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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

    497 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  2. Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

    495 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  3. Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says

    494 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  4. I Quit Social Media for a Year

    492 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  5. 100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web

    491 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  6. iPadOS

    487 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  7. Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome

    485 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  8. Birds Are Vanishing from North America

    482 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  9. Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)

    479 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  10. HEAD – A guide to <head> elements

    479 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  11. Sites with dumb password rules

    478 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  12. A website coding itself live

    477 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  13. 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google

    477 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  14. Google, YouTube to Pay $170M Penalty over Collecting Kids' Personal Info

    473 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  15. HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print

    469 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  16. A lighter V8

    466 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  17. US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypted files from backup

    464 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  18. Mesh Spreadsheet

    461 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  19. Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup

    460 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  20. Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

    460 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  21. A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf]

    460 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  22. The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)

    459 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  23. Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator (2018)

    457 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  24. Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store

    456 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  25. OSSU: A path to a free self-taught education in computer science

    454 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  26. Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account

    454 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  27. M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

    452 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  28. Why Go and Not Rust?

    452 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  29. Goodreads Is Broken

    451 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  30. Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

    450 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  31. Tensorflow 2.0

    450 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  32. 20,000 Startup Ideas

    445 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  33. ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks

    444 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  34. We are clueless about how long things should take

    443 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  35. Berlin Key

    441 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  36. WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources

    441 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  37. Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research

    441 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  38. Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note

    441 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  39. Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype

    440 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  40. Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing k-panic

    440 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  41. Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

    439 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  42. KDE is adopting GitLab

    435 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  43. The one who kept VLC free

    434 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  44. Tmux Tutorial

    433 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  45. Stellarium: A free open-source planetarium for your computer

    433 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  46. A high-speed network driver written in C, Rust, Go, C#, Java

    432 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  47. Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)

    431 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  48. Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code

    431 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  49. MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14

    427 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  50. Facebook Dating

    427 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  51. Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)

    426 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  52. If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot

    425 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  53. Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sling costs $200

    425 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  54. Starship Update

    425 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  55. A Message about iOS Security

    424 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  56. Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’

    421 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  57. Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis

    421 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  58. GitHub Releases an ImageNet for Code

    420 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  59. Show HN: I built an online image editor using WebGL and CSS transforms

    412 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  60. Android 10

    411 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  61. The Cult of Kubernetes

    411 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  62. Linux Kernel Fastboot [pdf]

    409 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  63. BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful

    408 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  64. .NET Core 3.0

    407 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  65. Turn off DoH, Firefox

    406 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  66. The “mail is hard” myth

    405 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  67. Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game

    405 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  68. Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs

    401 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  69. Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer

    399 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  70. Instagram Threatened Removal of Verified Status for Posting Snapchat Content

    396 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  71. Ships fitted with ‘cheat devices’ to divert poisonous pollution into sea

    393 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  72. What Happened in the UK Blackouts?

    392 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  73. MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

    392 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  74. TextMate 2.0

    391 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  75. Google Feedback on TypeScript 3.5

    390 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  76. Hard comp-fi reading list

    388 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  77. Gridgarden: A cool game to learn CSS Grid

    387 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  78. Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager

    386 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  79. V8 adds support for top-level await

    385 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  80. Which companies are using Erlang, and why?

    385 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  81. Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations

    384 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  82. Regex Crossword

    383 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  83. A developer goes to a DevOps conference

    383 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  84. Apple iOS 13.1 Personal automation via Shortcuts

    378 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  85. Let Children Get Bored Again

    378 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  86. New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

    377 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  87. This To That

    375 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  88. The Church of Interruption

    374 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  89. Hacking the Brain

    373 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  90. The U.S. economy is growing and using less and less stuff to do so

    370 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  91. MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library

    369 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  92. Elements of Clojure

    369 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  93. Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 into liquid fuel

    368 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  94. iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review

    367 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  95. An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms

    367 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  96. Tiler: Build Images with Images

    367 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  97. Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment

    366 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  98. Off-Grid, Solar-Powered, Zero-Battery Refrigerator

    365 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  99. The Spinner

    365 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  100. Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO

    364 points • comment • sep 22, 2019