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Hacker News (2019)

New LTE vulnerabilities discovered by KAIST [pdf]
109 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
A military historian’s analysis of Spartan myth
109 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Tell HN: Stripe brought my business to a dead stop
109 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Ask HN: Which charities do you donate to?
109 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Project Mu – A modular UEFI environment for building modern devices
109 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being actively exploited
109 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Pascal Compiler for the C64: Introducing Turbo Rascal SE
109 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Langton's Ant
109 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Amazon’s Ring Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in Its Advertisements
109 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Wac: Minimal WebAssembly interpreter written in C
109 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Porting a JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust (Part 1)
109 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games
109 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
For Sale: A Massive, Obsessive and Probably Obsolete VHS Boxing Archive
109 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon
109 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
Versioning Your Home Directory
109 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Chinese tech firms are throwing out applicants over the age of 30
109 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
The Next Wave of ‘Unicorn’ Startups
109 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Infosys shares drop to 10-month low as whistle-blowers target CEO
109 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Understanding STIR/SHAKEN – New Anti-Robocalling Protocol
109 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Hospital superbugs are evolving to survive hand sanitizers (2018)
109 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Boeing 737 Max Was Plagued with Production Problems, Whistle-Blower Says
109 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748)
109 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
A Codebase Is an Organism (2014)
109 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Show HN: Generate a fake app to replace any addictive app
109 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
China has a new casino: the Philippines
109 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Michael Crichton: Why Speculate? (2005)
109 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Create-React-App 3.3
109 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
How to Steal a Billion
109 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Breaking the physical limits of fonts
109 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Instagram to test hiding like counts in the US
109 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
60 days in jail for not paying a $2.75 subway fare costs the city $22,000
109 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Contractor admits planting logic bombs in his software
109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
GoodbyeDPI – Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker / Circumvention Utility
109 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Face recognition in European police forces
109 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
A Simulated Enigma Machine
109 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
SweRV – An Annotated Deep Dive of the SweRV RISC-V Core
109 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Show HN: Dimage.js – Never settle for two dimensions
109 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966)
109 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear
109 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Gum bacteria implicated in Alzheimer's and other diseases
109 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
OpenBSD system-call-origin verification
109 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Brush your teeth – postpone Alzheimer's
109 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32
109 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Prolog's Death (2010)
109 points • comment • may 10, 2019
The Decentralized Web Primer (2017)
109 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Pointers in Python
109 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands the threat of TikTok
109 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Show HN: Linjat, a small puzzle game
109 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
PracticeJS – Coding exercises in a mobile friendly web app
109 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Linux's Vmalloc Seeing “Large Performance Benefits” with 5.2 Kernel Changes
109 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Diving into Technical SEO Using Cloudflare Workers
109 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Cell and Molecular Biology Animated Textbooks
109 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Beyond L2 Loss – How We Experiment with Loss Functions
109 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Police stop people for covering their faces from facial recognition camera
109 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
A man who became a hermit at 20
109 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy
109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
DeepPCB: Pure AI-Powered, Cloud-Native Printed Circuit Board Routing
109 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM [video]
109 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Show HN: My interview with patio11 and other profitable side project hackers
109 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
How to write a rootkit without really trying
109 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
The LaTeX fetish (2016)
109 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Apollo raises $22M to simplify app development
109 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware
109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Student hacks high school software and finds “SQL injections galore”
109 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Australians making music with computer code
109 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Concept design for a post-LHC future circular collider at CERN
109 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Fixed Layout Prototyping – Hexagonal Electronics Breadboard
109 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Amazon Web Services CEO: We’re a $30b revenue business in the ‘early stages’
109 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Much fridge food ‘goes there to die’
109 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by a website
108 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Launch HN: DevFlight (YC W19) – Helping open-source maintainers make money
108 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
'American Soil' Is Increasingly Foreign Owned
108 points • comment • may 27, 2019
I Used to Be a Human Being (2016)
108 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (1960)
108 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
A New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
108 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders
108 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Lesson Learned from Queries over 1.3T Rows of Data
108 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
HyperCard Users Guide (1987) [pdf]
108 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing mostly on smartphones
108 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Twenty-one cities in India will run out of groundwater by 2020
108 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python
108 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
Sample Efficient Evolutionary Algorithm for Analog Circuit Design
108 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture
108 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
My Year in Review: 2019
108 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds on Itself
108 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
I’ve Climbed Everest 21 Times. It’s Not the Mountain It Used to Be
108 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
A photo history of Frog, the company that designed the original Mac
108 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
Ask HN: Who Here Is Working to Fix the Environment?
108 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Computer Stupidities (2013)
108 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Building a State of the Art Bacterial Classifier with Fast.ai and Paperspace
108 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Mass grave in Poland embodies the violent beginning of the Bronze Age
108 points • comment • may 15, 2019
The Milky Way Has Giant Bubbles at Its Center
108 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Former Google Design Ethicist: Big Tech in Schools Is Race to the Bottom (2018)
108 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
Deep learning may need a new programming language
108 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
Flight stats, entertainment, and trying to crack Widevine
108 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
In glyphosate review, WHO agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings (2017)
108 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Why there isn’t an Apache Arrow article in Wikipedia
108 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
New aircraft rises 'like a balloon'
108 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Detailed 3D map of Milky Way shows 'warped' shape
108 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
CSS Grid the Right Way
108 points • comment • feb 17, 2019