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Hacker News (2019)

The Guardian view on Facebook: power without responsibility
16 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Large-Scale-Exploit of GitHub Repository Metadata and Preventive Measures
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Ex Boyfriends List
16 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that gave them PTSD
16 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Paper Technologies, Digital Technologies: Early Modern Medical Records (2016)
16 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
How Stalagmites Get Their Shape
16 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
A man gets Bay Area commuters off their phones
16 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Cashify – a lightweight currency conversion library and Money.js alternative
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
CLI ePub Reader
16 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
CCleaner Installer Overrides Default Browser with Chromium Clone
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Mindset micro; pushing the envelope, or whatever happened to innovation? (1985)
16 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Ask HN: As a VC, What Are the Top Things You Look For?
16 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Research into the reasons for trepanation (2016)
16 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
Windows or Chromebook? A Best Buy salesman told me it isn't even close
16 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty
16 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
To launch Instagram v1 in 2010, they spent $65k out of $500k funding
16 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Valve Index FOV technical deep dive
16 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Validating Product Ideas Before Building Them
16 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
GitHub after Microsoft: How it has changed
16 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
How to find a job in a tech company helping to combat climate change?
16 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
YouTube’s Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is a 14-Year-Old Girl
16 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Immigration Officials Use Google Translate to Vet Refugees
16 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Netflix flexes
16 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Welsh Wikipedia gives me hope
16 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Ask HN: What are the best blogs and resources for starting as a contractor?
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
SoftBank Urges WeWork to Shelve IPO
16 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
YouTube star who humiliated homeless man given prison term
16 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
The Art of Not Getting Conned
16 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Chest cavity fire during emergency cardiac surgery
16 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Wikipedia Is Down
16 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
FastMail Is Down [502]
16 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Man killed by Lexus car being remotely started
16 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Fixing photosynthesis by engineering it to recycle a toxic mistake
16 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Hacking 20 high-profile dev accounts could compromise half of the NPM ecosystem
16 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
When Women Control the Money, Female Founders Get Funded
16 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Show HN: Livecodestream – Live streaming directly from browser (decentralised)
16 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
List of inventors killed by their own inventions
16 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
How to build – and manage – a self-improving team
16 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
Bezos probe concludes mistress' brother was Enquirer source
16 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
What is being sent to Ubuntu in the MOTD?
16 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
Mt Everest: Why the summit can get so crowded
16 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Oakland on course to create more new housing units than SF in 2019
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks (2019)
16 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Scheele’s Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death (2018)
16 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs
16 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Purism’s Librem 5 phone starts shipping–a fully open GNU/Linux phone
16 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
The Copper Vapor Laser
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
The Iceberg of React Hooks
16 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Record 7M Americans are delinquent on car loans
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Canada: Arrest of ex-head of intelligence shocks experts and alarms allies
16 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
July on course to be hottest month ever, say climate scientists
16 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
How to flag and detect deepfake videos
16 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
With Uber’s IPO, Dara Khosrowshahi Is Taking Travis Kalanick’s Company Public
16 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Best Single Board Computers of 2019
16 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Special Sciences: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis (1974) [pdf]
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Full Docker Breakout Exploit
16 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
How to make a map of 18000 asteroids (with open-source code)
16 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
David vs. Goliath: Nauru Rejects'one China'recognizes Taiwan as Nation
16 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Leonsans
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
How Companies Manipulate Employees (With Examples)
16 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News
16 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
Biometrics: A Gift, a Curse?
16 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Srinivasa Ramanujan
16 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Preventing SQL Injections When WAF’s Not Enough
16 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Intel i9 9900k 40% Faster in Chrome Octane Bench with mitigations=off
16 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Ask HN: How many hours of your job are enjoyable?
16 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Bedbugs are giving Airbnb users headaches and itchy bites
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Oracle underpaid women and minority workers by $401M – Labor Department
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Finally, a (Properly) Free Web UI for Apache Kafka
16 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Ask HN: DSLR vs. MirrorLess cameras. Best resources for learning photography?
16 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Facebook scans system libs from Android app and uploads them
16 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Rare seventeenth century poetry manuscript at risk of export
16 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Facebook collected and transcribed users’ audio without permission
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm
16 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
The human brain evolved when CO2 levels were lower
16 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
The Human Revolution in Understanding Programs [pdf]
16 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Asking ‘What questions do you have for me?’ instead of ‘Any questions?’
16 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Kong 1.1 Released with Declarative Configuration and DB-Less Mode
16 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Firefox plans making DNS over HTTPS default
16 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
SpaceX will reduce its workforce by 10 percent
16 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
Zaydi Manuscript Tradition
16 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Tesla's Model 3 Shatters Record in Electric Car Crazy Norway
16 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Google Compute Engine Incident #19008
16 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
End of Operation of Wow Air
16 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning: A Science-Based How-To (2010)
16 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
Common mistakes made by beginner Python programmers
16 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
CommanderSong: Practical Adversarial Voice Recognition (2018)
16 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki addresses hate speech controversy
16 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
Ask HN: Why am I stuck on 51 HN karma points?
16 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
There is mysterious ‘undocumented technology’ hidden on Intel computer chips
16 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Ask HN: Alternatives to MVC
16 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Show HN: Always Be Closing – Pull Request Management Service
16 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
The Electoral College Was Terrible from the Start
16 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
Learning how to learn
16 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Can Help the News Business
16 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Ask HN: "Older” developers, what's the next career phase for you?
16 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft workers have all pledged to strike on 9/20
16 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Ask HN: Why Did the Semantic Web Fail?
16 points • comment • may 26, 2019
The surprising decline of entrepreneurship and innovation in the West
16 points • comment • dec 07, 2019