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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. It Began in a Manger

    12 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  2. Speech of Harrison Ford: “If We Don't Protect Nature We Can't Protect Ourselves”

    12 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  3. Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Dorsey, Marianne Williamson and the Wellness Aristocracy

    12 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  4. Nature paper on ocean warming retracted

    12 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  5. What is an API? How does it work?

    12 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  6. Famous Diophantine Equations

    12 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  7. Google contract workers in Pittsburgh vote to form union

    12 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  8. The Navy Says Those UFO Videos Are Real

    12 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  9. Show HN: Build an Autonomous Race Car in your Browser

    12 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  10. Was Etsy too good to be true?

    12 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  11. The world needs an alternative to Selenium – so we built one

    12 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  12. Winning Kashmir and Losing India

    12 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  13. Why I Changed my Opinion on China

    12 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  14. Elderly woman didn't realize her kitchen painting was worth $6M

    12 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  15. Days Ahead of Climate Strike, MSFT Partners with Chevron to Speed Oil Extraction

    12 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  16. Michael Mann Refuses to Produce Data, Loses Case

    12 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  17. Strange Metal-Like Bonds Discovered in Colloidal Crystals

    12 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  18. Facebook shrugs as Free Basics private key found to be signing unrelated apps

    12 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  19. Can you use a Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop machine?

    12 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  20. The Ominous Power of ‘Sharpiegate’

    12 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  21. ‘Super Pumped’ Author Mike Isaac on Uber’s Toxic Culture

    12 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  22. Galactic-Scale Energy (2011)

    12 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  23. Organized Toe Maps in Extreme Foot Users

    12 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  24. AltStore

    12 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  25. SSDs are on track to get bigger and cheaper thanks to PLC technology

    12 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  26. Ask HN: I don't like front end anymore. What should I do?

    12 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  27. The Mind, Explained: A Netflix Documentary Narrated by Emma Stone

    12 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  28. High-level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them

    12 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  29. Google Draws House Antitrust Scrutiny of Encrypted DNS

    12 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  30. Weird Science

    12 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  31. Don't use a custom domain with Droplr

    12 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  32. Standard Go Project Layout

    12 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  33. No-Code Software Revolution. Why Now?

    12 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  34. Yahoo introduces a new mail and logo

    12 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  35. Xkcd on his new book “How To” and the joys of using science to build lava moats

    12 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  36. Protein tangles linked with dementia seen in patients after single head injury

    12 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  37. Debian May Need to Re-Evaluate Its Interest in “Init System Diversity”

    12 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  38. Gravity Payments CEO is raising the minimum salary of his employees again

    12 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  39. Predatory conference scammers are getting smarter

    12 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  40. Create your own private cloud at home – easy installation, no server needed

    12 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  41. Feds seek to seize all profits from Snowden’s book over NDA violation

    12 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  42. Schneier on Security: France Outlines Its Approach to Cyberwar

    12 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  43. Jira Is Down

    12 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  44. Mont Blanc glacier could collapse at any moment

    12 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  45. From Making $15/Hour Part-Time to Making $60k+ as a Software Engineer in 1 Year

    12 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  46. I Will Never Understand Dropbox – Tweet by Chrissy Teigen

    12 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  47. “Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor”: supplement

    12 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  48. Ask HN: What are you building with Rust? for fun or profit

    12 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  49. Scientific breakthrough may eventually allow many blind people to see

    12 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  50. We Lost the War in Afghanistan. Get over It

    12 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  51. Behavioral Theory of Leadership: How to Be a Better Leader

    12 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  52. Reinventing Home Directories – systemd-homed [pdf]

    12 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  53. 'No Religion' Officially Overtakes Christianity in New Zealand Census Stats

    12 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  54. Michelle Carter, convicted of urging boyfriend to take his life, denied parole

    12 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  55. Comparing Rust and Java (2016)

    11 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  56. NetCAT: Practical Cache Attacks from the Network

    11 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  57. Xkcd Creator Randall Munroe on the Joys of Overthinking Everything

    11 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  58. Architectural Implications of Function-as-a-Service Computing [pdf]

    11 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  59. What can a software developer do about climate change?

    11 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  60. Happy 60th Birthday, Cobol

    11 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  61. Will retiring boomers cashing out cause a 'dark period' for the stock market

    11 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  62. Ask HN: What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced when building your startup?

    11 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  63. Landing of Chandrayaan-2 on Lunar Surface

    11 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  64. China is harvesting thousands of human organs from its Uighur Muslim minority

    11 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  65. Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks

    11 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  66. Ask HN: Does the contract rate rule of thumb still apply?

    11 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  67. Animal, Vegetable, or Both?

    11 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  68. Phosphate fertiliser 'crisis' threatens world food supply

    11 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  69. Dezoomify Allows You to Download Zoomable Images

    11 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  70. Firefox 69 – A Tale of Resize Observer, Microtasks, CSS, and DevTools

    11 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  71. Taskbar Latency and Kernel Calls

    11 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  72. For Rachel Carson, wonder was a radical state of mind

    11 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  73. Man spends £30k fighting £100 speeding fine

    11 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  74. To find the best parking spot, do the math

    11 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  75. Hollow Arguments Against Snowden Countered

    11 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  76. Revealed: TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing

    11 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  77. Chef Is Contracting to ICE

    11 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  78. The Hyphen Affair

    11 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  79. AMD acknowledges 3rd-gen Ryzen boost bug

    11 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  80. Cascadia Code, an OSS coding / terminal font with ligatures from Microsoft

    11 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  81. The Adventures of Number 45: The Story of a Gutenberg Bible

    11 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  82. Electromagnetic 'bathing cap' shows promise in early Alzheimer's disease trial

    11 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  83. Apple introduces the new $699 iPhone 11–and it’s all about the cameras

    11 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  84. The Toxic Online World Where Mass Shooters Thrive

    11 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  85. The 'last Botticelli'?

    11 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  86. Show HN: Proxy Orbit – Rotating Web Proxy API for Pentesting

    11 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  87. Gone fly fishing: Video of angler dangling from drone under investigation

    11 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  88. Show HN: Cutestrap Two. A Powerful 2.7KB Pure CSS Framework

    11 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  89. The Air Force Is Deploying Its First Drone-Killing Microwave Weapon

    11 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  90. Reporter Fired in the 'Busch Light Guy' Scandal Feels 'Abandoned' by Paper

    11 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  91. Critics Challenge the Health Benefits of Alternative Meats

    11 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  92. The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting Satellite

    11 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  93. The GMO debate won't be settled technocratically

    11 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  94. Show HN: FaaStest – Serverless Platforms Benchmark Made Easy

    11 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  95. Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us

    11 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  96. Jason Calacanis Loses it Over TopTal Shenanigans [video]

    11 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  97. 600k GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of '123456'

    11 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  98. Ask HN: What do you think will happen to the Gig economy with the bill?

    11 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  99. Scientists set out how to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

    11 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  100. Counter Service Tipping: Who Gives?

    11 points • comment • sep 16, 2019