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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. India Bans Public Protests to Quell Rising Anger Against Citizenship Law

    99 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  2. Steve Jobs: Out for Revenge (1989)

    98 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  3. The Qt Marketplace

    98 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  4. The 'folly' of buying a fixer-upper yacht

    98 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  5. Show HN: Timelite, a simple time tracking solution

    98 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  6. Jetstar pilots forgot to lower the landing gear

    98 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  7. Ransomware gangs now outing victim businesses that don't pay

    98 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  8. DrumBot: Real-Time ML Drummer

    98 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  9. Caffeine enhances activity of common antidepressants in forced swim test in mice

    98 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  10. Architect Has Painstakingly Standardized the World's Subway Maps (2014)

    98 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  11. Dynamo vs. Cassandra: Systems Design of NoSQL Databases (2018)

    98 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  12. Inside Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk: Returned Deposits, Battery Fires, Boeing Shakeup

    98 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  13. The Intoxicating History of Gin

    98 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  14. Plundervolt: Software-Based Fault Injection Attacks Against Intel SGX [pdf]

    98 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  15. Flattening Quadratic Béziers

    97 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  16. Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014)

    97 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  17. Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding

    97 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  18. Porkchop plot

    97 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  19. Long S

    97 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  20. Show HN: An experimental distributed SQL database from scratch in Go

    97 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  21. Personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive

    97 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  22. Facebook Pledges $130M to Fund “Supreme Court” for Content

    97 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  23. Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018)

    97 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  24. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)

    97 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  25. Show HN: Flash replacement

    97 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  26. Why we fall for cons

    97 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  27. Startup Growth and Venture Returns

    97 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  28. Teaching College-Level Mathematics in Prisons [pdf]

    97 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  29. Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 Max Crashes

    97 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  30. Bill Lorensen, co-creator of Marching Cubes, has died

    97 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  31. Centrifugal Machine Guns

    96 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  32. Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness

    96 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  33. Farmers Are Using Food Waste to Make Electricity

    96 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  34. About Windy (2018)

    96 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  35. My Semester with the Snowflakes

    96 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  36. Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

    96 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  37. Android’s Commitment to Kotlin

    96 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  38. Long Bets by Confidence Level

    96 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  39. TailScale – Instantly interconnect your devices and services, wherever they are

    96 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  40. Which Areas Will Be Flooded with Homes Once Boomers Start Leaving Them?

    96 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  41. MegaZeux: Game creation system released in 1994 and still being developed today

    95 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  42. LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (1995)

    95 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  43. Hippy: React Native Alternative by Tencent

    95 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  44. Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate

    95 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  45. Scratch that: Cats film to be 'resupplied' with 'improved visuals'

    95 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  46. Veteran executives and financiers helped fuel WeWork’s rise and fall

    95 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  47. Spying tools website taken down after UK raids

    95 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  48. Financial Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning: A Literature Review

    95 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  49. Google Sued Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

    95 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  50. Math Whiz Trades Without Humans

    95 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  51. In New York, Making Ends Meet on a 5-Cent Recycling Deposit

    95 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  52. “My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)

    95 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  53. Show HN: Yazz Pilot – Self Service Apps Without the IT Department

    95 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  54. Rsuite – R development and data science platform

    94 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  55. Book Review: All Therapy Books

    94 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  56. How to Match “A B C” where A+B=C: The Beast Tamed (2018)

    94 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  57. Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (2014)

    94 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  58. Linux doesn't have Photoshop

    94 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  59. The Ecosystem Is Moving [video]

    94 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  60. Webpack killer: a web dev server that lets you import anything

    94 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  61. ‘Spiderman’ Hacker Daniel Kaye Took Down Liberia’s Internet

    94 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  62. Stock Option Pricing Inference

    94 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  63. Twitter kicks off Bluesky: independent decentralized protocol for social media

    94 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  64. More than 80% of total knee replacements can last for 25 years

    94 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  65. Brain-Like electrical signature emerging in a metallic nanowire network

    94 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  66. Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior

    94 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  67. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney changed video game industry

    94 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  68. Show HN: A pure functional programming language targeting decentralized systems

    94 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  69. Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing

    93 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  70. Target=“_blank” – the most underestimated vulnerability ever

    93 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  71. Betelgeuse Fades More

    93 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  72. Vectorized execution brings a 10x performance increase for expression evaluation

    93 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  73. University Issues Passwords by Hand to 38K Students and Staff After Cyber Attack

    93 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  74. Will We Run Out of Helium?

    93 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  75. 7GUIs: A GUI Programming Benchmark (2018)

    93 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  76. How TiKV reads and writes

    93 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  77. For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

    93 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  78. How cloud computing impacts the environment

    93 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  79. The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)

    92 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  80. Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism

    92 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  81. Netflix sends journalists on pricey trips

    92 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  82. Deprecating the GitHub Developer Program

    92 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  83. The origins of GPS, and the pioneers who launched the system (2010)

    92 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  84. It’s crunch time for Getty Images, and for photographers

    92 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  85. Stroom – a scalable data storage, processing and analysis platform

    92 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  86. The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design

    92 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  87. Five cities account for vast majority of growth in U.S. tech jobs: study

    92 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  88. Confessions of a Book Pirate (2010)

    92 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  89. Networking Guides for Linux Sysadmins

    92 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  90. Recursion and Fractals

    92 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  91. AI-powered Lego sorting machine built with Lego bricks

    92 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  92. Moscow Nginx office under police raid

    91 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  93. Eigenmorality (2014)

    91 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  94. FBI Records: The Vault – Nikola Tesla

    91 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  95. The Cannonball Record

    91 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  96. New York Fed Again Upsizes Liquidity Plans for Turn of the Year

    91 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  97. A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people’s CDs, then vanished

    91 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  98. Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever

    91 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  99. Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying

    91 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  100. An Overview of the Monad

    91 points • comment • dec 05, 2019