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Hacker News (2019)

Launch HN: Travelchime (YC W19) – Doc for travel planning with friends
101 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones
101 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Why is chicken so cheap? [video]
101 points • comment • may 27, 2019
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Principle of Least Action (1963)
101 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
Stripe subsidiary plans to open office in Baltimore
101 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (2016)
101 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Counterintuitive physics property found to be widespread in living organisms
101 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
The Survival of Iggy Pop
101 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Leap Spins out of YC
101 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
The Cathedral and the Bizarre
101 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Open-Sourcing Our Reactor Design, and the Future of Transatomic
101 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
The Cybertruck is not brutalist
101 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
John Ioannidis Aims His Bazooka at Nutrition Science (2018)
101 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Behind the Lion Air Crash, a Trail of Decisions Kept Pilots in the Dark
101 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’
101 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
The Vision for Decentralized Web
101 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Tagsistant: A Semantic Filesystem for Linux
101 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Embodied energy of digital technology
101 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
Show HN: Sparkler – A KVM-Based Virtual Machine Manager
101 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
JavaScript Is the CO2 of the Web [audio]
101 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
High-tax states like California and New York make it hard for rich to leave
101 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust?
101 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Mozilla Launches a VPN, Brings Back the Firefox Test Pilot Program
101 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
G20 agrees to push ahead with digital tax
101 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
DevOps Topologies
101 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Breach affecting 1M was caught only after hacker maxed out target’s storage
101 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist
101 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Show HN: Shiny.js simulates reflections on the web for mobile devices
101 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier
100 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
Let's Build a Compiler (1995)
100 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Historical Map of the Cognitive Sciences: An Attempt
100 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Modchips of the State
100 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Mu: Sketching out a minimal system programming language
100 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register (2013)
100 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
The brain may actively forget during REM sleep
100 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
3D engine on MS Excel without VBA (2018) [video]
100 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
Substack
100 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Matrox History: A Computer Graphics Also-Ran’s Second Life
100 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale
100 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
OpenBGPD: The OpenBSD BGP internet routing daemon
100 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Enquire: Everything you wanted to know about your C compiler and machine
100 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics
100 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Flipping your Disk (1981)
100 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
When Algorithms Think You Want to Die
100 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Interactive Lorenz Attractor
100 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
The Doors of Perception (1954) [pdf]
100 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Chernobyl Dice: A quantum random number generator with a Nixie tube display
100 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update
100 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
An on-going conversion of Scoopex's Amiga Hardware coding tutorials into C
100 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Roku is no longer a neutral platform after today’s Roku OS 9.1 update
100 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Wittgenstein’s Legacy: The Principles of the Private Language Arguments (2018)
100 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Ask HN: How do you deal with atomicity in microservice environments?
100 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
The AI Index 2019 Report
100 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Uber is a tinder box
100 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
The Archetypal Resonance of Classic JRPGs
100 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (1994)
100 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism
100 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Helsinki's solution to homelessness
100 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
How to Make Medieval Soap
100 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
If the number of children is not growing, why is the population still increasing
100 points • comment • may 29, 2019
What Is Idempotence?
100 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Lessons from Building Node Apps in Docker
100 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Nonnegative matrix factorization
100 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
Tightening up Privacy in Matrix
100 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Verilator: Fast, Free Verilog HDL Simulator
100 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
1859 Carrington Event
100 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Value Is Dead, Long Live Value
100 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Qualified Small-Business Stock rule helps Silicon Valley workers save millions
100 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness
100 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Immer is a library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++
100 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
July Matched, and Maybe Broke, Record for the Hottest Month Since Analysis Began
100 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
The speed of BGP network propagation
100 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Homomorphic encryption
100 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
The Machine Stops (1909) [pdf]
100 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer
100 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
India’s elephant-friendly tea garden
100 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Electric cars: New vehicles to emit noise to aid safety
100 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
The 'microworkers' making digital life possible
100 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Stun Belts in Court
100 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (2009)
100 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
The silent victims of the US embargo against Iran
100 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
OWASP Cheat Sheet Series
100 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Fuck The Vessel
100 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
Microbots Are on Their Way
100 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Al-Maʿarri
100 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
A Navy veteran refused to accept a ‘no’ to his battery invention
100 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
Expansion of cytotoxic CD4 T cells in supercentenarians
100 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more
100 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
MIT Fellow Says Facebook ‘Lifted’ His Ideas for Libra Cryptocurrency
100 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Centaur Unveils Its New Server-Class x86 Core
100 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Periodic Planar Three-Body Orbits
100 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Vietnam’s Richest Man Bets $2B to Sell Cars to Americans
100 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
The Books That Wouldn’t Die
100 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Less than 6 hours of sleep a night linked to increased risk of early death
100 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
How to Make $80k per Month on the Apple App Store (2017)
100 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Mc.js: A Minecraft clone built entirely with JavaScript
100 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
100 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Mozart.js
100 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill
100 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Difference Between Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Disaster Recovery (2014)
100 points • comment • nov 14, 2019