 2)

    44 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  42. Pad Thai was invented by the Thai government

    44 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  43. Smartphone shipments: Apple down 30%, Samsung down 8%, Huawei up 50%

    44 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  44. Basic Income as Common Dividends: Piloting a Transformative Policy

    44 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  45. Thurrott: Microsoft Confirms UWP Is Not the Future of Windows Apps

    44 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  46. Bing’s Not the Laughingstock of Technology Anymore

    44 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  47. Uber Is a Scam

    44 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  48. Programatically Understand Gaussian Processes: Part 1

    44 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  49. Silicon Valley will soon get its own stock exchange

    44 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  50. Functional Programming Is on the Rise

    44 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  51. Fabrix – A strongly-typed Node.js ecosystem

    44 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  52. The rise of the sober bar

    43 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  53. Quantum information in quantum cognition

    43 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  54. Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex? (2014)

    43 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  55. Python's Caduceus Syndrome

    43 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  56. Interview with Kyle Simpson, author of You Don’t Know JS book series

    43 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  57. Lucretius saw no boundary between scientific interests and ethical claims

    43 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  58. Ask HN: Has Google made you pay $15,000 to $75,000 for a security review?

    43 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  59. PyTorch 1.1

    43 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  60. Amoma.com is a scam (2017)

    43 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  61. The Milkman Model Returns, This Time for Shampoo and Haagen-Dazs

    43 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  62. You Had Me, And You Lost Me: Why I don't read Megatokyo (2004)

    43 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  63. Ted Chiang returns with another awe-inducing sci-fi collection

    43 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  64. Google Disables Intel Hyperthreading on ChromeOS

    43 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  65. Evergreen, highly scalable library software with GPL

    43 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  66. Reader/Reader blocking in reader/writer locks

    43 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  67. Uber prices blockbuster IPO conservatively to raise $8.1B

    43 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  68. SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social and Economic Background

    43 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  69. Defenses Against TCP SYN Flooding Attacks (2006)

    43 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  70. Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as 'creepy'

    43 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  71. Driven – A bicycle drivechain concept without derailleurs and chains

    42 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  72. HP Spectre 15 x360 2019 review: Carving a niche in a crowded space

    42 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  73. Don't share pictures of your kids online

    42 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  74. The Artistry of China’s Ivory Puzzle Balls

    42 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  75. Apple Is Finally Killing iTunes

    42 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  76. Ancient DNA Yields Snapshots of Vanished Ecosystems

    42 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  77. What's New in Matplotlib 3.1

    42 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  78. Physical kilogram is officially dead

    42 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  79. The Mysterious and Strange Origin of the Floppy Disk (2017)

    42 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  80. A Most Important Discovery (1953)

    42 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  81. Huawei has trademarked its 'Hongmeng' operating system

    42 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  82. CSS Grid Garden – a game to learn CSS grid by watering plants

    42 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  83. A blueprint to write copy that converts, even if you're an awful writer

    42 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  84. Lokomotive: An engine to drive cutting-edge Linux technologies into Kubernetes

    42 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  85. Show HN: Wasmer – A Go library for executing WebAssembly binaries

    42 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  86. What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex (2002)

    42 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  87. MitM'ing my STB (2016)

    42 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  88. Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Are the Trans Fat Purveyors of Our Generation

    42 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  89. KidSwitch: Identifying Kids in Apps and Sites

    42 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  90. Firefox 67

    42 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  91. OpenTracing and OpenCensus are merging into OpenTelemetry

    42 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  92. Nothing but Solitude

    41 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  93. Show HN: M4b-tool – a tool to merge, split and chapterize audiobooks

    41 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  94. The antibiotic industry is broken

    41 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  95. Intel’s new boss wants to teach the chipmaker new tricks

    41 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  96. What’s new in JavaScript [video]

    41 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  97. Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment

    41 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  98. Google has been storing G Suite user passwords in plain text for 14 years

    41 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  99. RFC 8548: Cryptographic Protection of TCP Streams (Tcpcrypt)

    41 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  100. Apple dismisses Google’s criticism over turning privacy into a ‘luxury good’

    41 points • comment • may 27, 2019