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Hacker News (2019)

Counting in the wrong language
59 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Cosmology Has Some Big Problems
59 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Load-Bearing Internet People
59 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
How Iceland recreated a Viking-age religion
59 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Debugging Software Deployments with Strace
59 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
Mozilla announces ban on Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code
59 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Making Protein Using Air, Water, Electricity, and Microbes
59 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
The Next Generation (I3en) of I/O-Optimized EC2 Instances
59 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor
59 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Show HN: Hack – new Hacker News iOS client with swipe to upvote, favorite, reply
59 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Sebastião Salgado: Gold
59 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Generative Deep Learning
59 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Best Practices for ML Engineering
59 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Ask HN: How to Get Good at Sales?
59 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Oracle on why it thinks AWS winning the Pentagon's $10bn Jedi contract stinks
59 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans
59 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Drink Poison and Smile: How I Arrived at My Position of Pro-Democracy
59 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Biography of Hiroyuki Nishimura: The Father of 2channel
59 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (October 2019)
59 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
FDA is considering drugs to help kids quit vaping
59 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
What Color Is Khaki, Anyway?
59 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
What interactives can do that articles can’t (2018)
59 points • comment • may 13, 2019
The day Volkswagen briefly conquered the world (2018)
59 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
VLC developers refuse to consider updates over HTTPS
59 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
I started a business selling swim trunks made from recycled plastic bottles
59 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Engineering Security (2014) [pdf]
59 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
Aceto: A programming language based on a 2D Hilbert curve grid
59 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
The Troubled History of Psychiatry
59 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Blockbuster Could Have Bought Netflix for $50M
59 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Apple responds to Spotify with words, but no real answers
59 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
In-Memory-Only ELF Execution Without Tmpfs
59 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
A lesson in shortcuts (2012)
59 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
California Live Fire Maps
59 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Sviatoslav Richter: A Pianist Who Made the Earth Move (2015)
59 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Minimal Wim
59 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Does Jeff Bezos Have a Legal Case Against the National Enquirer?
59 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
Launch HN: Lazy Lantern (YC S19) – Detect Meaningful Patterns in Your Analytics
59 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS
59 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx with first and only tweet for account
59 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Skymind (YC W16) raises $11.5M to bring deep learning to more enterprises
59 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Twitter's future could look a lot like its past
59 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
New Scooter Removal Service Appears
59 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge
59 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
The plane that led D-Day is flying back to Normandy
59 points • comment • may 23, 2019
A new look, logo, and website for Fastmail
59 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Is screen time good or bad? It’s not that simple
59 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads
59 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Artyping (1939)
59 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
How Trolls Overran the Public Square
59 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
YouTube’s anti-extremism crackdown targets journalist who documents extremism
59 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
War Elephants
59 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Jim Henson's “Paperwork Explosion” (1967) [video]
59 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
The Broomway
59 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
The BETA Programming Language
59 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
Bringing Google Live Transcribe's Speech Engine to Everyone
59 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Plotting hearts with Python and C
59 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Photoacoustic Effect
59 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Using the IOMMU for Safe and Secure User Space Drivers [pdf]
59 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Scaling NSQ to 750B Messages (2016)
59 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
AI text generator not released for concerns about implications
59 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
Ransomware hackers are targeting managed service providers for local governments
59 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Pitchers Adulterating Baseballs
59 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
British Expedition to Abyssinia
59 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
German police ask for help in identifying a bomber's MAC address
59 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
How to chain multiple functions in JavaScript properly with async/await
59 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
The U.S. Navy has bought four robot submarines from Boeing
59 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Apple Computer: Scorpius Architectural Specification (1988)
59 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
A digital archive of all public utterances of Mark Zuckerberg spanning 2004-2019
59 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
Show HN: Schema.org with GitHub and scripts: A tool to make data more useful
59 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Machine learning in the judicial system is a bad idea
59 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Teaching Ethics in Appalachia Taught Me About Bridging America’s Partisan Divide
59 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Strong and Weak Technologies
59 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Is a Boeing Bailout Taking Shape?
59 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Comparing Rust and JavaScript Ergonomics with a Simple Linked List
59 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Historical Computers in Japan
59 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Creating a collaborative app using CRDTs
59 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
S3st: Stream data from multiple S3 objects directly into your terminal
59 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
Deck-build – A powerful and tiny bash framework to build custom Docker images
59 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Modern microprocessor built from complementary carbon nanotube transistors
59 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
Blendle ditches pay-per-article service
59 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Poetry v1.0.0 Released
59 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Behind the ACH’s Sizzling Growth
59 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Pagers, faxes and cheques: Things that might seem obsolete, but aren't
59 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
A 5km Asteroid May Briefly Occult the Brightest Star in the Night Sky
59 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Tech recommendations for transit systems (2018)
59 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Vulnerability in Tesla Website Used to Find Details of 8500 Cars in US Inventory
59 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Show HN: ClearBrain (YC W18) – Automated Causal Analytics
59 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Lose and You’ll Win – How to Reflect on Failure
59 points • comment • may 07, 2019
DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
59 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Productivity tricks in Visual Studio
59 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
On Polysemous Mathematical Illustration [video]
59 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Cryptography Quotes
59 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
Vox Media Acquires New York Magazine
59 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Chevron exec enlists Arizona retirees in effort against electric cars
59 points • comment • may 29, 2019
NYC Votes to Close Rikers Island
59 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Self-Driving Cars Might Kill Auto Insurance as We Know It
59 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Show HN: Free React template that makes “Admin Dashboards” easy
59 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
The universe may be a billion years younger than we thought
59 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Show HN: A Quantum Perceptron – First Steps in QML
59 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Average American Has Just 4 Hours, 26 Minutes of Free Time per Week
59 points • comment • apr 06, 2019