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Hacker News (2019)

Statistics have lost their power (2017)
57 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Understanding the Network Interface Card
57 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Why Nadal is unbeatable on clay
57 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
The Prague Astronomical Clock
57 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
Tell HN: Digicert is turning into Symantec
57 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
Not Long Ago, Lenses Were Much Lighter
57 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
The Computer as a Communication Device
57 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Truckers Reap New Riches
57 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city
57 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Announcing Microsoft Web Template Studio
57 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Snap’s Secret Weapon Speaks
57 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Time passed since cURL creator applied for a US visa
57 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Maintaining the Kernel's Web of Trust
57 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
The End of Dynamic Languages
57 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Brian May completes stereoscopic 'devil cards' collection
57 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Chinese, Taiwanese Restaurants Drop 'Golden' and 'Dragon'-Take on Mandarin Names
57 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy
57 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Making the world a better place for the colorblind
57 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Cars and the Fourth Amendment
57 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
India's starry dwarf frog, lone member of newly discovered ancient lineage
57 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
A Reality Check on Quantum Computers
57 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
When Facebook goes down, an economy goes with it
57 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
USAF’s Missing Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (2016)
57 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Google finds it underpaid men
57 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Uranium Contaminates Water Across California's Central Valley
57 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
Ask HN: Why does front-end development change so often?
57 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
CBP Agent Rams Vehicle into Videographer
57 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Reviewing Zeppelin and Jupyter Notebooks
57 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
U.S. is behind on 5G rules and deployment
57 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
A Tale on Semirings (2018)
57 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Light Seems to Pull Electrons Backward
57 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Idea that some species have stopped evolving is finally going extinct (2015)
57 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Major Saudi Arabia oil facilities hit by Houthi drone strikes
57 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Companies that launched at YC’s W19 Demo Day 2
57 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Logo 15-word challenge (1997)
57 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Ask HN: Has your company ever needed a line of credit?
57 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Some models of Airbus A350 airliners need to be hard rebooted after 149 hours
57 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
When targets and metrics are bad for business
57 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Who cares about functional programming?
57 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Diskee: Apollo's Most Important Crewmember
57 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires
57 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
On logic in a Rails app, revisited 6 years later
57 points • comment • may 18, 2019
Moving Beyond Types (2017)
57 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice: ethics dumping
57 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Going 100% Green Will Pay for Itself in Seven Years, Study Finds
57 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Beta: Tool for a Linguist
57 points • comment • may 24, 2019
You don’t have to be “pro-nuclear” or “anti-nuclear.”
57 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
V8 release 7.5
57 points • comment • may 16, 2019
DoH: Anti-Competitive and Network Neutrality Aspects
57 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Individualism, Self-Selection, Cultural Change During the Age of Mass Migration [pdf]
57 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
On Authorship and Style (1860)
57 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
What No One Is Telling You About Caster Semenya: She Has XY Chromosomes
57 points • comment • may 05, 2019
Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us
57 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
A Matchmaker Who Flirts on Dating Apps for You (2017)
57 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Big Tech's Big Defector: Roger McNamee
57 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
The Cult of Homework
57 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Stripe's 210 Day Hold Practices
57 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
How Apple Card Works
57 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
The No-Algorithms Follow-Up
57 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Cryptography of SSH (2006)
57 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Why is strlen so complex in C?
57 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Being a middle-aged junior
57 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Lifting the lid on Japan’s bento boxes
57 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
A cartoon intro to WebAssembly (2017)
57 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Always the Model, Never the Artist
57 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Deep learning applications in drug discovery and protein structure analysis
57 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm
57 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Former Unity Technology VP files lawsuit alleging CEO sexually harassed her
57 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Show HN: Who Arms the World?
57 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
India’s destruction of satellite threatens ISS, says Nasa
57 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Librem 5 June Software Update
57 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
57 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Emulating a PlayStation 1 (PSX) Entirely with C# and .NET
57 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
ReSeq: Repurposing HiSeq DNA Sequencers
57 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Some BBC election result stories were computer-generated
57 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
He Disparaged the Police on Facebook. So They Arrested Him
57 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Are Saskatraz bees an answer to colony collapse?
57 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Hams try to re-carve the amateur radio spectrum
57 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
A Eulogy for Objective-C (2015)
57 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Join Firefox – Take your stand against an industry that’s making you the product
57 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Cruise-line companies are building private Caribbean play zones
57 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Itinerant – a fuzzy weather forecast app
57 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Train advice from the Man in Seat 61 How to travel by train worldwide
57 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
“I just started writing some Rust”
57 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Unlike Babies, the Best Managers Come with Instructions
57 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Selfie: reflections on TLS 1.3 with PSK
57 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Deadspin Staffers Are Quitting
57 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Machine learning on graphs: A free, four part lecture course
57 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone
57 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys
57 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Improving our homemade JavaScript obfuscator
57 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Amazon to give power to brands to remove fakes from website
57 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Node-based a/v composition: programs as graphs and graphs as compositional tools
57 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Neural Network Perspective (1993) [pdf]
57 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Systemd needs official documentation on best practices
57 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Wfirst, the Space Telescope with the Power of 100 Hubbles
57 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? (2017)
57 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor
57 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
New technology turns everyday trash into plastic treasure
57 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Rewards for loyal spenders are 'a honey pot for hackers'
57 points • comment • may 11, 2019