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Hacker News (2019)

Quants Think Like Amateurs in China’s Wild Stock Market
110 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live (2013)
110 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
SATNet: Bridging deep learning and logical reasoning with differentiable SAT
110 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Appalachian Balds
110 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
What Made Apollo a Success (1971) [pdf]
110 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Something Changed at Tesla
110 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
E Programming Language
110 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Consciousness Doesn’t Depend on Language
110 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Exposing the Wayland lie (2018)
110 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
Forest kindergarten
110 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Checking Email Less Often Leads to More Productive Workdays
110 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
The Financialization of the American Elite
110 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Show HN: Own your Kubernetes: installation, addons, best practices – as code
110 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest
110 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
The AWS EC2 Windows Secret Sauce
110 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Hacking your face to dodge the rise of facial recognition tech
110 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Sprint sues AT&T over its fake 5G branding
110 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
Is Anyone Going to Get Rich Off of Email Newsletters?
110 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
TSMC 5-Nanometer Update
110 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Carbon – Create and share images of your source code
110 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Vandalize Your Car
110 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
Free and open-source tools for analog filmmaking
110 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
110 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (2011)
110 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+
110 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
110 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Sleep trackers can make insomnia worse
110 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
How many keywords I can fit into a single C# expression?
110 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave plans for Amazon rainforest
110 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks (2018)
110 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Social media bots often tweet fake health claims about cannabis: study
110 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
China Experiments with a New Kind of Megalopolis
110 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever
110 points • comment • may 24, 2019
New in Chrome 73
110 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
RaptorCS Power9 Blackbird PC: An expensive mistake
110 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Open Letter to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
110 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Making a text adventure game with GPT2
110 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet
110 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Disney+ fans without answers after thousands hacked
110 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Dropbox CTO Resigns
110 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
To lure young talent, banks mimic tech workspaces
110 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
FE-Schrift
110 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted with NSO Exploit Links (2017)
110 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)
110 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing
110 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Amazon to Uber: From the lens of a software engineer
110 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Stanford Researchers Launch Free TV Service to Improve Live Streaming Using AI
110 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unintended mutations'
110 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
I built a wind map with WebGL (2017)
110 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
How to Fly the B-25 Mitchell Bomber (1944) [video]
110 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
GNU Parallel Cheat Sheet [pdf]
110 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Ireland blocks the world on data privacy
110 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity?
110 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
An emerging black market offers Amazon sellers ways to cheat the marketplace
110 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
The World's First 20-Hour Airline Flight
110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Jeremy, I think you'll wan't this job
110 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Perennial Crops
110 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook
110 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times
110 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
SanDisk 1-terabyte microSD card is now available
110 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Millions of Binaries Later: A Look into Linux Hardening in the Wild
110 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Using the linear distance operator in Postgres 12 to find the closest match
110 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences (1960) [pdf]
110 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
StyleGAN2
110 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
A Simulated Enigma Machine
109 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands the threat of TikTok
109 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware
109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2015)
109 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf]
109 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
House of Representatives Passes Net Neutrality Protections
109 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy
109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Boeing 737 Max Was Plagued with Production Problems, Whistle-Blower Says
109 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Cell and Molecular Biology Animated Textbooks
109 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Farewell, Cortana
109 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
The Feedback Fallacy
109 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
A man who became a hermit at 20
109 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Breaking the physical limits of fonts
109 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Review
109 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Breaking Out of Docker via RunC
109 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure, not mobile phones (2018)
109 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013)
109 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore”
109 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Much fridge food ‘goes there to die’
109 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Australians making music with computer code
109 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]
109 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
OpenBSD system-call-origin verification
109 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Contractor admits planting logic bombs in his software
109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Apollo raises $22M to simplify app development
109 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM [video]
109 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications
109 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent
109 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Brush your teeth – postpone Alzheimer's
109 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Seeing Theory
109 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Understanding Disk Usage in Linux
109 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
PostgreSQL DBaaS vendor comparison and calculator
109 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Pointers in Python
109 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
How to Turn Physics into an Optimization Problem
109 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Kyoto Tycoon in 2019
109 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
Chinese tech firms are throwing out applicants over the age of 30
109 points • comment • apr 09, 2019