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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. The word “lox” hasn't changed in sound or meaning in 8k years

    185 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  2. Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages

    185 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  3. YC's request for startups: Government 2.0

    185 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  4. Deadly stupidity during Aeroflot flight 1492 emergency evacuation

    185 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  5. Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week

    185 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  6. Disney Assumes Full Control of Hulu in Deal with Comcast

    185 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  7. What to Know Before Debating Type Systems (2008)

    185 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  8. Qualcomm Tumbles After Losing U.S. Antitrust Ruling

    184 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  9. Oracle Wallet Master Key Lost

    184 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  10. Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures Versus Founding Teams (2018)

    184 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  11. 20 Years Ago, Microsoft introduced its optical mouse

    184 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  12. Make School Hard Again

    184 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  13. Epic Games is killing Linux support for games and software it acquired

    184 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  14. Docker is vulnerable to a symlink-race attack

    184 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  15. Byte Magazine – LISP (1979)

    184 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  16. China defaults hit record in 2018, and the 2019 pace is triple that

    183 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  17. Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr

    183 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  18. Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"

    183 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  19. Show HN: RSS Search Engine

    183 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  20. People's sense of control over actions is reduced when angry or afraid: study

    183 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  21. Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order of Japanese names

    183 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  22. South Korea's booming 'webtoons'

    183 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  23. Surprising Bash Variables

    183 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  24. Choosing Ruby on Rails for web development project in 2019

    183 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  25. As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern

    183 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  26. Ethiopian Max Crash Simulator Scenario Stuns Pilots

    183 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  27. SwiftWasm: Run Swift in Browsers

    183 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  28. Amethyst: Data-driven game engine written in Rust

    183 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  29. Go makes it easier to write correct, clear and efficient code

    182 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  30. African samurai: The enduring legacy of a black warrior in feudal Japan

    182 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  31. Girl’s $143k bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging

    182 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  32. Zuckerberg sued over privacy scandals, alleged insider trades

    182 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  33. People see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra: study

    182 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  34. EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit

    182 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  35. An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (2017)

    182 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  36. Systems thinking as important as ever for new coders

    181 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  37. Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again

    181 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  38. BioRender – Professional Science Figures

    181 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  39. Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system

    181 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  40. The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit

    181 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  41. Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook

    181 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  42. Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete

    180 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  43. Classic Minecraft now free online

    180 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  44. Networks of Low-Stakes, Casual Friendships

    180 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  45. What Ancient Romans Used Instead of Toilet Paper

    180 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  46. Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codex Atlanticus” Now Online

    180 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  47. How the Apple Store Lost Its Luster

    180 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  48. Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, and Pascal shiny things

    180 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  49. Renewables predicted to beat coal for the first time in US later this year

    179 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  50. Azure is experiencing DNS issues in all regions

    179 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  51. Git ransom campaign incident report

    179 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  52. Open source Mali GPU drivers merged

    179 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  53. Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea

    178 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  54. Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993

    178 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  55. Next browser – web browser in Common LISP

    178 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  56. Urban trees 'live fast, die young' compared to those in rural forests

    178 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  57. NetHack 3.6.2

    178 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  58. 100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing

    178 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  59. Denver voters consider next frontier in decriminalizing drugs: magic mushrooms

    177 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  60. Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web

    177 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  61. A SHA-1 chosen-prefix collision attack

    176 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  62. When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake

    176 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  63. Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach

    176 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  64. Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road

    176 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  65. Tor Browser 8.5

    175 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  66. NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024 moon landing plan

    175 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  67. Lithium-ion batteries from Amazon are exploding

    175 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  68. Uber’s Arbitration Addiction Could Be Death by 60k Cuts

    175 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  69. Eating Jell-O with Chopsticks

    175 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  70. ZFS on Linux 0.8.0

    174 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  71. PyTorch internals

    174 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  72. Treat Facebook Like Big Tobacco

    173 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  73. Show HN: Imgsquash – My image compression website project

    173 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  74. A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes personality (2017)

    173 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  75. You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work

    173 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  76. Books and lectures don't work

    173 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  77. Julian Assange: Wikileaks co-founder jailed over bail breach

    173 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  78. The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

    173 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  79. Repair delays for Tesla owners

    173 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  80. The moon may be tectonically active

    173 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  81. What Happened to 'Miegakure,' the Game That Promised the 4th Dimension? (2018)

    172 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  82. Adventures with ffmpeg and color ranges

    172 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  83. The Law of Leaky Abstractions

    172 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  84. UN expert says "collective persecution" of Julian Assange must end

    172 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  85. ‘eyeDisk’ USB drive secured with iris recognition reveals password in plain text

    172 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  86. Rare Dreamcast-Powered Sega Fish Life Preserved and Released by Musée Bolo

    171 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  87. What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat

    171 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  88. Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean

    171 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  89. Diffeq.jl v6.4: Full GPU ODEs, Neural ODEs with Batching on GPUs, and More

    171 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  90. Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often

    171 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  91. From Dead Code to Company: The FullCalendar JavaScript Lib Turns 10

    170 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  92. Ring: Advanced cache interface for Python

    170 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  93. Browser Fingerprinting: A Survey

    170 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  94. How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian

    170 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  95. Sexy weasels in Renaissance art

    170 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  96. Show HN: Nextjournal – seamless data science for teams

    169 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  97. Ask HN: How to Self-Study Integrated Circuit Design?

    169 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  98. Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds

    169 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  99. Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting

    169 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  100. Building CentOS 8

    169 points • comment • may 09, 2019