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Hacker News (2019)

The Gentrification of the Internet
82 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Nanoparticles: Toxins in our air too small to see
82 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Show HN: Squirrel Curve Studio – A simple tool to design spline curves
82 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Google’s outage meant some Nest users couldn’t unlock doors or use the AC
82 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Where you place your food in the fridge does matter
82 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data unicorn
82 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Questions raised about research by OpenAg Initiative at M.I.T. Media Lab
82 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Physically fit young adults have healthier white matter in their brains
82 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Setup for Your Next Golang Project
82 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy
82 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Major Games Publishers Are Feeling the Impact of Peaking Attention
82 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
How the Many-Worlds Theory of Hugh Everett Split the Universe
82 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
How Gmail Happened (2014)
82 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
“Wealth work” is one of America’s fastest-growing industries
82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
awesome-selfhosted – Free Software network services and web applications
82 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Closed-door meetings on unions preceded Amazon's withdrawal
82 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012)
82 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one
82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Remastered 1964 films show origins of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
82 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
JavaScript Coercions Grid
82 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
How to (not) have sex in the 600s
82 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
New emperor, new era: How a single word defines Japan
82 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
Show HN: Watermill – Building event-driven applications easy way in Go
82 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Tech workers in China’s Silicon Valley face burnout before they reach 30
82 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Numba: a JIT compiler for Python that works best on code that uses NumPy
82 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
Segmentio/encoding: optimized drop-in replacement for Go's encoding/JSON package
82 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Why smallpox is no more, but polio and other diseases persist
82 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
A Wisconsin lawmaker who's paralyzed isn't allowed to participate in meetings
82 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Grundig Satellit 650 Radio
82 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
New ventures should focus all their efforts on problem-solving
82 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Former top executives of France Télécom on trial for harassing employees
82 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium
82 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Computational Mathematics with SageMath (2018)
82 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen song lyrics
82 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
The Moderators Who Keep Hacker News Focused on Intellectual Curiosity
82 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Postcode loophole enables fraudsters to hijack eBay parcels
82 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Launch HN: Shift Health (YC S19) – Understand Your Healthcare Costs Pre-Visit
82 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
The Ruin of Britain
82 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
The Data Science of MathOverflow
82 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
SoftBank’s next bet: $940M into autonomous delivery startup Nuro
82 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Can MIPS Leapfrog RISC-V?
82 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program (2013)
82 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
Unveiling Dark
82 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
An Unnamed Source Who Shouldn’t Be Anonymous
82 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Photographer Robert Frank has died
82 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Who needs qubits? Factoring algorithm run on a probabilistic computer
82 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Research Design Patterns
82 points • comment • may 16, 2019
The Promise of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
82 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Top-down performance analysis methodology
82 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
Why Our Postwar “Long Peace” Is Fragile (2018)
82 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Rust async/await hits stable tomorrow
82 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
WireGuard for Windows Pre-Alpha Is Available
82 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
Swift Server Work Group Annual Update
82 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Get companies to erase your personal data – automated CCPA deletion requests
82 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
The IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence
82 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
How To Edit A Low-Budget Blockbuster [video]
82 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
European Union has canceled McDonald’s trademark for Big Macs
82 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Don't Over-Optimize Fundraising
82 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Tech and Antitrust
82 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Using Python to generate JavaScript for creating interactive website tours
82 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
EFF Urges Court to Reconsider Decision That Harms Internet Users
82 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Total Horse Takeover
82 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
To Wash It All Away (2014) [pdf]
82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)
82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development
82 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
FBI Records: Bigfoot (1976)
82 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Goethe’s Aphorisms
82 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs
82 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (2016)
82 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
The phpCE 2019 conference in Dresden has been cancelled and won't be continued
82 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
Food-Delivery Couriers Exploit Desperate Migrants in France
82 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
Show HN: k3sup – get Kubernetes and helm apps in
82 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Doctors Slow to Adopt Tech Tools That Might Save Patients Money on Drugs
82 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Meat and Three and Ten Dollars’ Worth of Regular
82 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Can fake names create bias in interviewing?
82 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Look out for the second 2019 GPS week number rollover
82 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
After city switched to a new bodycam vendor, Axon threatened its credit rating
82 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Take Better Screenshots
82 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Traffic-busting $100B Bay Area tax plan taking shape
82 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other side to the story?
82 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Show HN: Laptop.css
82 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Show HN: tor_ssh.sh – One command to enable SSH access via Tor
82 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Node.js Logging Made Right
82 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
In the 1820s, a new kind of lens saved ships
82 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
An artificially intelligent, open-source bionic leg
82 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use?
82 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
DIY ‘Meta Clock’ with 24 Analog Clocks
82 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
New 2MW electric vehicle chargers could revolutionise mining industry
82 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Talk to People on the Telephone
82 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
An open-source browser extension to auto-skip sponsored segments on YouTube
82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Instagram is deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars
82 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Parents Thought They Wanted Tech in Every Classroom, Now They’re Not So Sure
82 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Frink
82 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Lessons from Hiring a Remote Team
82 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Teen's TikTok video about China's Muslim camps goes viral
82 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
AWS Glue/Athena/Redshift outage
81 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
81 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed
81 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Growing Our Team with Retrospectives
81 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
'Football pitch' of Amazon forest lost every minute
81 points • comment • jul 02, 2019