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Hacker News (2019)

SortSupport: Sorting in Postgres at Speed
40 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android
40 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Truth, Beauty, and Oliver Sacks
40 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Intel to Launch Core I9-9900KS Next Month: 5 GHz on All Cores
40 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
Ask HN: Remote companies prefer not to hire remote developers from India?
40 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Make science PhDs more than just a training path for academia
40 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Show HN: Platypus 3.0 – Server monitoring with websockets
40 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
Out of bounds: Why basketball players believe they weren’t last to touch ball
40 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Mary Queen of Scots documents found at Museum of Edinburgh
40 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark (2017)
40 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Boeing scrambles to contain fallout from deadly crash
40 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
A Hacker Talks Security, Consent, and Why He Hacked a Buttplug
40 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
Nigeria has now lost 96% of it's forest. Here is an animated map to demonstrate
40 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Up to 88% of Hong Kong Population Exposed to Tear Gas Since June
40 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Visualising per Capita CO2 Emissions – Criticise the US and Canada, Not China
40 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Candor, Bluntness, Impedance Matching
40 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
RPG Codex Editorial: Without Map, Compass, or Destination
40 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Enterprise Software Is Dead
40 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
Archaeologists stumble on Neolithic ritual site in Suffolk (2018)
40 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
Greenwald: IG's Report on FBI Spying Reveals Scandal of Historic Magnitude
40 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy
40 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Adaptive Loading – Improving web performance on low-end devices
40 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
Crusader Kings 2: Interesting Characters Guide
40 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Saudi Aramco: The message from the world’s biggest and wildest IPO
40 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Ride That Nearly Killed Me Changed How I Think About Ride-Hailing Apps
40 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
More on NX Insanity
40 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Low-Latency HTML Canvas
40 points • comment • may 04, 2019
$200 Linux Laptop Pinebook Pro Is Available for Purchase
40 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
He Couldn’t Stop Himself: The Codex of Justinian
40 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Loss of cultural song diversity in a declining Hawaiian forest bird community
40 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Web of Knowledge
40 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
Automated Reports with Jupyter Notebooks (Using Jupytext and Papermill)
40 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Global sea-level rise could be double our current predictions
40 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Hong Kong Cabinet member floats internet curbs to contain unrest
40 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Oregon expected to enact first state-wide rent control law
40 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Could the Apollo 11 moon landing be duplicated today? ‘Lots of luck with that’
40 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Plot to Poem (2017)
40 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
The Rise of Peer Review Bots
40 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Environmental stress contributes to obesity and diabetes (2015)
40 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Mass Driver
40 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
The Verified CakeML Compiler Backend (2018) [pdf]
40 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
Crypto Miners in Georgia Consume 10% of the Entire Nation’s Power
40 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Virtual Reality Version of Second Life with Open Source Code
40 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
RaML — Resource Aware ML
40 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over
40 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Tesla motors make classic Ferraris go faster
40 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Jailed researchers trying to protect threatened cheetahs in Iran await verdict
40 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
A used 2015 Retina MacBook Pro might be the best MacBook you can buy today
40 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
License Utopia
40 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
OpenStreetMap PBF Perfomance Tricks
40 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
The exercise “recovery” industry is largely bogus
40 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud Is Not Always Safe
40 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Control as Liability
40 points • comment • may 10, 2019
93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
40 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
PROCJAM’s Seeds zine – Issue 3
40 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
“Hugo Cornwall” and the Hacker's Handbook (2009)
40 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Is Elite College Worth It? Maybe Not
40 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
YouTube two hours advertisements with Asian folks?
40 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Etsy Carbon-Offset Shipping
40 points • comment • may 16, 2019
A Town That Lost Its Walmart
40 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
Property Rights in the Human Body (2013)
40 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
David Koch, billionaire industrialist and Republican mega donor, dies aged 79
40 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Show HN: FBP editor for music/vfx with [three, tone, tensorflow].js nodes
40 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
The Chinese Threat to American Speech
40 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
US military is terrified of climate change – but is the world's biggest polluter
40 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
Nipkow disk
40 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
Vanguard dramatically cuts its expected rate of return for the stock market
40 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
Bastille: FreeBSD Jails Management
40 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
AirPods Are Disposable and Hard to Recycle (2016)
40 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
The economics, risk and ethics of time compression [pdf]
40 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
The moving sofa problem (2016)
40 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Buffett's Alpha (2018) [pdf]
40 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Ask HN: How do you guys prevent back problems?
40 points • comment • may 04, 2019
Cigar Smoking World Championship
40 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Ask HN: Do I still need a dot com domain?
40 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
We Should Let a Lottery Decide Our Government
40 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
MegaProcessor (2017) [video]
40 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Boeing MQ-25 Stingray
40 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Nancy Pelosi clip shows misinformation still has a home on Facebook
40 points • comment • may 25, 2019
How to Bypass Matlab’s ‘Cripple AMD CPU’ Function
40 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Joseph Menn on the Cult of the Dead Cow
40 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Are Liberal Arts Colleges Doomed?
40 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
MPs Reject Theresa May's EU Withdrawal Agreement
40 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Apple Recalls 15-Inch MacBook Pro Laptop Computers Due to Fire Hazard
40 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
PlaNet: A Deep Planning Network for Reinforcement Learning
40 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
Ultrasound can “see” when tumor cells turn genes on and off
40 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
Basic Introduction of TensorFlow
40 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Obesity Is Weighing on Education, Productivity and the Economy
40 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
International Relations Theory Doesn’t Understand Culture
40 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Toilet paper startups
40 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Riding alone in a car is an increasingly unaffordable luxury
40 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Legitimate Use of Variable Length Arrays
40 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
An Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems (2018)
40 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Boy, Disconnected
40 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
I think the JavaScript community needs to step up and boycott NPM
40 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Urban heat island
40 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Inline types and functions in Swift
40 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Patches Carved into Developer Sigchains
40 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Photography’s New Bag of Tricks (1984)
40 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Another ex-JP Morgan precious metals trader pleads guilty to ‘spoofing’
40 points • comment • aug 24, 2019