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Hacker News (2019)

How the Fed Boosts the 1%: Even the Upper Middle Loses Household Wealth to 1%
15 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Challenges of AI Adoption
15 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com
15 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
The Price of a Hack
15 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
A Book About: How These Things Work
15 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Honest to a Fault: Pepys’s journals bear witness to events large and small
15 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Bigslice – Go-based, serverless cluster computing
15 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Microsoft learned from the past to design its future
15 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
NBA player to tokenize $34M contract, sell shares in ICO-like sale
15 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
Porting 140K lines of code to Flow
15 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Making of the Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants
15 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
DataFusion (Rust Query Engine) Donated to Apache Arrow
15 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Xkcd Forums Been Hacked
15 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Jamaica's Proud Socialist History
15 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Wreeto – a fast, cluttered-free knowledge organisation toolset
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
Show HN: BlurPage – A browser extension to hide sensitive information on webpage
15 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) [pdf]
15 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Can't unlock an Android phone? No problem, just take a Skype call
15 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
An HIV Genome from Two Decades Before Its Discovery
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
Digital nomad has traveled to all four corners of his apartment (satire)
15 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Show HN: A smut friendly dating site
15 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Notion – The Hassle-Free JavaScript Toolchain Manager
15 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Ralph Ellison’s Slow-Burning Art
15 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Attentional focus effects on running economy and kinematics
15 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
The Conundrum of Lucien Freud's Portraits
15 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Fighting to Save the Real-Life Pharmacy from ‘Ulysses’
15 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
I Defeated the Tolkien Estate
15 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
How to Get Better at Coding Interviews
15 points • comment • may 04, 2019
Content, Creativity, and Monetisation in the Modern Internet (2018)
15 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Only Race Cars Should Burnout
15 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Without encryption, we will lose all privacy – Edward Snowden
15 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Foreign buyers snap up Sicilian homes at €1 auction
15 points • comment • may 19, 2019
“DataGlyph” Embedded Digital Data
15 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Office workers in China organise a rare online labour movement
15 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
Eclipse IDE 2019-12 is released
15 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Taiwan’s New Digital Democracy
15 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
The Mother of All Demos (1968)
15 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively
15 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Ubuntu's ZFS Trajectory Is Going from to Even More
15 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
SoftBank's investment fund dumps entire $3.6B stake in Nvidia
15 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
So you told me you want to run Windows on a Calculator
15 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
1,000 Years of Congruent Numbers
15 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
“Tesla Is Going to Win Level 5.” – George Hotz
15 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Google Trips app being shut down on August 5
15 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Evolution of metal ions in biological systems
15 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
China's social credit system bans 5M from high speed rail. 17M from air
15 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Intel Processor Trace Part 3: Analyzing Performance Glitches
15 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Ask HN: What can I do so that Monkeys do not chew my fiber optic cable?
15 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
WeWork is Desperately Squeezing Cash Out of Meetup.com
15 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
PLA's Hong Kong Chief says troops are ready to protect China's sovereignty
15 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Security researcher gets access to all Xiaomi pet feeders around the world
15 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
DHS warns of 'strong concerns' that Chinese-made drones are stealing data
15 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Google has access to detailed health records on tens of millions of Americans
15 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work (2011)
15 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Tim Cook to serve as chairman at Chinese business school amid Hong Kong outcry
15 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
53% of People Shown an Anti-Vaccination Website Left Believing Misconceptions
15 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Shop less, live more – save the planet. It doesn’t sound that bad to me
15 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Plastic Has a Big Carbon Footprint – But That Isn't the Whole Story
15 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Do Historians Have No Such Boxes? (2017)
15 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Who does that server serve?
15 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Interview with a Pornhub Web Developer
15 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
Oracle systematically underpaid thousands of women, lawsuit says
15 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
Russian Network Used BuzzFeed's Community Site to Spread False News Stories
15 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Buying lattes is not keeping you from being rich
15 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
UI Engineer Diana Smith Creates Baroque-Inspired Portraits with CSS
15 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
The 'doomsday' scenario: what happens if the shutdown drags on
15 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
The NSA Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia
15 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about
15 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
On the “Luxury Internet”
15 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Google Fiber's secret weapon in its gigabit comeback has failed
15 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
Carl Sagan’s Rules for BS-Busting and Critical Thinking (2014)
15 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
15 points • comment • may 21, 2019
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
15 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
Jeff Bezos says National Enquirer is threatening to publish his nude photos
15 points • comment • feb 07, 2019
Google Play Pass bundles 350 Android games and apps for $4.99 per month
15 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1
15 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Another Cat in the Wall
15 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
More Kids Want to Be YouTubers Than Astronauts Because Obviously
15 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Apple pulls app that let you turn your phone into virtual iPod with click wheel
15 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
How the 45 RPM Single Changed Music
15 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
Agriculture may have been humanity’s greatest blunder (1987)
15 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
15 points • comment • jun 29, 2019
Show HN: Cloud Migration – Migrate Between Dropbox, OneDrive, GoogleDrive, etc.
15 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Show HN: Gambe.ro, the Italian Hacker News
15 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Neural Attentive Bag-of-Entities Model for Text Classification
15 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Show HN: Use Chrome Headless in the Cloud from the Browser
15 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
The £7,500 dress that does not exist
15 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Ask HN: Consultants in Montreal willing to let me shadow them?
15 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Len Deighton’s Bomber, the first book ever written on a word processor (2013)
15 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology, a Metaphor, and a Story (2011)
15 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
DNS Encryption Explained
15 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Waterfox browser
15 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
There Is No Tech Backlash, Worse We Think There Is One
15 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Artist Arrested by Detroit Police While Working on a Mural for the City
15 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Runit – a Unix init scheme with service supervision
15 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Apple's Texas Hold'em is back To celebrate AppStore's 10 year anniversary
15 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Ask HN: How do you monetize a side-project?
15 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
The Other Side of Paradise: How I Left a Buddhist Retreat in Handcuffs
15 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
New technique increases 3-D printing speed by 1k to 10k times
15 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Ask HN: Career advice for people not on engineering tracks?
15 points • comment • feb 08, 2019