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Hacker News (2019)

Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019
129 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Lumotive Says It Has a Practical Solid-State Lidar
129 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019
129 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
The Norwegian art of the packed lunch
129 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail
129 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Refurbishing the Rancilio Silvia Espresso Machine
128 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
How We Manage a Million Push Notifications an Hour
128 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
Scientists have created a living organism whose DNA is human-made
128 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar Removed from Facebook
128 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable
128 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Min Chiu Li
128 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Firefox Beta for Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Now Available
128 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
European universities dismal at reporting results of clinical trials
128 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Show HN: Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
128 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Arabic and Islamic Themes in Frank Herbert's “Dune” (2004-2017)
128 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
U.S. Now Says All Online Gambling Illegal, Not Just Sports Bets
128 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
NASA’s Lunar Space Station Is a Great/Terrible Idea
128 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike
128 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Building a Passive IMSI Catcher
128 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
When zebra mussels colonized Lake Erie, it began to recover
128 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
YouTube Regrets
128 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Clever Functional Design
128 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall
128 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf]
128 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
The New York Times sells premium ads based on how an article makes you feel
128 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video]
128 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Goodbye Aron Eisenberg:( — aka Nog (DS9)
128 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
“Problems” with git format-patch
128 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
World's largest bee ‘rediscovered’ after 38 years
128 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
The front end of an example full-stack app built using Vue and Node
128 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Rust async-await status report 2
128 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
ProtonMail is dropping support for Internet Explorer 11
128 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Brain Drain Across the United States
128 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Yoda conditions
128 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
In a Hot Labor Market, Some Employees Are 'Ghosting' Bad Bosses
128 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
Launch HN: Sparkswap (YC S18) – Buy Bitcoin Instantly over the Lightning Network
128 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Nothing Fails Like Success
128 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Siri, Privacy, and Trust
128 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
Seven Insights into Queueing Theory [pdf]
128 points • comment • jun 29, 2019
Cockroaches becoming resistant to most chemical insecticides
128 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Exposure to Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Increases Risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
128 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Updates to Works with Nest
128 points • comment • may 19, 2019
Blocking website ads with a hosts file
128 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Ask HN: What's it like to work in the same company for decades?
128 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Is Crispr the Next Antibiotic?
128 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effect
128 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
TeXmacs 1.99.1
128 points • comment • jun 29, 2019
The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (2009) [pdf]
128 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
KernType – A Kerning Game
128 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
I’m on Medicare, but I still got stuck with a $25k hospital bill
128 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Cloudflare Registrar
128 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes
128 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Air Canada agents reveal overselling practices
128 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Architecting UIs for Change
128 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
U.S.-Thai pair facing death for 'sea home' should fight charge, Thailand says
128 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
Cutter: Open-source GUI disassembler, with Python plugins
128 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Powering a Mainframe
128 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Taleb is wrong about IQ
128 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking information
128 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Shenanigans With Hash Tables
128 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Could Get Millions to Turn Factory into Condos, Is Not Selling
128 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
That photo of Colossus
128 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas
128 points • comment • may 15, 2019
The Birth of Standard Error (2013)
128 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Interview with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard
128 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Effects of Vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty Acid on Biomarkers of Inflammation
128 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Living Alone Can Be Deadly
128 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
PDP-1 FPGA Implementation in Verilog, with CRT, Teletype and Console
128 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
Reducing pollution from boats by switching to electric motors
128 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
GPS Time Rollover Failures Keep Happening, But They’re Almost Done
128 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
Amazon, Walmart, Ikea targeted in University of California light bulb lawsuits
128 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down
128 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Remotely compromise devices by using bugs in Marvell Avastar Wi-Fi
128 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
Sensitivity Conjecture Resolved
128 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Merck’s NotPetya attack: Was it an act of war?
128 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Did Sam Altman make YC better or worse?
128 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in Public Spaces
128 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’
128 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
A person has died from a vaping-related condition
128 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
The Neko Virtual Machine
128 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium
128 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
5G: if you build it, we will fill it
128 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Ukrainian Billionaires Allegedly Laundered Money in the US
128 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming
128 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Principles of Chaos Engineering (2018)
128 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams
128 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
French high court rules that Steam can’t ban users from reselling digital games
128 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Far Exceeding Apple
128 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon Neighbors
128 points • comment • may 08, 2019
‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have Yet to Arrive
128 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Oracle's Newest Audit Tactic: Focusing on Java
128 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
An Orbit Map of the Solar System
128 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Understanding Convolutions (2014)
128 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
PayPal Alternatives for Startups
127 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
500M-year-old worm 'superhighway' discovered in Canada
127 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
Battle Chess
127 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords
127 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
High-performance, exactly-once, failure-oblivious distributed programming (2018)
127 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Fed Chair Jerome Powell Has ‘Serious Concerns’ with Facebook Libra Proposal
127 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems
127 points • comment • jun 30, 2019