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Hacker News (2019)

A radiologist applying evolutionary principles to cancer research
37 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Have We Hit Peak Podcast?
37 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
How Do the Wealthy Pay for Something Worth Hundreds of Millions of Dollars?
37 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
The Transformation of the Textbook
37 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made [pdf]
37 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Rclone – Rsync for Cloud Storage
37 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
Show HN: A Polygon Mesh Processing Library
37 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
How We Achieved 40K QPS and 20B Rows of Data in a Single Scale-Out Cluster
37 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Facebook 'intentionally and knowingly' violated UK data privacy laws
37 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
Pourquoi-Pas (1908)
37 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
The Cul-de-Sac of the Computational Metaphor
37 points • comment • may 16, 2019
The Wandering Earth: A Reflection of the Chinese New Right
37 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
The steam has gone out of globalisation
37 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
Facebook Ads removed our permissions, still charges us money
37 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
The Darien Scheme
37 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
A new model, “The Big Splat”, explains the strange asymmetry of the moon (2014)
37 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Wikibook-Bot – Automatic Generation of a Wikipedia Book
37 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Apple Used the DMCA to Take Down a Tweet Containing an iPhone Encryption Key
37 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Microsoft Makes Major Changes to Windows 10 Updating
37 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Stellar just sent 100M Lumens (worth $5M USD) to 300k Keybase users
37 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
EC finds German automakers illegally colluded on emissions technology
37 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
Google brings in BERT to improve its search results
37 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Decision-Making: The Most Undervalued Skill in Software Engineering
37 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Asking my co-workers out to lunch
37 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
Could 1989 Have Led to Democracy in China?
37 points • comment • may 09, 2019
For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
37 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Radar for the Wrist
37 points • comment • may 17, 2019
The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill
37 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
The Case for Leaving City Rats Alone (2016)
37 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
The global gag on free speech is tightening
37 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Victorians were obsessed with the moon
37 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic
37 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Blender turns 25 years old
37 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
37 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
“I have let Whitman alone”
37 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Simultaneous recruiting of new graduates
37 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Intel CPUs impacted by new Zombieload side-channel attack
37 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Spoofing emails: The trickery costing businesses billions
37 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Masquerade: A real-life treasure hunt obsessed a nation
37 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Ask HN: Will tech be saturated in 10 years?
37 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History
37 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
What WeWork is giving laid-off employees who aren’t named Adam Neumann
37 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
IRS to release new, more complex W-4 form this year
37 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
xkcd: 562k Accounts breached according to haveibeenpwned
37 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
3D imaging of fetal head molding and brain shape changes during labor
37 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Going Down the Pipes (1996)
37 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
McConnell: Net neutrality bill 'dead on arrival' in Senate
37 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
PgFincore – A set of functions to manage pages in memory from PostgreSQL
37 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Trump Administration Might “Re-Examine” Climate Modeling
37 points • comment • may 11, 2019
A Vegan Sued Burger King over Its ‘Impossible Whopper’
37 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Slack is now easier to use with Microsoft’s Office 365 apps
37 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway
37 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
$10k Later, an Apple Store Genius Diagnoses a $0 MacBook Pro Problem
37 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Show HN: NoAgeismInTech Job Board (Update) – Companies' Culture
37 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Turing's Pre-War Analog Computers
37 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
In Defense of Sparta
37 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Data Positivism Since World War II (2018) [pdf]
37 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
Chopping substrings
37 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Personal Blog Analytics – Which Numbers Really Matter
37 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Sun Microsystems: A Look Back at a Tech Company Ahead of Its Time
37 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
I'm a Brit and America, your health care system is torturing me
37 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Survival of the Friendliest (2017)
37 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
The violent attack that turned a man into a maths genius
37 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Ferroelectric RAM
37 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
The Location of Plates in a Book
37 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
37 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction
37 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Envoy, Ambassador and Istio: A Gzip Adventure
37 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
General Motors starts taking orders for its electric bicycle
37 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
Tracking Electric Scooters in Lisbon
37 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Africa by Toto to play on eternal loop 'down in Africa'
37 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Show HN: Listen to an NP-Complete Problem
37 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
The Neanderthal Throat – Did Neanderthals Speak?
37 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
The Overlooked Potential of African DNA
37 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May
37 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo Are the Top Plastic Polluters on the Planet
37 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
How I made sure all 12 of my kids could pay for college themselves
37 points • comment • may 28, 2019
U.S. Tech Giants Bet Big on India, and Now It’s Changing the Rules
37 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
GE accidentally makes the case for not owning smart GE bulbs
37 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
The Curious Case of the Disappearing Nuts (2017)
37 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Ex-NSA man slams Israel for strike on alleged Hamas cyber attackers
37 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's private meetings with conservative pundits
37 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project
37 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Show HN: Game demo – Build a computer with logic
37 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Pentax Camera Radiates 2.7µSv
37 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to cancel all $1.6T of student loan debt
37 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
How your looks shape your personality
37 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House with a Yard on Every Lot
37 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Takes: Java web framework without static methods or annotations
37 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Google exec responds to Project Veritas video about bias
37 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Show HN: Func.Farm browser extension creates serverless functions from snippets
37 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
Make America Great Again by Cracking Down on Tax Havens
37 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Keanu Reeves Is Too Good for This World
37 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
The Economics of Package Management
37 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Prototype of clinical trials in an untrustworthy environment using blockchain
37 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
The Packet Filter: An Efficient Mechanism for User-Level Network Code (1987) [pdf]
37 points • comment • may 17, 2019
IPv6 in China
37 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Guide to TensorFlow 2.0 in Python
37 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Unpopular Opinions about Tech
36 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Microsoft Project Rome 1.0.0
36 points • comment • jan 30, 2019