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Hacker News (2019)

Formula E SUV
23 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Diversity Should Be #1 for Good Reason
23 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
People in higher social class have an exaggerated belief that they are better
23 points • comment • may 23, 2019
People reluctant to use their Octopus cards for fear of leaving a paper trail
23 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
We Must Defend Free Thought
23 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
HBO Ending Its Nightly Newscast Produced by Vice Media
23 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Canadians “Spock” Five Dollar Banknotes in Honour of Leonard Nimoy (2015)
23 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Do You Really Need Dark Mode?
23 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
The Private Edward Gorey
23 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Wavelet Trees – An Introduction
23 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned
23 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Parsing short hexadecimal strings efficiently
23 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
The US Government Interest Expense Was 93% of Military Spending in 2018
23 points • comment • may 10, 2019
The philosophies of software languages, from Go to Elixir
23 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Leaflet – social media platform built with Node.js and MongoDB
23 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Introducing Mercury OS
23 points • comment • may 29, 2019
MinimaLT: Minimal-Latency Networking Through Better Security (2013) [pdf]
23 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Oracle JDK8 Now Requires a Login
23 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Historically Hollow: The Cries of Populism
23 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
A teenager found Apple's FaceTime bug – and why it was so hard to report it
23 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Future AI: The Explorer and the Philosopher
23 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Red Hat State of Enterprise Open Source Report
23 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
Environment Variables: For and Against
23 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Google's Sensorvault Can Tell Police Where You've Been
23 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
Vintage Yugoslavian Computer Magazine Cover Girls of the 1980s
23 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Craigslist is raking in $1B a year, according to one estimates
23 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
The Rise of Coffee Shaming
23 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Trump Says U.S. Ship Shot Down Iranian Drone in Strait of Hormuz
23 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Solid Design Principles: The Guide to Becoming Better Developers
23 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
New CRISPR tool could fix almost all disease-causing DNA glitches
22 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
Software developer tops list of U.S. News and World Report's annual best jobs
22 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks, taking home liens
22 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Sexual harassment is pervasive in US physics programmes
22 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Community Memory Terminal
22 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Apple employee accused stealing ‘Titan’ trade secrets for a Chinese competitor
22 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
What Is JavaScript Made Of?
22 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Frequent fliers who flew too much (2012)
22 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
The Californians forced to live in cars and RVs
22 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
They Come for Us at Night: China's Vanishing Muslims
22 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Some People Pay $30 to Get a Referral for Google
22 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
America's love of luxury toilet paper is destroying Canadian forests
22 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Facebook Found Nigerian Scammer “Doesn't Go Against Community Standards.”
22 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Apple Is a Hypocrite on Data Privacy
22 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
A Monk of the Secular Age
22 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
A hot startup raised $66M in 5 days using these 24 slides
22 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Google Translator Toolkit to be shut down on December 4, 2019
22 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
The calls to reign in Mark Zuckerberg have never been louder
22 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Show HN: SpringBoot web app for browsing Kafka topics
22 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
History of the BASIC Engine (2018)
22 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Invaluable life lesson of listening to your 'end-users' and solving problems
22 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Apple is updating Macs again to remove insecure software from Zoom’s partners
22 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective today
22 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
College of Theseus
22 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Ask HN: How do those eMMC Windows laptops work?
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Data Scientists Should Be Able to Deploy and Iterate Their Own Models
22 points • comment • may 06, 2019
Let's Encrypt: An Automated CertificateAuthority to Encrypt the Entire Web [pdf]
22 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Do You Want to Be Doing This When You're 50?
22 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Ask HN: How often are you on call?
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Transhumanism Is a Dead End (2017)
22 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
Bootstrap v4.4.0
22 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Show HN: Socket Wrench – Insomnia/Postman for Websocket Testing
22 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
The 737-Max Grounding Is So Bad That Airlines Are Leasing 30-Year-Old 737-200s
22 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Learn Like an Athlete
22 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?
22 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
One (new) thing you need to know about Google Cloud Bigtable
22 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Artists Hijack MoMA with AR Art Exhibition
22 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
AT&T Will Now Filter Robocall Spam, If You Pay Them Extra
22 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Hit the High Notes Singing Game
22 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Guitars can imitate any instrument – this man proves it
22 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo or Google Home
22 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Your display contents may be traced by the sound of it using ordinary microphone
22 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Do California’s Blackouts Make Sense?
22 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Let’s Not Put the Government in Charge of Moderating Facebook
22 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Why the Most Important Idea in Behavioral Decision Making Is a Fallacy
22 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Habitat: A fast 3D simulator for embodied AI research
22 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
“correcthorsebatterystaple” is guessed in less than 0.01 seconds
22 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition
22 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Building a Stratospheric Balloon Launch Company with Zero 2 Infinity
22 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Minister in Charge of Japan’s Cybersecurity Says He Has Never Used a Computer
22 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Quantifying Jane Jacobs (2018)
22 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
So you automated your coworkers out of a job
22 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Since the FCC Won't Act on robo-calls, Congress Finally Passes Traced Act
22 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Government shutdown spotlights 78% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck
22 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Trucking accounts for one-fourth of the fuel used on U.S. roads
22 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Crypto Developer Report Q1 2019
22 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
The Expanse is Sci-Fi like TV has never seen
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030 (2016) [pdf]
22 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
Irish Teen Wins 2019 Google Science Fair for Removing Microplastics from Water
22 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
The Unexpected Side Effects of Going Sugar Free
22 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Supreme Court Refusal to Hear Investpic Signals Death for Most Software Patents
22 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Americans Are Not Prepared for the Coming Mother of All Stock Market Crashes
22 points • comment • may 31, 2019
A tour of probabilistic programming language APIs
22 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Seeing the World (and Writing It) with Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
22 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Rudyard Kipling in Vermont
22 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Google may be about to kill affiliate marketing links
22 points • comment • may 07, 2019
I chose Facebook over Uber on 1/18/2019, which grossed me $92k.
22 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Medieval Diseases Are Infecting California’s Homeless
22 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
The Almost Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (1966) [video]
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Y Combinator’s Women-Only Forum Is Becoming Its Own Business
22 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Ask HN: What is the best way into a cybersecurity career in 2019?
22 points • comment • sep 06, 2019