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Hacker News (2019)

Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable
37 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
37 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Tufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocence
37 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Google’s Plans for Chrome Extensions Won’t Help Security
37 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess
37 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Have We Hit Peak Podcast?
37 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
State of Clojure 2019 Survey Results
37 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Facebook Ads removed our permissions, still charges us money
37 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Scanning a Braille Playboy Magazine (2011)
37 points • comment • may 29, 2019
The Space Force is officially the sixth U.S. military branch
37 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
What Statistics Can't Tell Us in the Fight Over Affirmative Action at Harvard
37 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline
37 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
A Microkernel Written in Rust: Porting the Unix-Like Redox OS to Armv8 [pdf]
37 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
The Most Clever 'Zip Bomb' Ever Made Explodes a 46MB File to 4.5 Petabytes
37 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Game in which you build your own CPU
37 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
Google SVP Hardware: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
37 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
What Deep Breathing Does to the Body
37 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
The Wandering Earth: A Reflection of the Chinese New Right
37 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
PolarPod – Around Antarctica
37 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
People trying to save enough to retire by 40
37 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Show HN: A Polygon Mesh Processing Library
37 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
The Dr. Strange of the American Revolution
37 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
The Intel 80386, part 13: Calling conventions
37 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Hospital Kept Vegetative Patient on Life Support to Boost Survival Rates
37 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
VS Installer welcome image contains offensive element for Chinese
37 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
The pioneers of cultural anthropology who created “cultural relativism”
37 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Ever Wished Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? (2014)
37 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Sarah2 Cipher
37 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
MIPS R3000
37 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Going Down the Pipes (1996)
37 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
College admissions scandal fallout: Stanford students sue UCLA, USC and Yale
37 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Apple Used the DMCA to Take Down a Tweet Containing an iPhone Encryption Key
37 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
The Next American Car Recession Has Already Started
37 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM)
37 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Ask HN: Has anyone had luck using the Wikipedia data dumps?
37 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Survival of the Friendliest (2017)
37 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
The Neanderthal Throat – Did Neanderthals Speak?
37 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Ferroelectric RAM
37 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Google and Waze Must Stop Sharing Drunken-Driving Checkpoints, NYPD Demands
37 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
Why is hi-tech Japan using cassette tapes and faxes? (2015)
37 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Show HN: IEEE Micromouse simulator – write and test maze-solving code
37 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Xcode Build Optimization – Exhaustive list of ways to speed up your Xcode build
37 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Please don't share my email with Amazon without my express consent
37 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
I spent all of my millions. This is what I learned
37 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
College bribery scandal: students sue elite schools in class action
37 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
Pourquoi-Pas (1908)
37 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ (2017)
37 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Road planning with slime mould (2009)
37 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Poland’s Forgotten Bohemian War Hero
37 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
xkcd: 562k Accounts breached according to haveibeenpwned
37 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
$10k Later, an Apple Store Genius Diagnoses a $0 MacBook Pro Problem
37 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
E Ink just unveiled a new type of color e-paper
37 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
How Astounding Saw the Future
37 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
U.S. Tech Giants Bet Big on India, and Now It’s Changing the Rules
37 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
Introductory Tutorials for Machine Learning
37 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
In Defense of Sparta
37 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
What MDMA Therapy Did for Me
37 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Edwin Drake
37 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Scala.js contribution disclaimer
37 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
37 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Explaining Docker and Containers
37 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
A Vegan Sued Burger King over Its ‘Impossible Whopper’
37 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron
37 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Ask HN: First time working from home; what to do or not do?
37 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Wayward Satellites Test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
37 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
Ask HN: Have you been on a meditation retreat? How has it changed your life?
37 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Ziglang – robust, optimal, and maintainable programming language
37 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Stellar just sent 100M Lumens (worth $5M USD) to 300k Keybase users
37 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels: Data Structures for Timers (1987) [pdf]
37 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Boeing Has Friends in High Places, Thanks to Its 737 Crash Czar
37 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Your AirPods Will Die Soon
37 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Site is being hosted and served by a Macintosh SE/30 running macOS 7.5.5
37 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
New Horizons' Evocative Farewell Glance at Ultima Thule
37 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Elite violence and elite numeracy in Europe from 500 to 1900 CE: A co-evolution
37 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
Amazon received a US patent to provide “surveillance as a service.”
37 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Running LibFuzzer in a Browser, via WASM [pdf]
37 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
The Economics of Package Management
37 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Gopass – The Team Password Manager
37 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Google has given $150k in free ads to deceptive anti-abortion group
37 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Google gets green light to access five years of NHS patient data
37 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Decision-Making: The Most Undervalued Skill in Software Engineering
37 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Drone crash leads Swiss Post and Matternet to suspend autonomous deliveries
37 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
Pentax Camera Radiates 2.7µSv
37 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Forcing vegan diet upon kids can lead to jail time in Belgium
37 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Risk of Discovery (2017)
37 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
A deep dive into the Vue.js source code
37 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
On Truth and Lying in the Extra German Sense
37 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
IBMs 200K Macs have made the workforce happier and more productive
37 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Chinese Education Startup Puts Western Teachers on Notice
37 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
The New iPhone Is Ugly
37 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
People who document violent extremism are being shut down in Youtube’s crackdown
37 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg still doesn't get it
37 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Prototype of clinical trials in an untrustworthy environment using blockchain
37 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Dow plummets 600 points after Trump orders US manufacturers to leave China
37 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Organisms that breathe arsenic discovered in the Pacific Ocean
37 points • comment • may 06, 2019
How We Achieved 40K QPS and 20B Rows of Data in a Single Scale-Out Cluster
37 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Radar for the Wrist
37 points • comment • may 17, 2019
The Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Thousands of Tardigrades on the Moon
37 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Npm Layoffs
37 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Common REST API mistakes and how to avoid them
37 points • comment • sep 10, 2019