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Hacker News (2019)

Bloodhound's 461-mph speed is big but team eyes bigger record ahead
47 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Vladimir Nabokov, Literary Refugee
47 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Stronger Than Steel: Synthetic Spider Silk [video]
47 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Biography of Terry Davis' Life (Author of TempleOS)
47 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
When the Public Feared That Library Books Could Spread Deadly Diseases
47 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Twitter Blocked Tweeting “996.icu”
47 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Department of Homeland Security Recommends Passage of Drone Origin Security Act
47 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
What is GraphBLAS?
47 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Decriminalize Psychedelic Plants and Fungi in San Francisco
47 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Open Cascade: Open-Source 3D Modeling Libraries
47 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Analyzing DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS Privacy and Security Claims
47 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Show HN: A Hands-On Guide on PySpark Coding and Best Practices
47 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Call Congress and Tell Them Not to Let a Quasi-Court Bankrupt Internet Users
47 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
We Can’t Have Efficiency, Good Incentives and No Deficit
47 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Tuition at the University of California (1970)
47 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Orwell's Last Neighborhood
47 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Y Combinator Ends China Accelerator
47 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
The Shrinking World of the Stamp Collector (2012)
47 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
The Book Disease: On Bibliomania
47 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Physicist creates tennis-ball towers, including one made from 46 balls
47 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Making Web-Workers Async Iterables
47 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
The useful character that is none
47 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Bitcoin Rally Fuels Market in Crypto Derivatives
47 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Surveillance and Internet Disruption in Baku
47 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Ann Nelson Took on the Biggest Problems in Physics
47 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
U.S. Readies $11B in Tariffs on E.U
47 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
More Intuitive Calculator Arithmetic (2018)
47 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
ASK HN: Has anyone adopted Chrome OS as their primary OS?
47 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
The lost Doves Press typeface and its revival (2015)
47 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
Loot box Senate bill gets bipartisan support
47 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Ask HN: How much do you work at your job?
47 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
Why Google's $400 Pixel 3a convinced me to never again buy a $1000 smartphone
47 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Critical Perspectives on Provable Security
47 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Trying to succeed as an entrepreneur for 10 years. Should I quit? Anyone else?
47 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Report for America funded a community Wikipedia editor at a library
47 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
OECD Says 14% of Jobs Will Disappear in Next 10 Years
47 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
Secret Air Force Space Plane Lands After More Than 2 Years in Orbit
47 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Parapsychology in the PRC: 1979 [pdf]
47 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Libra is targeted at developing countries
47 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
X-Plane 11: World Editor 2.0 Released
47 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
47 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
The PewDiePie Hackers: Could hacking printers ruin your life? [video]
47 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
I Bought an Elephant to Find Out How to Save Them
47 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
R: Lessons Learned, Directions for the Future [pdf]
47 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Matias RGB Backlit Wired Aluminum Keyboard for Mac
47 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Dear Bureaucrat, how can I work with agency’s useless computer system?
47 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Rubrication Design Examples
47 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Comcast broke law 445,000 times in scheme to inflate bills, judge finds
47 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
The Computer Maverick Who Modeled the Evolution of Life (2014)
47 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubborn
47 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Some extinct species of crocodile were herbivores
47 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
Verdaccio 4
47 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway
47 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Sorbet: A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby
47 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires
47 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
On Building an Instagram Street Art Dataset and Detection Model
47 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
A list of beginner-friendly NLP projects–using pre-trained models
47 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Extreme Learning Machine
47 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
Economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces
47 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Canada might hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of parliament
47 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Self Compiling Compilers [video]
47 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Wonderful Python3 Library for working with webpages’ semantic content
47 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Facebook should ban campaign ads
47 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
I made a website about the jacaranda trees of Maui, Hawaii
47 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Grail Demo from CHM Tape: Visual programming in the 1960s [video]
47 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Ask HN: Where are the GUI libraries that aren't bloated?
47 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
The Future of Invention (1879)
47 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Sharks cope with levels of heavy metals in blood that would kill other animals
47 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
A*
47 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Tell HN: The comment tree collapser [-] is too small for mobile users
47 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Bill Gates: I met with Epstein because “he knows a lot of rich people”
47 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Show HN: Wdio – Docker setup for WebdriverIO
47 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
I, Who Vowed to Never-Ever Short Stocks Again, Just Shorted the Entire Market
47 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
What We Know The X-37B Was Up To During Its 780 Days In Space
47 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
We’re Updating Our Terms of Service to Better Explain How Facebook Works
47 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms
46 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
American business schools are reinventing the MBA
46 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
A science lab in your pocket?
46 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
Revving Up For Edge Computing
46 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Something is happening on Reddit
46 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
An open society, Canada’s best response to immigration
46 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Securing Update Propagation with Homomorphic Hashing [pdf]
46 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
Hell Breaks Loose
46 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Amazon announces 4th quarter sales
46 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Reactive and Component Frameworks for “Old Fart” Programmers
46 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Redesigning Trust: Blockchain for Supply Chains
46 points • comment • may 02, 2019
An advanced nanotube computer may keep Moore’s Law alive
46 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Text Preprocessing Methods for Deep Learning
46 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
America's First Banned Book
46 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
T1: Secure Programming for Embedded Systems [pdf]
46 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Bohm Dialogue
46 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
The Smartest Guys in the Room Eerily Describes Tesla
46 points • comment • may 24, 2019
A Surveillance Net Blankets China’s Cities
46 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Enough with The "Electric Cars Pollute More" Bullshit Already
46 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
On Binary Search
46 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
46 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Chart.js 2.9
46 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
CSS-In-JS and Static Rendering
46 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Apple hid a secret message in its latest YouTube video
46 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Google found it paid men less than women for the same job
46 points • comment • mar 05, 2019