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Hacker News (2019)

Thought it was a flash drive [video]
31 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak
31 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Sudoku Solver in Common Lisp (2009)
31 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (1994)
31 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says
31 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
Building Blocks of an Unstoppable Web Scraping Infrastructure
31 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Germany’s soldiers of misfortune
31 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
Ask HN: Anybody running serious Rust web application in production?
31 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support
31 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
Arctic sea ice reaches second lowest minimum in satellite record
31 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Google Calendar Is Down
31 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Cutting Health Benefits of 1,900 Workers Saved Bezos What He Makes in Six Hours
31 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Plants Can Hear Animals Using Their Flowers
31 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
An explanation to the global talent shortage
31 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
London Bus Stop Distance Analysis
31 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Carbon calculator: taking one flight emits as much as many people do in a year
31 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Compiler Warnings
31 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Can we survive extreme heat?
31 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Guido:The 996 Work Schedule Is Inhumane
31 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
MDN (beta) is now built with React
31 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Syswall: a firewall for syscalls
31 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Being Born Rich Still Leads to Success More Than Working Hard in School (2017)
31 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Emoji, part 6c: to infinity and beyond?
31 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
How to clean your Apple Card
31 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Userspace WireGuard Implementation in Rust
31 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Airbus has unveiled a bird-like conceptual airliner design
31 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
How to separate your data from your code
31 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
In Which We Were Safe with Yukio Mishima (2017)
31 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Running Your Life with Emacs
31 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Amnesty slams Facebook, Google over 'pervasive surveillance' business model
31 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
PopSockets turned a simple lifehack into $169M in revenue
31 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Real-Time Web Apps with Zero Lines of JavaScript
31 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of?
31 points • comment • may 25, 2019
The Example of Private Slovik (1987)
31 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
FireHydrant – A tool to manage incidents
31 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Run tracking liberates ML teams
31 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Peltier Application Note – Thermoelectric Cooling [pdf]
31 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
SmartOS: Converged Container and Virtual Machine Hypervisor
31 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
U.S. Oil Production Is 23 Years Ahead of Schedule
31 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
How We Built a Vectorized SQL Engine in CockroachDB
31 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
China wants to put a solar farm in space by 2025
31 points • comment • feb 18, 2019
IKEA is sharing people’s best IKEA hacks, and they’re brilliant
31 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Solar and storage projects drive utility-scale deployment of batteries: Navigant
31 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Sweet Home Alabama Played on Tesla Coils (2012)
31 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
India satellite: Student-made Kalamsat V2 put into orbit
31 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
The Last Pirate of New York
31 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Crossfit Deletes Facebook and Instagram After User Group Is Deplatformed
31 points • comment • may 24, 2019
UK teenager loses sight from poor diet
31 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Show HN: Emaildrop – a free disposable email service with a GraphQL API
31 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Going Serverless with OpenFaaS and Golang – Building Optimized Templates
31 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Facebook gets dumped from an S&P index that tracks socially responsible
31 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Ask HN: Does dang read every HN comment?
31 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
A Whale's Afterlife
31 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
King County Library System Boycotts Macmillan Publishers' eBook Embargo
31 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
NIST 800-63B Digital Identity Guidelines
31 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
America’s DIY Phone Farmers
31 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
Flesh Made Wood: The Invention of Artificial Refrigeration (2014)
31 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
A Node.js log library that enables you to view logs in Chrome dev tools
31 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
Google Maps will tell if your taxi driver is off course to rack up a higher fare
31 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Drgn: Scriptable Debugger Library
31 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
How to Design Worlds (2008) [pdf]
31 points • comment • may 25, 2019
FBI's most wanted cyber-criminal nabbed: password discovered to be his cat, 123
31 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
How the Second Law Nearly Fell into a Black Hole
31 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
Ask HN: What's your total monthly SaaS spend? What products are you using?
31 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Twitter adds labels for tweets that break its rules
31 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
New models suggest Titan lakes are explosion craters
31 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
We made $1,052,000 in 2018 selling UI Tools. Here is what we learned
31 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Rio Tinto to Produce Lithium in California, Joining Electric Car Battery Race
31 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
The bizarre story of the L.A. dad who exposed the college admissions scandal
31 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
'Helical Engine' Concept Could Reach 99% the Speed of Light
31 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
31 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns
31 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Because of the database of ER bills that we've crowdsourced this past year
31 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Show HN: A live-drawn portrait of the common face
31 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab
31 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Climate more pressing than Brexit, say 71% of Britons – poll
31 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Apple to Target Combining iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps by 2021
31 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
Is involuntary treatment for mental illness allowed under CRPD?
31 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Australia’s Owen Gun
31 points • comment • may 12, 2019
Ex-Theranos CEO, Elizabeth Holmes’ Trial Delayed Until August 2020
31 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
NIST Cybersecurity Framework in MOSP
31 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Show HN: RoboTrump – I made a Trump text generator that is fully convincing
31 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Show HN: Prototype and Style Web Apps with HTML Snapshots
31 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
The Use of Sub-Routines in Programmes (1951) [pdf]
31 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
BioWare Working Staff to Tears and Calling Its Mental Abuse “Magic”
31 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
31 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
The Story of a 6-CPU Server from 1997
31 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
New South Wales rolls out mobile phone detection cameras
31 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
Review of “Stubborn Attachments” by Tyler Cowen
31 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Sweden's 100 explosions this year: what's going on?
31 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
New Squid Genome Shines Light on Symbiotic Evolution
31 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Apple warns its new credit card shouldn't go in your wallet, pocket, or purse
31 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Reducing Latency in KWin
31 points • comment • may 08, 2019
What Makes People Do What They Do? (2013)
31 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Solutions to social problems must consider the human perspective
31 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Riding in Cars with Jacques Lacan
31 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
Show HN: Measure the cost of Kubernetes containers/services in real-time
31 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
TinyLetter is a perfect platform and probably not dying (2018)
31 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
Google releases closed source VS Code plugin
31 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
JavaScript Illustrated: Promises
31 points • comment • oct 11, 2019