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Hacker News (2019)

Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing
72 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Euro area is back on the brink of recession
72 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Astronomers Despair as Starlink Train Ruins Observation of Nearby Galaxies
72 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
The Miracle of Applied Mathematics (2001) [pdf]
72 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
KTRW: The Journey to Build a Debuggable iPhone
72 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Why Do the Northern and Southern Lights Differ?
72 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Oakland’s Pothole Vigilantes address gaping problem, one road crater at a time
72 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
eBay CEO Has a Stark Choice: Show Growth or Break Up Company
72 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
College, Calculus, and the Problem with the SAT
72 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
If Dwarf Fortress sells millions on Steam, its creators will give the money away
72 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Tetris LED Tie (2013)
72 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Renewables overtake coal as Germany's main energy source
72 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
As Climate Changes, Taxpayers Will Shoulder Larger U.S. Payouts to Farmers
72 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Can law firms be liable for fake reviews? Pennsylvania firm says no
72 points • comment • may 26, 2019
The battle in Israel to create an unhackable phone
72 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Germany proposes $2,800 fine for parents skipping measles vaccination
72 points • comment • may 06, 2019
Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success
72 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Bootcamps vs. College (2016)
72 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Lethal memory fail: Why drivers see, and then forget motorcyclists
72 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Language-Agnostic Sentence Representations
72 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Building a Reflow Oven
72 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Rational rendering and floating bar
72 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Would aliens understand lambda calculus? (2018)
72 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Haskell I/O and XPath
72 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
PC Keyboard: The First Five Years
72 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Why limiting work-in-progress works
72 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Traveling Wave Reactor
72 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Advocacy groups are pushing the FTC to break up Facebook
72 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Ask HN: Just found out that I’m gonna be a dad
72 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Shunting-yard algorithm
72 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
India is easing sourcing norms for single-brand retailers like Apple
72 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Show HN: Spase.io – A new kind of planner
72 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
Planning to Start, Planning to Finish
72 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland
72 points • comment • may 13, 2019
iOS 13 bug grants third-party keyboards full access to iPhones
72 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5?
72 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
The scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong
72 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Language at the End of the World (2017)
72 points • comment • may 06, 2019
San Francisco supervisors opposing bill to increase housing density
72 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Show HN: Simple Webapp to Play with Open AI Transformer (Smaller Version)
72 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Libraries are fighting to preserve your right to borrow e-books
72 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Next Front in Tech Firms’ War on Misinformation: Bad Medical Advice
72 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
China’s State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas
72 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
They Own the System: Amazon Rewrites Book Industry by Marching into Publishing
72 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Tendon stem cells enhance regeneration
72 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
CVE-2019-8912: Use After Free Vuln in All Linux Kernels Up to 4.20.10
72 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Linux and FreeBSD: Multiple TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities
72 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Zebras’ stripes discourage biting flies from landing
72 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
US government is entitled to all Snowden book proceeds, judge rules
72 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Teaching machines to triage Firefox bugs
72 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Ride-hailing apps have allowed more binging and increased demand for bartenders
72 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Ask HN: Leaving a Job at Big Tech Giants for Startup
72 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
ARM64 CPUs speculatively execute instructions after ERET
72 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers
72 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
Microwatt: A Tiny Open Power ISA Softcore Written in VHDL 2008
72 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
Bringing the best of open source to Google Cloud customers
72 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Eleven Ordinary Twenty-Somethings With $250B Riding on Their Lives
72 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
FoundationDB Summit: video roundup
72 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
YouTube shuts down 210 Chinese channels posting about Hong Kong
72 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Patrick Collison on Innovation and Scientific Progress [audio]
72 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Bitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer
72 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Venture Capitalists are much less ambitious than their private equity siblings
72 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Math Looks the Same in the Brains of Boys and Girls, Study Finds
72 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Hackers breached 3 US antivirus companies, researchers reveal
72 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production
72 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Ask HN: How to performance test React webapps for rendering speed regressions?
72 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Go Scan 3D – Handheld 3D Scanner
72 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Ask HN: Are there any online lawyer services?
72 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Mozilla announces PGP Support in Thunderbird, coming 2020
72 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Why Is Infrastructure So Expensive to Build in New York?
72 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Quietly another drug candidate disappears
72 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
A class-action suit imperils California freelancers
72 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Kedro: open-source library for production-ready machine learning code
72 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Prospecting for gold by looking in leaves has proven itself in Australia
72 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Foie Gras, Served in 1k Restaurants in NYC, Is Banned
72 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Visualizing PostgreSQL Vacuum Progress
72 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Who gets to own the West?
72 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
Fxmsp Chat Logs Reveal Hacked Antivirus Vendors
72 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Perl Master Plan
72 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features
72 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Donate – iTerm2
72 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms
72 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Salesforce: We Ditched Python for Google's Go Language in Einstein Analytics
72 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
New TLS Padding Oracles
72 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
China’s Soft-Power Fail: Condemning Hong Kong’s Protests
72 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Giving Generative Art Its Due
72 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
More on Backdooring (or Not) WhatsApp
72 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
‘We were sold off’: WeWork’s staff face uncertain future as company collapses
72 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Sushi Roll: A CPU research kernel with minimal noise for microarch introspection
72 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
The Blue Tape List
72 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008)
72 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Finland Has an App Showing Shopping’s Carbon Footprint
72 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Machine Learning Christmas Calendar
72 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain
72 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Mathematics as a Cultural Force
72 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Deploying Authoritative OCaml-DNS Servers as MirageOS Unikernels
72 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Americans Are Moving at the Lowest Rate on Record
72 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Grumman X-29: An impossible fighter jet with inverted wings
72 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
U.S. CBP and Israeli Elbit to Persistently Surveil Native American Reservation
72 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
Four-hundred Thirty-Five Representatives Can Not Represent 300M Americans
72 points • comment • nov 25, 2019