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Hacker News (2019)

How to Build Minesweeper with JavaScript
75 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
The Urban Planning Behind America’s Weirdest McDonald’s
75 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case
75 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Predicting Next Recession
75 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
In praise of property-based testing
75 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Taking a look at a covert CIA virtual fencing solution [video]
75 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
Scissors Congruence
75 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
The Law Isn't Ready for Psychedelic Medicine
75 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Network Solutions’ scammy bullshit signup funnel
74 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Ask HN: Do you have experience with school bullying?
74 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
A request to drill for lithium near Death Valley
74 points • comment • may 08, 2019
BSD Sockets Addressing
74 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes on Tricky Public Health Role
74 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Paul Dirac: The Mozart of Science (2008)
74 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Programming language ray tracing benchmarks project
74 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach
74 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warns: Never Forget
74 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Creating a Collaborative Editor
74 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Open-source Chrome extension to save the state of a page for further analysis
74 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
Facebook Says It Has Suspended ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Apps
74 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
The Baghdad Battery
74 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (2017)
74 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms
74 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Burgundy wine investors have beaten the stock market
74 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
What Was the Happiest Day on the Internet This Decade?
74 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Open Datasets for Autonomous Driving
74 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize 'magic mushrooms'
74 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
No One Is Safe: How Saudi Arabia Makes Dissidents Disappear
74 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Apple patents MacBook with key switches under a flexible touchscreen keyboard
74 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
A $60k Patrol Boat and a Single Deck Gun Changed the Course of Korean War
74 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Availability of the Government of the United States
74 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
A Clever Way to Find Compiler Bugs
74 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Twenty legal battles that stand out across Ars’ 20 years of covering them
74 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
A Simple Dutch Cure for Stress
74 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Running TensorFlow at Petascale and Beyond
74 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End
74 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Cannabis Smoking Associated with Higher Sperm Count, Study Finds
74 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
HK police fires rubber bullet at protesters and civilians at point blank range
74 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
At Colorado, a Breach in Football’s Wall
74 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Lucet – A Sandboxing WebAssembly Compiler
74 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Phoenix: LiveView
74 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
No More Shiny Tomorrows: Futurism Needs to Get Real
74 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
The unsolved mystery of the soldier who died in the watchtower
74 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Smalltalk-72 Instruction Manual (1976) [pdf]
74 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
What an Extinct Bird Re-Evolving Says About “Species”
74 points • comment • may 25, 2019
Magical, Mystical JavaScript Transducers
74 points • comment • jun 29, 2019
Who Controls Diners’ Data? OpenTable Moves to Assert Control
74 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
What’s Up with LIGO?
74 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Teen Gets Vaccines During Measles Outbreak, Despite Mom's Belief
74 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change
74 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Analog computation, Part 1: What and why
74 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Modern JavaScript tooling is too complicated?
74 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Startups Lose in a Low-Rate World, and the Fed Is Blaming Itself
74 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Disney: Bob Iger bets the company (and Hollywood's future) on streaming
74 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
The Era of General Purpose Computers Is Ending
74 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
Arcs of Seniority
74 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
How shutting out men from the conversation is an obstacle to change
74 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by NPM
74 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft
74 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Publishing Simple Books with Jekyll
74 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Show HN: Startup jobs of 2018, visualized
74 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Reggae: A build system with multiple front ends (D, Python) and back ends
74 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Deep Learning Optimizer Visualization
74 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals
74 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Photograph Your Work
74 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
List of selected stars for navigation
74 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
On the S-Box of GOST Streebog and Kuznyechik
74 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Australian safety chief
74 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Illegal toxic waste dumping in Italy (2014)
74 points • comment • may 19, 2019
European Investment Bank to phase out fossil fuel financing
74 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Indigenous civilizations are far older and more complex than history suggests
74 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
74 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Antedating “datatype” all the way to Plankalkül (2017)
74 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
The Psychology of Prediction
74 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
We are not nearly as determined by our genes as once thought
74 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Tenure-Based Ownership – A distributed equity model for worker ownership
74 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
How I Built and Sold My Company in 18 Months
74 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
BPF Theremin, Tetris, and Typewriters
74 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Launch HN: Withfriends (YC W19) – Memberships for Small Businesses
74 points • comment • may 02, 2019
What Is a 'Nautical Mile'? (2011)
74 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
Algebraic Structures for Untyped Racket
74 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
South-Pointing Chariot
74 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
The Incredible Proof Machine (2016)
74 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Algorithms as Objects
74 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Apple Pay will support NFC tags
74 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Why is Android Studio's Emulator always listening to my microphone?
74 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Alternative Periodic Tables
74 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Neovim Configuration and Plugins in Fennel Lisp
74 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
Geohash in Golang Assembly (2018)
74 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
You have to follow the recipe
74 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
We Must Defend Science in the Face of Political Attacks
74 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Ontario police warn of SIM swapping fraud
74 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Prague: A European capital cobbled with Jewish gravestones
74 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
The Measure of Intelligence: towards more human-like artificial systems
74 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
A napalm attack, an orphan, and a message three decades later
74 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Boom Supersonic (YC W16) XB-1 Fuselage Construction Underway
74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Cone Programming Langauge
74 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Rust 1.38.0
74 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Average Office Worker Spends Less Than 3 Hours of the Day Working Productively
74 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Making Direct Messages Reliable and Fast
74 points • comment • jun 15, 2019