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Hacker News (2019)

Is huh a universal word? (2013)
83 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
FermiNet: State of the art approx of molecular orbitals
83 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Good for Google, Bad for America
83 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
Visualizing Complex Functions
83 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Differentiating SSA-Form Programs in Julia (2018) [pdf]
83 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
Webvan
83 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Ubiquiti and GPL: When companies use GPL against each other, our community loses
83 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Pipelining Consensus Writes to Speed Up Distributed SQL Transactions
83 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
Dev Community Inc. Raises $11.5M Series A
83 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Are We Making Much Progress? Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
83 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
A $33K robot barista serves 120 cups of coffee an hour
83 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
The Washington State Measles Outbreak
83 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish
83 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Bitset Decoding on Apple’s A12
83 points • comment • may 15, 2019
We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients Before Profits
83 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator
83 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
ENIAC Operating Manual (1946) [pdf]
83 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Show HN: Hacker News 2018, Year in Review
83 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Dan Ingalls PARC Talk on Sanskrit and OCR (1980) [video]
83 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram
83 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Gerbil – A meta-dialect of Scheme
83 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
A New Algorithm for Controlled Randomness
83 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
Navigation Should Be Boring
83 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Using AR to help build a complex brick wall
83 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Allbirds CEO on Amazon's copycat strategy
83 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Website Database Security (2018)
83 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant infection
83 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Why isn’t CPU time more valuable?
83 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
AllenNLP Interpret: A Framework for Explaining Predictions of NLP Models
83 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
I'm a millionaire who creates zero jobs. Why do I pay less tax than you?
83 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
A Curious Sequence of Prime Numbers
83 points • comment • may 26, 2019
DeepMind Memory Task Suite
83 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Dosing time matters
83 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
The history of “How to Lie with Smoking Statistics” (2014)
83 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
CP/Mish: open-source sort-of-CP/M distribution
83 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Nearly a quarter of U.S. rural hospitals are on the brink of closure – report
83 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Advances in Weather Prediction
83 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
I Built a $7K/Month WordPress Plugin Because I Needed the Product
83 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
RenTech Created the Ultimate, Tax-Free IRA Account for Employees
83 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Sound waves transport a small amount of mass, according to theory
83 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Samba versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects
83 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Show HN: DataTau (HN clone for data science) has been down, so we cloned it
83 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
SmartyKit Apple I replica
83 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Generic Drugs May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As Thought
83 points • comment • may 20, 2019
A once-classified anomaly nearly killed NASA's first moon astronauts
83 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Machine Learning Music Composed by Fragments of 100s of Terabytes of Recordings
83 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Mystery of Chedworth's 1,800-year-old Roman glass shard solved
83 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Elasticsearch for Offensive Security (2018)
83 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Singapore abolishes school exam rankings (2018)
83 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Wake Word: An Algorithmic Nightmare Game
83 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Ask HN: How do you responsibly report security bugs to open-source projects?
83 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
The Rise of the Architectural Cult
83 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
ModelingToolkit.jl, an IR and Compiler for Scientific Models
83 points • comment • may 14, 2019
The Nightjet: A Big Bet on Train Travelers Who Take It Slow
83 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
To stop pancreatic cancer from spreading, cut out the chatter
83 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
RPN calculator implementations in 61 languages
83 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Software U2F Authenticator for macOS
83 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
Graphics That Seem Clear Can Easily Be Misread
83 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
David Warren, inventor of the flight voice and data recorder
83 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Ancient DNA Illuminates Pastoralism’s Rise in Africa
83 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Facebook Reports First Quarter 2019 Results
83 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Le Bolze: Switzerland's Fifth Language
82 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
What can we learn from the matrix.org compromise?
82 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Rust async/await hits stable tomorrow
82 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Launch HN: Shift Health (YC S19) – Understand Your Healthcare Costs Pre-Visit
82 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Swift Server Work Group Annual Update
82 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
A Facebook request: Write a code of tech ethics
82 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Unveiling Dark
82 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
An Unnamed Source Who Shouldn’t Be Anonymous
82 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
82 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Show HN: Squirrel Curve Studio – A simple tool to design spline curves
82 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Setup for Your Next Golang Project
82 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs
82 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science
82 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Supermicro hardware weaknesses let researchers backdoor an IBM cloud server
82 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Facebook now says its password leak affected ‘millions’ of Instagram users
82 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Photographer Robert Frank has died
82 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)
82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
The IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence
82 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Who needs qubits? Factoring algorithm run on a probabilistic computer
82 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Google’s outage meant some Nest users couldn’t unlock doors or use the AC
82 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (2016)
82 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
Former top executives of France Télécom on trial for harassing employees
82 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle
82 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Using Python to generate JavaScript for creating interactive website tours
82 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Show HN: k3sup – get Kubernetes and helm apps in
82 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
The hunt for the fish pirates who exploit the sea
82 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
EFF Urges Court to Reconsider Decision That Harms Internet Users
82 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Best of Arxiv.org for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning – January 2019
82 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Total Horse Takeover
82 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Fisher-Price Recalls Rock ’N Play Sleeper Linked to Infant Deaths
82 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
The Gentrification of the Internet
82 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Jumbo: Privacy Assistant for iPhone
82 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Roma's Wounding Confession
82 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Ask HN: How Can I Sell My Project?
82 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
To Wash It All Away (2014) [pdf]
82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Serializability vs. Strict Serializability: The Dirty Secret of Isolation Levels
82 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Frink
82 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Show HN: Chaoslist – A self-prioritizing todo-list
82 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
Meat and Three and Ten Dollars’ Worth of Regular
82 points • comment • oct 07, 2019