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Hacker News (2019)

How do you compute the midpoint of an interval? (2014) [pdf]
68 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Kelly O’Donnel: flat, non-hierarchical organizations do not work
68 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Radicle Architecture
68 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Latitude Design System
68 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
The Slippery Slope of In-Product Messaging
68 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007)
68 points • comment • jun 29, 2019
Microsoft bans April's fools pranks
68 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Please, My Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick
68 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?
68 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
It’s the End of California as We Know It
68 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Writing a Procedural Puzzle Generator
68 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Coding Machines (2009)
68 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
When Gravity Breaks Down
68 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
Data as a Property Right
68 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Three Men Charged in ‘Swatting’ Schemes
68 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Show HN: Simple File Hosting on a CDN
68 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Minard / Morse / Tufte and Authenticity on the Web (2018)
68 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (2013)
68 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Anthropologist Richard Wrangham on the emergence of homo sapiens
68 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Lombok Saved My Ass
68 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
The men fighting Florida’s python epidemic
68 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
On System Design (2006) [pdf]
68 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
When to Buy Your Own ISBNs
68 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Someone found a way to bypass Windows 7 Extended Security Updates checks
68 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
DoX: DNS Queries over XMPP
68 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Show HN: Notably – a simple tool for sharing markdown notes
68 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Ways to Bring Tech Jobs to Rural Areas
68 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
DOMPurify, Security in the DOM, and Why We Really Need Both [pdf]
68 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Ask HN: What are the best open-access journals for non-academics to submit to?
68 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
68 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
First impressions of Filecoin
68 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
Avoid 100vh on Mobile Web
68 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Save Data Directly to B2 with Backblaze Cloud Backup 6.0
68 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
A Conversation with the Team That Made Bread with Ancient Egyptian Yeast
68 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
No, Your Instagram ‘Influence’ Is Not as Good as Cash, Club Owner Says
68 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy
68 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Which Face Is Real?
68 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (1995)
68 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Nasa Set to Demonstrate X-Ray Communications in Space
68 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Breaking Bread: The dark and white flours of ideology
68 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
I have been hired for more than 10 years, and I have this simple rule
68 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Tell HN: Docker just ate 19GB of production data
68 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Show HN: We Got Sick of Giving Out 'Ballpark Estimates' So We Built This
68 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
It’s All Greek to You and Me, So What Is It to the Greeks?
68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
New paper quantifies how quickly Southern planters recovered from the civil war
68 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
ID editor: It is time for us to end this abusive relationship
68 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
“Hyperscans” Show How Brains Sync as People Interact
68 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Testing Google Stadia [video]
68 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
The “sewing machine” for minimally invasive neural recording
68 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Concerns grow regarding sea ice and Greenland’s ice sheet
68 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Refurbishing Classic Quad Electrostatic Loudspeakers
68 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
How Tunnel Boring Works (2011) [video]
68 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Please be more careful when interpreting the Stack Overflow Developer Survey
68 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Pentagon Ordered to Tell Congress If It Weaponized Ticks and Released Them
68 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
One Man's Life of No Regret (2009)
68 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
Today is Esperanto Book Day – why I learned it (2018)
68 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
How to make sure your talk doesn't suck (2011) [pdf]
68 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act
68 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
AI Helps Classify Lung Cancer at the Pathologist Level
68 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Finala: A cloud scanner that analyzes wasteful and unused resources
68 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
New physics needed to probe the origins of life
68 points • comment • may 01, 2019
The empathetic humanities have much to teach our adversarial culture
68 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
The Wire Image of a Network Protocol
68 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
What Happened to Software Development?
68 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Undercover video suggests Facebook wants extreme and disturbing content
68 points • comment • may 31, 2019
How do you deal with depression?
68 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Parenting by the Numbers
68 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Simone Weil is the patron saint of anomalous persons
68 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Every Vehicle Should Have an Electric Motor, Even If It Doesn’t Have a Plug
68 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Ask HN: Why does Google index pages I cannot access?
68 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Ask HN: What's your preferred way of ensuring complex database integrity?
68 points • comment • may 14, 2019
IKEA invests 200M euro to become climate positive by 2030
68 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Another ZFS Port on Linux
68 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Using the computer as a tool for thinking in discrete mathematics (2017)
68 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
A Yukaghir girl writes a love letter
68 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Tell HN: CNN Lite no longer functional
68 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer”
68 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Future of Racket
68 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Browsing a Remote Git Repository
68 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
Ask HN: Affordable, online university for getting a degree to quit programming?
68 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Delivery apps like DoorDash are using tips to pay workers’ wages
68 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Detectron2: A PyTorch-based modular object detection library
68 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
How to prepare a technical interview (and why good programmers also fail)
68 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
The ProtonCalendar Security Model
68 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Distortion-Free Wide-Angle Portraits on Camera Phones [video]
68 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Amazon EKS Windows Container Support Now Generally Available
68 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Global economy is probably in recession
68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Starship – a cross-shell prompt written in Rust
68 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Libraries Are Scanning Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain
68 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Penn Effect
68 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
M44 (Cyanide Device)
68 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
A Shipwreck, 500 Years Old, Appears on the Baltic Seabed
68 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
The New American Homeless
68 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
‘Silicon Valley,’ S6E2 – a billion dollars to violate your principles
68 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Disney, IP, and “Returns to Marginal Affinity”
68 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
WeWork Accepts SoftBank Takeover Offer
68 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Making AI Philosophical Again: On Philip E. Agre’s Legacy (2014)
68 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Orangutan with Human Rights Begins New Life in Florida
68 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Symmetry454
68 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
68 points • comment • dec 06, 2019