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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Faxing is growing in popularity

    94 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  2. The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2015)

    94 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  3. How I automated my Instagram account using Machine Learning and Python

    94 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  4. Dagen H: the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right (2018)

    94 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  5. Rules for a Better Conference Name Badge (2017)

    94 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  6. Apple Plans End of iTunes

    94 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  7. Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”

    94 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  8. Obfuscated JavaScript, scam emails, and American Express

    94 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  9. A deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery

    94 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  10. Democrats Unveil New Bill to Fully Restore Net Neutrality

    94 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  11. A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer

    94 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  12. Meta-learning neural Bloom filters

    94 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  13. Alert issued for stolen car with nuclear substance in Chile

    94 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  14. Wavelets (1994) [pdf]

    94 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  15. The coming automation of propaganda

    94 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  16. Piano Tuning

    94 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  17. An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

    94 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  18. Hugo and IPFS: how this blog works (and scales to serve 5k% spikes instantly)

    94 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  19. The lunar laser ranging experiment is still going 50 years later

    94 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  20. Rsuite – R development and data science platform

    94 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  21. What Is the Human Microbiome, Exactly?

    94 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  22. The ABCs of Jacobin

    94 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  23. Woman Finds Yellow Diamond While Watching YouTube Video on How to Find Diamonds

    94 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  24. World on Fire: The Oral History of Fallout and Fallout 2

    94 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  25. How Banksy Authenticates His Work

    94 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  26. HamWAN: A modern, multi-megabit, IP-based, digital network for amateur radio use

    93 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  27. Microsoft Edge preview builds are ready to try

    93 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  28. When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

    93 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  29. Evolving Lindenmayer Systems

    93 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  30. 7GUIs: A GUI Programming Benchmark (2018)

    93 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  31. Target=“_blank” – the most underestimated vulnerability ever

    93 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  32. Icecast: Open Source multimedia streaming

    93 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  33. Animal movies promote awareness, not harm, say researchers

    93 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  34. Modern C++ for C Programmers

    93 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  35. Singapore Weighs Fate of Its Brutalist Buildings

    93 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  36. Building a Parser

    93 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  37. WTF Happened in 1971?

    93 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  38. Drinking Water Is Staying in Pipes Longer

    93 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  39. Heroes and Juniors: Increasing Engineering Team Velocity

    93 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  40. Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro

    93 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  41. Getting Started with APL (2017)

    93 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  42. How to buy clothes that are built to last

    93 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  43. The Lure of Luxury

    93 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  44. Will We Run Out of Helium?

    93 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  45. BMW is accelerating electrification plans

    93 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  46. DNSCrypt – how expired certificates became a thing of the past

    93 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  47. Report reveals play-by-play of first U.S. grid cyberattack

    93 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  48. For two hours, a large chunk of EU mobile traffic was rerouted through China

    93 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  49. Migrants who made China an industrial giant face a grim retirement

    93 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  50. Translating and Interpreting Chinese Philosophy

    93 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  51. Vectorized execution brings a 10x performance increase for expression evaluation

    93 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  52. The Biggest Saudi Oil Field Is Fading Faster Than Anyone Guessed

    93 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  53. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2005)

    93 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  54. The U.S. military, algorithmic warfare, and big tech

    93 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  55. How category theory is applied

    93 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  56. The Future of Food Delivery [slides]

    93 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  57. I tried to hack my insomnia

    93 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  58. Big ol’ ball o’ JavaScript

    93 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  59. University Issues Passwords by Hand to 38K Students and Staff After Cyber Attack

    93 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  60. Swift on Raspberry Pi

    93 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  61. Why Everyone Hates Customer Service

    93 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  62. SCons: A Software Construction Tool

    93 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  63. Google gets OK to siphon water for South Carolina plant

    93 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  64. 2019 Python Developer Survey

    93 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  65. Colin Kroll’s rise and untimely death

    93 points • comment • feb 16, 2019

  66. Hollywood studios say they’re quitting Netflix – the truth is more complicated

    93 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  67. KeePassXC 2.5

    93 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  68. Loops in Python – Comparison and Performance

    93 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  69. How to Be an Epicurean

    93 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  70. Vugu: Experimental library for web UIs written in Go and targeting WebAssembly

    93 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  71. Betelgeuse Fades More

    93 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  72. USB-C Has Finally Come into Its Own

    93 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  73. Trying to Convince People to Change (2016)

    93 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  74. Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks

    93 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  75. GNU Shepherd 0.6.0

    93 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  76. Stop Using Facebook

    93 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  77. Jeffrey Epstein’s Donations Create a Schism at M.I.T.’s Media Lab

    93 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  78. Chinese venture funding in U.S. startups has slowed under new regulatory regime

    93 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  79. Jason Fried: “Venture capital money kills more businesses than it helps”

    93 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  80. Understanding the generalization of ‘lottery tickets’ in neural networks

    93 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  81. For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

    93 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  82. Punishing Blizzard for anti-HK partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests

    93 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  83. The Fed is getting into the Real-Time payments business

    93 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  84. How cloud computing impacts the environment

    93 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  85. More security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms

    93 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  86. A Transparent Display with Per-Pixel Color and Opacity Control

    93 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  87. Bézier Curves and Surfaces: The Utah Teapot

    93 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  88. Article 13 gets legalized because Sweden pushed the wrong voting button

    93 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  89. LHCb experiment discovers a new pentaquark

    93 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  90. Canadian researcher behind one-minute workout has a shorter option

    93 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  91. Why I think Haskell is the best general purpose language as of June 22 2019

    93 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  92. Sneaky deals are keeping cheaper generic medicines off the market

    93 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  93. Quantum Computing, Capabilities and Limits: An Interview with Scott Aaronson

    93 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  94. I Wanted to Type a Number (2016)

    93 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  95. Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex

    93 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  96. How TiKV reads and writes

    93 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  97. Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing

    93 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  98. Apple makes billions from Google Search each year

    93 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  99. Scientists Watch as Heat Moves at the Speed of Sound

    93 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  100. Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets

    93 points • comment • aug 28, 2019