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Hacker News (2019)

Keeping the Keck Telescopes Running
76 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Positional-only Parameters for Python
76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
The Parker “51” (2018)
76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Solitude and Leadership (2010)
76 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Open-plan offices reduce face-to-face interactions (2018)
76 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Are Passenger Jet Engines Hitting Their Technical Limits?
76 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
HIV status of over 14,000 people leaked online, Singapore authorities say
76 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Cluster SSH – Manage Multiple Linux Servers Simultaneously
76 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Swansea Uni study: African wild dogs 'sneeze to vote' (2017)
76 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Taiwanese horror game boycotted, removed from China market, company apologizes
76 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Mechanism of hardening of the arteries and potential treatment identified
76 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
The Surprising Power of Online Experiments (2017)
76 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
Quantum Algorithm Zoo
76 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
Stanisław Lem
76 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin
76 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
YouTube lets biggest stars off the hook for breaking rules, moderators say
76 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Google Reader Killed RSS
76 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Music: A Mathematical Offering (2006)
76 points • comment • may 14, 2019
C preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (2015)
76 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Show HN: I created a portable lightweight replacement for Microsoft HTML Help
76 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
A scientist must go where the evidence leads
76 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Mapping Who Lives in Border Patrol's '100-Mile Zone' (2018)
76 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Max Planck Society conducts bullying survey
76 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Dutch MoD appoints 72 citizens to cyber-military reserve force
76 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Come and Get ‘Em – Storage Pods That Is
76 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Show HN: CryptoTrader.Tax – Tax calculator for your crypto trading
76 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Unbabel (YC W14) raises $60M Series C to become the world’s translation layer
76 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Jesse Combs (of Mythbusters) Killed in Land-Speed Record Crash
76 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
The One Weird Trick SecureROM Hates [pdf]
76 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Show HN: Fltrdr – A TUI Text Reader for the Terminal
76 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Small but significant improvements in Swift 5.1
76 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
'Hidden Figures' NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson to Release Autobiography
76 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Before Silicon Valley got nasty the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out (2014)
76 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Understanding the Objective-C Runtime (2010)
76 points • comment • may 26, 2019
More than half of the trees that grow only in Europe risk extinction, says IUCN
76 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Sending 1.2M Tweets
76 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence?
76 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
OpenBSD/loongson is still alive
76 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Economists’ projections of interest rates and unemployment have proved too high
76 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Cable to the Stars – The Skyhook [video]
76 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
MIDI City 2000
76 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Git Implemented in OCaml
76 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Generalized Additive Models in R – A free interactive course
76 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Homebrew 2.2
76 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Leaving Prison at 72
76 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
glChAoS.P: Real-time 3D strange attractors scout and hypercomplex fractals
76 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
CodeGen: LLVM wrapper for just-in-time code generation and compilation
76 points • comment • may 19, 2019
Stop Using Internet Explorer
76 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
As Mass Timber Takes Off, How Green Is This New Building Material?
76 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims (2018)
76 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook’s Fact-Checking Systems
76 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Extended BPF: A New Type of Software [pdf]
76 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Super Wood (2018)
76 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Synchrony, one of the US's last active demoparties
76 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Google Salary Ranges and Levels – Levels.fyi
76 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media
76 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Introduction to Decentralisation
76 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Kierkegaard’s Leap
76 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Off Grid Bitcoin Transactions Using Ham Radio and Blockstreams Satellites
76 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Congestion Pricing in Manhattan Close to Approval
76 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Film of Inside the Ilford Factory to See How B&W Film Is Made
76 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Album de Statistique Graphique
76 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
76 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Show HN: Talk to Transformer – Generate Text with OpenAI's Latest GPT-2 Model
76 points • comment • may 06, 2019
Microsoft Flight Simulator Announced – E3 2019
76 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns
76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
The Rationalization of the Attention Market
76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2M concurrent SSL connections (2017)
76 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile (1992)
76 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi
76 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
HBO's Chernobyl may yet become the highest rated TV Show ever
76 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Tesla increases Supercharging prices to the point that gas might be cheaper
76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Buster Keaton and the Art of the Gag (2015) [video]
76 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)
76 points • comment • may 18, 2019
Launch HN: Lofty AI (YC S19) – Real estate investment with alternative data
76 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
The night parrot, Australia's most elusive bird
76 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Quantum Machine Appears to Defy Universe’s Push for Disorder
76 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Handbook of Analog Computation [pdf]
76 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014)
76 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
A Separate Kind of Intelligence
76 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Operating Manual for VC Firm Bloomberg Beta
76 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Achieving Safety Incrementally with Checked C
76 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Unwind: A privilege-separated DNS recursive nameserver for every laptop [pdf]
76 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Arctic now locked into devastating temperature rise, UN report says
76 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Spatial Interfaces
76 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
The history and opportunity of the modern mortgage [video]
76 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Mapping the Brain at High Resolution
76 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Show HN: Zero-Knowledge Proofs in WebAssembly
76 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
How to Smell (2018)
76 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
DNS Record Crash Course for Web Developers
76 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Open Source Messenger App for Android – Real-Time Messaging, Voice and Video
76 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
TSMC Starts $19.5B 3nm Fab Construction
76 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
A Critique of Standard ML (1992) [pdf]
76 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard [pdf]
76 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier
76 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Avo: Better X86 Assembly Generation from Go
76 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
How to prevent cryptographic pitfalls by design [video]
76 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
The heritability of self-control: A meta-analysis
76 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
During the Renaissance, the beard was the defining feature of a man
76 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Stu Ungar
76 points • comment • sep 30, 2019