woid

top stories

Hacker News (2019)

Microsoft Edge engineer describes how Google sabotaged Edge browser performance
18 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
U.S. Orders Chinese Company to Sell Grindr App
18 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Making the Moon Camera
18 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
German Remembrance of the Holocaust and Growing US Anti-Semitism (2018)
18 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
18 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Pilots reveal safety fears over Boeing’s fleet of Dreamliners
18 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Fix Earth's climate crisis instead of dreaming of other planets
18 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Chinese surveillance app reverse-engineered by Human Rights Watch
18 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Ask HN: What are we doing here?
18 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Why Tesla's dashboard touch screens suck
18 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Why Are Rich People So Mean?
18 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Boston Dynamics Reimagined Handle Robot for Logistics[video]
18 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Uber says drivers aren’t core to its business, won’t classify them as employees
18 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Gender Gap in Computer Science Is Forecast to Last a Century
18 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
Elizabeth Warren proposes plan to build rural broadband networks
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Gitea v1.7.0
18 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
San Francisco Wants to Require Permits Before Rolling Out 'Emerging Technology'
18 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Data calculator: data structure design and cost synthesis from first principles
18 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Show HN: Monoscopic panoramas to 3D using AI
18 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
What backpack are you using?
18 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Mummia
18 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Show HN: Chord Assist – An accessible smart guitar for the blind, deaf and mute
18 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
Milton Friedman Was Wrong
18 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Equifax to Pay at Least $650M in Largest Data-Breach Settlement
18 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Ask HN: GSuite users, how do you do Knowledge Management?
18 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
From zero ideas to negotiating with Kanye West
18 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Ask HN: Stallman resignation story disappeared from front page
18 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Announcing TypeScript 3.4
18 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Quantum Gravity's Tangled Time
18 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Sandra Bland, It Turns Out, Filmed Traffic Stop Confrontation Herself
18 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Show HN: ALL_CAPS => sudo all_caps (Bash)
18 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2B Profits
18 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
The Mind at Work: Guido van Rossum on how Python makes thinking in code easier
18 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Great mechanical keyboards for coders – updated for 2019
18 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Ask HN: Recommended reading for building a chatbot?
18 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Ask HN: Does Scrum work?
18 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
First approval of a vaccine against Ebola
18 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Saussure: The accidental father of structuralism
18 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
'Nearly All' CounterStrike Microtransactions Are Being Used for Money Laundering
18 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Two Paths to the Telephone (1981) [pdf]
18 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
Teletext Holidays left 200k customer call recordings exposed
18 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Which Java JDK should I use? Which provide free LTS?
18 points • comment • mar 30, 2019
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo finally cut ties with prominent plastic lobbying group
18 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Watching Harvard, My Alma Mater, Surrender to the Mob
18 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Overstock Loses a Spycatcher CEO
18 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Stupid Git tricks: Combining two files into one while preserving line history
18 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Ask HN: Y Combinator Video Call Canceled Last Minute
18 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Copyright Directive: how the mob was told to save the dragon and slay the knight
18 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
How to apply ML and deep learning to audio analysis
18 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Somali militant group Al-Shabab bans single-use plastic bags
18 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Windy.com – lots of meteorological data presented well
18 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Too much information as an impediment for action
18 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Global Poll Shows 71% Support Regulation of Tech Giants to Protect Data Privacy
18 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
The Future of Rust
18 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Automatic Emergency Braking: A Case Study
18 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Data-driven discovery reveals Earth's missing minerals (2018)
18 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
LinkedIn Sent a Notification to My Work Email
18 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
The Case for Eating Jellyfish
18 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Little girls asked me to wear something sparkly for a talk I gave at NASA
18 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Think FaceApp is scary? Wait till you hear about Facebook
18 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Softbank to Take Control of WeWork
18 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
This Is What Fish Oil Supplements Actually Do
18 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Show HN: Jsn – A relaxed, user-friendly JSON-like data format
18 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Intel Reveals New Spectre-Like Attack, Advises Disabling Hyper-Threading
18 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Would you give up Google for $17,000 a year? The Fed wants to know
18 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Google employees call for removal of rightwing thinktank leader from AI council
18 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Second infinite leverage bug found in Robinhood. Team post on r/wsb, gets banned
18 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
As India Votes, False Posts and Hate Speech Flummox Facebook
18 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
1M Revenue, 0 Employees with an Amazon FBA While Traveling the World
18 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
‘Trotsky’ Is an Icepick to the Heart of Soviet History
18 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Why Symbols Aren’t Forever
18 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
The Havana Embassy Mystery: Conversion Disorder
18 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Assange displayed signs of torture in courtroom farce
18 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Silicon Valley: Geography Is Destiny
18 points • comment • may 06, 2019
Ask HN: Are there any famous non-tech people that use Linux on a regular basis?
18 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
A321neo operators alerted over 'excessive pitch' anomaly
18 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Loan startups in India flout harassment laws
18 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Apple.com Gets F in SSL Test, vulnerable to zombie POODLE
18 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
Vertebrates became predators by tweaking the neural crest
18 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Show HN: All entry level jobs and internships at one place
18 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Object Storage's Role in VMware's Kubernetes Centric World
18 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Future of HEVC Licensing Is Bleak, Declares MPEG Chairman (2018)
18 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Textual Analysis: Why Molière most likely did write his plays
18 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Total US Debt Is over $75T; Debt-to-GDP Lower Than in 2008
18 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
The History of Polish Photography (2002)
18 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Passive Income Suggestions 2019
18 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Chemotherapy may spread cancer and trigger more aggressive tumours
18 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Secretly recorded call shows how Live Nation places tickets on resale market
18 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
“Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way”
18 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Skinny genes the 'secret to staying slim'
18 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
Google misleads restaurant customers with a big blue “Order Online” button
18 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Show HN: Correly – Interactive Video Demos
18 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein’s Death, Critical Thinking, and the Decline of Reporting
18 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
JavaScript at the Edge
18 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
'Radical' wrinkle in forming complex carbon molecules in space
18 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Ask HN: What Are Downsides of Rust Language?
18 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
50 years later, the internet’s inventors are horrified by what it’s become
18 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Google poaches 14-year Mac veteran from Apple to bring Fuchsia to market
18 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
AI Trained on Old Scientific Papers Makes Discoveries Humans Missed
18 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Girl flooded with beauty ads on Instagram
18 points • comment • jun 18, 2019