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Hacker News (2019)

Apple Falls from First to 17th Spot in 'World's Most Innovative Company' Ranking
33 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Bone marrow was kept in a Stone Age meat locker
33 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Why does India's air look different from space?
33 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Top reasons your WiFi is slow
33 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Amazon Urbanism: Patents and the Totalizing World of Big Tech Futures
33 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Open Infrastructure Map
33 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons
33 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
What to do if the Space Shuttle payload bay doors won't shut properly
33 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
America Pushes Allies to Fight Huawei in New Arms Race with China
33 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
Monads aren't as hard as you think
33 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
The Seven Dangerous Western Values (2013)
33 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
Re-Enact the Panama Papers Leak: How Mossack Fonseca Was Hacked
33 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?
33 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Samurai Duke and the Legend of OpenJDK
33 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Micro SaaS Ideas You'll Want to Steal
33 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Make a Factory Quality 9mm Rifled Barrel Using Salt Water and Electricity
33 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Mcpp: A Portable C Preprocessor (2008)
33 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Why Kubernetes Will Disappear
33 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
History of the Talos Missile (2017)
33 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
We Need a Safer Systems Programming Language
33 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Advanced Tor Browser Fingerprinting (2016)
33 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Former NSA Contractor Sentenced to 9 Years for Heist of U.S. Secrets
33 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Ask HN: What are the numbers everyone should know in 2019?
33 points • comment • may 26, 2019
A plane makes an autonomous landing
33 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than You Think
33 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1935) [pdf]
33 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Ask HN: Toolbox or library for simulating classical mechanics problems?
33 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
An Act regarding the use of offensive words
33 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
More OCaml
33 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota
33 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Microsoft Losing Against iPod, iPhone, iOS, iMessage, Slack, Dropbox
33 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
FedEx Delivers Billions to the Taxman
33 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
When AI Meets Nowruz
33 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Science Fiction Sent Man to the Moon
33 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Journalist, 12, faces off with police officer who threatened to arrest her
33 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
A Framework for First Principles Thinking
33 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Chatbots aren't as difficult to make as you think
33 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
GM drops workers’ health care during strike, a sign UAW impasse could drag on
33 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Safari’s default media controls blocked when applying a Content-Security-Policy
33 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Keylogging Users via Slack Themes
33 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Former Rockstar Designer Says Former Top Executive Groped Him
33 points • comment • may 28, 2019
The Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now Is New and Improved
33 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
The cassette returns on a wave of nostalgia
33 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment?
33 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
How to Write a Condolence Letter
33 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
The Ball-Bearing Electric Motor (2003)
33 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Rethinking Hamming’s questions
33 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Dynamic Storage Allocation: A Survey and Critical Review (1995) [pdf]
33 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Windows 10 Calculator is now running on WebAssembly, natively on iOS and Android
33 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
I served in the Air Force and Congress. People still tell me ‘go back’ to China
33 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
StarAi: Deep Reinforcement Learning Course
33 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
Detailed analysis of a star’s orbit near supermassive black hole
33 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
It turns out planes are even worse for the climate than we thought
33 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
WeWork 'Accepts Takeover by Softbank'
33 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
“The worst factory reset process I've ever seen”
33 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Social media use has only minor effects on wellbeing: study
33 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
How to Turn a Quantum Computer into the Ultimate Randomness Generator
33 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Google founders’ exit signals end of era at search giant
33 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Microsoft plan to split OS from shell takes shape
33 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
A gentle introduction to Linux Kernel fuzzing
33 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Semantic Linefeeds (2012)
33 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part IV
33 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Surveillance firm asks Mozilla to be included in Firefox's certificate whitelist
33 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Unlocking the commons
33 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Edgewrite and some of my own experiments
33 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
What is soundness in static analysis? (2017)
33 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Due to professional hacking, this website has been removed from the web
33 points • comment • may 18, 2019
Project Loon balloons over Peru
33 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
A Non Existent Iranian Activist Wrote Dozens of Articles for Right-Wing Outlets
33 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Airbnb quietly shut down a top host amid scathing reviews but guest were to stay
33 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Dropcopter uses drone to pollinate trees
33 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Zen project forks Zig, relicenses, and “moves” original license to separate file
33 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Taco Bell Programming
33 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
Transporting a portable operating system: UNIX to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf]
33 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Nintendo Issues DMCA Takedown for Super Mario Bros. Commodore 64 Port
33 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail, and a lucrative ‘hot list’
33 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
The richest American family hired terrorists to shoot guns at women and children
33 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Ask HN: What are the key processes for a remote-first company?
33 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
The Ergodicity Problem in Economics
33 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Political Ads
33 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
Show HN: Curated List of Windows Utilities
33 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
Toward Understanding E-Prime (2001)
33 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
The Liberty City
33 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
There’s no such thing as a query timeout (2005)
33 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
In Praise of Pretty Books
33 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Ask HN: How Do You Sleep?
32 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Andy Hunt on AWS: The Cloud is just a computer in Reston with a bad power supply
32 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Mozilla to Bring Python to Browsers
32 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Tesla’s competitors find that going electric has its own set of problems
32 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Samsung phone users get a shock: They can't delete Facebook
32 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Snowden: Most powerful institutions in society have become the least accountable
32 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Fuzzing para-virtualized devices in Hyper-V
32 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
A “FaceApp” to enlarge breasts? It’s here, and there’s more to it than [ ]
32 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Combining Video and Movement Data to Enhance Team Sport Analysis (2018) [pdf]
32 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Retailers Don’t Like Paying the Fees for Your Apple Card
32 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
I tried to make Facebook's news feed random and fun
32 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Hong Kong Police Shoot a Protester, 18, with a Live Bullet for the First Time
32 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Do big companies like Google and Amazon fire developers for buggy releases?
32 points • comment • may 25, 2019
Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies
32 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
A Brief History of Zork (2014)
32 points • comment • may 18, 2019