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Hacker News (2019)

Byju’s buys Osmo for $120M to add blended learning to its education business
65 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
In the Halls of the Mountain Kings
65 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson Sacked over Huawei Leak
65 points • comment • may 01, 2019
For a dentist, the narwhal’s smile is a mystery of evolution (2012)
65 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Facebook Loses Fact-Checking Group Snopes After Two Years
65 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
A Quick Primer on Dig
65 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
GDPR Documents: Your Right to be Informed and Erased
65 points • comment • may 26, 2019
AI and Economic Productivity: Expect Evolution, Not Revolution
65 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
Tapering of SSRI treatment to mitigate withdrawal symptoms
65 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
The Paradoxical Effects of Pursuing Positive Emotion (2013) [pdf]
65 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
I'm not collaborating with Kenneth Reitz
65 points • comment • may 04, 2019
‘In my nightmares I'm always in the sea’: a year on from the Greek fires
65 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
The War to Sell Mattresses Is an Internet Nightmare (2017)
65 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
U.S. Holds Off on Huawei Licenses as China Halts Crop-Buying
65 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Highly Compressed Richard Hamming's Lectures
65 points • comment • may 18, 2019
Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?
65 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Show HN: Two Kilo – A curses-based text editor in 2kb of code
65 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
‘To Get Things More Real’: An Interview with Ira Glass
65 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
A deep dive into macOS MDM and how it can be compromised (2018) [pdf]
65 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
President Tyler, born in 1790, still has two living grandsons (2018) [video]
65 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Boss charters helicopter to find employees in tree over crocodile-infested river
65 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism
65 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Shutdown Will Be Worse for Economy Than First Thought, White House Says
65 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
GNU Wget2 1.99.2 (Beta)
65 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
In Its First Decades, the United States Nurtured Schoolgirl Mapmakers
65 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Show HN: GraphQL Zeus – Autocomplete GraphQL Queries in JavaScript and TS
65 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
ETS protocol does not provide per-session forward secrecy
65 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
Altruism Isn’t Always Attractive
65 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
No paper, no PhD? India rethinks graduate student policy
65 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa
65 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Bruce Schneier: It's time for technologists to become lawmakers
65 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Cortex – An ML model deployment platform that runs in your AWS account
65 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
True Random Number Generator for a True Hacker (2015)
65 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
What's Happened Since February?
65 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Is porn making young men impotent?
65 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
In Search of Lost Time on YouTube
65 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
65 points • comment • may 06, 2019
A Radioactive Lens (2018)
65 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Impossible Foods' next product is sausage
65 points • comment • may 19, 2019
ThorShield Energy Weapon Protection Fabric
65 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Rust at speed – Building a fast concurrent database [video]
65 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
John Wheeler’s H-bomb blues
65 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
Show HN: Health News – Hacker News for Health
65 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Run .NET Core Apps Directly from a GitHub Gist
65 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Free Shipping
65 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Welcome to China. You Probably Can't Buy Anything, Though
65 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Amazon's Latest Supplier Purge Is an Indicator of Price Predation
65 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
How Indian IT Workers Discriminate Against Non Indian Workers
65 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
The brain exceeds the most powerful computers in efficiency
65 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
On the Leaked Google/NASA Quantum Supremacy Paper
65 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Hilbert’s list
65 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Slim Binaries (1997)
65 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die (2015)
65 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
Digging Deeper into Pompeii’s Past
65 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Professional astronomers are calculating the cost of the Starlink constellation
65 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Non-Rectangular Video Cropping with FFMpeg
65 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
A Note on SIMON-32/64 Security
65 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace
65 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Cheese exposed to hip-hop tastes better, finds Swiss experiment
65 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Extreme Light Intensities Using Optically Curved Relativistic Plasma Mirrors
65 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Algol 68
65 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Objective-Smalltalk
65 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp
65 points • comment • may 22, 2019
“I was told to buy a software or lose my computer: I ignored it”
65 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Intro to Docker, React, and Security
65 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
How BugHerd came back from the brink
65 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
IPv6 Address Unmasking via UPnP
65 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Graydon Hoare Talks About Security, History, and Rust
65 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Privilege escalation through Kubernetes dashboard
65 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
Sugary drinks and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort
65 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Jitk: A Trustworthy In-Kernel Interpreter Infrastructure
65 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Ivan Chisov
65 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Egypt's Aswan Damn
65 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
String Algorithms in Lisp
65 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
Pretty PuTTY – Better PuTTY Settings
65 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
Apple’s Great GPL Purge (2012)
65 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Airline tells DACA attendant they're safe to fly abroad. ICE Detains Her
65 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
EHTML: Front-end development can and should be simple
65 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
The great divide
65 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Learning Morse code in the 21st century
65 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Lufthansa Sues Hidden City Ticketholder for Throwing His Ticket
65 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
Launch HN: Multis (YC S19): online business bank account for cryptocurrency
65 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Compiling Knowledge into Probabilistic Models
65 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
The Psychology of Serial Killer Movies
65 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Social media and the concentration of power
65 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Ask HN: React Native or Flutter?
65 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona
65 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
Show HN: Tranquility Calendar
65 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Silicon Valley Is Using Trade Secrets to Hide Its Race Problem
65 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
SEC Charges Comscore Inc. and Former CEO with Accounting and Disclosure Fraud
65 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
How the H-1B Visa System Can Hurt American Workers (2015)
65 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Human Rights at a Global Crossroads – Robert Tibbo and Edward Snowden [video]
65 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
Online pornography age checks for UK web users [video]
65 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
‘Juice Jacking’ Criminals Use Public USB Chargers to Steal Data
65 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Airbus ending A380 program
65 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Implementing a Photo Stylizer in Python Using a QuadTree Algorithm
65 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Who Really Built the First Electric Rock ‘n’ Roll Guitar?
65 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Andreessen Horowitz Returns Slip, According to Internal Data
65 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
The practical value of semantic HTML
65 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Detailed Agenda for a DDD Design-Level Event Storming
65 points • comment • oct 31, 2019