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Hacker News (2019)

The murky business of crystal mining
38 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Linux 5.4 Features Are Huge: ExFAT, New GPUs, Enabling Lots of New Hardware
38 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
NeXTSTEP Programming (1993) [pdf]
38 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
The Lost History of the ‘City’ of Brooklyn
38 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
What a deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg reveals about how we're manipulated
38 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Fu-Go Balloon Bomb
38 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Advice to Less Experienced Developers
38 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
I Am Developing Solely on a No-Brand Android 5.1 Tablet
38 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
Electrical failure cuts power to all of Argentina and Uruguay, supplier says
38 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Why I won't work a developer job anymore (Joshua Fluke)
38 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Ecological Detectives Hunt for San Francisco’s Vanished Waterways
38 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Big Oil’s Favorite Toy: Supercomputers (2018)
38 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
FCC vote paves way for budget cap on all universal-service broadband programs
38 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Official DeepNude Algorithm
38 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming? (1983) [pdf]
38 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations
38 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
The Road to Zig 1.0 [video]
38 points • comment • may 12, 2019
The Last Robot-Proof Job in America?
38 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Python is now a prerequisite for all these banking jobs
38 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Performance Analysis of Multithreaded Applications
38 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Early Indicators of a Toxic Workplace
38 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Hong Kong Students Boycott Classes on the First Day of the School Year
38 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
No training required: Exploring random encoders for sentence classification
38 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder
38 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Lyft's IPO was a little awkward
38 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Ask HN: Do you still code in BASIC?
38 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
I billed companies for 2 out of my last 3 take homes and they paid me
38 points • comment • may 17, 2019
More UFOs Than Ever Before
38 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Private Internet Access VPN has been blocked in Hong Kong
38 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Hunting down Ken's PDP-7: video footage found
38 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Google employee activist says she’s been fired
38 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Calling on startups to support NumFOCUS
38 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the musician's uncertainty principle
38 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Show HN: Relé – Make Google PubSub Integration Easier for Python Projects
38 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
38 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Show HN: Fantasy stock market (w/shorting!) of 2020 Democratic candidates
38 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Paris Helped Shape James Joyce
38 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
Bot Submissions to Comment Website Can’t Be Distinguished from Human Submissions
38 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
The San Francisco plague epidemic of 1900
37 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Common REST API mistakes and how to avoid them
37 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Solving Riddles with Prolog and ES6 Generators (2014)
37 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Ubiquity hardware sends telemetry and it cannot be turned off
37 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
A Bunch of Money on AWS and Some Benchmark Results
37 points • comment • may 14, 2019
E Ink just unveiled a new type of color e-paper
37 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Cancer in America Is Way Down, for the Wealthy Anyway
37 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Crumpled Outfits Drove Me to Create Origami-Style Dresses
37 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
American millennials think they will be rich
37 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Recent Books on Dinosaurs
37 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
DNS over Tor
37 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
A deep dive into the Vue.js source code
37 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Ziglang – robust, optimal, and maintainable programming language
37 points • comment • may 07, 2019
The Space Force is officially the sixth U.S. military branch
37 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent
37 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Running LibFuzzer in a Browser, via WASM [pdf]
37 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Gary Gygax Memorial
37 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Google’s Plans for Chrome Extensions Won’t Help Security
37 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
On Truth and Lying in the Extra German Sense
37 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries
37 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Reeling from algorithm glitch, Instacart institutes $3 minimum fee for drivers
37 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
Google SVP Hardware: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
37 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since
37 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
So. I quit my job by telling the truth
37 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
Building Consistent Transactions with Inconsistent Replication (2015) [pdf]
37 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
Gopass – The Team Password Manager
37 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Should Law Subsidize Driving?
37 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Gandhi Is Deeply Revered, but His Attitudes on Race and Sex Are Under Scrutiny
37 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
What Statistics Can't Tell Us in the Fight Over Affirmative Action at Harvard
37 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
The pioneers of cultural anthropology who created “cultural relativism”
37 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
PolarPod – Around Antarctica
37 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
An Unholy Alliance Against Public Transit
37 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
The study on climate-induced collapse they thought you should not read – yet
37 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
'Red mercury': why does this strange myth persist?
37 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Human remains from 1847 shipwreck suggest rural Irish origins based on diet
37 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Site is being hosted and served by a Macintosh SE/30 running macOS 7.5.5
37 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Guy Says He's the First Person to Attempt Editing His DNA with CRISPR
37 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
Interpreting the Beasts of the Middle Ages
37 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds
37 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Ask HN: I'm a New Manager – How to Best Handle Employee Grievance?
37 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Proto-internet trolls: Struensee and press freedom in 18th century Denmark
37 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
I spent all of my millions. This is what I learned
37 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Terminus: a configurable terminal emulator for Windows, macOS and Linux
37 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Hospital Kept Vegetative Patient on Life Support to Boost Survival Rates
37 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
People who document violent extremism are being shut down in Youtube’s crackdown
37 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
The divorce rate has fallen because the demographics of marriage have changed
37 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Announcing the new pricing plan for AWS Config rules
37 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM)
37 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron
37 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1 day after deadline
37 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Slick Olive Oil Label Designed to Deceive
37 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
The Encyclopedia Reader (2016)
37 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable
37 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Why we like what we like
37 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Silicon Valley Is Awash in Chinese and Saudi Cash
37 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Why is hi-tech Japan using cassette tapes and faxes? (2015)
37 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Tufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocence
37 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Road planning with slime mould (2009)
37 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess
37 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Xcode Build Optimization – Exhaustive list of ways to speed up your Xcode build
37 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
State of Clojure 2019 Survey Results
37 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Ask HN: First time working from home; what to do or not do?
37 points • comment • dec 27, 2019