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Hacker News (2019)

America’s Highest Minimum Wage Sparks Fight in Small California City
35 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Microsoft Workers Protest Army Contract with Tech 'Designed to Help People Kill'
35 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
The Evolutionary Roots of Human Decision Making
35 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
The population of Africa will more than triple by the end of this century
35 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
The Classic Tetris World Championships Explained (2018) [video]
35 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Ask HN: Do you keep an engineering notebook?
35 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
YouTube seeks 'responsibility'
35 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
Who's Behind Huawei?
35 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
Macintosh Forks
35 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Ford to eliminate 7k jobs, or 10% of workforce
35 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Is Publishing Too Top-Heavy?
35 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
SEC approves new Silicon Valley stock exchange backed by Marc Andreessen
35 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes
35 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Fake Slack that helps you test bots without using real slack servers
35 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Women are struggling to find men who make as much money as they do
35 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
A new kind of metasurface uses the sun to clear foggy screens
35 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Spirit Scripts: Japan’s mysterious outcast alphabets
35 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Behavioral Programming (2012) [pdf]
35 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
Bitcoin.com Lists Ponzi Token, Hex, to the Dismay of Bitcoin Fans
35 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
The Sorrows of Psychiatry
35 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Promoters of Climate Anxiety
35 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Top journals retract DNA-repair studies after misconduct probe
35 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
The top 1% of app store publishers drive 80% of new downloads
35 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
Ask HN: How do you handle code ownership?
35 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Show HN: Filmtypes – Explore the world of analog film
35 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Optimizing production of a cardboard toy using SAT-solver
35 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
China is buying anti-HK propaganda ads on Twitter
35 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
Uber Drivers discuss giving 1-star ratings to passengers who don't tip
35 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
Battery-powered buses could have killed off the internal combustion engine
35 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
An Overview of Computer Science Concepts for Engineers
35 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Why We Should Ditch React [video]
35 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
MI5 criticised over 'unlawful' use of data gathered
35 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Risk the kitsch: The life of a concert pianist
35 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Boeing might represent the greatest indictment of 21st-century capitalism
35 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany
35 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Climate Plan
35 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Tim Cook Appears Alongside Trump in Re-Election Campaign Ad Shot
35 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
The Value of Science (1955)
35 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Computational analysis concludes that Molière wrote the plays attributed to him
35 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Sidewalk Labs’ Plan for Toronto
35 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous UAVs
35 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
The Ultimate Lock Picker (2009)
35 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Lawsuit: Autopilot didn't prevent Model 3 from driving under semi at 68 MPH
35 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
The Numerical Renormalization Group (2016)
35 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
The Unpredictable Cactus
35 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Show HN: 8base – Generate working React app with GraphQL back end in minutes
35 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Computers Don't Argue (1965)
35 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Spinning Up in Deep RL – Workshop Review
35 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Capital One refused my fraud claim because a chip was used
35 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Head Wounds and Steel Helmets
35 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Valve is convicted in France for banning the resale of dematerialized games
35 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Open-spec touch panel computer runs on octa-core SoC
35 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
T-Fuzz: fuzzing by program transformation (2018) [pdf]
35 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
‘My mum didn’t vaccinate me – this is what happened next’
35 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Lessons from APL, a “Lost” Language
35 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Hong Kong’s ‘death fighters’: young protesters with nothing to lose
35 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Germany Calls for European Firewall Against U.S. Sanctions
35 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
From gasoline to gasification, or why we don’t power cars with wood today (2017)
35 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Safecracking for the computer scientist (2004) [pdf]
35 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Dunkirk auction result boosts the case for offshore wind energy in France
35 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
The Horizons of Instrument Design: A Conversation with Don Buchla (1982)
35 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Ask HN: Are You Hopeful About the Environment?
35 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Humans will not 'migrate' to other planets, Nobel winner says
35 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Ask HN: What is the license for Windows header files?
35 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
The Case of the Missing Barrels (2017)
35 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
On Having Enough Socks
35 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
Why We Hate Taxes, and Why Some People Want Us To
35 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test
35 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Show HN: Serialize++ – Tiny Data Serialization Library for C++
35 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
DIY facial recognition for porn sparks concern
35 points • comment • may 29, 2019
California senate passes AB5 gig-work bill, turning contractors into employees
35 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Meal Kits Have a Smaller Carbon Footprint Than Grocery Shopping, Study Says
35 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
SUVs second biggest cause of emissions rise, figures reveal
35 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation
35 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Thoughts on the Lytro Camera (2013)
35 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Show HN: A Course on Deep Learning Using Google's TensorFlow
35 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Some new cars at risk of theft by exploiting weaknesses in keyless entry systems
35 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Intel GPU Instruction Set Architecture Gets First Overhaul Since 2004
35 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist
35 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Transparent aluminum–from Star Trek to (almost) reality
35 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Ask HN: Someone posted an my passport on Facebook. Anything I can do?
35 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Burnout – All-in-one workspace for startups
35 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Broadband Communism: Jeremy Corbyn gets serious about free internet
35 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Science, myths and the mystical
35 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption
35 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
35 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases
35 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture [pdf]
35 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
GitRoyalty – First OSS Paywall
35 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Show HN: Oui – A web interface for OpenWrt implemented in Vue.js and Element-UI
35 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Ask HN: I don’t have a company, how can I be paid on the internet?
35 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Datadog S1
35 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
The Curse of Playing the Wicked Witch of the West
35 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Tim Cook Sells Millions in Apple Stock
35 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
Tetris on Google Sheets (2018)
34 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Genetic Test Led 7 Women in 1 Family to Have Major Surgery–Then the Odds Changed
34 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Hostile takeover effort by Valor of Ripple
34 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Ask HN: How do you manage corporate formalities for your companies?
34 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
ICE set up a fake university; 100s enrolled, not realizing it was a sting op
34 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Microsoft Fluent Design System
34 points • comment • nov 22, 2019