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Hacker News (2019)

Decentralized Clearing Network: A Protocol for Hybrid Decentralized Exchanges
42 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Using a Raspberry Pi and LED to send morse code to a smartphone
42 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Chaosnet
42 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Starting with Semantics [video]
42 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Boeing safety system not at fault, says chief executive
42 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
Functional RL with Keras and Tensorflow Eager
42 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
An Open Letter to the FB Recruiter Who Gets Ordered, Every Quarter, to Email Me
42 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Why the Novel Matters
42 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Variance in Java
42 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
'Lords' and 'Knights' defy Soviet authority, 'pollute' the airwaves (1984)
42 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007)
42 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Ask HN: How to cope with burnout every 6 months?
42 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Ketamine May Relieve Depression by Repairing Damaged Brain Circuits
42 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
The Private Life of Lord Byron
42 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Your AI skills are worth less than you think
42 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
Serious Money Is Warming to Bitcoin
42 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
AI Podcast: Elon Musk on Tesla Autopilot [video]
42 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
FOSS Zombies
42 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
Scientists bring new insight into how animals see
42 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Show HN: Virtual Card Read-Punch – Punch, Read, Execute Virtual Punch Cards
42 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
AWS Fargate Price Reduction
42 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Is It a ‘5’ or a ‘6’? The Answer Could Make an Art Fortune
42 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Are the Trans Fat Purveyors of Our Generation
42 points • comment • may 29, 2019
A Remarkable Case of External Hind Limbs in a Humpback Whale (1921) [pdf]
42 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Natural catastrophe review 2018
42 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
The Trouble with Fusion (1983) [pdf]
42 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
No Great Technological Stagnation (2016)
42 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
What College Admissions Want
42 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Learning to Listen, in a Los Angeles Cafe Built for Vinyl
42 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
11,000 Scientists Say Earth's Population Needs to Shrink to Beat Climate Crisis
42 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Firefox 67
42 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Facebook is exploring brain control for AR wearables
42 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Canadian Cops Will Scan Social Media to Predict Who Could Go Missing
42 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats
42 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Self-Described Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright Sues a Podcaster for Libel
42 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
JWTs suck (for web auth and basically everything else)
42 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Ethereum is Doomed (2016)
42 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box
42 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Luxury Developers Use a Loophole to Build Soaring Towers for Ultrarich in NY
42 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
AT&T Hikes Online-TV Prices Up to 30% in Second Boost This Year
42 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors [pdf]
42 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
Webmention: Simple web standard to notify any URL when mentioned across the web
42 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez’s 70 Percent Top Tax Rate Is a Moderate, Evidence-Based Policy
42 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
RISC-V userspace emulator library
42 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
A Cosmac1802 Emulator in 300 Lines of Common Lisp
42 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
Hong Kong Protesters Find New Momentum with Largest Rally in Weeks
42 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Why We Stink at Tackling Climate Change
42 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
Salvator Mundi and the unreality of the art market
42 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
On the Road to Fedora Workstation 31
42 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
Courts reshape the rules around AI
42 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
There is no such thing as too much knowledge or experience
42 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
What is the best length for short stories? (2016)
42 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
By the Numbers: Vaccines Are Safe
42 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Google fired us for organizing. We’re fighting back
42 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Show HN: First Crack, a simple static blog engine in Python
42 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
From Two Guys Building Their own Browser
42 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Show HN: Wasmer – A Go library for executing WebAssembly binaries
42 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Uber’s Self-Driving Car Didn’t Know Pedestrians Could Jaywalk
42 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Steganographic Packets
42 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
YouTube can now terminate accounts that are “no longer commercially viable”
42 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Introduction to Compilers and Language Design
42 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
US experts propose having AI control nuclear weapons
42 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
OpenChird – An Open Source Platform for IoT with Support for LoRaWAN
42 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
The CitiCar Is an Electric Cheese Wedge from the 70s [video]
42 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Rat brains provide even more evidence our brains operate near tipping point
42 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Show HN: ExhibitDay
42 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Testing KettlePizza and Baking Steel's New Joint Pizza Oven (2013)
42 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
‘Israel’s ancient NYC’: 5k-year-old Canaanite megalopolis may rewrite history
42 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for upcoming 16" MBP
42 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning
42 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
U.S. Treasury Department Labels China a Currency Manipulator
42 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
WeWork cofounder demanded employees be fired because she disliked their 'energy'
42 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
New Data Shows Income of Top 1% Has Grown 100x Faster Than Bottom 50% Since 1970
42 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Scientists’ warnings about climate change have intensified
42 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
The Death of the Rude Press
42 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Trump orders U.S. firms out of China after Beijing sets new tariffs
42 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write
42 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Facebook may be gathering residential WiFi networks
42 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
Wireshark 3.0.0 Released
41 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
How a SQL database works
41 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Hy: A Dialect of Clojure Embedded in Python
41 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World
41 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Eon – Amiga 500 demo that won the Revision 2019 demoparty
41 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Scholars Discover Original Locke Manuscript in Greenfield Library
41 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Et in Arcadia Ego
41 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Illegal streams, decrypting m3u8's, building a better stream experience (2018)
41 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Nothing but Solitude
41 points • comment • may 15, 2019
The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years
41 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Don’t be uncanny – 3 ways to nail your data driven demo
41 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
Cargo ships are emitting boatloads of carbon, and nobody wants to take the blame
41 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Binance moves $1.26B worth of Bitcoin for $125 in network fees
41 points • comment • may 30, 2019
A Unified Finite Strain Theory for Membranes and Ropes
41 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Intel’s new boss wants to teach the chipmaker new tricks
41 points • comment • may 11, 2019
The L.A. Times’ disappointing digital numbers
41 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
The Curse of the Ship of Gold
41 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Crew: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries (2012) [pdf]
41 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
Los Angeles – scenes from the collapse of a city that’s lost control
41 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
Dean and Deluca Is Closing Its Stores
41 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
The U.S. Debt Ceiling Expired on March 1 and Nobody Cared – But They Will
41 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Google says hackers have put 'monitoring implants' in iPhones for years
41 points • comment • aug 30, 2019