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Hacker News (2019)

Oracle’s Larry Ellison Calls Uber and WeWork ‘Almost Worthless’ – Barron's
55 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Parrot Detained for Yelling 'Police' to Warn Its Owners About a Drug Raid
55 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Chess2vec: Learning Vector Representations for Chess (2018) [pdf]
55 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
Open Source Is Eternal
55 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Zuckerberg threatens “major lawsuit” if Warren tries to break up Facebook
55 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Robotics startup Anki is shutting down
55 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
The MIT Dropouts Who Created Ms. Pac-Man (2017)
55 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Microsoft hints at new modern Windows OS with ‘invisible’ background updates
55 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Show HN: BrachioGraph, an easy-to-build pen-plotter, driven by Python
55 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
The Missing Readline Primer
55 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills? (2018)
55 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
People Call My Photos Fake but They're Not
55 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Talking Is Throwing Fictional Worlds at One Another
55 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Loss of America’s Largest Aquifer – the Ogallala (2018)
55 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Grubhub made websites for many restaurants, sometimes without owners’ knowledge
55 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
A missing letter helped create a tech billionaire
55 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Apple is an ally in name only on tightening privacy laws
55 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Argon-16 Computer
55 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Potemkin Village
55 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Listen to jungle sounds with the SAFE project
55 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Elinor Ostrom's Principles for Managing a Commons (2011)
55 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Code Review from the Command Line (2018)
55 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Host Protected Area
55 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Same-sex marriage legalization associated with reduced antigay bias
55 points • comment • may 07, 2019
C-mera – Lisp syntax with C semantics
55 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
The U.S. Withdrawal from the INF Treaty Is the Next Step in a Global Arms Race
55 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Simjacker: SIM card flaw lets hackers hijack any phone by sending SMS
55 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
A Post Mortem on Growth Hacking
55 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
16-Inch MacBook Pro Said to Launch in September
55 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor
55 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works
55 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
San Francisco Bay Is Filled with Boats, but What Do They Do?
55 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
The Gravity of a Photon
55 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Chinese New Year Is World’s Biggest Human Migration
55 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
The FreeDOS Project turns 25
55 points • comment • jun 29, 2019
RetDec: open-source machine-code decompiler based on LLVM
55 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
MakerLisp Machine: An EZ80 CPU Card Running Bare-Metal Lisp [video]
55 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Push Journalism vs. Pull Journalism
55 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Jobs, Jobs Everywhere, but Most of Them Kind of Suck
55 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba
55 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Head of Chinese research integrity is exposed for scientific fraud
55 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
The Internet Saved the Record Labels
55 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to hand over user passwords
55 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Facebook’s So-Called Pivot to Privacy Is a Diversion
55 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
He Was Murdered in a Hate Crime. She Brought His Blood-Soaked Phone Back to Life
55 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
A Review of Tiny Languages (2016)
55 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Semantic Drift
55 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Visit to the World's Fair of 2014 (1964)
55 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
China introduces facial-recognition step to get new mobile number
55 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Ask HN: Work-life balance?
55 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Potosí: the mountain of silver that was the first global city
55 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Show HN: Mapipedia
55 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
How Apple's Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustrating parents
55 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Making Swallowing Safer for those who have trouble swallowing
55 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Constant-Time Mul
55 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Finland passes enhanced surveillance bills without a vote
55 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Leaks in Persistent Memory
55 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
GitHub Status – Incident on 2019-03-12
55 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
In Praise of Samuel R. Delany
55 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Father Time
55 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 3
55 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
Using Ed25519 signing keys for encryption
55 points • comment • may 19, 2019
Ask HN: What has made you a better problem solver in software engineering?
55 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Multi-Person Pose Estimation with Enhanced Channel-wise and Spatial Information
55 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Choice Hotels Suffers Data Breach, Exposing 700k Customer Records
55 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
Stop the Bots: Practical Lessons in Machine Learning
55 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Fermented Foods: Definitions and Characteristics, Impact on Gut Microbiota etc.
55 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Color Hunt – Color Palettes for Designers and Artists
55 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
Cable Company Fees Add $450 to Typical Annual Bill
55 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Show HN: Web Components for Dynamic Scripture References
55 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Show HN: A weekend replication of STOKE, a stochastic superoptimiser
55 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
A taste for fat may have made us human, says study
55 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
National Certificate in Kazakhstan Is Canceled
55 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
On a Remote Island, a Lost Part of the World Is Found
55 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Ask HN: Client replaced me with offshore team – what could I have done?
55 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
PBS Launching Streaming Service on Amazon Prime
55 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Investigating Privilege Escalation Methods in AWS
55 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Ask HN: How do you manage state in your React application?
55 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
Jumping out of a Google's bubble. It's more than just a matter of self-respect
55 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006)
55 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Going from macOS to Ubuntu
55 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
SIGSALY – Secure Speech System Used in WWII by the Allies
55 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Rust implementation of projects from “Modern Compiler Implementation in ML”
55 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
Update on New Zealand
55 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
The discovery of the ancient Greek city of Tenea
55 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
Ask HN: Company is firing all employees – should I still exercise my options?
55 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Columbia Silences Its Marching Band
55 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
The Fortran Automatic Coding System (1957) [pdf]
55 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
“Run from Adobe Creative Cloud”
55 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Atari 800 vs. Commodore 64 – The Brief Tale of Two 8-Bit Home Computers
55 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Ask HN: Where is Julian Assange, what's happening to him now?
55 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Why I no longer use GitHub (2018)
55 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’
55 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
What Citrix is doing with Xenserver
55 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Walking Stewart
55 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
I’m Only 9, and I’m Already in College. Here’s What Life Is Like for Me
55 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Pre-Prod HoneyComb LX2K 16-Core Mini ITX Arm Workstation Pre-Order for $550
55 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Google partners to fund new local media sites
55 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
America has never gone this long without hiking the federal minimum wage
55 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Writing a Fast JSON Parser
55 points • comment • feb 13, 2019