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Hacker News (2019)

Super-Secure Quantum Cable Hiding in the Holland Tunnel
43 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
California Promises to Fight EPA Plan on Car Standards
43 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Hungarian opera singers declaring themselves African-American
43 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
A New Wave of Bad Ads Is Hijacking Even Top-Tier Websites (2018)
43 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
How Oregon ensnares mentally ill people charged with low-level crimes
43 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
What Makes a Good Runbook?
43 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
The maturing of the smartphone industry is cause for celebration
43 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
On Inequality and Risk Capacity
43 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Your new smart TV is so cheap because it's collecting and selling your data
43 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Quantum microphone counts particles of sound
43 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Reader/Reader blocking in reader/writer locks
43 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Wheatstone System
43 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Huawei P30 Pro alleged to be querying China servers
43 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Valve says turning away researcher reporting Steam vulnerability was a mistake
43 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
The Milkman Model Returns, This Time for Shampoo and Haagen-Dazs
43 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Stonehenge 1875 family photo may be earliest at monument
43 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as 'creepy'
43 points • comment • may 18, 2019
Ask HN: Don't want to write CRUD apps for the rest of my career, what to do?
43 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
The guy who made a tool to track women in porn videos is sorry
43 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Tim Berners-Lee's new decentralisation project: Social Linked data(Solid)
43 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
43 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Master–Slave Morality
43 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help
43 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
Show HN: My in-network Node app for controlling my kids' nightlights
43 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Urbit / Primer (2019)
43 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Beige Book by the Federal Reserve
43 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
How to knit a sports car with carbon fibre
43 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It
43 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Screens might be as bad for mental health as potatoes
43 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby
43 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
DeepMind Can Now Beat Us at Multiplayer Games, Too
43 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
UK’s ten warmest years all occurred since 2002
43 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Read BBC TV, Radio and Film scripts
43 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
LiveJournal data breach impacts 33M users with plaintext passwords
43 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Brexit: Updates as MPs reject withdrawal deal
43 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
The Making of Margaret Atwood
43 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half
43 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
US income inequality jumps to highest level ever recorded
43 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Arpanet, Part 2: The Packet
43 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
World’s largest steam locomotive rolls through Chicago area
43 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Debugging an evil Go runtime bug (2017)
43 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Phaistos Disc
43 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Early Years of Computer Gaming: Steve Russell and Nolan Bushnell (2002) [video]
43 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K?
43 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
From bitter loss to sweet relief: baking as therapy
43 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
The Antarctic Ozone Hole Will Recover (2015)
43 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Can monoculture survive the algorithm?
43 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Embryo-like structures created from human stem cells
43 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
What wartime ‘munitionettes’ teach us about burnout
43 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Game Boy SoC (DMG-CPU) reverse-engineered from the die photos
43 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Amazon fired hundreds of workers a year from one warehouse over ‘productivity’
42 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
The Robotics Industry Could Learn a Lot From Puppeteers
42 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
OpenTracing and OpenCensus are merging into OpenTelemetry
42 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Kickstarter Has Fired Two Union Organizers in Eight Days
42 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Spoiler: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability
42 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Apple will add 5G to 2020 iPhones to compete with Android, analyst says
42 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
US Aid to Afghanistan Could Pay Every Household a Average Salary for 14 Yearrs
42 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
When Battlefield Surveillance Comes to Your Town
42 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
A Most Important Discovery (1953)
42 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem,' report warns
42 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
Science behind the longest night’s (game of thrones) poor quality
42 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
There have been three times more wildfires in the EU so far this year
42 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
KidSwitch: Identifying Kids in Apps and Sites
42 points • comment • may 25, 2019
The Repo Market Explained
42 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
The underground skate scene of ‘90s Brooklyn
42 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
The Unum Pattern
42 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
HP Spectre 15 x360 2019 review: Carving a niche in a crowded space
42 points • comment • may 10, 2019
China’s Youth Are Caught in the Cult of Nationalism
42 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex (2002)
42 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Windows no longer automatically backs up the system registry
42 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
The Curse of the Cargomaster (2010)
42 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way which also decays?
42 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct (2009)
42 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Programming reminds me of my stand up comedy days (2018)
42 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Google may not have canceled its censored, spying Chinese search tool
42 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Road-Tripping with the Amazon Nomads
42 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
MitM'ing my STB (2016)
42 points • comment • may 20, 2019
GNU Binutils 2.33.1
42 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Move to Pull Consumer Protection Rule Heightens Debate over Payday Lending
42 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
The Dangers of “Cancel Culture” are Distant and Abstract
42 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Apple replaces bash with zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina
42 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
How Unix Works
42 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Apple Is Finally Killing iTunes
42 points • comment • may 31, 2019
2020 Honda E Has 148 HP and More Than 221 LB-FT
42 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
A blueprint to write copy that converts, even if you're an awful writer
42 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Researchers speak about life in troubled ancient-DNA lab
42 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Relativity Space (YC W16) Gets a Launch Site at Cape Canaveral
42 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
New Virtual Reality Interface Enables “Touch” Across Long Distances
42 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
Billionaire goes rogue, admits policy not schools destroyed middle class
42 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Show HN: Taken Photos – Free Stock Photos Annotated by AI
42 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Don't share pictures of your kids online
42 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Chinese spy defects to Australia, alleging election interference and cybercrimes
42 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
In My Culture
42 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Three Mile Island closes for good
42 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Walking Alone: On Digital Minimalism
42 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Hold That Recession: U.S. Indicators Are Trouncing Forecasts
42 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Show HN: Cell Automata Ventricle Puzzle in Elm and WebGL
42 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
Quake speedrun record broken after 17 years
42 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
The Wasting of Britain's Marshall Aid
42 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
M65 Atomic Cannon
42 points • comment • nov 10, 2019