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Hacker News (2019)

An actress lived for decades in this NYC apartment for $28 a month (2018)
69 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
React Native 0.60
69 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Running an IRC Network in 2019: Challenges and Opportunities
69 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
Low-level is easy (2008)
69 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Immune cells may play a role in causing cavities
69 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs
69 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Tumblr Opensources Kubernetes Utilities
69 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Twistronics: superconductor prototypes discovered after twisting graphene sheets
69 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
Nasa Used Art to Shape Our Vision of the Future
69 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
The Miasma
69 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Starkey and the Future of Hearing Aids
69 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Kids playground built from discarded wind turbine parts (2017)
69 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
The Entertainer: In Praise of Raymond Smullyan
69 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
New AI System Predicts Seizures
69 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
‘Our Lying Eyes’: Inaccurate eyewitness identifications and wrongful convictions
69 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update
69 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
PG&E files for bankruptcy
69 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
GPS Is Going Places
69 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
C++ : if constexpr isn't broken
69 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Human Web – Data Collection Without Privacy Side-Effects
69 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants
69 points • comment • may 13, 2019
SafeLife: AI Safety Environments Based on Conway's Game of Life
69 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
An Introduction to René Girard
69 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
Ask HN: What is the state-of-the-art environment for developing Erlang code?
69 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Q1 2019
69 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Show HN: Parse no-protocol URL, no-domain URI and email addresses etc from text
69 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Cowboy Proves That E-Bikes with Removable Batteries Can Be Beautiful
69 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
We need decentralized communication
69 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Selfie Deaths in the Outdoors
69 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
How War Made the Cigarette
69 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Please Go Away, Tim Berners-Lee
69 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Astronomers Detect Record-Breaking Gamma Ray Bursts
69 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
OpenSSL 3 Strategic Architecture
68 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Future of Racket
68 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Not Quite So Broken
68 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Kelly O’Donnel: flat, non-hierarchical organizations do not work
68 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
A crowd-sourced social media swarm that is betting Tesla will crash
68 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
Latitude Design System
68 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
The wild world of sneaker buying bots (2017)
68 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Bistring – Bidirectionally Transformed Strings
68 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation
68 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Loudspeakers used to make dead coral reefs sound healthy, so fish flock to them
68 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
New physics needed to probe the origins of life
68 points • comment • may 01, 2019
HTTP 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons
68 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers?
68 points • comment • may 11, 2019
All Hands On Deck: In two hours of leaked audio, Zuckerberg rallies Facebook
68 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Major Azure Outage
68 points • comment • may 02, 2019
A Conversation with the Team That Made Bread with Ancient Egyptian Yeast
68 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Culture of ‘Bending Rules’ in India Challenges U.S. Drug Agency
68 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
Introduction to Operating System Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2007) [pdf]
68 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Thousands of New Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive
68 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Climate capitalists have serious money in climate-friendly investments
68 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
The Supply Chain Africa Needs
68 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
The New American Homeless
68 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Correcting the Record on the First Emoji Set
68 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Fractal Fantasy – WebGL and Three.js demos
68 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
How the Government Shutdown Warps Time Itself
68 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Today is Esperanto Book Day – why I learned it (2018)
68 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Danone is engaging all 100k employees in the running of the company
68 points • comment • may 21, 2019
It’s All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the Greeks?
68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Facebook Usage Declines for the First Time in Infinite Dial History
68 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
How I run a small discussion mailing list
68 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
The Slippery Slope of In-Product Messaging
68 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Michel Foucault: Power and Struggle
68 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives
68 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Show HN: Notably – a simple tool for sharing markdown notes
68 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
In the middle of a butterfly crisis, California sees a burst of painted ladies
68 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Penn Effect
68 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
The debate over privacy can't rely on tech giants
68 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
YouTube demonetizing videos where LGBTQ keywords are said
68 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Before the Internet (2017)
68 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
From Unix sysadmin to brutal separatist suppressor to president of Sri Lanka
68 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
First Recorded Usage of “Hacker” (2008)
68 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Breaking Bread: The dark and white flours of ideology
68 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
As German Bund Yields Head to Zero, They Still Beat U.S. Treasuries
68 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (2013)
68 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
How McSema Handles C++ Exceptions
68 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Taming OpenAPI using Racket to create a DSL
68 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
One Man's Life of No Regret (2009)
68 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
SQL Performance Explained, the tuning book for developers, is free today
68 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
San Francisco Considers Ban on Government's Use of Facial Recognition Technology
68 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act
68 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Nasa Set to Demonstrate X-Ray Communications in Space
68 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Boeing whistleblower: 737 MAX safety upgrades were rejected over cost
68 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Why the days seem shorter as we get older
68 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Why should I always enable compiler warnings?
68 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008)
68 points • comment • may 10, 2019
ID editor: It is time for us to end this abusive relationship
68 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Keybase 4.0
68 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Former developer at software company deletes his code to protest its ties to ICE
68 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education (2011) [pdf]
68 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
Ask HN: Why does Google index pages I cannot access?
68 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
GitHub: Partial System Outage
68 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
I created the same app with React and Redux
68 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
What makes ramen noodles so special?
68 points • comment • may 19, 2019
Coding Machines (2009)
68 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Every Vehicle Should Have an Electric Motor, Even If It Doesn’t Have a Plug
68 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Ask HN: I'm trying to represent an entire building as a graph
68 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
Sweden allows every employee to take six months off and start their own business
68 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Global economy is probably in recession
68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019