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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will

    22 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  2. Trump declares emergency over IT threats

    22 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  3. Tenants win as settlement orders landlords give physical keys over smart locks

    22 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  4. Your display contents may be traced by the sound of it using ordinary microphone

    22 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  5. VW to Reshuffle $56B Battery Push as Samsung Deal at Risk

    22 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  6. Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

    22 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  7. Ditching processed foods won’t be easy – The barriers to cooking from scratch

    22 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  8. 'Deepfake' AI can turn the Mona Lisa into a convincing real person

    22 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  9. Americans Are Not Prepared for the Coming Mother of All Stock Market Crashes

    22 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  10. Google may be about to kill affiliate marketing links

    22 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  11. One (new) thing you need to know about Google Cloud Bigtable

    22 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  12. The calls to reign in Mark Zuckerberg have never been louder

    22 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  13. The Unbearable Lightness of Java

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  14. YouTube commenter threatens to kill employees, drives to HQ with a gun

    21 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  15. Two dead after YouTube conspiracy video claims drinking bleach cures autism

    21 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  16. “Confidential” HDMI Specifications Docs Hit with DMCA Takedown

    21 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  17. Google’s AI can now translate your speech while keeping your voice

    21 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  18. A History and Survey of Network Firewalls (2002) [pdf]

    21 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  19. Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

    21 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  20. A Fertility Doctor Using His Own Sperm: Ethical and legal considerations

    21 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  21. Show HN: Draw “text-mode” diagrams using Braille characters

    21 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  22. 'WhatsApp will never be safe': Telegram boss attacks Facebook-owned messaging

    21 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  23. Apple offered to buy Tesla back in 2013 for more than it’s worth today – BGR

    21 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  24. Ask HN: What technologies should I focus on to enhance my carreer?

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  25. The Mystery of Human Uniqueness (2013)

    21 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  26. Should C Programmers Learn C++, Go or Rust? (2018)

    21 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  27. OpenFLIXR – all-in-one media server for automated downloading and serving media

    21 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  28. Transparent Solar Panels Will Turn Windows into Green Energy Collectors

    21 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  29. Land Lines, Cell Phones, and Their Social Consequences (2011)

    21 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  30. Ajit Pai Refuses to Investigate Frontier Telecom Problems in Minnesota

    21 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  31. Makepad, 2D CAD Livecoding for Rust

    21 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  32. How San Francisco Broke America’s Heart

    21 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  33. 'No other option': Climate change driving many to flee Guatemala

    21 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  34. U.S. Beer Industry Blames Trump Tariffs for 40k Job Losses

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  35. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Unraveling

    21 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  36. The world's first hack: the telegraph and the invention of privacy (2015)

    21 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  37. On the Road to Irmin v2

    21 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  38. If DARPA Has Its Way, AI Will Rule the Wireless Spectrum

    21 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  39. Hybridogenesis in water frogs

    21 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  40. KrispNet – Voice Playback with Deep Learning

    21 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  41. Bounty hunters storm home with battering RAM over $750 bond, video shows

    21 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  42. Get Off of Twitter

    21 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  43. We Can't Destroy Planet Earth

    21 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  44. SpaceX’s Starlink launch debut to orbit dozens of satellites later this month

    21 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  45. Audi will replace the TT with an electric sports car

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  46. Secret Huawei enterprise router snoop 'backdoor' was Telnet service

    21 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  47. Most male managers are afraid to have one-on-one meetings with female employees

    21 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  48. Amazon is 3D-scanning people's bodies in exchange for gift cards

    21 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  49. Ask HN: As a creative developer what are your sources for inspiration?

    21 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  50. How Slack impacts workplace productivity

    21 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  51. Józef Czapski: painter, prisoner, and disciple of Proust

    20 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  52. The Long Term Stock Exchange

    20 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  53. Alphabetical Order in Korean

    20 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  54. Ask HN: How to avoid ghosting by potential customers?

    20 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  55. Ask HN: How do you deal with or stop escapism?

    20 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  56. Making America Carbon Neutral Could Cost $1T a Year

    20 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  57. As ER Wait Times Grow, More Patients Leave Against Medical Advice

    20 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  58. Elite reveal anxiety over ‘class war’ and ‘revolution’

    20 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  59. How does Docker work?

    20 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  60. Founding a new computer science program

    20 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  61. D4 Project – Open and collaborative network monitoring [pdf]

    20 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  62. Is Prison Necessary?

    20 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  63. Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering Natural World at Unprecedented Pace

    20 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  64. Report: Obama’s Spying On The Press Was More Extensive Than Previously Thought

    20 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  65. Understanding Fake Agile

    20 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  66. Washington becomes first US state to legalise human composting

    20 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  67. The Uber IPO Is a Moral Stain on Silicon Valley

    20 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  68. Microsoft’s First Windows XP Patch in Years Is a Bad Sign

    20 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  69. An Astounding Amount of Water Has Been Discovered Beneath the Martian North Pole

    20 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  70. Add a Bit of Soviet-Era Super-Computing to Your FPGA

    20 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  71. Puppeteers Making Performance Art Weird Again

    20 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  72. Why use learning when you can fit?

    20 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  73. Americans' Air Conditioning Habit Is Eco-Friendly (2015)

    20 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  74. Instagram data breach 49M users’ sensitive data exposed online

    20 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  75. Push Them Hard Enough and the Productive Class Will Opt Out of Servitude

    20 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  76. Jayapal and Sanders Medicare for All Bills: One Is a Lot Better Than the Other

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  77. Remote Python Development in Visual Studio Code

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  78. Your Car Knows When You Gain Weight

    20 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  79. Facebook Bars Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan and Others from Its Services

    20 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  80. Frances Arnold Turns Microbes into Living Factories

    20 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  81. Git basics – the only introduction you'll ever need

    20 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  82. Opt-IN, No Ads, and No Tracking Solve a Lot of Problems in Society

    20 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  83. Boeing 737 slid off the runway and fell into St. Johns River in Florida

    20 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  84. Visual Studio Code Remote Development May Change Everything – Scott Hanselman

    20 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  85. Binance has been hacked for 7k Bitcoin ($40m)

    20 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  86. Faster Script Loading with BinaryAST?

    20 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  87. Teslonda: The Tesla / Honda Powered by Raspberry Pi

    20 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  88. SpaceX Starlink Mission: Livefeed

    20 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  89. Exploring the Apple Pippin ROM(s), part 7: A lot to digest

    20 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  90. “Bomb Carbon” Has Been Found in Deep-Ocean Creatures

    20 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  91. Consumer Robotics Company Anki Shuts Down

    19 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  92. Self-made millionaire invented Bug-A-Salt gun, shoots salt at flies

    19 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  93. We Bootstrapped an Open-Source Project to $120k/Month

    19 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  94. Mozilla Research Call: Tune Up Tor for Integration and Scale

    19 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  95. Jeff Bezos Unveils Blue Origin’s Vision for Space, and a Moon Lander

    19 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  96. Air pollution from every power plant in the world, tracked

    19 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  97. Docker Bug Allows Root Access to Host File System

    19 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  98. Historical Snapshot: Boeing 747 Commercial Transport/YAL-1

    19 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  99. It’s Not About Assange, It’s About Press Freedom

    19 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  100. Young White Dudes Are Decidedly Opting Out of the Whole ‘Job’ Thing

    19 points • comment • may 26, 2019