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Hacker News (2019)

Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive
273 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients?
273 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners (2017)
273 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Show HN: Editable, royalty-free SVG illustrations
273 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Monotype launches the first redesign of Helvetica in 35 years
273 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business
272 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
88% of Americans use a second screen while watching TV
272 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
“Why was Rust chosen for Libra?” in congressional hearing [video]
272 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Pharma companies continue to raise drug prices at rates well above inflation
272 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug
272 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Sorry, we can't join your Slack
272 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Show HN: Ethical Resources – 300 ethical alternatives to mainstream stuff
272 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir
272 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 32-core CPU is more bad news for Intel
272 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Cooling a house without air conditioning
272 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Scientists stunned by ‘city-killer’ asteroid that just missed Earth
272 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Apple Is Listening
272 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps
272 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too
272 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Leisure Is Our Killer App
272 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
AMP for email is bad
272 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China
272 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
Let's talk about peeing in space
272 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform
272 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
We tried to publish a replication of a Science paper in Science
272 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Audio AI: isolating vocals from stereo music using Convolutional Neural Networks
272 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
I only use an iFrame to crawl and scrape content
271 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale (2014)
271 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Learning Golang – From Zero to Hero
271 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
The Danger of “Simplicity”
271 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Designing Windows 95's User Interface (2018)
271 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
When Engineers Become Whistleblowers
271 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State
271 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
GDPR After One Year
271 points • comment • may 25, 2019
What should have been an IMG element became this
271 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Hard disks can be turned into listening devices
271 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
It took 12 weeks to ship an MVP I thought would take 3
271 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2007)
271 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (2017)
271 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017)
271 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Making a Game Boy Game. Part 1: Getting Started
271 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ramp Up
271 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places
271 points • comment • may 04, 2019
The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market
271 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network
271 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
Fairphone 3 Teardown
271 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Introduction to Stochastic Processes [pdf]
271 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
271 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health
270 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Beats Intel’s Core i7-9700K in Cinebench
270 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier
270 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Four new DNA letters double life’s alphabet
270 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
U.S. Firms Are Helping Build China’s Orwellian State
270 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
I let a stranger watch me work for a day and I've never been more productive
270 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
Show HN: Koonchi – Convert Photo to Hand-Painted Painting by Artists from India
270 points • comment • may 12, 2019
How many .com domain names are unused?
270 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Killing a process and all of its descendants
270 points • comment • aug 03, 2019
Vancouver Airport blocking ads with information on travellers’ privacy rights
270 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
Dumbass Home 2.0. How modern IoT works, how to automate your rented box today
270 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
FOIA request for NROL-39 surveillance satellite logo
270 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Uyghurs in Xinjiang – Onward to the Inevitable
270 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
270 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Texts (2016)
270 points • comment • may 26, 2019
The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco
270 points • comment • aug 11, 2019
Elements of Programming (2009)
270 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
270 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
My Sudden Trip to Hell
270 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a Mistake
270 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account
270 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)
270 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age
269 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM
269 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Simple techniques to optimise Go programs
269 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'
269 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
The rise of wgpu
269 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome
269 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth
269 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Containers, microservices, and service meshes
269 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Ask HN: Top three questions for a startup before accepting a job offer?
269 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Apparently NordVPN Was Compromised
269 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an Indie Retail Website
269 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data
269 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018)
269 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
John Carmack on Parallel Implementations (2018)
269 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)
269 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
D is being used for autonomous driving research – Audi and Mercedes
269 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day
269 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Show HN: A raycaster that renders to random dot stereogram (like Magic Eye)
269 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
269 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
PineTime Is a $25 Smartwatch / Companion for PinePhone Linux Phone
269 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
Update on await syntax in Rust
269 points • comment • may 28, 2019
America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable
269 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Gmail Services Global Outage
268 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4
268 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018)
268 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival
268 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Tesla sues former employees for allegedly stealing data, Autopilot source code
268 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Now dev – Serverless on localhost
268 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind
268 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed
268 points • comment • sep 16, 2019