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Hacker News (Nov 2019)

  1. Gfycat stops Archive.org volunteers from archiving content

    28 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  2. The Autodesk File

    28 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  3. How Jim Simons Built the World’s Most Lucrative Black Box

    28 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  4. Turn web apps into lightweight native apps, no electron

    27 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  5. Melting with Tenderness: Vladimir Nabokov on “Apostrophes”

    27 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  6. Ask HN: What are your favorite freelance developer websites?

    27 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  7. NYT op-ed claiming scientists underestimated climate change lacks evidence

    27 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  8. Ask HN: For a startup, when should I begin writing tests?

    27 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  9. Gluu vs. Keycloak (2018)

    27 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  10. Mutation testing based on LLVM (2018) [pdf]

    27 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  11. Rather Than Saving Public Transportation, We Handed Millions to Lyft and Uber

    27 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  12. John Gregory Bourke’s “Scatalogic Rites of All Nations” (2017)

    27 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  13. Write Virtual Modular Synth Modules in JavaScript or Lua with VCV Prototype

    27 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  14. Fracking banned in UK as government makes major U-turn

    27 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  15. Ohio school districts sue Facebook for accepting ECOT ad purchases

    27 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  16. D.H. Lawrence's stunning, indefensible essays

    27 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  17. A JSX-based page builder for creating beautiful websites without writing code

    27 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  18. Ask HN: Have We Abandoned Julian Assange?

    27 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  19. ‘Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn

    27 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  20. The Daredevil of Niagara Falls (2011)

    27 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  21. Show HN: Manage Dotfiles with Stow

    27 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  22. Doing: CLI tool for remembering what you were doing and tracking what's done

    27 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  23. To see off piranha this fish has strong armour

    27 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  24. We built network isolation for 1,500 services

    27 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  25. A Pennsylvania County Election Day Nightmare Underscores Voting Machine Concerns

    27 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  26. Apple bans vaping apps from the iOS App Store

    27 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  27. Contributing to Open Source via Video Game

    27 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  28. OpenAI has published the text-generating AI it said was too dangerous to share

    27 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  29. Office Chair Is Hurting You

    27 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  30. Uruguay's detective of despair

    27 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  31. Uncanny Valley

    27 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  32. Is Sending Text Reminders Behavioral Economics?

    27 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  33. Billionaires Benefiting from a Tax Break to Help the Poor, Congress Investigates

    26 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  34. How To Open and Manipulate Large CSV Files On A Mac

    26 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  35. BlueMail Creators to Apple: Let us back in to the Mac app store

    26 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  36. Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids, and Start Raising Kind Ones

    26 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  37. Surface-conduction electron-emitter display

    26 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  38. Talos II Mainboards Now FSF-Certified to Respect Your Freedom

    26 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  39. Popular WordPress plugin tried to spam users' dashboards

    26 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  40. Scientists 3-D Print Skin That Develops Working Blood Vessels

    26 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  41. How to pass “Null” (a real surname) to a SOAP web service?

    26 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  42. On AstriCon 2019 and Sangoma's Stewardship of Asterisk and FreePBX

    26 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  43. The Fake Backlash to Fake Meat

    26 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  44. A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you

    26 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  45. Cops Destroyed This House to Arrest a Shoplifter

    26 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  46. .org domain name registry to be sold to private equity firm [pdf]

    26 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  47. The math of media bosses who told Deadspin to ‘stick to sports’ doesn’t add up

    26 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  48. Ranking of Colleges by ROI

    26 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  49. Playing the Game of Infinite Leverage

    26 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  50. How to get started with advanced Lego building

    26 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  51. Reasons the 9 to 5 Workday is Obsolete

    26 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  52. YC Is the New HBS

    26 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  53. The transit of Mercury starts at 7:35 am ET tomorrow and will last for 5.5 hours

    26 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  54. Show HN: Revolut Emergency – An Electron PC App to Access Your Revolut Account

    26 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  55. Hyrum's Law: An Observation on Software Engineering

    26 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  56. In the Age of AI [video]

    26 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  57. From dial-up to 5G: logging on to the internet

    26 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  58. Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain

    25 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  59. Show HN: Instantly pass your passwords securely

    25 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  60. The great American labor paradox: Plentiful jobs, most of them bad

    25 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  61. Leading with commas – ugly or efficient? An investigation over 320GB of SQL

    25 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  62. Tari labs blockchain tech curriculum

    25 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  63. Record turnout in Hong Kong local elections amid calls for full democracy

    25 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  64. Drones ground water-dropping helicopters at critical moment in Maria fire battle

    25 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  65. The Eighty Five Percent Rule for Optimal Learning

    25 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  66. Show HN: Kubestone – Benchmarking Operator for Kubernetes

    25 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  67. Don DeLillo's literary interpretation of an astronaut’s view of earth (2018)

    25 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  68. The Aaronson-Ambainis Conjecture (2008-2019)

    25 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  69. KonMari method in under 1000 words

    25 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  70. Firefox Send: Send files with end-to-end encryption

    25 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  71. Lyndon Johnson’s Unsung Role in Sending Americans to the Moon

    25 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  72. Dialog 50¢ SoC Targets Disposable Bluetooth Market

    25 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  73. Learn ClojureScript: Functional Programming Concepts

    25 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  74. A Hermes “thermal event” (2003)

    25 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  75. Saudi spies hacked my phone and tried to stop my activism. I won’t stop fighting

    25 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  76. Fed Chair Paul Volcker: ‘We’re in a Hell of a Mess’

    25 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  77. Saudi Aramco IPO Is Announced

    25 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  78. Scientists with Links to China May Be Stealing Biomedical Research, U.S. Says

    25 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  79. Pole suddenly popped up in my local park, anyone know what it is?

    25 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  80. Alexa Voice Service Integration for AWS IoT Core

    25 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  81. An experimental rewrite of a Windows low-level system component in Rust

    25 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  82. How to Upskill Your Team (When You Don’t Have Time)

    25 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  83. On Becoming One (Collective Consciousness and the Fermi Paradox)

    25 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  84. WeWork has been sending noncompete letters to workers it laid off

    25 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  85. When the New York City Subway Became Itself

    25 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  86. Counting Flops and Other CPU Counters in Python

    25 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  87. I turned on every notification for a month

    25 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  88. Lessons from Superhuman: How to build a growth engine without ads or content

    24 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  89. Google Feedburner

    24 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  90. Russia bans smartphones without local software

    24 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  91. Emil Du Bois-Reymond: Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century?

    24 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  92. Memory Palaces: Outsider Artists

    24 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  93. Doom creator John Romero on what's wrong with modern shooter games

    24 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  94. Bauhaus: Last Rites

    24 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  95. Earth just experienced its hottest-ever October

    24 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  96. WeWork May Lay Off Thousands

    24 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  97. Maids for sale: How Silicon Valley enables online slave markets

    24 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  98. Maximizing ‘bang per bit’ to achieve state of the art results

    24 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  99. Ask HN: Is web dev viable today?

    24 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  100. Breakthrough in understanding the chills and thrills of musical rapture (2016)

    24 points • comment • nov 22, 2019