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Hacker News (2019)

For Katie Bouman, One Day of Science Fame Turned into a Nightmare of Trolling
32 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
The Modern Triumph of the Periodic Table of Elements
32 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
The Color Orange
32 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Germany forces Apple to let other mobile wallet services use iPhone’s NFC chip
32 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Huawei must raise 'shoddy' standards, says senior UK cybersecurity official
32 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked
32 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Microsoft Staff: Do Not Use HoloLens for War
32 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
What if debit cards could pay for purchases by selling securities?
32 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
A Galaxy-Scale Addressing Scheme for Compute Availability
32 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Ask HN: What Are You Reading?
32 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
SQL Cards
32 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Triangle Rasterization in Practice
32 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Swiss women stage national strike for equality
32 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Automate GitHub Dependency Updates with Dependabot
32 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Google must face lawsuit alleging hiring bias against conservatives, judge rules
32 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Apple commits $2.5B to combat housing crisis in California
32 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Is a smart electricity tariff worth it?
32 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Google’s File on You Is 10 Times Bigger Than Facebook’s
32 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Stop using poison on your lawn
32 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Twitter: Who are these men are in this picture and how are they in my tweet?
32 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Free tools to help with data analysis
32 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Tradeoffs: The Currency of Decision Making
32 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Ask HN: Are we killing the web by giving to much power to SSL cert authorities
32 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality (2017)
32 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
How Political Science Became Irrelevant
32 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in data-sharing project
32 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Driverless Congestion
32 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
California Lawmakers Vote to Undo N.C.A.A. Amateurism
32 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Technical Skills Are Great, but Communication and Curiosity Are Better
32 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Project Habbakuk: Britain's attempt to build an ice warship
32 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Mozilla to Bring Python to Browsers
32 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Baffled student tells Twitter: 'I'm not a Chinese agent'
32 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
The Last Known Slave Ship Has Been Found
32 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Arm brings custom instructions to its embedded CPUs
32 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
China Gears Up to Weaponize Rare Earths in Trade War
32 points • comment • may 29, 2019
American kids want to be famous on YouTube, kids in China want to go to space
32 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security
32 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
DisseminOA
32 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
When One Protected Species Kills Another
32 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code
32 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
Ask HN: Why do I exist as a sysadmin?
32 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
Uber facing ban in Geneva
32 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Incentivizing healthy group dynamics in classes (2012)
32 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Obscure Model Puts a Price on Good Health and Drives Down Drug Costs
32 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
A centipede robot
32 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Overrated: Ludwig Wittgenstein
32 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Show HN: TimeSnapper for Mac Beta
32 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
Guaranteed communication despite DDoS attacks – Scion
32 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
VS Code Roadmap 2019
32 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Emulated Iopl()
32 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Against Little Free Libraries (2017)
32 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
Napoleon’s Looted Art
32 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
The Sparse Manifold Transform (2018) [pdf]
32 points • comment • may 22, 2019
I Staked Out My Local Domino’s to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is
32 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Did Scandinavia become welfare states because individualists came to the U.S.?
32 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Google Contest Requires Teachers to Praise Google's CS Curriculum for Children
32 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Another Cloudflare Shortage?
32 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Uncovering performance regressions in the TCP SACKs vulnerability fixes
32 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Almost a Third of World's Top VPNs Are Secretly Owned by Chinese Firms
32 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Show HN: Thread – Ad-free social networking and iMessage alternative
32 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Public Highly Critical of State of Political Discourse in the U.S.
32 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
New and different ways schools innovate with time
32 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost
32 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy
32 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
AMD blows minds with a 16-core 7nm gaming CPU that works like any other Ryzen
32 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Orwell’s Last Neighborhood
32 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Dell Launches XPS 15 7590: OLED Display, CPU Up to 5 GHz
32 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Andy Hunt on AWS: The Cloud is just a computer in Reston with a bad power supply
32 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Ask HN: What metaprogrammable language do you/would like to use?
32 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
MLISP (1968) [pdf]
32 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
“This is crazy”: FCC kills part of San Francisco’s broadband-competition law
32 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Ken Loach Says Marvel Films Are “Made as Commodities Like Hamburgers”
32 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Avoiding the Quantum Winter
32 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Google Employees Should Be “Pissed Off” Their Leadership Is Misleading Congress
32 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
The Link Between Diet, Exercise and Alzheimer’s
32 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Merkel wants Germany to have 1m electric car charging points by 2030
32 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
From Hong Kong to Moscow, Protests Are Changing
32 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Our Journey to the First Paying Customer
32 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
32 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
First carbon dioxide battery is seven times more efficient than lithium-ion
32 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Mapping at Aurora
32 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
Gophercises – Coding exercises for budding gophers
32 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Confluence is broken. Here's how I plan to fix it
32 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Ask HN: What do you do when have free time?
32 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Falling Back to an Older MacBook Pro
32 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems (1985) [pdf]
32 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Snowden: Most powerful institutions in society have become the least accountable
32 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Self-Encrypted Cache Structure
32 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
What Would the Father of Cybernetics Think About A.I. Today?
32 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Writers write, but this one couldn’t about the most important person in his life
32 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Diagram.Codes
32 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Ask HN: Why do such strong opinions exist in our industry?
32 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
The Second SHA-1 Hash Collision
32 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Tips for clear writing
32 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End (2000)
31 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
VC Speak
31 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Argentina on Two Steaks a Day (2006)
31 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Fish Cannon (2016)
31 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Sark really is a world apart
31 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Why XHamster Is So Much Better at Content Moderation Than Facebook
31 points • comment • nov 13, 2019