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Hacker News (2019)

How can List be faster than native arrays? (2018)
44 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Over 100 Riot Games Employees Walked Out to End Forced Arbitration
44 points • comment • may 06, 2019
An Initial Look at the IBM POWER9 4c/16t CPU Performance on the Blackbird
44 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Show HN: WinSpd – create “SCSI disks” as user mode processes on Windows
44 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
The Story of Humans and Neanderthals in Europe Is Being Rewritten
44 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Account Hijacking Forum OGusers Hacked
44 points • comment • may 18, 2019
The Overview Effect
44 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Assange is reportedly gravely ill, and hardly anyone’s talking about it
44 points • comment • may 29, 2019
The Infinite Silences of Japan
44 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Nearly Divisionless Random Integer Generation on Various Systems
44 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Pro (noun.), abbreviation of Professional: born 1798, died 2019, aged 221
44 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
WhatsApp puts limit on message forwarding to fight fake news
44 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Beyond Petra
44 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Bitcoin's Rally Masks Uncomfortable Fact: Almost Nobody Uses It
44 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Shigir Idol
44 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
The Quest to Acquire the Oldest, Most Expensive Book on the Planet
44 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
Tesla, in SEC filing, says U.S. auto sales fell by $2B
44 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (2014)
44 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
Another wave of nootropic supplements is hitting the market
44 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Safely using destructors in Python (2009)
44 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
CCPA goes into effect January 1, but nobody’s sure how the new rules work
44 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
Why the default WSL terminal is so fast and other commentary about low-level API
44 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
Transdep: Find single points of failure in DNS dependency graphs
44 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Stages, Structures, and the Work of Being Yourself
44 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
What's new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web search
44 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
“Nobody at Tesla has ever seen rain before.”
44 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands
44 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Exthouse – Analyze the impact of a browser extension on web performance
44 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
We are not edging up to a mass extinction
44 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses
44 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
The lies I told for insurance companies about 'Medicare for All' worked
44 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Show HN: Colorffy – 3-colors gradients generator
44 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Notepad++ 7.8.1 Release “free-uyghur-edition”
44 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Hacker Surfing: Free Housing for Engineers and Designers Visiting SF
44 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Concern About Global Warming Among Americans Spikes, Report Says
44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Chrome 76 Beta: dark mode, payments, new PWA features and more
44 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Essay: Too much 'niceness' is bad for critical thinking
44 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
It has been 613 days since Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey
44 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Seymour Cray: An Appreciation (1997)
44 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
SAT Solvers as Smart Search Engines
44 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
By 2050, many world cities will have weather like they’ve never seen
44 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Tesla Shares Drop on Reducing Model S, X Production Hours
44 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Zuckerberg asserts Facebook stands for free expression
44 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
What bioRxiv’s first 30,000 preprints reveal about biologists
44 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Agile as a full-featured religious dogma (2016)
44 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
What Happened to Hovertrains? (2018) [video]
44 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Creators Say They’ve Cracked YouTube’s Monetization Algorithm
44 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
“Takedown notice” sent to Defense Distributed was fraudulent, from Slovakia
44 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
‘BioSolar Leaf’ to Tackle Air Pollution in White City
44 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high
44 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense (2010)
44 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
What would happen if Facebook were turned off?
44 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Crows love cheeseburgers and are getting high cholesterol
44 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Running an LED in reverse could cool future computers
44 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Epstein’s Links to Scientists Are Even More Extensive Than We Thought
44 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Graceful Shutdown
44 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Is There a Crystal Lattice Possessing Five-Fold Symmetry? (2012) [pdf]
44 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
The design and building of a large dish antenna rotor
44 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Jailed Saudi feminist refuses to deny torture to secure release
44 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Nuclear Waste Dumpsters in Massachusettes Are Costing Taxpayers a Fortune
44 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning (2015)
44 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Thurrott: Microsoft Confirms UWP Is Not the Future of Windows Apps
44 points • comment • may 09, 2019
UK Politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal
44 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Dog and Cat Data
44 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Quantum Darwinism spotted in diamond spin
44 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Known Issue: Charged full price of Fi device after financing
44 points • comment • may 06, 2019
NCP, the Predecessor of TCP/IP
44 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
AMD May Add Ray Tracing Feature in Navi 20 GPU
44 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
The Mac “Pro”
44 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Tumor Specific Immune Receptors Computationally Identifiable
44 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Making an Endpoint 50x Faster
44 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
An AI Whose Performance Increases If They Let It Sleep and Dream
44 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Britons abandon Facebook as usage plummets by more than a third
44 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Not only for technical computing: changing the narrative around Julia
44 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Ask HN: What is the best chair for developers?
44 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Broadcasting from Deep Space, a Mysterious Series of Radio Signals
44 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Hong Kong Voters Show Strong Support for Pro-Democracy Forces
44 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
Elizabeth Warren wants jail time for CEOs in Equifax-style breaches
44 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Seattle Holy Rollers Killings: The End to an Oregon Love Cult (2003)
44 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Jasper Johns, American Legend
44 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Show HN: C++ Implementation of the Paper Median Filter in Constant Time
44 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Elevating user trust in our API ecosystem
44 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
For a lower climate footprint, vegetarian diet beats local
44 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
NASA is currently CLOSED
44 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts on Microsoft’s New-Found Love for Linux
44 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
A Lab Discovering DNA in Old Books
44 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
House committee approves bill decriminalizing marijuana on the federal level
44 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Bing’s Not the Laughingstock of Technology Anymore
44 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space
44 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Ask HN: Favorite technology predictions in science fiction?
44 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Hot weather cuts French, German nuclear power output
44 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
People Who Own Businesses Should Not Act Like Assholes – Something Better to Do
44 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Aviation safety: Transport comparisons
44 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Uber Is a Scam
44 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Parents Give Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid
44 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Cycles of Optimism and Pessimism
44 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
B-Ber: a framework for publications as websites, EPUBs, etc.
44 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
QuillBot: Free Paraphrasing Tool
44 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
The Birth of the Semicolon
44 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
Basic Income as Common Dividends: Piloting a Transformative Policy
44 points • comment • may 08, 2019