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Hacker News (2019)

India Proposes Chinese-Style Internet Censorship
71 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Stealing private keys from a secure file sharing service
71 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Typing in Yiddish
71 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Growing Web Template Studio
71 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Have you been faked?
71 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Tiny flats taking over Latin America
71 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Scroll Anchoring in Firefox 66
71 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Why spiky shapes seem angry and round sounds are calming
71 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
My Wife Was Dying, and We Didn’t Tell Our Children
71 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
Plastic Free July
71 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Desalination Is Booming. But What About All That Toxic Brine?
71 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Censorship in China Allows Govt Criticism but Silences Collective Expression [pdf]
71 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
A controlled blaze in Utah could improve models of how wildfire smoke spreads
71 points • comment • may 28, 2019
“Awakenings” in Advanced Dementia Patients Hint at Untapped Brain Reserves
71 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
Electronic music reduces host attack and mating success in dengue mosquitoes
71 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves
71 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
Lyft’s IPO Was a Success, Just Not for Investors Who Bought on Friday
71 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
A bad cup of tea and the birth of modern statistics
71 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Microamp: Asymmetric Multi-Processing on Microcontrollers
71 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Cryptographic key used to sign one of Facebook's Android apps compromised
71 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 2: What, Why, and How
71 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
A new book on cannibalism in the 1921 Russian famine
71 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
12.1T Digits of Pi
71 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Why do holes horrify me?
71 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Nearly 25% of Americans are going into debt to pay for necessities like food
71 points • comment • may 24, 2019
New research on PTSD in elephants and other animals
71 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
What We’ve Built Is a Computational Language
71 points • comment • may 09, 2019
New NASA Images Show Location of the Lunar Library
71 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Git9: Git Reimagined for the Plan 9 OS
71 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer
71 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
JavaScript-Based Spreadsheet-Like Formulas in Google Docs
71 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
LED multiplexing layouts for hand-crafting
71 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Comparing the Network Performance of AWS, Azure and GCP [pdf]
71 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
A lattice-based cryptographic library in Go
71 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Lyft threatens lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, accusing support of short selling
71 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
How to set up a perfect Python project
71 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
In a first, chimpanzees seen smashing and eating tortoises
71 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Waveglow Inference in CUDA C++
71 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
Blocking high-risk non-secure downloads
71 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Mass Surveillance in the United States
71 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
DNSSEC Outage on www.cloudflare.com – 2019-03-21
71 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
History of Clarus the Dogcow
71 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Model 3 Lease Available
71 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Advertising may make people miserable, but it still has its uses
71 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
YouTube Demonetizes Anti-Vaccination Videos
71 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds (2018) [pdf]
71 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
Newest coworking space costs just $2.25 an hour, because it is a parking spot
71 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Amazon Workers May Be Watching Your Cloud Cam Home Footage
71 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
India proposes new e-commerce regulations with focus on data rules
71 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Bone music: the Soviet bootleg records pressed on x-rays (2015)
71 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
The Cost of Abstraction (2016)
71 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle
71 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
After near-disaster, Oroville Dam spillway about to face its first big test
71 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Wanderland: A journey through Iran’s wild west
71 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Migrating from Redshift to ClickHouse
71 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families? Now we know
71 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Integer overflow flaw discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1
71 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Keras – Hyperparameter Tuning for Humans
71 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
Americans who fled the country to escape their student debt
71 points • comment • may 31, 2019
The Liar's Walk: Detecting Deception with Gait and Gesture
71 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Yellow Vest Facebook group with 350k members frozen on European election day
71 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Ask HN: How to invest safely in Europe?
71 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Hyundai Motor Introduces Electric Double-Decker Bus
71 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
Bloomberg Beta Investment Documents
71 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
Lessons from cold fusion, 30 years on
71 points • comment • may 29, 2019
GitHub and Trade Controls
71 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Tell HN: Work at a Startup Expo will be at YC on Saturday, June 29
71 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Ask HN: How to handle code reviews with a visually impaired coworker?
71 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
White House launches tool to report censorship on social media
71 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Zhaoxin Unveiled Next-Generation x86 SoC Plans
71 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
The Golden Age of Hollywood Tax Avoidance
71 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Apple Targets Launch of Apple TV+ in November for $9.99
71 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Andy Grove's Paranoia: Universal Lessons (1996)
71 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
Facebook gave Tinder and other dating apps special access to user data
71 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
All Medium paywalled stories now free, unmetered when you’re coming from Twitter
71 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
The mindfulness conspiracy
71 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
What Uber Left Behind in Asia
71 points • comment • may 05, 2019
Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble
71 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Small world with high risks: a study of security threats in the NPM ecosystem
71 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Lawmakers ask US intelligence chief to investigate TikTok
71 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
In Order to Become More Competitive We've Decided To Make Your Job Worse
71 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Show HN: Making pro weather data free for Hurricane Dorian
71 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Kardashev Scale
71 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Safari 13 Is Out
71 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Chimpanzees Spontaneously Dance to Music
71 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
New PDFex attack can exfiltrate data from encrypted PDF files
71 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Fine-Tuning GPT-2 from Human Preferences
71 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
71 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Daydreams Shape Our Sense of Self
71 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
51% of young voters believe humanity could be wiped out within 15 years
71 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier (2017)
70 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Metaprogramming for madmen (2012)
70 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US hacking
70 points • comment • may 28, 2019
China’s Giant Spy Drone Just Tailed a U.S. Navy Cruiser
70 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
19th Century Moral Panic Over Paper Technology (2017)
70 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
Tesla’s head of production is going to EV startup Lucid Motors
70 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
The Terrifying Potential of 5G
70 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
“I’m sorry we’ve given the impression that we're dropping support for i386 apps”
70 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers
70 points • comment • may 19, 2019
Blazor – Build client web apps with C#
70 points • comment • oct 02, 2019