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Hacker News (2019)

Solving differential equations on a 6502 with Woz's floating point code
111 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Picotorrent: a tiny, hackable BitTorrent client
111 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Feds Demand Apple and Google Hand over Names of 10k Users of a Gun Scope App
111 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Cure53 Audit of Chinese ‘Police App’
111 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
It's Time for Action on Data Privacy
111 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Raising a Ladder to the Moon, Under the Sea
111 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]
111 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Netherlands makes trains free on national book day for those who show a book
111 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry
111 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Facebook Team Lands at Delhi Man's House for ID Verification over Political Post
111 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Former Mayor of Munich Explains How Microsoft Undermined Linux
111 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Niantic's apps collect a surprising amount of data about where users go
111 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Highlights from Facebook’s Libra Senate hearing
111 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Joe Armstrong on Elixir (2018)
111 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
Talkshow – Team videos in non-real-time
111 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Show HN: Shellvault – Cloud SSH terminal accessible from any browser
111 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
Building China: Rise of the Superblock
111 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
I thought I understood recursion
111 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
A plan to mine the world’s research papers
111 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
911 calls from Amazon warehouses show emotional distress and suicide threats
111 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
A plan to change how Harvard teaches economics
111 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
How to Understand Systems
111 points • comment • may 05, 2019
Marie Kondo betrays her whole premise by launching e-commerce store full of junk
111 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Back in the Day: Unix, Minix and Linux
111 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
China backtracked on almost all aspects of U.S. trade deal – sources
111 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub
111 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Simple RPC framework in 300 lines of Go
111 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Ilya Starinov – The godfather of modern insurgent IED warfare
111 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
PANE: Programming with visible data
111 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (2017)
111 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
4X
111 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Responsibly Fly a Drone
111 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
Brex wants to replace startup bank accounts with Brex Cash
111 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
JSON on the Command Line with Jq
111 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Spidermon: Scrapinghub’s Now Open Sourced Spider Monitoring Library
111 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Templates for Cutting Gears from Wood
111 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Pac-Man: How We Played the Game
111 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Cloudflare S-1/Amendment
111 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
A completely rebuilt, digitally-enabled Polaroid SX-70 camera
111 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Put 1.7MB onto 1.44MB Floppies (1999)
111 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
Counting solar panels in the U.S. with machine learning and satellite images
111 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
Quark – A software sketchbook for your projects
111 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model
111 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
111 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Olivia: An open source chatbot build with a neural network in Go
111 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Giant tortoises show surprising cognitive powers
111 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
111 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
How we achieve growth by ignoring conventional startup advice
110 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Amazon to Uber: From the lens of a software engineer
110 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Exclusive Design
110 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Is Elon Musk trying to commit ‘suicide by SEC’ by taunting the agency?
110 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
FE-Schrift
110 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Interior Mapping: rendering real rooms without geometry (2018)
110 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Canary analysis: Lessons learned and best practices from Google and Waze
110 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Jeremy, I think you'll wan't this job
110 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
The World's First 20-Hour Airline Flight
110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Ask HN: Coping when your client is an asshole?
110 points • comment • may 28, 2019
The CADR Microprocessor
110 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
SATNet: Bridging deep learning and logical reasoning with differentiable SAT
110 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
China Experiments with a New Kind of Megalopolis
110 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Using the linear distance operator in Postgres 12 to find the closest match
110 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times
110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
E Programming Language
110 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Mobile Jazz Company Handbook [pdf]
110 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Quants Think Like Amateurs in China’s Wild Stock Market
110 points • comment • may 16, 2019
A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (2017)
110 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Robots to Cut 200k U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says
110 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
U.K. Lawmakers accuse Facebook's CEO of leadership failure
110 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust
110 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)
110 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf]
110 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Show HN: CalmJobs.io – Work with companies who values work-life balance
110 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Bottle: A Bitcoin SV Browser
110 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
Catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator
110 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever
110 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Show HN: PyCParser, C parser and interpreter in Python
110 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Please think architecture (2007)
110 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Gum disease–causing bacteria could spur Alzheimer’s
110 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
A wander through a weird landscape to the heart of compilation [pdf]
110 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity?
110 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
Mysterious Laser Turret Appears on US Navy Destroyer USS Dewey
110 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
How annoying is too annoying?
110 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Divers Find Remains of Ancient Temple in Sunken Egyptian City
110 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
JIT and Ruby's MJIT
110 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
I started an online subscription business from Malaysia
110 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
RaptorCS Power9 Blackbird PC: An expensive mistake
110 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Checking Email Less Often Leads to More Productive Workdays
110 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
Artificial leaf produces first drugs using sunlight
110 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
FCC approves T-Mobile and Sprint merger
110 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
A DNS hijacking wave is targeting companies at an almost unprecedented scale
110 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet
110 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Show HN: Interactive visual solver for the traveling salesman problem
110 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR
110 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
Why Haven't Voters Been Buying the Case for Increasing Housing Supply?
110 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Alchemist – A non-deterministic programming language based on chemical reactions
110 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
TSMC 5-Nanometer Update
110 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds
110 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World (2014)
110 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
Ask HN: Best language to share code between an Android and iOS app?
110 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
What Made Apollo a Success (1971) [pdf]
110 points • comment • mar 21, 2019