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Hacker News (2019)

Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, scans license plates
120 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Childhood Adversity Linked to Earlier Puberty, Premature Brain Development
120 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
Greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry
120 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Seam Carving
120 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning
119 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Show HN: MNML – 1v1 turn-based strategy game built with Rust and HTML5
119 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
A dissident who beats up Tai Chi masters
119 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Ask HN: Is there a project based book or course on Go for writing web APIs?
119 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?
119 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
Fast Tensors in Clojure – A Sneak Peek
119 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (2007)
119 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Sporth: A small stack-based audio programming language
119 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1992)
119 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Loop, a new zero-waste platform that may change how we shop
119 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős
119 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Why are people modding Thomas the Tank Engine into video games?
119 points • comment • may 12, 2019
University of the Third Age
119 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (2001)
119 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Doctors and decision fatigue
119 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Héctor Garcia-Molina, 1953–2019
119 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting
119 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU: Learning a Regression
119 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 1 (2015)
119 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Command Line Tools to Break Your Dependence on the GUI
119 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Implementing End-To-End Encryption in Matrix Clients
119 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
Detroit’s LED streetlights going dark after a few years
119 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Major Chinese-made web browsers are reportedly blocking 996ICU's GitHub repo
119 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Microsoft’s New MT-DNN Outperforms Google BERT
119 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver
119 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
A Type of Programming
119 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Google to push new ads on its apps
119 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Fiverr IPO’s at $700M valuation
119 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Piet, a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings
119 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
FBI alleges that DC Solar Scammed Berkshire Hathaway for Millions
119 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Uniqlo robots pick up packaged T-shirts and put them in a box
119 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Randy Suess, computer bulletin board inventor, has died
119 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Cartoons in Tektronix Schematics
119 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
Preliminary conclusion MCAS misfired in Ethiopian's 737 max crash
119 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB
119 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request
119 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Ancient Turing Pattern Builds Feathers, Hair and Now Shark Skin
119 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang
119 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language
119 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Byte Magazine – Smalltalk (1981)
119 points • comment • may 26, 2019
I Got More Data, My Model Is More Refined, but My Estimator Is Getting Worse [pdf]
119 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
The young centre of the Earth (2016)
119 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense
119 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
H-1B Employer Data Hub
119 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
GM and Fiat Chrysler Unmasked as Tesla’s Source of Cash
119 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies
119 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Hour Away
119 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
New study provides evidence that we need different drugs for men and women
119 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
The Eternal Mainframe (2013)
119 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Google's Civil War
119 points • comment • may 19, 2019
A Chapter from the FBI's History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln
119 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
The arm’s-length flats of Tokyo [video]
119 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Apple Q2 Results
119 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
119 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Smoke point of cooking oils
119 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
RE:DOM – Tiny turboboosted JavaScript library for creating user interfaces
119 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform source JSON
119 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Privacy Fundamentalism
119 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Fh: File history with ed, diff, awk, sed, and sh
119 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
Firefox enables deprecated Fido U2F Support for Google Accounts
119 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Running VSCode in Docker
119 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
Classic Usborne Computer Science Books/Comics as PDFs
119 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Launch HN: Gold Fig (YC S19) – Version Control for Settings Pages
119 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
119 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Lego logic gates and mechanical computing
119 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Understanding Bloom Filters with Pharo
119 points • comment • may 06, 2019
How Discord Went Mainstream
119 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Show HN: PiShot – capture high-speed strobe images using a Raspberry Pi camera
119 points • comment • may 13, 2019
The New HAProxy Data Plane API: Two Examples of Programmatic Configuration
119 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Google's Page Allegedly Gave Rubin $150M Stock Award
119 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
China sets up Hong Kong crisis center in mainland
119 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Google Street View image of a house predicts car accident risk of its resident
119 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
On Writing a C++ Book
119 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Journalism generated by machine is on the rise
119 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2 (2013)
119 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison
119 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience
119 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Commit Graph Drawing Algorithms
119 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
From the Bootloader to the Kernel
119 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
Traits of Serverless Architecture
119 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Silicon Valley Is Not a Fad
119 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
Fluctuations in silver prices can predict the probability of terrorist attacks?
119 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Understanding Serde
119 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse
119 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
European Court limits right to be forgotten to E.U.
119 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
119 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browser
119 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Chase had ads on 400K sites then on just 5K and got the same results (2017)
119 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon
119 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Keeping Top AI Talent in the United States [pdf]
119 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. couples connect: study
119 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Chinese are big customers for schemes selling foreign residency
119 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
WeWork Needed a Bailout, But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire
119 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Start Binge-Reading
119 points • comment • may 05, 2019
Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize (2016)
119 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Interpreting Go
119 points • comment • oct 12, 2019