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Hacker News (2019)

New technology enabling scientists to identify origins of illegal timber
52 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Ask HN: Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox compared to Chrome?
52 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap
52 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Electoral College Members Can Defy Voters’ Wishes, Court Rules
52 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Another Study Blames Uber and Lyft for Public Transit’s Decline
52 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
The Far Side is officially online for the first time, with new comics to come
52 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
TypeScript Roadmap 2019
52 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
A Cool Utility to Monitor Netlify Builds Directly on Your JAMStack Site
52 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Tor Browser 8.0.8
52 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Reversing a real-world 249 bytes backdoor
52 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
China Is Currently Holding 1,600 Teslas at Customs
52 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
China’s internet warriors going to battle over Hong Kong
52 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Big Brother is smartwatching you: China's workers monitored by wearable tech
52 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Study shows e-bike riders get more exercise than cyclists
52 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
The Milton Bradley Big Trak
52 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Billionaires extract wealth rather than create it
52 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers
52 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
List of Assassination Attempts on Adolf Hitler
52 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Show HN: SoundZoom – Microtonal and Isomorphic Keyboard HTML5 App
52 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Semantic Validation in Rust
52 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
The Mercury logic programming system
52 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Short bursts of exercise may prime the brain for learning
52 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Researchers discuss the challenges posed by science’s embrace of English
52 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Downward Mobility (1982)
52 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Removing Your Site from the Wayback Machine
52 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Two standard alcoholic drinks a day no longer safe, health officials say
52 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Writing a Hyper-V Bridge for Fuzzing: Hypercalls and MDLs
52 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
MacBook keyboard problems: Apple fails to halt class action over flawed design
52 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Tech workers are organizing and demanding democracy in the workplace
52 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Dropbox Hires New CTO and GM
52 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on what it means to be “an African writer”
52 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
A single-celled organism that can live on material from a meteorite
52 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Enters Close Orbit Around Bennu
52 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Beyond reason: the mathematical equation for unconditional love
52 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
Show HN: Draftss – Design and Code on Monthly Subscription
52 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Show HN: MailLord – Pixel Perfect HTML Email Editor
52 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Ackermann Goo
52 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just covered ageism?
52 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
The Morrell Airship Collapse
52 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
A clear-eyed view of open software funding, impediments, and possibilities
52 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
A Science Fiction Terminal Emulator for Linux
52 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
How Uber, Facebook and Netflix Do SSH
52 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
A Hardware Accelerator for Tracing Garbage Collection
52 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Borges’s Mirror
52 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at airports
52 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
The High-Stakes Race to Build the World’s First Flying Taxi
52 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Liverpool Football Club’s reliance on analytics
52 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Exploring the Visible Spectrum in Python
52 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Writing an Interpreter in SQL for Fun and No Profit [video]
52 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
A Scheme syntax-rules primer (2008)
52 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Two amateur sleuths discover ancient rock art in the plains of India
52 points • comment • may 16, 2019
US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'
52 points • comment • may 30, 2019
R vs. Python for Data Science
52 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds
52 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
New U.S. Experiments Aim to Create Gene-Edited Human Embryos
52 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Tootdon App sends a copy of every post to a central corporate server
52 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Fuzzy and semantic search for captioned YouTube videos
51 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
Tesla will close most of its stores and only sell cars online
51 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
Who Will Buy Canonical and SUSE?
51 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Parallel recursion scheme detection in Haskell via anti-unification (2017) [pdf]
51 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Unhappy customer asked to sign legal agreement not to write a bad review
51 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
I Tested the Saving Technique That Promises Retirement at 40
51 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Fast-SRGAN: Deep learning model to convert low res pictures to high res
51 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
The Markup faces staff exodus and funder scrutiny following Julia Angwin ouster
51 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
Seeing France’s Wild Mountains Through a Clouded, Classic Windshield
51 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
US Wants to Use Facial Recognition on All Travelers Leaving the Country
51 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Penn Jillette’s Surprising Success as a Computer Columnist
51 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
UK weather: February temperature jump was incredible, says climate expert
51 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Israeli startup claims to succeed where Theranos failed
51 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
Google shifted $23 bln to tax haven Bermuda in 2017
51 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
During a Solar Eclipse, What Are Plants Doing?
51 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
The drivers of big tech’s growth are losing momentum
51 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
GCC's Assembler Syntax
51 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Acid test: on drugs and science fiction (2017)
51 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
San Francisco Bans Cashless Stores
51 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
The Internet Is Making You Less Free
51 points • comment • may 02, 2019
To be a good software engineer, become a French skeptic
51 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Coder (Visual Studio Code in browser) goes open source
51 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Japan's 7-Eleven payment app gives easy access to scammers
51 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Metamorphic Testing
51 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Magnus: Shazam for Art
51 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News
51 points • comment • may 04, 2019
Ransomware Gang's Victim Cracks Their Server, Releases All Their Decryption Keys
51 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Tesla increases price of all Model 3 variants, even ‘off-the-menu’ base model
51 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Choosing the Wrong Lane in the Race to 5G
51 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Regulators Move to Ease Post-Crisis Oversight of Wall Street
51 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
CodeTips – Learn to programme, with little or no prior experience
51 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Pāṇini: Catching the Ocean in a Cow’s Hoofprint
51 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Teen sexting is an overblown moral panic, according to a new study
51 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Ride the Serverless Wave with DigitalOcean's One-Click Droplet
51 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Small business VoIP phone system setup tutorial
51 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Infinite JavaScript alert() prank gets 13-year-old Japanese girl charged
51 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Boeing Engineer Complaint Cites Focus on Profit over Safety on 737 Max
51 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Amazon has finally admitted to investors that it has a counterfeit problem
51 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Easily delete all contacts uploaded to Instagram and Facebook
51 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance [pdf]
51 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Replay in biological and artificial neural networks
51 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Tell HN: Udacity is deprioritizing its app and will eventually remove it
51 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
StarTram
51 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Ray Kurzweil 2019 Predictions
51 points • comment • jan 02, 2019