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Hacker News (2019)

Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; we’re not
74 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
Grindr has faced a federal investigation, layoffs, mismanagement, and turmoil
74 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
A request to drill for lithium near Death Valley
74 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Mark Twain’s Quest to Bring Affordable Watches to the Masses
74 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-Time Science After First Child
74 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
The Price of Self-Delusion
74 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Show HN: ASCII Art with Overstrike
74 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Why is Android Studio's Emulator always listening to my microphone?
74 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Volkswagen Originalteil Sausages
74 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
The Past, Present and Future of Competitive Magic The Gathering
74 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
74 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Modern JavaScript tooling is too complicated?
74 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Icecream – A little debugging library
74 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Making Direct Messages Reliable and Fast
74 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Apple Pay will support NFC tags
74 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Reggae: A build system with multiple front ends (D, Python) and back ends
74 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Xenix tales: 8086 and Xenix 386 networking
74 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
How to Build a Remote Team: Resources and Advice from Remote Companies
74 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Don’t trust the locals: investigating prevalence of persistent client-side XSS
74 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Australian safety chief
74 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
The Geography of the Room
74 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever
74 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
How to slice your code into continuations
74 points • comment • may 05, 2019
A Clever Way to Find Compiler Bugs
74 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Research as a Stochastic Decision Process
74 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Rust 1.38.0
74 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
LA is using ride-hailing startup Via to shuttle people to public transit
74 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Neovim Configuration and Plugins in Fennel Lisp
74 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall
74 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
The Psychology of Prediction
74 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
A Cultural History of Fat
74 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
There’s No Winter Break from ‘Publish or Perish’
74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Estonia is a place for independent minds
74 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
A Simple Dutch Cure for Stress
74 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
We Must Defend Science in the Face of Political Attacks
74 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Ask HN: What are some architectural decisions that improved your codebase?
74 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
At Colorado, a Breach in Football’s Wall
74 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
American Letter Mail Company
74 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make Mistakes
74 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
Analysis of Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back Atari ST Floppy Disks (2009)
74 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
Find Files (Ff) – File Search Utility in Rust
74 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Dating of bones from Indonesia confirm Homo erectus roamed planet for 1.8M years
74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
CIA Offers Proof Huawei Has Been Funded by China's Military and Intelligence
74 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
Automated Continuous Deployment at Heroku
74 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
74 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Survey: Average American Hasn’t Made a New Friend in 5 Years
74 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Plot to steal cryptocurrency foiled by NPM
74 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
Zhaoxin KX-6000 CPUs Purportedly Match Intel's Core I5-7400 in Performance
74 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Implementing a New CPU Architecture for Ghidra [slides]
74 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Paul Dirac: The Mozart of Science (2008)
74 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft
74 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Source Code Linking: Merging C Headers into Rust Modules
74 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
30 Years After Tiananmen, a Chinese Military Insider Warns: Never Forget
74 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Ontario police warn of SIM swapping fraud
74 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
London’s Tube Network to Switch on Wi-Fi Tracking by Default in July
74 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Doubling the speed of std:uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library
74 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Lucet – A Sandboxing WebAssembly Compiler
74 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End
74 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Algorithms as Objects
74 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Open Datasets for Autonomous Driving
74 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
The Intelligence of Plants
74 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
A $60k Patrol Boat and a Single Deck Gun Changed the Course of Korean War
74 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Team closes in on “holy grail” of room temperature quantum computing chips
74 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: from Ugaritic to Linear B
74 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
International Space Station computer gets a heart transplant
74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Ask HN: Do you have experience with school bullying?
74 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Iron: From Mythical to Mundane
74 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
HK police fires rubber bullet at protesters and civilians at point blank range
74 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
What’s Up with LIGO?
74 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
A few comments on ‘age’
74 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
South-Pointing Chariot
74 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen?
73 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans
73 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Non-Photorealistic Rendering Using a Painting Robot [pdf]
73 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
Hokusai: Old man, crazy to paint (2017)
73 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
DigiCert .arpa Mis-Issuance
73 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
RabbitMQ integer overflow that leads to heap memory corruption
73 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
MS Office in Wonderland [pdf]
73 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Italian police raid of neo-fascist militants finds air-to-air missile
73 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Private Space Launch Firms in China Race to Orbit
73 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
HN is blocked in China now?
73 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
J2cl: Transpile Java to JavaScript for Closure Compiler
73 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Transceivers: The Device Between the NIC and the Network
73 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
GNOME Shell and Mutter
73 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music
73 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Show HN: A tool to upload/download files from command line
73 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Ask HN: How would you teach teens to code in 2019?
73 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
The 'stuff' of the universe keeps changing
73 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
FTC: Equifax might run out of cash, so please take the credit monitoring
73 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Get Started with 6502 Assembly Programming on Atari Lynx
73 points • comment • may 21, 2019
SinGAN: Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image
73 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Visual Studio IntelliCode
73 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Arpanet, Part 3: The Subnet
73 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)
73 points • comment • may 03, 2019
DNS Cookies – Identify Related Network Flows
73 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
EU's Tusk warns of risks in rise of U.S. tech giants
73 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Toxorhynchites – Mosquito Eater
73 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Cracking the mystery of egg shape
73 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (1997)
73 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Did Finland’s basic income experiment work? [video]
73 points • comment • feb 03, 2019