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Hacker News (2019)

Toxic Positivity
76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier
76 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
IsometricSass – Sass library to make isometric 2D without JavaScript
76 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
Ask HN: Why is programming editing text?
76 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Caffeine Cranks Up Solar Cells
76 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Keanu Reeves will return as Neo in new ‘Matrix’ film
76 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Show HN: E3Dos – A 3D engine I wrote when I was a teen
76 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
Sending 1.2M Tweets
76 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Lock 'n roll: a tale of three cartridges
76 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard [pdf]
76 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Attorneys General in Six States Are Now Investigating Facebook's Data Practices
76 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Man completes first round-the-world autogyro flight
76 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Roquette Science: How computerized arugula farms take over the world (2018)
76 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
During the Renaissance, the beard was the defining feature of a man
76 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad
76 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Before Silicon Valley got nasty the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out (2014)
76 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches
76 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile (1992)
76 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Unwind: A privilege-separated DNS recursive nameserver for every laptop [pdf]
76 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Show HN: Consider Groups – Like Slack Channels for Email
76 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
The Parker “51” (2018)
76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
A Stanford Professor Says Juul Stole Her Anti-Vaping PowerPoint Slides
76 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
How to prevent cryptographic pitfalls by design [video]
76 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
The architecture of declarative configuration management
76 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Avo: Better X86 Assembly Generation from Go
76 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source (2016)
76 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
A Critique of Standard ML (1992) [pdf]
76 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
Small but significant improvements in Swift 5.1
76 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Open Source Messenger App for Android – Real-Time Messaging, Voice and Video
76 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
Homebrew 2.2
76 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Show HN: Zero-Knowledge Proofs in WebAssembly
76 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch
76 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Music: A Mathematical Offering (2006)
76 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Hong Kong protest: What is mainland China hearing?
76 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
Mapping the Brain at High Resolution
76 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
MacBook Pro teardown confirms the new keyboard is just the old keyboard
76 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Arctic now locked into devastating temperature rise, UN report says
76 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
The One Weird Trick SecureROM Hates [pdf]
76 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Achieving Safety Incrementally with Checked C
76 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
A Separate Kind of Intelligence
76 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Handbook of Analog Computation [pdf]
76 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Super Wood (2018)
76 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
The night parrot, Australia's most elusive bird
76 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Jesse Combs (of Mythbusters) Killed in Land-Speed Record Crash
76 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Quantum Machine Appears to Defy Universe’s Push for Disorder
76 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Max Planck Society conducts bullying survey
76 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Tesla increases Supercharging prices to the point that gas might be cheaper
76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims (2018)
76 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2M concurrent SSL connections (2017)
76 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
Stop Using Internet Explorer
76 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
The Rationalization of the Attention Market
76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
EU beckons Indian tech talent
76 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns
76 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Cluster SSH – Manage Multiple Linux Servers Simultaneously
76 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
China Is Hunting for Foreign Buyers for Its Sovereign Debt
76 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Unbabel (YC W14) raises $60M Series C to become the world’s translation layer
76 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Album de Statistique Graphique
76 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
TSMC Starts $19.5B 3nm Fab Construction
76 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Congestion Pricing in Manhattan Close to Approval
76 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
glChAoS.P: Real-time 3D strange attractors scout and hypercomplex fractals
76 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media
76 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Why we are withdrawing the NHS Common User Interface
76 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
CodeGen: LLVM wrapper for just-in-time code generation and compilation
76 points • comment • may 19, 2019
Generating Ethereum Address from Scratch
76 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Synchrony, one of the US's last active demoparties
76 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Google Reader Killed RSS
76 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Keeping the Keck Telescopes Running
76 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Information is Beautiful shortlist 2019
76 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Git Implemented in OCaml
76 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014)
76 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
MIDI City 2000
76 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
DNS Record Crash Course for Web Developers
76 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
'Hidden Figures' NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson to Release Autobiography
76 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence?
76 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Show HN: Fltrdr – A TUI Text Reader for the Terminal
76 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Reducing carbon footprint of network services with MirageOS [video]
76 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Show HN: CryptoTrader.Tax – Tax calculator for your crypto trading
76 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Why I'm Worried About the Repo Market
76 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Mapping Who Lives in Border Patrol's '100-Mile Zone' (2018)
76 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Illusions of Sound Perception
76 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
Positional-only Parameters for Python
76 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Cable to the Stars – The Skyhook [video]
76 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin
76 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
C preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (2015)
76 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Security Issue with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Titan Security Keys
76 points • comment • may 15, 2019
AnimEigo: The AnimEigo Titling System
76 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Quantum Algorithm Zoo
76 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
Good Quality DOSBox Video Capture and FFmpeg Options
76 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
The Surprising Power of Online Experiments (2017)
76 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
Strike with the Band: The meritocratic failures of classical music
76 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Taiwanese horror game boycotted, removed from China market, company apologizes
76 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Spatial Interfaces
76 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Swansea Uni study: African wild dogs 'sneeze to vote' (2017)
76 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook’s Fact-Checking Systems
76 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
HIV status of over 14,000 people leaked online, Singapore authorities say
76 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Show HN: Interviews with open source maintainers and developers
76 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Open-plan offices reduce face-to-face interactions (2018)
76 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Operating Manual for VC Firm Bloomberg Beta
76 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
As Mass Timber Takes Off, How Green Is This New Building Material?
76 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Solitude and Leadership (2010)
76 points • comment • aug 19, 2019