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Hacker News (2019)

Postgres: Abusing Security Definer Functions
50 points • comment • may 17, 2019
A new type of genetic profiling
50 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Flying High Unpressurized (2016)
50 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
Effects of microgravity on cell-level cardiac function and gene expression
50 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Linux Benchmark Scripts and Tools
50 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
Abnormal String Hashing
50 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Uber goes into reverse as first day stock price disappoints
50 points • comment • may 10, 2019
I moved my sites from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify and saved $1000 / year
50 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17
50 points • comment • may 29, 2019
An Interview with Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer and Former Purism CTO
50 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism (2018)
50 points • comment • may 27, 2019
Shining some light on the history of OS/2, Win9x and NT
50 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Google Play Instant feature plugin deprecation
50 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Thousands of tardigrades crash-land on the moon. Did they survive?
50 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Facebook says it will use AI to determine when someone has died
50 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Non-Lexical Lifetimes in Rust Arrives for Everyone
50 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Saudi Arabia accused of hacking London-based dissident
50 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Memory Checking
50 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Hand Skills – Doctors of Sewing Needed
50 points • comment • may 31, 2019
The Next Word: Where will predictive text take us?
50 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
See with Ears: Auditory Display for Synthetic Vision (2018)
50 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
California bans private prisons and detention centers
50 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Democratizing Chrome Extension Security
50 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Massachusetts state police have been testing out Boston Dynamics' robot dog
50 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Local Minima, Saddle Points, and Plateaus
50 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Fire One, Fire Ten: Implications of the Torpedo Scandal of World War II (2018)
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
New $14 esp32 VGA/mouse/keyboard/VT100 computer capable of running micropython
50 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Fires in Brazil
50 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Launch HN: CSPA (YC S18) – SAT for Software Engineers
50 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
APLcart – Find Your Way in APL
50 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Visibility of IPv4 and IPv6 Prefix Lengths in 2019
50 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
A rich and joyous book about pigeons
50 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
The World Economy Just Can’t Escape Its Low-Growth, Low-Inflation Rut
50 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
Cutting through the smog: making an air quality bot with Haskell
50 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Software Career Anti-Patterns
50 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
This Cities: Skylines build recreates the honeycomb Detroit that could have been
50 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Announcing GraalVM 19
50 points • comment • may 09, 2019
France Is Still Cleaning Up Marie Curie’s Nuclear Waste
50 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Noclip
50 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Linux exists only because of a happy accident
50 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Chinese AI: Year 1 of ChinAI
50 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Show HN: I built a FOSS service to protect against link shorteners tracking us
50 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drugs test
50 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
Running an Underground Lottery in Detroit
50 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Lessons from History
50 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
How ‘Am I the Asshole?’ became the internet’s most profound query
50 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
The Real Best Picture: A Look at the Data
50 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019
50 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Alibaba Puts SDK Flutter to the Test
50 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
The ARM SoC Landscape from Genode's Perspective
50 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Retirees Might Run Out of Money 10 Years Before They Die
50 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Buffon's Needle Problem
50 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Anatomy of the 4040 Disk Drive (1988)
50 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Google, Industry Try to Water Down First U.S. Data-Privacy Law
50 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
In China, tattoos border on illegal – and they're his life's work
50 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
GoFundMe CEO: One-Third of Site's Donations Are to Cover Medical Costs
50 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Suicide instructions spliced into kids’ cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids
50 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
New prosthetic limbs go beyond the functional to allow people to ‘feel’ again
50 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
The case for vanilla front-end development
50 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Space Launch Now – Spaceflight News and Events
50 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors
50 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Professor quietly takes student’s work and files it as a patent in China
50 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Astronomers have spotted the universe’s first molecule
50 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Wireless Networking in DOS
50 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Prisons Are an Abomination
50 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Writing a small ray tracer in Rust and Zig
50 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
The most in-demand skills for designers, by level
50 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain
50 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Period Three Implies Chaos (1975) [pdf]
50 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Why Experts Are Wrong About AV1 Being Slow
50 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
RealTalk Speech Synthesis
50 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Show HN: A Markdown Notepad App
50 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Ola Bini: privacy defender, free software developer still in detention in Ecuado
50 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
A Small Colorado Town Ran Out of Water
50 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
The Efficiency Delusion
50 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
Gist Is Down
50 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco (2016)
50 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
Google refused to call out China over disinformation about Hong Kong
50 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Vivaldi 2.6
50 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
It may be possible to extract electricity directly from damp air
50 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Another dubious claim that someone has “decoded” the Voynich manuscript
50 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze (2017)
50 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Ask HN: Have you started a business because nobody wanted to hire you?
50 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
The One Notebook Habit (2018)
50 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Why American Revolutionaries Admired the Rebels of Mysore (2016)
49 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Whatever happened to the Next Big Things?
49 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Tesla Q1 2019: losses 4x more than expected, revenues 12% less
49 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Datasette-atom: Define an Atom feed using a custom SQL query
49 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Ask HN: How to get this fraudulent copy of our website shut down?
49 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
Anti-vax movement effectively reversing decades of progress internationally
49 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Preparing for and runing a Design Thinking, Gamestorming and Creative workshop
49 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Hackers 'looking to weaponize Facebook Ad Manager' via trojan in PDF reader
49 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
The value of friendships in academic success
49 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Elizabeth Holmes to Face Trial Next Year on Fraud Charges
49 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
Self-Driving Trucks Will Carry Mail in U.S.
49 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Bang Bros Bought a Porn Doxing Forum and Set Fire to It
49 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
Letter from an “Anti-School Teacher”
49 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Crown Sterling Claims to Factor RSA Keylengths First Factored Twenty Years Ago
49 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Human-level performance in 3D multiplayer games with population-based RL
49 points • comment • may 30, 2019
HSTS from Top to Bottom
49 points • comment • nov 07, 2019