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Hacker News (2019)

High-performance, exactly-once, failure-oblivious distributed programming (2018)
127 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Wells Fargo Closed Their Accounts, but the Fees Continued to Mount
127 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
Tilton
127 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Nadella: Microsoft will sell war tech to democracies to “protect freedoms”
127 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Bar Chart Race, Explained
127 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Thundering Herds and Promises
127 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Better password protections in Chrome
127 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
The Cherokee want a representative in Congress, taking up a 200-year-old promise
127 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Banks Look Safer with Deposits
127 points • comment • may 06, 2019
American Hackers Helped UAE Spy on Al Jazeera Chairman, BBC Host
127 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Build OpenJDK for a Nice Speedup
127 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Illumos is a Unix operating system which provides next-generation features
127 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
ReactOS 0.4.12
127 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Battle Chess
127 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs
127 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Adversarial interoperability: reviving an old weapon to slay today's monopolies
127 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links
127 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Responsible JavaScript: Part I
127 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Delta Chat
127 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Only when Mats was dead did his parents understand the value of his game
127 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
A Beach Nobody Can Touch
127 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into laptops by hiding it in the BIOS (2015)
127 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Virtually Unlimited Memory: Escaping the Chrome Sandbox
127 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers
127 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Airlander 10: World's longest aircraft gets full-production go-ahead
127 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
On the Utility of Phoenix LiveView
127 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (1982)
127 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Milton’s notes on Shakespeare appear to have been found
127 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
US newspapers run more photos of school shooting suspects than victims (2018)
127 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
The rise and fall of the company behind ‘Reader Rabbit’ and other games (2018)
127 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Modern Robotics
127 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Let the callers of your API control allocations
127 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
Facebook and Google Algorithms Are Secret, but Australia Plans to Change That
127 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Show HN: A time tracker that asks you every 10 min what you're doing
127 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Launch HN: Stacks (YC S14) – The first SEC-qualified crypto token offering
127 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Osquery: SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics
127 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year
127 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Japanese ink supplier Seiko Advance produces colors for Apple’s iPhones
127 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated
127 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Hedge funds listened to Bank of England briefings a few seconds earlier
127 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Japanese KitKats Are Replacing Plastic Packaging with Origami Paper
127 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Could wooden building be a solution to climate change?
127 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords
127 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Kofola, the Cold War Drink of Czechoslovakia
127 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Docli – A declarative language for command-line interfaces in Go
127 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Show HN: ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainfuck Virtual Machine
127 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
A fake town on Reddit where everybody knows your name
127 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
PayPal Alternatives for Startups
127 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist
127 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Swc – Fast JavaScript to JavaScript compiler
127 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
Sony to slash smartphone workforce
127 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
Show HN: Nanosecond C message logger
127 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Open Source Radio Telescope [pdf]
127 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using It to Arrest People
127 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
A 50-year-old design came back to haunt Boeing with its troubled 737 Max jet
127 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Government Malware
127 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
127 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Ask HN: How prevalent is non-cookie-based web tracking today?
127 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (2017)
127 points • comment • may 05, 2019
Hong Kong mothers march in support of anti-extradition students
127 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering
127 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Effect of High-Dose Vitamin D on Volumetric Bone Density and Bone Strength
127 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
GNU Octave: A high-level interactive language for numerical computations [pdf]
127 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
Opioids and the Labor Market (2018)
127 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
U.S. Cities Strain to Fight Hackers
127 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Samurai Helmets
127 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it back
127 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
127 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
IMO Grand Challenge
127 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Bitcoin's First $1k Weekend Since 2017 Marks Nine-Month High
127 points • comment • may 12, 2019
On-Demand Startups Are Hemorrhaging Tens of Billions a Year
127 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on board
127 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Pete's QBASIC / QuickBasic Site
127 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Ways to break your systems code using volatile (2010)
127 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake
127 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
127 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
Don’t Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds
127 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Sentient: Classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence
127 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Cisco devices must regenerate self-signed certificates before 2020
127 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Attunity Data Leak: Vendor for half the Fortune 100 exposed terabyte of backups
127 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
The Factorization of RSA-240
127 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
The most important software dev skills aren’t technical
127 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Netflix and FreeBSD: Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video [pdf]
127 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
Kern Microtechnik: Accurate CNC Machines [video]
127 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
127 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Spectrum – Image transcoding library for Android or iOS
127 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool
127 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems
127 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
A plan to phase out fossil fuel production in the US
127 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Microsoft Partner Network changes spark uproar
127 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure
127 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Ask HN: Fastest way to get started with freelancing?
127 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
127 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs
126 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Scripting in Common Lisp
126 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Make CPython segfault in 5 lines of code
126 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Tracking down the true origin of a font used in many games and shareware titles
126 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Lock-free multithreading with atomic operations
126 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
SoftBank Seeking to Take Control of WeWork Through Financing Package
126 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Show HN: Pi4 dual display/4K and HEVC/H265 support
126 points • comment • sep 30, 2019