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Hacker News (2019)

Stalin's Rope Roads (2013)
98 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep? (2014)
98 points • comment • may 04, 2019
Jetstar pilots forgot to lower the landing gear
98 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Building a Web-Based Motion Graphics Editor
98 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
The land that no country wants (2016)
98 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Plundervolt: Software-Based Fault Injection Attacks Against Intel SGX [pdf]
98 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Building Spotify’s New Web Player
98 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
India’s Restaurants Rebel Against Food Delivery Apps
98 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Lapis Lazuli: A Blue More Precious Than Gold
98 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
The Matrix Code Came from Sushi Recipes
98 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
New experimental drug rapidly repairs age-related memory loss and improves mood
98 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Building better software with better tools: sanitizers vs. Valgrind
98 points • comment • may 17, 2019
The 'folly' of buying a fixer-upper yacht
98 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Ransomware gangs now outing victim businesses that don't pay
98 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
The Perfect French Baguette
98 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
It can make more sense to build new renewable capacity than run old coal plants
98 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Mergeable replicated data types – Part I
98 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Google Gmail purchase history can't be deleted
98 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Capitalism and Inequality
98 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Mosuo Women
98 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Dave Cutler’s five-decade-long quest for quality (2016)
98 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Ops School Curriculum (2012)
98 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Information Security Mental Models
98 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Thoughts on Conway's Law and the Software Stack
98 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
What Is Amazon?
98 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Show HN: A little web app for playing around with colors
98 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
A man who linked CO2 to climate change in 1895
98 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Show HN: Timelite, a simple time tracking solution
98 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Teenagers campaigning for Mike Gravel on Twitter
98 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Translating the Cyberpunk Future
98 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
Uber And Lyft take more from drivers than they say: survey
98 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
CRFS: Container Registry Filesystem
98 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
The AI That's Too Dangerous to Release
98 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Coalfire Comments on Penetration Tests for Iowa Judicial Branch
98 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Show HN: IDE for Learning RISC-V
98 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016)
98 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Insulin Wars: How insurance companies farm out dirty work to doctors patients
98 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Architect Has Painstakingly Standardized the World's Subway Maps (2014)
98 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Indiana Bell moved a functioning building in 1930
98 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can control our lives
98 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Caffeine enhances activity of common antidepressants in forced swim test in mice
98 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Ask HN: How to deal with internet addiction?
98 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
ICFP Programming Contest 2019
98 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Servants Without Masters
98 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
MegaBots calls it a day, puts fighting robot up for sale on eBay
98 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Remembering Chris Kraft
98 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Dynamo vs. Cassandra: Systems Design of NoSQL Databases (2018)
98 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
California Has a Housing Crisis. The Answer Is More Housing
98 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Show HN: fast visual-inertial odometry/SLAM for AR/VR/Robotics
98 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Nature invented play long before it invented us
98 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Solid: Data ownership as well as improved privacy (2017)
98 points • comment • may 26, 2019
QuaterNet: A Quaternion-Based Recurrent Model for Human Motion
98 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
YouTube autoplay gave a lost Japanese classic new life (2017)
98 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Being collateral damage in the culture wars of the West
98 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
x86 API Hooking Demystified (2012)
98 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Linux Terminal Goods
98 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Compiler basics (5): LLVM system calls
98 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Can Life Exist in 2 and 1 Dimensions?
98 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
I Win My European Unemployment Bet
98 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Mapping Ancient Rome
98 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Date labels on food packaging sow consumer confusion and waste
98 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Show HN: LessPhone – A minimal Android launcher to reduce phone use
98 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
South African teens fly from Cape to Cairo in plane they assembled from kit
98 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Swift for Tensorflow 0.3.1
98 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Games Economists Play
98 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Lupin III Manga author Monkey Punch passes away at 81
98 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Inside Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk: Returned Deposits, Battery Fires, Boeing Shakeup
98 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable
98 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Bye lands orders for nearly 300 electric planes
98 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Math versus Dirty Data
98 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Boeing May Halt 737 Max Production
98 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Why Is PayPal So Successful Yet They Treat Merchants Like Crap?
98 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
A Tiny Austrian Town Has the Coolest Bus Shelters (2014)
98 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service
98 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Vulcanizer: A Library for Operating Elasticsearch
98 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
The Intoxicating History of Gin
98 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities
98 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Free Solo and Economic Growth
98 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Derek Sivers podcast
98 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
When Does Intelligence Peak?
98 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
98 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Make the Leap from JavaScript to PureScript
97 points • comment • may 22, 2019
A small town, a chemical plant and the residents' desperate fight for clear air
97 points • comment • may 06, 2019
AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores
97 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
MakerLisp Machine
97 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
WAL-G – fast archival and restoration for PostgreSQL
97 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Software design is also about relationships
97 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Guitar Machine
97 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change
97 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
A Raspberry Pi Grimoire For The Command Line Wizard
97 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
The Buffalo Public Library in 1983 (1883)
97 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
YouTube’s LGBTQ Problem Is a Business-Model Problem
97 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Show HN: Vue-file-agent – Uploader with multi-file, preview, progress support
97 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Down the Rabbit Hole – Part I: A Journey into the UEFI Land
97 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Supreme Court rules that courts cannot invalidate partisan gerrymandering [pdf]
97 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
Snapchat weighs what was once unthinkable: permanent snaps
97 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like
97 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)
97 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Show HN: Lannister – open-source wealth manager app
97 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Porkchop plot
97 points • comment • dec 27, 2019