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Hacker News (2019)

Italy proposes tax on savings hidden in safety deposit boxes
24 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
What we can learn from overweight pets about human obesity
24 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
A Post About Porcupines
24 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
Buzzfeed paid the teen who made its top quizzes in free swag
24 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
'It drives writers mad': why are authors still sniffy about sci-fi?
24 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
‘Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record’ (1978)
24 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
The Impossible Dream
24 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine
24 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Ask HN: Is GraphQL still relevant?
24 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
Ask HN: Do you like working in San Francisco?
24 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Recreating the Fool's Mate Chess Move with CSS Grid
24 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
On YouTube’s Digital Playground, an Open Gate for Pedophiles
24 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire
24 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
Show HN: Brain Test – Stroop Effect
23 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Ask HN: How to become a driver of climatic and social change?
23 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Standard Cognition (YC S17) buys cashierless DeepMagic
23 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
More CO2 in the atmosphere today than any point since the evolution of humans
23 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Computer Programming
23 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Eternal Fascism (1995)
23 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
'No doubt left' about scientific consensus on global warming, say experts
23 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Baseball, Judgment, and Technocracy
23 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Facebook includes Breitbart in curated trusted news
23 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Sinking a $3B Indian submarine by forgetting to close a hatch
23 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Movie Theater in town created by Disney World closed for almost a decade (2018)
23 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Scramble for Africa
23 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
X-Ray Fourier Ptychography
23 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Chinese driver gets ticket for scratching his face
23 points • comment • may 25, 2019
Getting shot by police is a leading cause of death for U.S. black men
23 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Implementation of Direct Segments on a RISC-V Processor (2018) [pdf]
23 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
How the Nobel Prize affects book sales
23 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Runner Is a Hitman. His GPS Watch Tied Him to a Mob Boss Murder
23 points • comment • mar 02, 2019
Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
23 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Cutter 1.8.3 – open source GUI for reverse engineering
23 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
The Monty Hall Problem: A Statistical Illusion
23 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Amazon's Digital Freight Brokerage Platform Goes Live
23 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C
23 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Uber's IPO caps an era of mediocrity and small thinking in Silicon Valley
23 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Ask HN: Why have post numbers become green and red?
23 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Ruby CVE-2018-8778 Arbitrary Memory Disclosure Vulnerability
23 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
119 Years Old and Winning Marathons–Or Not?
23 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
How Stifling Debate Around Race, Genes and IQ Can Do Harm (2018)
23 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
Conservative Party rebrand their official Twitter as “factcheckUK” during debate
23 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Microsoft Discovers Fileless Astaroth Trojan Campaign
23 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
.org TLD was sold to private investor
23 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
How the Icefish Got Its Transparent Blood and See-Through Skull
23 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Millionaire John McAfee Arrested in Dominican Republic
23 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Billionaire Marc Benioff donates $30M to research homelessness
23 points • comment • may 02, 2019
The new Uber: Weak coffee, vanishing perks and fast-deflating morale
23 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Supreme Court seeks Trump administration views on Google-Oracle copyright feud
23 points • comment • may 01, 2019
FCC Broadcast TV Transition
23 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
The Last Aryans of Ladakh
23 points • comment • may 02, 2019
A year after 20k Googlers walked off the job, they’re madder than ever
23 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Rust Patterns: Enums Instead of Booleans
23 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Bootstrapping a SaaS to and$250K/Month on a Competitive Market
23 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom
23 points • comment • may 03, 2019
OpenCoarrays: A Coarray Fortran API and ABI (2015) [pdf]
23 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
IntelliJ IDEA: 18th birthday
23 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
Tumblr’s First Year Without Porn
23 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
In the open-plan office, wireless headphones are the new cubicles
23 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
I was owed $5k. I tried to hold them accountable
23 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Show HN: Google Places x Instagram
23 points • comment • may 07, 2019
How Bitcoin Ends
23 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Twitter Exec Is Questioned About “Learn to Code”
23 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Five things we need to know about technological change (1998) [pdf]
23 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
The history of ImageNet
23 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Vietnam bans China-made phones with maps of '9-dash line' in South China Sea
23 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information
23 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Flick = 1/705600000 Second
23 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Tell HN: Thank you for this community
23 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Warren runs ‘fake’ FB ad attacking Zuckerberg over inaction on misinformation
23 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
The Climate Renegade
23 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Linguistic humor, Headlines (2003)
23 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’?
23 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
The most important design guideline (2014) [video]
23 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Facebook’s third act: Mark Zuckerberg announces his firm’s next business model
23 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009)
23 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
House orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them
23 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
React adopts new code of conduct
23 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Net.wars (1997)
23 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
The Bath Bubble
23 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
P-bits: Bridging the gap between standard bits and q-bits
23 points • comment • may 06, 2019
Former Google employee says MeToo behavior 'institutionalized' at search giant
23 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
I oversaw the U.S. nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned
23 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Border Agents Can Now Get Classified Intelligence Information
23 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Airbnb Spawned an Ecosystem of Startups
23 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Reducing Memory Usage for DNN Training with Tensor Compression
23 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
They’re dead to us: The Ars Technica 2019 Deathwatch
23 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Paul Graham's Essays Visualized as Infographic Series
23 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?
23 points • comment • may 14, 2019
The Exponent IPO [audio]
23 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Unvaccinated 6-year-old boy was Oregon's first tetanus case in almost 30 years
23 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
As a user, I ____
23 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
A Crisis of Identification
23 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show
23 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
With $137B at Stake, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos to Divorce
23 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Ask HN: Which were some of your biggest marketing challenges as a startup?
23 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Generating Mutually Recursive Definitions [pdf]
23 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
1st human use of cardiac extracellular matrix hydrogel in myocardial infarction
23 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Tarpé Mills, 1940s comic writer, and her feisty superhero Miss Fury
23 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Solving the Megaron Cube with Python
23 points • comment • oct 13, 2019