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Hacker News (2019)

Google Continues Investments in Military and Police AI Technology
12 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Jeff Bezos says big tech employee activists are wrong
12 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Land of Sacred Waters
12 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
The Fall of WeWork: How a Startup Darling Came Unglued
12 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
HTTP/3 explained
12 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Ask HN: How to retrain tongue/mouth muscles for foreign language pronunciation?
12 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Disney's New Lion King Is the VR-Fueled Future of Cinema
12 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Executives – why do they always ask the hard questions?
12 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Show HN: Privacy-focused iOS hiking app
12 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Ask HN: Recommendations for full-blown polyglot web IDEs
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
The Question Concerning Technology (1949) [pdf]
12 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
Ask HN: Mentors for Engineering Managers
12 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
Fremont family upset that Kaiser let ‘robot’ deliver bad news
12 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
Lovecraft on the Tabletop
12 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
12 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
The Difference Between Chef's Knives
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Turkish Journalist Sentenced to Prison Over Paradise Papers’ Investigation
12 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
The Meaning of Life Is Absurd
12 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Ask HN: How to say “I continued working for free” in your resume?
12 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Predatory conference scammers are getting smarter
12 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
Free GDPR and PCI DSS compliance test – all in one
12 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Reporter blames ‘cruel’ Vanuatu ban on China
12 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames: Control Characters (Such as Newline), 2009
12 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
The NSA Warns of TLS Inspection
12 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Xi Jinping shows natural hair color in a rare move for Chinese politics
12 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
“Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor”: supplement
12 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Backgammon Ends (2013)
12 points • comment • may 27, 2019
Ask HN: Beginner Programmer: Haskell Book or SICP?
12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Ask HN: What's the most likely way to earn a ton of money as a programmer
12 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here
12 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
A ‘Creepy’ Assignment: Pay Attention to What Strangers Reveal in Public
12 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
Low-wage work is pervasive, there aren’t enough “good jobs” to go around
12 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Nasa WorldWind Project Suspension Apr 5, 2019
12 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
Protein tangles linked with dementia seen in patients after single head injury
12 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Venezuela is buying Bitcoin with airport taxes to smuggle in US dollars
12 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Your landlord turns your apartment into a smart home. Now what?
12 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Greenland Was 40deg Hotter Than Normal This Week, and Things Are Getting Intense
12 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
33% of buses will be electric by 2030
12 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Sustainability is now the biggest topic in the bottled water online conversation
12 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
New evidence supporting the existence of the hypothetical X17 particle
12 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Survey finds teens unaware they are vaping nicotine
12 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Child Porn Ring Busted as Authorities Cite Ability to Crack Bitcoin Privacy
12 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Exit-vim: Vim plugin that exits Vim on startup
12 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Backdoor Found in Utility for Linux, Unix Servers
12 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
Leaders should create gaps
12 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Ask HN: How to easily transfer files between devices
12 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
A Generalised Solution to Distributed Consensus
12 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
I'm Buddhist and I'm Offended
12 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Reddit hiding r/the_donald in web and mobile search results
12 points • comment • may 09, 2019
What did Monica do to violate the CoC?
12 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Getting into Open Source: Three Ways to Contribute
12 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
After $5B in Losses, China’s Tesla Battles for Survival
12 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
U.S. Federal District Court Declared Bitcoin as Legal Money
12 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Private Equity Ghouls Buy Non-Profit That Handles .Org Domains
12 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Objects vs. Boxes vs. Actors vs. Agents
12 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Ancestral home of modern humans is in Botswana, study finds
12 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
US military purchased $32.8m worth of electronics with known security risks
12 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Uber Office Had Separate Bathrooms for Drivers and ‘Employees’
12 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Ask HN: Are there too many people in the world?
12 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Winning Kashmir and Losing India
12 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Authorizing (or not) your USB devices to connect to the system (2007)
12 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Cuts Stake in Company by More Than 90%
12 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
Google GDPR fine shows 'embarrassing' extent of how firms misuse people's data
12 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
How China is using QR codes
12 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Sanders proposes canceling entire $1.6T in U.S. student loan debt
12 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Michael Mann Refuses to Produce Data, Loses Case
12 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Ask HN: How do some people build their careers so fast?
12 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Kayfabe (Wikipedia)
12 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
The Risk of Conflict Rises as the World Heats Up
12 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
The world needs an alternative to Selenium – so we built one
12 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Ask HN: Can PostgreSQL standby read performance go down with writes on master?
12 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Always Bump Downwards
12 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
E Ink Smartphones are the big new trend of 2019
12 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
Ask HN: Why are recruiters not interested in contractors?
12 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Tell HN: I ate only food in pill format for 3 months and lost 65 lbs
12 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Jira Is Down
12 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Instapoetry
12 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Fomu – An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port
12 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Partial Function Application as a Design Pattern
12 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Oct 31,2019: the last day Blade Runner can be referred to as movie set in future
12 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Show HN: Normail – un-fancy email with cal, contacts, and Nextcloud $50/year
12 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Was Etsy too good to be true?
12 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn
12 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
UK comms regulator Ofcom proposes locked-handset ban
12 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Winklevoss twins on their Bitcoin bet: 'Money is the oldest social network'
12 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Supreme Court Won't Hear Case on Ban Against Homeless Sleeping in Public Spaces
12 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP DBMS [pdf]
12 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
StackOverflow faces fresh backlash from community on its new policies
12 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
On Startups, Platforms, and Innovation
12 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Ask HN: What slows you down most when starting new programming projects?
12 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Omio's Journey to Connect Europe
12 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
The Supreme Court Will Hear Google and Oracle’s Case
12 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Tips for making the switch from a consumer to a creator
12 points • comment • feb 05, 2019
Chaos Will Unfold If Trump Opens the Tongass to Logging
12 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
‘Oh, My God, Where Is This Going?’ When Computer-Science Majors Take Improv
12 points • comment • may 19, 2019
VMware Workstation and Hyper-V – Working Together
12 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Reddit bans ads for adult-oriented products and services
12 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Instagram hides false content behind warnings, except for politicians
12 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Police, Computing, and Nationalism
12 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Rich Californians Are Shelling Out $30k to Ease Blackout Pain
12 points • comment • nov 26, 2019