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Hacker News (2019)

Ken Nordine, Chicago creator of ‘word jazz’, dies at 98
70 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
“I'm 10-15”: the secret CBP Facebook group
70 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
The Joy of Standards
70 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals
70 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
European Parliament Approves Controversial “Meme Ban”
70 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi: What should be done? (2018)
70 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
Password checkup: from 0 to 650k users in 20 days
70 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?
70 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
The Principal Developer
70 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
Learn more about iCloud in China mainland
70 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Millions of Americans Flood into Mexico for Health Care
70 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
The Modern Man Is Getting Stoicism All Wrong
70 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Hospitals Must Now Post Prices. But It May Take a Brain Surgeon to Decipher Them
70 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Disney TV Studios Eyes New Profit Participation Model
70 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Using the iPad Pro as my main computer
70 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Universal Logic Gates (2015)
70 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Handshake: A Peculiar Chat Experiment
70 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Intelligent Machinery (1948) [pdf]
70 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU: Initializing Weights
70 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
The U.S. is still using many pesticides that are banned in other countries
70 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Is Philanthropy Anti-Democratic?
70 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Social isolation and loneliness in Canada
70 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Using Perl 6 Grammars: Decompressing Zelda 3 GFX
70 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Show HN: A live map of sunlight on earth
70 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions (2015) [pdf]
70 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Lingua::Romana::Perligata — Perl in Latin
70 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Curiosity rover gives Nasa a scare, needed a reset
70 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healthier
70 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
The Cold War bunkers that cover a country
70 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
SimplyNUC Unveils Sequoia: AMD Ryzen V-Series-Based UCFF PC
70 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Show HN: Messing with Telnet
70 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Distributed GSM / Multicast MS Lookup – Open Source Mobile Communications
70 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
It’s Time to Ditch Google Analytics
70 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
Nintendo Switch consoles keep frying
70 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Joe Beef and the Excesses of Restaurant Culture
70 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Show HN: Microfronts – Front-end solution for running multiple frameworks as one
70 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Almost everyone developing Tor was or is funded by the US government (2014)
70 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921)
70 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
UBI without quality public services is a neoliberal’s paradise
70 points • comment • may 29, 2019
The Black Market for Social Media Manipulation
70 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
GitHub's new features show it’s finally listening to developers
70 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Plutocrat donors are shaping the agenda at elite universities
70 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Heavy water tastes the same as ordinary water (1935)
70 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Five new Real-Time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST
70 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Show HN: Ship Your Enemies GDPR
70 points • comment • may 28, 2019
The Helpful Bystander: Current Evidence from CCTV-Captured Public Conflicts
70 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Apollo Client 2.5 for GraphQL Announced
70 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
A Map That Made Los Angeles Make Sense
70 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
70 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
On Safety Critical Software
70 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
YC Startup School: Advisor Edition
70 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
‘Key player’ identified in genetic link to psychiatric conditions
70 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Qgrep Internals
70 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
70 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
United Airlines’ so-called online security (2016)
70 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Emergent dynamics of neuromorphic nanowire networks
70 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
The future that graphene built
70 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
Teen designs Hong Kong-inspired shoe only to have it dropped from Vans contest
70 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Deprecating Volatile in C++
70 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
Quadcopter Programming Part 2: Using the CMSIS Library and First Takeoff
70 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Texas Is Latest State to Pump the Brakes on Red-Light Cameras
70 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Ask HN: Anyone makes 200k as a software engineer outside US?
69 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850k malware infections
69 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Bash Completion from JSON Fields
69 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Show HN: Ciao – HTTP checks and tests monitoring
69 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
We need a new generation of source control
69 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
U.S. Air Force Unveils Drone-Killing Microwave Weapon
69 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
Photography and racial bias
69 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
IMF predicts slowest global economic growth since 2008 financial crisis
69 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
What Is Not in Plan Nine (2012)
69 points • comment • may 25, 2019
Understanding Bihar’s Super 30 Phenomenon
69 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Zuckerberg Smile
69 points • comment • may 09, 2019
150 Years of Nature
69 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Ensuring a Level Playing Field for Rideshare
69 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
How Robert Cottrell of ‘The Browser’ finds the best writing on the web
69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Foxconn Still Trying to Tap Dance Around Its Ever-Shrinking Wisconsin Promises
69 points • comment • may 18, 2019
Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (2017)
69 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Privacy Inequality: The Most Brutal Form of Inequality You’ve Ever Imagined
69 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)
69 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
“I Tested into Stanford Through My Own Hard Work.” JK, Her Parents Paid $6.5M
69 points • comment • may 06, 2019
Please Go Away, Tim Berners-Lee
69 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
UN General Assembly adopts record number of resolutions on internet governance
69 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a cognitive neuroscientist
69 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Amazon fires employees who supported “yellow vest” blockades of Amazon sites
69 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics
69 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
How would user-centric payouts affect the music-streaming world?
69 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Human Web – Data Collection Without Privacy Side-Effects
69 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks, Part 2
69 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
New AI System Predicts Seizures
69 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Where does your plastic waste end up?
69 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Turning Over: Why page turners matter
69 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
They Got Rich Off Uber and Lyft. Then They Moved to Low-Tax States
69 points • comment • may 09, 2019
The Trust Crisis
69 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Starkey and the Future of Hearing Aids
69 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
The Silurian Hypothesis
69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita
69 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Known packings of equal circles in a circle
69 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines
69 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
The Gradual Design System: How We Built Slack Kit
69 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
An Introduction to René Girard
69 points • comment • apr 21, 2019