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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Indonesian cave paintings show the dawn of imaginative art and spiritual belief

    13 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  2. See How the World’s Most Polluted Air Compares with Your City’s

    13 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  3. First chip-to-chip quantum teleportation using silicon photonic chip fabrication

    13 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  4. Can Crops’ Wild Relatives Save Troubled Agriculture?

    13 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  5. Encoding integers in the EMV protocol (2010)

    13 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  6. My Worst First Dates on Elon Musk’s Mars Colony

    13 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  7. Gazing into crystal balls to advance understanding of crystal formation

    13 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  8. Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting)

    13 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  9. California's new employment law boomerangs and starts to crush freelancers

    13 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  10. Ten Years of Tech Writing

    13 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  11. Show HN: Lightweight Article Text Extractor

    13 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  12. A genetic algorithm Twitter art bot in Clojure

    13 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  13. According to the TÜV the Cybertruck won't be legal to drive in Europe

    13 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  14. Show HN: I coded the world's most popular meditation program into a web app

    13 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  15. 'Hijacked' Bank of England audio sold to hedge funds seconds ahead of broadcast

    13 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  16. Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter’s Wolf: How the Elements Were Named

    13 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  17. Microsoft fairly and squarely beat Amazon in $10B Pentagon cloud contract

    13 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  18. Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiry

    13 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  19. Cigarette Stories

    13 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  20. Allen Holub: 160-some programming rules of thumb

    13 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  21. Earth Temperature Timeline

    13 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  22. The Thermodynamics Behind the Mac Pro

    13 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  23. The One-Traffic-Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S.

    13 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  24. Replay System (Pentium 4)

    13 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  25. Show HN: KSOPS – A Flexible Kustomize Plugin for SOPS Encrypted Resources

    13 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  26. Availability and Availability (2018)

    13 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  27. Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene into a Monkey

    13 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  28. Birth Certificate Data Laid Bare on the Web in Multiple States

    13 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  29. George Orwell on Writing and the 4 Questions Great Writers Must Ask Themselves

    13 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  30. Login.gov neutered the security of 2FA

    13 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  31. New technique increases 3-D printing speed by 1k to 10k times

    13 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  32. Align Engineering Metrics with Business KPIs

    13 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  33. Opinion: The Mac Pro isn’t overpriced, it offers something nothing else does

    13 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  34. Show HN: NativeConnect for Mac – Desktop Client for App Store Connect

    13 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  35. Paul Graham: don’t hire anyone with children

    13 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  36. Vim: You don't need NERDtree or (maybe) netrw

    13 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  37. How to Prolong Lithium-Based Batteries

    13 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  38. Huawei Strikes German 5G Deal Despite Political Pushback

    13 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  39. Donald Knuth Reflects on 50 Years of ‘The Art of Computer Programming’

    13 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  40. How the UK's Home Office reduced its cloud costs by 40%

    13 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  41. DHH about startups “changing the world” and workaholics

    13 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  42. Muslims to lose property for opposing Narendra Modi’s new Indian citizenship law

    13 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  43. Walter Benjamin's Last Work

    13 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  44. World’s First Village of Affordable 3D-Printed Homes in Mexico

    13 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  45. A timeless Bootstrap theme built for the modern web

    13 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  46. When will the Arctic see its first ice free summer?

    13 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  47. I drafted the definition of antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it

    13 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  48. Facebook's Head of AI Says the Field Will Soon ‘Hit the Wall’

    13 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  49. One-day deliveries are breaking our cities

    13 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  50. Fix earth's climate crisis instead of dreaming of other planets

    13 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  51. The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy

    13 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  52. Not all adblockers are born equal

    13 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  53. Beck Design Rules (2015)

    13 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  54. Atomic-Array Optical Clock with Single-Atom Readout

    13 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  55. Save time by typing less with Vim's global command

    13 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  56. Linux users identify with their OS more often than Mac, Windows users

    13 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  57. ToTok Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool

    13 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  58. Hot desk hell: Staff spend two weeks a year looking for seats in open offices

    13 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  59. Search for an Airbnb apt on desktop, get mobile FB ad for same village and date

    13 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  60. Australia faces rethink: prepares for long-term bushfires and air pollution

    13 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  61. A Prolog Formulation of the Constitution of Japan

    13 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  62. There is no place like Route 301 (2015)

    13 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  63. CO2 Emissions Will Break Another Record in 2019

    13 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  64. HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customers’ private bug reports

    13 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  65. HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customers’ private bug reports

    13 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  66. I replicated an $86M project in 57 lines of code

    13 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  67. Jeff Bezos says big tech employee activists are wrong

    12 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  68. Commonplace books and the illusions of memory

    12 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  69. Discovering a Galaxy with a Telephoto Lens (2016)

    12 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  70. A programming language in ancient Chinese text

    12 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  71. Compiler Auto-Vectorization Using Imitation Learning [pdf]

    12 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  72. Nike’s Fastest Shoes May Give Runners an Even Bigger Advantage Than We Thought

    12 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  73. Google-Facebook Scammer Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison in $122M Scam

    12 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  74. openresolv – The DNS Management Framework

    12 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  75. Four compulsive advantages of Industry 4.0

    12 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  76. OpenTitan

    12 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  77. Trump Helped Nix Electric Car Tax Measure Sought by Tesla, GM

    12 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  78. Ask HN: Product Manager Training

    12 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  79. Donald Trump is impeached and faces trial in the US Senate

    12 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  80. Supreme Court Won't Hear Case on Ban Against Homeless Sleeping in Public Spaces

    12 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  81. Emotion recognition technology should be banned, says an AI research institute

    12 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  82. Show HN: Be Your Own Password Generator

    12 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  83. I Almost Lost My Career Because I Had the Wrong Passport

    12 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  84. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Unlocking the Sun’s Mysteries

    12 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  85. Whistleblower goes public after documents reveal crackdown on Uighur Muslims

    12 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  86. De-Aging Effect in Movies Without Tracking Dots

    12 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  87. I'm Buddhist and I'm Offended

    12 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  88. Run Caddy on your laptop with inlets

    12 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  89. Plant-based burgers will make men grow boobs, Livestock News reports

    12 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  90. Decentralized social networks sound great. Too bad they'll never work (2017)

    12 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  91. What’s in Store for Kubernetes Operators in 2020?

    12 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  92. How I made $2k in a day pretending to own a valet company

    12 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  93. Web support for Flutter goes beta

    12 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  94. Two Malicious Python Libraries Caught Stealing SSH and GPG Keys

    12 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  95. Ask HN: How to retrain tongue/mouth muscles for foreign language pronunciation?

    12 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  96. Instagram hides false content behind warnings, except for politicians

    12 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  97. Gurgel Itaipu ( 🇧🇷 1975) & Tesla Cybertruck ( 🇺🇸 2019)

    12 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  98. UK comms regulator Ofcom proposes locked-handset ban

    12 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  99. Tip of the Iceberg

    12 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  100. Updated images of Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4

    12 points • comment • dec 10, 2019