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Hacker News (2019)

  1. A Fifth of China’s Homes Are Empty (2018)

    282 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  2. Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript

    282 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  3. Gamedev Tutorial: Trigonometry Basics – Sine and Cosine

    282 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  4. Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt

    282 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  5. Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos calls GE a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’

    282 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  6. Giving up on wlroots-rs

    281 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  7. Designing an audio adblocker

    281 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  8. Anna Karenina Principle

    281 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  9. Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI

    281 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  10. Building a Developer Tools Business

    281 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  11. Renaissance Technologies

    281 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  12. Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns

    281 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  13. Flint’s Children Suffer in Class After Years of Drinking the Lead-Poisoned Water

    281 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  14. Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along

    281 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  15. Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil

    281 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  16. Submit Your Claim in the Equifax Breach Settlement

    281 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  17. Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour of LaTeX

    281 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  18. Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf]

    281 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  19. Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network

    281 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  20. Python vs. Rust for Neural Networks

    281 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  21. ‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student mental health crisis

    281 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  22. How I Became a Machine Learning Practitioner

    281 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  23. Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in users

    281 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  24. Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language

    281 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  25. People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps

    281 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  26. Learning Rust via Advent of Code

    281 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  27. How to Measure Indoor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi, RuuviTags and PMS7003

    281 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  28. Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?

    280 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  29. Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty

    280 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  30. Show HN: Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy

    280 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  31. Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python

    280 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  32. Database Internals

    280 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  33. Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation

    280 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  34. U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person

    280 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

  35. 81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognition technology innocent

    280 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  36. India has the highest data usage per smartphone

    280 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  37. Her Amazon Purchases Are Real, the Reviews Are Fake

    280 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  38. TypeScript 3.6

    280 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  39. I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games

    280 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  40. Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency

    280 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  41. Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company

    280 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  42. How to Buy Drugs

    280 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  43. Apple Sues Nuvia’s CEO, a Former Employee

    280 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  44. Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket

    280 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  45. Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft grabs close-up thirty feet above asteroid

    280 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  46. Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

    280 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  47. Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing

    280 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  48. Sketchviz – Graphviz graphs in a hand-drawn style

    280 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  49. Low-Cost VPS Testing

    279 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  50. Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database

    279 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  51. Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks

    279 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  52. When we say “Everest is crowded,” this is what we mean

    279 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  53. Building a Dark Web Crawler in Go

    279 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  54. NYC Mesh Begins Broadband Expansion in Brooklyn

    279 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  55. College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor

    279 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  56. Open-Source Seeds

    279 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  57. “Users want control” is a shoulder shrug

    279 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  58. GitHub Learning Lab

    279 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  59. Wunderlist founder wants to buy his app back from Microsoft

    279 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  60. Plotty Bird: flappy bird on the HP7440A pen plotter

    279 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  61. What does the Laplace Transform tell us? A visual explanation [video]

    279 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  62. Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb

    279 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  63. Why Language-Oriented Programming? Why Racket?

    279 points • comment • feb 23, 2019

  64. Remote working – Bringing sanity to mind and lessons worth learning

    279 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  65. Principled GraphQL

    279 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  66. Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors embrace Saudi Arabia again

    279 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  67. The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Algebra (1963)

    279 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  68. A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World

    279 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  69. Show HN: Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

    278 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  70. 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California

    278 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  71. Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

    278 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  72. Getting my personal data out of Facebook

    278 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  73. The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years

    278 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  74. SpaceX's Starship Mk1 just blew off its bulkhead in a pressurization accident

    278 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  75. Office Depot computer scans gave fake results

    278 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  76. Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?

    278 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  77. Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running native in browser at desktop speed

    278 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  78. Data science is different now

    278 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  79. Who Pays Writers?

    278 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  80. The Embroidered Computer

    278 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  81. CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” (2017)

    278 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  82. Rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat

    278 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  83. I quit my job today to make video games full time

    278 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  84. Announcing Building Git

    278 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  85. Systemd as tragedy

    278 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  86. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

    278 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  87. Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the result of a query

    278 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  88. Cache Poisoned DoS Attack: Shutdown any CDN Website with One HTTP Request

    278 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  89. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)

    278 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  90. Faults in Post Office accounting system led to workers being convicted of theft

    277 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  91. Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

    277 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  92. It’s Time for Some Queueing Theory

    277 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  93. Private Equity company acquires .org registry

    277 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  94. Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf]

    277 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  95. Sr.ht becomes Sourcehut

    277 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  96. A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online

    277 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  97. Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA

    277 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  98. Oculus Rift S

    277 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  99. Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns

    277 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  100. A random dungeon generator in C, small enough to fit on a business card

    277 points • comment • mar 05, 2019