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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Xkcd: Trained a Neural Net

    39 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  2. 19 y/o is paying her way through college by naming over 677,000 Chinese babies

    39 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  3. Color Me Polynomial

    39 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  4. QuadrigaCX CEO allegedly traded millions in fake funds to fund luxury lifestyle

    39 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  5. Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences

    39 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  6. Multiversion Concurrency Control-Theory and Algorithms (1983) [pdf]

    39 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  7. Hereticon

    39 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  8. Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier

    39 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  9. Expert Networks: A Secret World of $500 per Hour Consultations

    39 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  10. Mastercard to Hold Shareholder Vote That Could Cut Off Payments to the Far-Right

    39 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  11. Shrink thinking: are countries really like people?

    39 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  12. The Oppression of the Supermajority

    39 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  13. Climate Change Could Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis

    39 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  14. Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How to Code

    39 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  15. A Framework for Purposeful Open Source (2018) [pdf]

    39 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  16. What is ‘superadobe’?

    39 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  17. For Fathers of Daughters

    39 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  18. ‘A Partial Freedom’: What Latvia Found in the KGB Archives

    39 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  19. Delays in Emergency Care and Mortality During Major U.S. Marathons

    39 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  20. Partial password usability sucks

    39 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  21. Learning human objectives by evaluating hypothetical behaviours

    39 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  22. A 49-inch ultrawide monitor is extravagant, ridiculous, and amazing

    39 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

  23. Learn Sketch shortcuts interactively

    39 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  24. The World’s Last Blockbuster Has No Plans to Close. Here’s Why It’s Still Open

    39 points • comment • mar 07, 2019

  25. Intel Trusted Execution Technology, Open-Source Now

    39 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  26. Using TensorFlow to detect fish species

    39 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  27. Historical speed of light measurements in southern California (2014)

    39 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  28. Cheesegraters and Crystals

    39 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  29. Behind the Scenes of the Apollo Mission at MIT

    39 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  30. A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions

    39 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  31. A Nice Component Gallery

    39 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  32. Coinbase bans the accounts of Gab and its founder

    39 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  33. Ask HN: How to you learn anything new in Computer Science?

    39 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  34. China charts a path into European science

    39 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  35. Helen Gurley Brown Only Wants to Help (1970)

    39 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  36. Google's Widevine L3 DRM has been broken

    39 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  37. One Billionaire Could Keep Three Countries Hooked on Coal for Decades

    39 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  38. GitHub Nomic Game #3

    39 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  39. Replace Windows 7 with Linux

    39 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  40. Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSD [licenses]

    39 points • comment • mar 09, 2019

  41. TikTok explains its ban on political advertising

    39 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  42. Ragtime is neither classical music nor jazz (2009)

    39 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  43. Facebook adds corrective label on user's post under new Singapore fake news law

    39 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  44. Facebook employees caught leaving 5-star Amazon reviews for Portal

    39 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  45. Ask HN: What happened to https://whytheluckystiff.net/?

    39 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  46. How to Linear-Fit a Noisy Signal with Regular Discontinuities

    39 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  47. An Introduction to Petname Systems (2010)

    39 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  48. Coldfusion is “Unpopular” – I don’t care

    39 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  49. Tree First Aid After a Storm

    39 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  50. Attention and the Moral Life (2016)

    39 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  51. Exposing the Myth of Plastic Recycling

    39 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  52. Solving Depression with Analytical Thinking

    39 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  53. WeWork’s List of Potential Conflicts Adds to Questions Ahead of IPO

    39 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  54. Impossible Burger: Commitment to consumers and our planet led us to use GM soy

    39 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  55. Correlation of Global Temperature, Sunspots, Solar Irradiance, Cosmic Rays

    39 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  56. Ask HN: Tricks to Avoid Eye Problems?

    39 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  57. Why native apps matter

    39 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  58. Handsfree Off-Road Wheelchair

    39 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  59. EFF warns people of the dangers of using Slack

    39 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  60. Two Monkeys

    39 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  61. Startups are using insect larvae to produce protein-rich animal feed

    39 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  62. Ex-Cons Create ‘Instagram for Prisons,’ and Wardens Are Fine with That

    39 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  63. Simulating Crap Networks on a Raspberry Pi (2018)

    39 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  64. The mass shooting in New Zealand was designed to spread on social media

    39 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  65. Free speech just received a chilling blow in Australia

    39 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  66. Is the Universe a conscious mind? (2018)

    39 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  67. Robert Graves' Mythologies

    39 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  68. Mankind's Inner Ant

    39 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  69. ‘Zork’ Source Code, Presumed Lost, Has Been Uploaded to GitHub

    39 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  70. Starshade Would Take Formation Flying to Extremes

    39 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  71. Jefferson's Doomed Educational Experiment

    39 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  72. Text Analysis: the only guide you'll ever need

    39 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  73. Dementia Villages

    39 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  74. Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails

    39 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  75. Are You Rich? This Income-Rank Quiz Might Change How You See Yourself

    39 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  76. Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders

    39 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  77. J.D. Salinger, Unbound

    39 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  78. WebAssembly

    39 points • comment • mar 16, 2019

  79. Reinforcement Learning Library from Scratch – Deep Dive into Reinforce.jl

    39 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  80. 30th anniversary of the Macintosh SE/30

    39 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  81. Best Practices for Data Modeling

    39 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  82. Cruise's new video showing driverless car navigating very tricky traffic in SF

    39 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  83. 82% of People Say They Connect to Any Free WiFi That’s Available in Public

    39 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  84. William Byrd on ”The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written” (2017) [video]

    39 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  85. How to Have Real World Impact, in Five Easy Pieces

    39 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  86. Jeff Bezos Protests Privacy Invasion, as He Builds Surveillance State

    39 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  87. The State of Augmented Reality

    39 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  88. Programming as Translation

    39 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  89. 'Major distraction': school dumps iPads, returns to paper textbooks

    39 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  90. Drug Prices Will Soon Appear in Many TV Ads

    39 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  91. The Deal Jeff Bezos Got on Basecamp (2017)

    39 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  92. Tracking.js – Computer vision library for the browser

    39 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  93. Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux

    39 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  94. Gods, Gurus, and the Search for the Holy Grail: Bach Recordings from 2018

    39 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  95. Turkey ‘effectively holding 50 US nuclear bombs hostage’ at air base

    39 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  96. The Next Vulnerability: Looking Back on Meltdown and Spectre One Year Later

    39 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  97. A new way to read and print double-sided paper (2016)

    39 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  98. People in a conference room can create enough CO2 to impair cognitive function

    39 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  99. Astronomers on the verge of detecting “first light”

    39 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  100. Ask HN: Why is the US the center of the tech industry?

    39 points • comment • may 30, 2019