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Hacker News (2019)

SortSupport: Sorting in Postgres at Speed
40 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
The Startup Side Project Bubble (2013)
40 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over
40 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud Is Not Always Safe
40 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Mary Queen of Scots documents found at Museum of Edinburgh
40 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Legitimate Use of Variable Length Arrays
40 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Boeing scrambles to contain fallout from deadly crash
40 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
The Animal-AI Testbed
40 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Nigeria has now lost 96% of it's forest. Here is an animated map to demonstrate
40 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
The shared evolution of the Tasmanian tiger and the wolf
40 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Control as Liability
40 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Ask HN: What are your favorite educational non-tech podcasts?
40 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
RPG Codex Editorial: Without Map, Compass, or Destination
40 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Crypto Miners in Georgia Consume 10% of the Entire Nation’s Power
40 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Archaeologists stumble on Neolithic ritual site in Suffolk (2018)
40 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
The WeWork debacle should be an indictment of modern finance
40 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy
40 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real time
40 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Crusader Kings 2: Interesting Characters Guide
40 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
A used 2015 Retina MacBook Pro might be the best MacBook you can buy today
40 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Ride That Nearly Killed Me Changed How I Think About Ride-Hailing Apps
40 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
The Next Recession Will Be About Sovereign Debt
40 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
He Couldn’t Stop Himself: The Codex of Justinian
40 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Xinu Is Not Unix
40 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Plot to Poem (2017)
40 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
A Town That Lost Its Walmart
40 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
Basic Introduction of TensorFlow
40 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Boy, Disconnected
40 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Adi Shamir visa snub: the S in RSA blocked from his own RSA conf
40 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Show HN: FortyQ – Answering any question in forty-two minutes
40 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Environmental stress contributes to obesity and diabetes (2015)
40 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Intel is losing against AMD – Engadget
40 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
The Verified CakeML Compiler Backend (2018) [pdf]
40 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
Could the Apollo 11 moon landing be duplicated today? ‘Lots of luck with that’
40 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Virtual Reality Version of Second Life with Open Source Code
40 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark (2017)
40 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Riding alone in a car is an increasingly unaffordable luxury
40 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Another use for strace (isatty) (2015)
40 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Jailed researchers trying to protect threatened cheetahs in Iran await verdict
40 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Sounds of 1950s New York City and More from Folkways Magazine (2013)
40 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
License Utopia
40 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Tesla Roadster
40 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
The exercise “recovery” industry is largely bogus
40 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
Build Your Idea for Free
40 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Lys, a language that compiles to WebAssembly
40 points • comment • may 05, 2019
Adventures in Curling
40 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Toyota announces sustainable vehicle ecosystem [video]
40 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
“Hugo Cornwall” and the Hacker's Handbook (2009)
40 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
PROCJAM’s Seeds zine – Issue 3
40 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
A Hacker Talks Security, Consent, and Why He Hacked a Buttplug
40 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
Is Elite College Worth It? Maybe Not
40 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
The terrible truth of climate change
40 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Property Rights in the Human Body (2013)
40 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Enterprise Software Is Dead
40 points • comment • oct 06, 2019
Truth, Beauty, and Oliver Sacks
40 points • comment • may 20, 2019
After Google's Fitbit deal, EU says worrying when firms targeted for their data
40 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Show HN: FBP editor for music/vfx with [three, tone, tensorflow].js nodes
40 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Children’s Village Forever
40 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
The Chemical History of a Candle (1848)
40 points • comment • may 01, 2019
The economics, risk and ethics of time compression [pdf]
40 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
Vanguard dramatically cuts its expected rate of return for the stock market
40 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
Up to 88% of Hong Kong Population Exposed to Tear Gas Since June
40 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
AirPods Are Disposable and Hard to Recycle (2016)
40 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
Automated Reports with Jupyter Notebooks (Using Jupytext and Papermill)
40 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
The moving sofa problem (2016)
40 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Honda Refuses to Track Stolen Accord Because Owner Didn't Pay for HondaLink
40 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Photography’s New Bag of Tricks (1984)
40 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android
40 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves Engineers
40 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Toilet paper startups
40 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Magic mushrooms, illegal in most places, may have therapeutic uses
40 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Uber allegedly paid $100k ransom and had hackers sign NDAs after breach
40 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
MegaProcessor (2017) [video]
40 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
aSMtris – Tetris in assembly language (2016)
40 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
MPs Reject Theresa May's EU Withdrawal Agreement
40 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
The Cult of Hideo Kojima
40 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
PlaNet: A Deep Planning Network for Reinforcement Learning
40 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
$200 Linux Laptop Pinebook Pro Is Available for Purchase
40 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Ask HN: Do I still need a dot com domain?
40 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Great Noir Lives and Dies On Dialogue
40 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
International Relations Theory Doesn’t Understand Culture
40 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Uncommon Use Cases for Pseudo Elements
40 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
I’m a lucid dream researcher – here’s how to train your brain to do it
40 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Continuous Integration and Deployment with Bazel
40 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
An Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems (2018)
40 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Security Things in Linux v5.2
40 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
I think the JavaScript community needs to step up and boycott NPM
40 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Buffett's Alpha (2018) [pdf]
40 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Inline types and functions in Swift
40 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Hong Kong Cabinet member floats internet curbs to contain unrest
40 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Facebook called before Senate panel over digital currency project
40 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
YouTube two hours advertisements with Asian folks?
40 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Editing in an age of outrage
40 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Canon designed a lens that sucks air to clean sensor
40 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
The New War on Comedy
40 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Loss of cultural song diversity in a declining Hawaiian forest bird community
40 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Astronomers unravel a blast that sent ripples in space-time
40 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
RaML — Resource Aware ML
40 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Austria: Vice-chancellor caught on secret video
40 points • comment • may 18, 2019
Delegated Credentials in TLS
40 points • comment • nov 01, 2019