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Hacker News (Nov 2019)

  1. Raspberry Pi 4 WiFi stops working at 2560 x 1440 screen resolution

    293 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  2. Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming

    291 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  3. How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace

    291 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  4. Designing the Facebook Company Brand

    291 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  5. Debuggers Suck

    290 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  6. How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't

    290 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  7. Facebook, Google Fund Nonprofits Shaping Privacy Debate

    290 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  8. Start before you think you’re ready

    289 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  9. The team that powers VLC

    288 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  10. RISC-V OS Using Rust: Memory Management Unit

    288 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  11. Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too

    287 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  12. Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning

    286 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  13. WeWork lays off 2,400 employees

    286 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  14. Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

    285 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  15. Tensorflow 2.0 AMD Support

    285 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  16. Siberia: 18,000-year-old frozen 'dog' stumps scientists

    284 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  17. Facebook and Microsoft Partner on Remote Development

    284 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  18. The Typography of Blade Runner (2016)

    283 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  19. Novelty and Heresy

    283 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  20. Adventures in Netflix

    283 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  21. TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram

    282 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  22. Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong

    282 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  23. Flint’s Children Suffer in Class After Years of Drinking the Lead-Poisoned Water

    281 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  24. Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network

    281 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  25. Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil

    281 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  26. Building a Developer Tools Business

    281 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  27. Renaissance Technologies

    281 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  28. How to Buy Drugs

    280 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  29. Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket

    280 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  30. Sketchviz – Graphviz graphs in a hand-drawn style

    280 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  31. Her Amazon Purchases Are Real, the Reviews Are Fake

    280 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  32. What does the Laplace Transform tell us? A visual explanation [video]

    279 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  33. CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” (2017)

    278 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  34. SpaceX's Starship Mk1 just blew off its bulkhead in a pressurization accident

    278 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  35. Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns

    277 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  36. Private Equity company acquires .org registry

    277 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  37. More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors

    276 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  38. China Tortured Me over Hong Kong, Says Former British Consulate Employee

    276 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  39. PHP 7.4

    276 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  40. Are We Wayland Yet?

    275 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  41. A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin

    275 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  42. Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust

    275 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  43. Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

    275 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  44. The Tech of Pixar: Piper (2017)

    274 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  45. Developing open-source FPGA tools

    273 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  46. C++ 20: The Core Language

    273 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  47. Alan Moore on superhero culture

    273 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  48. The Danger of “Simplicity”

    271 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  49. It took 12 weeks to ship an MVP I thought would take 3

    271 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  50. Designing Windows 95's User Interface (2018)

    271 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  51. Modern Data Practice and the SQL Tradition

    268 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  52. Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4

    268 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  53. Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018)

    266 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  54. Hospitals pledge to fight admin price transparency plan in court

    266 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  55. We tested popular web hosting companies and all were easily hacked

    266 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  56. Our Startup Handbook

    265 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  57. Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast

    263 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  58. L.A. temporarily suspends Uber’s permit to rent out electric scooters and bikes

    261 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  59. Biometric YubiKey

    261 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  60. Curl to shell isn't so bad

    261 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  61. File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: lessons from Ceph evolution

    260 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  62. Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short After Her Baby Died

    260 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  63. Research shows Bitcoin 2017 rally caused by single whale

    259 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  64. Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number

    258 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  65. Immediate brain plasticity after one hour of brain–computer interface

    257 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  66. The LEGO Group acquires BrickLink

    256 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  67. Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals

    256 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  68. Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

    255 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  69. Gnu: Net

    255 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  70. An 84-year-old Japanese app developer

    255 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  71. Google’s fires four organizers after hiring union-busting firm

    254 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  72. The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U.

    254 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  73. Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers

    254 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  74. OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model

    253 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  75. 40% of multinational profits are shifted to tax havens each year

    251 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  76. India's Meghalaya 'living root bridges' get stronger as the trees grow

    251 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  77. Why the Boeing 737 will never take the place of the 757

    250 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  78. React Table is a “headless” UI library

    250 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  79. A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs

    250 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  80. The Mind of a Mathematician

    250 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  81. One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

    250 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  82. Molten Bismuth Shader

    250 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  83. AMD Q4:16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, Threadripper Up To 32-Core 3970X

    249 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  84. Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced

    249 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  85. Ask HN: Burning Out

    248 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  86. Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter

    248 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  87. Uber Loses London License over Concerns for Rider Safety

    247 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  88. Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing

    247 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  89. Ray Tracing a Tiny Procedural Planet [pdf]

    247 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  90. Gource.io – a software version control visualization tool

    246 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  91. BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver

    246 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  92. What is energy, actually? (2011)

    245 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  93. Creating an open-source solution to the headaches of headless browsers

    245 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  94. Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to most of us (2014)

    244 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  95. Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

    243 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  96. Living skin can be 3D-printed, with blood vessels

    243 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  97. Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions

    243 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  98. Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman

    242 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  99. T-Mobile demand Lemonade to stop using the color magenta

    242 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  100. Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes

    242 points • comment • nov 08, 2019