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Hacker News (2019)

The Modular PC: Intel’s New Element Brings Project Christine to Life
44 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
US diplomat convicted over Iran-Contra appointed special envoy for Venezuela
44 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Landscape with Beavers
44 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Uber’s IPO means higher fares for rides
44 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Those People We Tried to Cancel? They’re All Hanging Out Together
44 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Python Scripting – Beginner to Advanced
44 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Intuitive Equals Familiar (1994)
44 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Chinese cars are still cheap, but they're no longer ugly
44 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America
44 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
The Legacy of Firefox OS
44 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
Sears says it has secured a $250M lifeline, will close 96 stores
44 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
What Is BGP Visibility, Really?
44 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Whole Foods CEO on plant-based meat: good for the environment, not for health
44 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
RFIDler – An Open Source Software Defined RFID Reader/Writer/Emulator (2013)
44 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Launch HN: Prolific (YC S19) – Quickly find high-quality survey participants
44 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Orbit. His Body Is Not Quite the Same
44 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
A literary prank that ‘Hansel and Gretel’ was based on a real story
44 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Astronomy group calls for urgent action on SpaceX Starlink satellites
44 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Steve Wozniak shuts down his Facebook account in protest (2018)
44 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Caret Package – A Practical Guide to Machine Learning in R
44 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
China’s Built a Railroad to Nowhere in Kenya
44 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Show HN: Fff – A terminal file manager written in bash
44 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Tencent open sourced its distributed graph computing framework: Plato
44 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Python: Even a Feature That You Do Not Use Can Bite You
44 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
The promise and peril of the new science of social genomics
44 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
I was declared deceased three times and it destroyed my credit
44 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
H. G. Wells and the Uncertainties of Progress
44 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Collection about Rich Hickey's Works
44 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Choosing a License for GoatCounter
44 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Notice of Security Incident
44 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Deep Representation Learning with Genetic Programming (2018) [pdf]
44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
A Summer of Julia 2019
44 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Tesla gets stolen with keyfob hack on camera in seconds
44 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Support of Ruby 2.3 has ended
44 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
Another reason Prince Andrew is a disgrace
44 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
Pentagon Fears Confirmed: Climate Change Leads to War, Refugees
44 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Facebook Isn’t Just Allowing Lies, It’s Prioritizing Them
44 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Mechanics of Building a Carpooling Service (2017)
44 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Paul Bernays Lectures
44 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life
44 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
The Origin of the Foot Rail
44 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Froebel’s Gifts
44 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Lost in Translation: Writing treaties in two languages can lead to problems
44 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
AI-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy
44 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Berlin court used Windows 95, hit by virus, now uses typewriters & fax
44 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Stabilizer: Statistically sound performance evaluation [pdf]
44 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Zero to Startup in 10 weeks
44 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Ask HN: “Contact us for pricing” nonsense
44 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily?
44 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
Hegelian contradiction and the prime numbers (part 2)
44 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Worldwide observations confirm nearby 'lensing' exoplanet
44 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Falsehoods programmers believe about economics (2016)
44 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Visual Studio Code – August 2019 (version 1.38) update
44 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Disco: Modern Session Encryption [pdf]
44 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal
44 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
The low-down on home routers – how to buy, what to avoid
44 points • comment • may 25, 2019
Cause of Antibiotic Resistance Identified
44 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Compromising online accounts by cracking voicemail systems
44 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Asm-declaration – Embed assembly language code within a C++ program (2017)
44 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Delta Chat – WhatsApp Like Messenger over IMAP
44 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
A California Type Foundry Is Keeping Vintage Printing Alive
44 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
Ark II
44 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
A little SSH file copy magic at the command line
44 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Bauhaus: A Failed Utopia?
44 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Screen Use Tied to Children’s Brain Development
44 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Billions could die if India and Pakistan engage in nuclear war
44 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Apple Removes Quartz News App from Chinese App Store
44 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Programatically Understand Gaussian Processes: Part 1
44 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the US, 1979-2016
44 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
Testing advertisements across the network
44 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
How a fusion of at least four cuisines created crab rangoon
44 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Oscar Wilde’s talk inspired his rise and led to his downfall
44 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
How to solve a maze using shaders (2017) [video]
44 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
China ready to hit back at U.S. with rare earths
44 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Cyber Incident Exposes Potential Vulnerabilities Onboard Commercial Vessels [pdf]
44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
E. O. Wilson Still Thrives on Being a Scientific Provocateur
44 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
Space Heater: Scientists Find New Way to Transfer Energy Through a Vacuum
44 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Ask HN: How to RTFM?
44 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Impossible choices: Gregory Bateson saw the creative potential of paradox
44 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Americans got 26.3B robocalls last year, up 46 percent from 2017
44 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Ask HN: Would you switch to a 4-day-a-week schedule if you could?
44 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Consciousness as a State of Matter (2015)
44 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
A Global Trash Glut Hurt a $25B Industry
44 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Alan Turing: WWII codebreaker revealed as new face of £50 note
44 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
ArXiv Monitor
44 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Women who win hundreds of sweepstakes per year
44 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Nestle finds new way to use cocoa leftovers to sweeten chocolate
44 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Why Vladimir Putin Suddenly Believes in Global Warming
44 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
ArXiv Machine Learning Classification Guide
44 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
STPyV8 – Python3 and JavaScript Interop with V8
44 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
How Safari and iMessage Have Made iPhones Less Secure
44 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Startup failures are only a matter of point of view
44 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Ted Chiang returns with another awe-inducing sci-fi collection
43 points • comment • may 07, 2019
The first use of the term “programming language”?
43 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Quantum information in quantum cognition
43 points • comment • may 27, 2019
Documenting every apple variety in North America
43 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
“Too Cheap to Meter”: A History of the Phrase (2016)
43 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Free for Developers List of Programs
43 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Robots That Learn to Use Improvised Tools
43 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
Show HN: You will die in X weeks
43 points • comment • oct 11, 2019