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Hacker News (2019)

Liverpool’s Crosby Beach Is a Mile of World War II Blitz Rubble
59 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Lessons Learned from Kaggle’s Airbus Challenge
59 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Uber: 3,045 Sexual Assaults Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year
59 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)
59 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Cl-cpp-generator – A Common Lisp library to generate C/C++ code
59 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Banned Drugs in the Meat Supply?
59 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Some progress on CO2 sequestration technologies
59 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
JLua: Yet another Lua implementation in JavaScript
59 points • comment • may 25, 2019
My failures: Civic technology ideas that didn’t quite work (2015)
59 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Amazon’s Power Reviewers
59 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Show HN: ReactiveSearch Vue – Build Search UIs in Record Time
59 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9%
59 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
A Junkyard Billionaire
59 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Star Control: Origins removed from Steam after DMCA takedown notice
59 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
Build Your First Real-Time App in Node
59 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
AI will enable predictive design in creatives
59 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
A More Natural Stackless Coroutine in C That Maintains Local Variables
59 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Data-Driven Flowcharts in R Using DiagrammeR
59 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
AT&T lays off thousands after getting billions in tax breaks, regulatory favors
59 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Each day a cruise ship emits as much particulate matter as a million cars
59 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Marvin Minsky involved in the Jeffrey Epstein 'sex slave' scandal
59 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Show HN: Atlas – Interactively Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets
59 points • comment • may 13, 2019
The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
59 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Electro-Migration in a Xerox Alto
59 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
A mosque rebuilt once a year
59 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
MacOS Finder Shows Zero-Size Folders
59 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Founded Avast
59 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
The Internet’s Back-to-the-Land Movement
59 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
The Lost City of Heracleion
59 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser
59 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms
59 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Sampling a Procedural Sky
59 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Crossing Lake Michigan in a Bathtub
59 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
U.S. DoD bought phony military gear made in China
59 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
Grappling with Infinity in Constraint Solvers
59 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Great Talks Most People Have Never Heard
59 points • comment • may 28, 2019
To plot my next murder, I went to the Body Farm
59 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
C64 Power C Tutorial
59 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Why Blameless Post-Mortems
59 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
Court: Photographer has no recourse against university copyright infringement
59 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
WeWork Gave Founder Loans as It Paid Him Rent, IPO Filing Shows
59 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
Nine Charged in Alleged SIM Swapping Ring
59 points • comment • may 11, 2019
WeWork's Adam Neumann will reportedly get a $1.7b deal to step down from board
59 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
The yodeler who sued Yahoo
59 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Time to do away with the UX discipline?
59 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District
59 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Ask HN: Do we need Google captcha?
59 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD
59 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
Feeding wild animals can lead to trouble
59 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
I replicated an $86M project using open-source libraries (2017)
59 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Netflix drops 10% after missing on global paid subscribers
59 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
ReadMe (YC W15) Raises 9M Series A from Accel and Y Combinator
59 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
High in the Cascades, a lone fire lookout still keeps watch
59 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Expert Says Indians Will Soon Be Water Refugees Heading for Water-Rich Europe
59 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Autonomous Weapons Need Autonomous Lawyers
59 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Nabokov Was Right About Butterflies (2011)
59 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
RethinkDB 2.4.0 Is Out
59 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Investigating the impact removing password masking has on consumer trust (2014)
59 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Why The Public Radio is sixty dollars (2018)
59 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
What’s Up with Ancient Greek Epitaphs
59 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
59 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Ask HN: Fired from my first job – how do I talk about it during interviews?
59 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
The Spanish Prisoner: On the Future of Libra and Bitcoin
59 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Why I don’t love light rail transit
59 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Astronomers draw first global map of Titan
59 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Why big business can count on courts to keep its deadly secrets
59 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Harvard admits to receiving $9M from Jeffrey Epstein
59 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Elon Musk Claims on Tesla Chips Don't Match the Reality
58 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Scientists use big data to understand what separates winners from losers
58 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Cameras that guess age and sex are coming to store shelves
58 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Twitter wants feedback on its proposed deepfakes policy
58 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Fact-checking chatbot “Meiyu” shuts down dubious family texts
58 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Fuzzing vs. Property Testing
58 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
Why a Traffic Flow Suddenly Turns into a Traffic Jam (2013)
58 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
A Leaky Cryptocurrency Faucet
58 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Extraterrestrial organic matter preserved in 3.33 Ga sediments from Barberton
58 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Ask HN: How do you maintain balance between all the things you want to do?
58 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Cloudflare's CTO Wants to Shake Up How We Think About VPNs
58 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Microsoft bans employees from using Slack, discourages AWS and Google Docs
58 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Launch HN: Centaur Labs (YC W19) – Labeling Medical Images at Scale
58 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
Python is not a great programming language
58 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Thunderbolt 3 becomes USB4, royalty-free
58 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Case of the Missing Women
58 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Tuning a Typewriter
58 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Was Ramesses II That Great?
58 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Seabed 2030 project aims to map the entire ocean floor
58 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Google Translator Toolkit is shutting down
58 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Bastion Fort
58 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Biased Reference Counting: Minimizing atomic operations in GC (2018) [pdf]
58 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Show HN: Sparser – A Multilanguage Parser
58 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Alex Honnold's next summit: the rest of his life
58 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Slack Says Board Member Made Unauthorized Comments to CNBC
58 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Federal safety agency launches probe of Tesla battery fires
58 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Battling Ebola in a war zone
58 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Show HN: MyPodium – An audio-only social network
58 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High
58 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online (1998)
58 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Exploiting Chrome V8: Krautflare
58 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
Newly recovered Ground Zero photos show why you should back up your CD-Rs now
58 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
“Organized Intimacy” events in the Bay Area
58 points • comment • mar 08, 2019