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Hacker News (2019)

Show HN: Offst – A decentralized payment system
49 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95
49 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
The Persistence of Chaos - $1M for malware infected laptop
49 points • comment • may 26, 2019
BMW's Electric Strategy Makes No Sense
49 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Algorithm Design (2006) [pdf]
49 points • comment • may 01, 2019
US launches inquiry into French plan to tax tech giants
49 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Show HN: Tinkersynth 2.0 (now with color and open-sourced)
49 points • comment • may 01, 2019
The Reliability of Enterprise Applications
49 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Google employees can’t just walk away from ethical tradeoffs like Dragonfly
49 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Overclocking the Raspberry Pi 4
49 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
TyX: Serverless Back-End Framework in TypeScript for Lambda
49 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
German voters would prefer a more ambitious timeline to phase out coal
49 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
A Dutch historian who took billionaires to task over tax at Davos
49 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Pigeon – Crowdsourced transit app for New Yorkers
49 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Building Thousands of Reproducible ML Models with pipe
49 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Show HN: GitDuck – Learn from other developers by watching how they work
49 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Microsoft Releases Open Source ML Library for Distributed Search Engine Creation
49 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Classic Computer and Video Game Magazine Christmas Covers
49 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
Brexit: France activates no-deal plan
49 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
Hofmeister Kink
49 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Keyloggers Injected in Web Trust Seal Supply Chain Attack
49 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Climate Winners and Losers
49 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 81
49 points • comment • may 01, 2019
ID Card Digitization and Information Extraction using Deep Learning
49 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
How does Apple keep secrets so well? (2012)
49 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
For Airbnb employees, dream turns into disillusionment
49 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
For the Love of Goats
49 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Why Renaissance Paintings Aren't as Green as They Used to Be
49 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
A little-noticed surge across the U.S.-Mexico border: Americans heading south
49 points • comment • may 19, 2019
Free42: An HP-42S Calculator Simulator (2005)
49 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
The Way of Chinese Language
49 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
President Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image of Iran
49 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Downsides of Freelancing
49 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex (2008)
49 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
I deleted my 118k-follower, verified Instagram account
49 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser
49 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Google hired microworkers to train its controversial Project Maven AI
49 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
LabStack: Multi-language programming playground
49 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Flowblade – Free and Libre Video Editor
49 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
High-Tech Solution to Disaster Response May Be Too Good to Be True
49 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
High taxes be damned, the rich keep moving to California
49 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Binary Symbolic Execution with KLEE-Native
49 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Illumination for Computer Generated Pictures (1975) [pdf]
49 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Slack Workflow Builder
49 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Show HN: Mr2.js – Expose local servers to external networks
49 points • comment • may 29, 2019
In England, Coroners Decide What Is Treasure and What Is Not
49 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Training bees to perform simple addition and subtraction
49 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
The 2019 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
49 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Reddit Set to Land $150M Investment from a Chinese Censorship Powerhouse
49 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
Myths in Cycling (1): Wider Tires Are Slower (2018)
49 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Experts Keep Getting the Economy Wrong
49 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
How the Co-Founder of Foursquare Tracks His Life
49 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
An Analysis of Pre-Installed Android Software [pdf]
49 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Show HN: Add an always-on video hangout to your Slack channel
49 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Our oceans broke heat records in 2018: the consequences are catastrophic
49 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Show HN: SocialVault – Decentralized and encrypted storage for Facebook data
49 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Gallery of Early Computers (1940s – 1960s)
49 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Collection of Software Bugs
49 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Crossfont: Easy-to-use font editor for Mac
49 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
A Design for Death
49 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Brazil wins legal fight over 100M-year-old fossil bounty
49 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
RA-10: a new Argentinian multipurpose research nuclear reactor (2011) [pdf]
49 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Curing the Vulnerable Parser: Design Patterns for Secure Input Handling (2017) [pdf]
49 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
A Unix System Implementation for System/370 (1978) [pdf]
49 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Getting Hacker News’d Twice – Lessons Learned for Entrepreneurs
49 points • comment • may 10, 2019
What randomisation can and cannot do
49 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Lime scooters are causing some issues for Brisbane's vision impaired community
49 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Analogue Pocket
49 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here’s why
49 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)
49 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
OpenLisp – A Full and Efficient ISO/IEC 13816:2007(E) ISLISP Implementation
49 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
The Great Model Train Robbery
49 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
The USDA just descheduled tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
49 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
The Mystery of Why Gas Pump Interface Design Sucks So Badly
49 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
LLVM 8.0.0 Release
49 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
My Year of Concussions
49 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
V3VEE – Open-Source Virtual Machine Monitor Framework for Modern Architectures
49 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Persi Diaconis Mixes Math and Magic (2015)
49 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
“O Uommibatto”: How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
49 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
For the first time, workers are paying a higher tax rate than investors, owners
49 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon
49 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language
49 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Apple is still trying to sue the owner of an independent iPhone repair shop
49 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
49 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Back to Basics (2001)
49 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Could New York City Eliminate Free Street Parking?
49 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Origins of Cannabis Smoking
49 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Boston Dynamics Spot
49 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Rusty Navy: The Bay Area's 'Mothball Fleet' Enters a New Era (2017)
49 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Fastest ants in world found in northern Sahara, researchers say
49 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Fuzzing Irssi (2017)
49 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win
49 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Two Google employees say management is punishing them for organizing walkout
49 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
The Flying Crowbar (1990)
49 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Lyft moves San Francisco IPO roadshow as drivers protest
49 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Deutsche Bank staff sent home as 18,000 job cuts begin
49 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Swift 5 Module Stability Workaround for Binary Frameworks
49 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Laws hold the porn industry accountable for dangerous content
49 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Best GAN papers in 2018
49 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Airbnb Isn’t Uber, Says European Court of Justice
49 points • comment • dec 20, 2019