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Hacker News (2019)

5g Detrimental to Insects
27 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Alibaba Cloud locked all Canadians out of their accounts
27 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Entire staffs at 3 Sonic locations quit after wages cut to '$4/hour plus tips'
27 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
From Quacks to Quaaludes: Three Centuries of Drug Advertising (2012)
27 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
After massive Target outage, some stores say registers running again
27 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
There aren't enough humans for cloud-native infra
27 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
The Uncropped “Tank Man” Photograph from Tiananmen Square. June 4th 1989
27 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Stardust in the Antarctic snow: Iron-60 discovery
27 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
What Happened to 90’s Environmentalism?
27 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
Revenue Generating Drinking Fountain
27 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Political radicals don’t evaluate their own errors–about anything (2018)
27 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
Ask HN: People are looking for a meetup.com replacement – what are the options?
27 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Ask HN: What to do on a year long sabbatical?
27 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
New York City is flooding subway entrances to prepare for climate change
27 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
The online advertising industry breaks the law, says the UK’s data watchdog
27 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Sweden's highest peak is not the highest anymore
27 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Excel for iPhone now lets you take a picture of a spreadsheet and import it
27 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Oracle Product Manager Claims He Was Forced Out for Refusing to Sell Vaporware
27 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Apple Defends Decision to Remove Parental Control Apps
27 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
Is Sending Text Reminders Behavioral Economics?
27 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Show HN: Mission Patch – design NASA-style laptop stickers to celebrate success
27 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Upgrade your cargo cult for the win (2017)
27 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
The pain of a successful Hacker News launch
27 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
AMD EPYC Tech Docs and White Papers
27 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Use Vue.js with Pure Python
27 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
GitHub takes down Catalan app after order by the Spanish Civil Guard
27 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
We’ve already built too many power plants and cars to prevent 1.5 ˚C of warming
27 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
90 Days Until Python 2 End of Life
27 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Rebuilding a Piece of the First Digital Voice Scrambler
27 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
AMD scores a big marketing win with Ryzen-powered Microsoft Surface
27 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Flashing My Lenovo X230 with Coreboot
27 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
How trashy TV made Italian children dumber, enabled a wave of populist leaders
27 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Former Google exec, Android founder accused of having a 'sex ring' in complaint
27 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Monitoring a UPS with Grafana on Linux
27 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Elon Musk’s Security Clearance Under Review over Pot Use
27 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Europe’s top court says active consent is needed for tracking cookies
27 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Open source has a working-for-free problem
27 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Ask HN: How do you take care of your hands?
27 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Writing a Faster Jsonnet Compiler (2018)
27 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
The physics behind how fire ants band together into robust floating “rafts”
27 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Ask HN: How do you market your product/services?
27 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
Ohio school districts sue Facebook for accepting ECOT ad purchases
27 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
The global internet is disintegrating. What comes next?
27 points • comment • may 17, 2019
The Loom of Language (1944)
27 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
The role of Escobar’s residence in Medellín’s historical memory
27 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Zahada: The Most Challenging Riddles Online
27 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Noblesse Oblige
27 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Show HN: Three Year Self Study Japanese Curriculum
27 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Could be the end of real estate buyers agents
27 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
Seventeenth-Century Tunnel in Mexico Preserves Pre-Contact Artwork
27 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Citizens on Patrol: What If Your Neighbor Could Give You a Parking Ticket?
27 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Douglas-Quaid – Open-Source Image Matching Library
27 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers
27 points • comment • may 20, 2019
NYT op-ed claiming scientists underestimated climate change lacks evidence
27 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
How tech baffled an elderly Congress
27 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project as a blueprint for living online
27 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
Younger generations are growing horns in the back of their head
27 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
America After Climate Change, Mapped
27 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
A 70 percent marginal rate could help, not hurt, innovation
27 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Map Labeling Algorithms with Application in Graph Drawing and Cartography (2008) [pdf]
27 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
The State of Caching in Go
27 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Contributing to Open Source via Video Game
27 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Sat/SMT by Example
27 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Ask HN: What are your favorite freelance developer websites?
27 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
America is set to surpass Saudi Arabia in a 'remarkable' oil milestone
27 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Show HN: Tiny-Swiper – 2kb alternative to SwiperJS with the same modern API
27 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Am I Too Old to Be Successful?
27 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
CIA crisis as facial recognition makes it difficult for spies to maintain cover
27 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Why are transgender people immune to optical illusions? (2017)
27 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
We built network isolation for 1,500 services
27 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Update on Tesla Stores and Pricing
27 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Topological Weyl fermion lines and drumhead surface states in room temp magnet
27 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
A Field Guide to Finding Fossils on Mars
27 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité
27 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
A national housing crisis is brewing
27 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Why can I log in to my Facebook account with a misspelled email/password?
27 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Launch HN: MedCrypt (YC W19) Medical Device Cybersecurity
27 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
BRIN Index for PostgreSQL: Don’t Forget the Benefits
27 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
China's expanding media dominance in Africa
27 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
I have a problem with React and spend a lot of time talking to my therapist
27 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Apple's Shock iPhone Cancellation Makes Sense
27 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
U.S. Officials Suspect New Nuclear Missile in Explosion That Killed 7 Russians
27 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
My Git Workflow (2008)
27 points • comment • may 18, 2019
A Pennsylvania County Election Day Nightmare Underscores Voting Machine Concerns
27 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Show HN: Guardscript – Detect any changes made to your JavaScript files
27 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
More on Ancient Scripts and the History of Writing
27 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Rendering does not matter anymore?
27 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
ICE Fails to Redact Document, Reveals Location of 'Urban Warfare' Facility
27 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Snowflake Archeology: Early computer animation (1960s) for the DEC PDP-1
27 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
Jair Bolsonaro accuses NGOs of setting fires in Amazon rainforest
27 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Show HN: Sincere – A place to share feelings
27 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Ask HN: What have been the biggest technical achievements of the 2010s?
27 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Apple buys autonomous driving startup Drive.ai
27 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
‘Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn
27 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
An Old but Cool Result – Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
27 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Soft skills are as important, if not more important, than technical skills
27 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Elon Musk set to unveil Model Y
27 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Ask HN: Do you contribute to open source? Why? Why not?
27 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Growing Caltrain into an 8-Lane Freeway (2018)
27 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
Declaratively implementing CPOs (customization point objects)
27 points • comment • sep 23, 2019