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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Being a PhD student shouldn’t be bad for your health

    25 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  2. Photos of the Tiananmen Square Protests Through the Lens of a Student Witness

    25 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  3. Sorry, keto fans, you're probably not in ketosis (2018)

    25 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  4. Best paid email hosting service in 2019?

    25 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  5. A long-lost vessel from the 1800s was found by accident as NOAA tested equipment

    25 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  6. Taleb Says Fed Should Do 'Minimum Harm' [video]

    25 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  7. The End of Mobile

    25 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  8. The Influence of Streamlined Music on Cognition and Mood (2016)

    25 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  9. Exploring undefined behavior using constexpr

    24 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  10. Ask HN: Do you think technology progress will flatten out 100 years from now

    24 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  11. Israel’s NSO: the business of spying on your iPhone

    24 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  12. Weissman Score

    24 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  13. The Inescapable Town Square

    24 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  14. Exxon Predicted 2019’s Ominous CO2 Milestone in 1982

    24 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  15. Windows 10 will soon ship with a full, open-source, GPLed Linux kernel

    24 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  16. Scalable Python Code with Pandas UDFs

    24 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  17. GDB 8.3

    24 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  18. Britain in two-week coal-free record

    24 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  19. Ask HN: As a female/minority, how do you vet a company before taking a job?

    24 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  20. Why do rich people lie, cheat and steal more than those on low incomes?

    24 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  21. Almost One Million Vulnerable to BlueKeep Vuln (CVE-2019-0708)

    24 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  22. BBC admits iPlayer has lost streaming fight with Netflix

    24 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  23. Excelsior JET 16 cancelled and Excelsior moving away from JVM development

    24 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  24. Ask HN: What would you like to say to your fellow HN readers?

    24 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  25. Boeing CEO refuses to admit 737 MAX 8 is flawed

    24 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  26. Motion Profiling Controllers

    24 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  27. Southwest Airlines Considers A220 as 737 Max Replacement

    24 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  28. Semantic Oscillations: Encoding Context and Structure in Complex Holographic Vec

    24 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  29. Oregon outlaws use of so-called ‘cyanide bombs’

    24 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  30. More Tigers Live in Cages Than the Wild

    24 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  31. New electrochemical process shortens the path to capturing and recycling CO2

    24 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  32. Ask HN: With a single site per comment, which sites do you visit regularly?

    24 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  33. Boeing Plans Layoff of 900 quality inspectors

    24 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  34. How Gitlab Cracked the Code of Remote Working

    24 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  35. Tell HN: My usability pet peeve – am/pm times with a leading zero

    24 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  36. Early efforts to build a thermometer

    24 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  37. In Defense of Fahrenheit

    24 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  38. Ask HN: Does Google “20% time” still exist?

    24 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  39. Free Courses to Learn Docker in 2019

    24 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  40. According to our capitalist overlords, you're broke because you eat lunch

    24 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  41. The Last Aryans of Ladakh

    23 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  42. Sony built an IoT chip with a 60 mile range

    23 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  43. Billionaire Marc Benioff donates $30M to research homelessness

    23 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  44. HB 481: Georgia law criminalizes abortion, subjects women to life in prison

    23 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  45. The Blue-Collar Jobs Boom Nobody Seems to Notice

    23 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  46. Linux Kernel Prior to 5.0.8 Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution

    23 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  47. I oversaw the U.S. nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned

    23 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  48. Kiwix – a cross-platform offline Wikipedia reader

    23 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  49. Ask HN: How to lead a stable, happy career as a bad interviewee?

    23 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  50. Giant logged long ago but not forgotten (2011)

    23 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  51. Show HN: Google Places x Instagram

    23 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  52. Notre Dame Re-Imagined with Glass Roof

    23 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  53. Java is confusing, Clojure is simple

    23 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  54. MacBook Pro Keyboard Failures [Teardown and Explanations]

    23 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  55. Updates to Amazon EKS Version Lifecycle

    23 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  56. Never Take the Meeting: How I Tried (and Failed) to Infiltrate a Mentorship Cult

    23 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  57. Global Egyptian Museum

    23 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  58. Sinking a $3B Indian submarine by forgetting to close a hatch

    23 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  59. Chinese driver gets ticket for scratching his face

    23 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  60. Uber's IPO caps an era of mediocrity and small thinking in Silicon Valley

    23 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  61. Root for the Uber IPO to Fail

    23 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  62. Mission Creep: NSA’s System for Iraq, Afghanistan Ended Up on the Mexican Border

    23 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  63. P-bits: Bridging the gap between standard bits and q-bits

    23 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  64. The US Government Interest Expense Was 93% of Military Spending in 2018

    23 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  65. Supreme Court seeks Trump administration views on Google-Oracle copyright feud

    23 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  66. Airbnb Spawned an Ecosystem of Startups

    23 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  67. Making Monkeys Out of the Sohn Investing Gurus

    23 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  68. Rust Patterns: Enums Instead of Booleans

    23 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  69. A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom

    23 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  70. More CO2 in the atmosphere today than any point since the evolution of humans

    23 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  71. Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

    23 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  72. Show HN: Thought Train 2 – An app for replacing sticky notes

    23 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  73. Did Cooking in HotSprings Make Human's Brainy?

    23 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  74. People in higher social class have an exaggerated belief that they are better

    23 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  75. Introducing Mercury OS

    23 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  76. Should You Tell the World How Much Money You Make?

    22 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  77. AirPods Are a Tragedy

    22 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  78. Amazon MSK – managed streaming for Apache Kafka – now generally available

    22 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  79. Lambda Twist: An Accurate Fast Robust-Perspective Three-Point Solver [pdf]

    22 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  80. Let’s Not Put the Government in Charge of Moderating Facebook

    22 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  81. A house built to withstand wild weather

    22 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  82. Deep learning can now prove half of what expert mathematicians can

    22 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  83. Show HN: GitHub Actions for GitHub Pages with Static Site Generators

    22 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  84. Useful list of 16 Python libraries that helped a healthcare startup grow

    22 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  85. Microsoft warns wormable Windows RDP bug could lead to another WannaCry

    22 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  86. Data Scientists Should Be Able to Deploy and Iterate Their Own Models

    22 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  87. Guitars can imitate any instrument – this man proves it

    22 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  88. On a Quick Way to Extract Concise Image Descriptors from CNN Models

    22 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  89. Google’s lung cancer detection AI outperforms 6 human radiologists

    22 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  90. Men Are Paying Sixfold Markups to Feel Cool About Buying Generic Viagra

    22 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  91. New York City turns to dry ice to control its rat population

    22 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  92. Tech Veganism

    22 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  93. Naked mole-rats: A case study in biological weirdness

    22 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  94. Autopilot was active when a Tesla crashed into a truck, killing driver

    22 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  95. Elastic energy storage in the shoulder: evolution of high-speed throwing in Homo

    22 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  96. Do You Want to Be Doing This When You're 50?

    22 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  97. Hedonism, sex and fear – why the Weimar republic is in vogue

    22 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  98. Avalanche visualisation using satellite radar [pdf]

    22 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  99. Dark Side of the Ring: Pro Wrestling and Americana

    22 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  100. Understanding 5G: A Basic Primer

    22 points • comment • may 06, 2019