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Hacker News (2019)

EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed
268 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
Salesforce enables ‘modify all’ in user profiles
268 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Modern Data Practice and the SQL Tradition
268 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Spam in Your Calendar? Here’s What to Do
268 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Now dev – Serverless on localhost
268 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance'
268 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
SQL databases come up with algorithms you’d never have dreamed of (2017) [video]
268 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
Hundreds of thousands take to Hong Kong streets against controversial bill
268 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode
268 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS
268 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends report [pdf]
268 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Google Edge TPU Devices
268 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox
268 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
What's next for SemVer
268 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Why isn't 1 a prime number?
268 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Syncthing graduation day
268 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
The old internet died and we watched and did nothing
268 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
I.M. Pei has died
267 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Tips for reviewing code you don’t like
267 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs, a startup for controlling computers with the mind
267 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?
267 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
267 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
XXH3 – a new speed-optimized hash algorithm
267 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github
267 points • comment • may 08, 2019
The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally Makes That Plain
267 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted
267 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia Is Connected to Our Guts
267 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – study
267 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Messages via JSON
267 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections
267 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Nobody wants to read your shit (2009)
267 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
LHCb discovers matter-antimatter asymmetry in charm quarks
267 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
The One Man MMO Project
267 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
Genomics – A programmer’s guide
267 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street
267 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
267 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Roll Your Own Analytics
267 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous
267 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness
267 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS on Linux
267 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze
267 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
I Was Wrong About Speed Reading (2015)
267 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
GitHub Package Registry
266 points • comment • may 10, 2019
We tested popular web hosting companies and all were easily hacked
266 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted
266 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
YC 120
266 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Racket Is an Acceptable Python
266 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility or Both? A Battle over Spectrum Heats Up
266 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
NYT promotes questionable study on Google and the media
266 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Zig 0.4.0 Released
266 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Jack Dorsey Wants to Decentralize Twitter
266 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
A Year Ago I Put Saltwater in a Jar [video]
266 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
How to Use User Mode Linux
266 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Why is no one signing their emails?
266 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Hospitals pledge to fight admin price transparency plan in court
266 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Simple script to analyse your PostgreSQL database config, give tuning advice
266 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
So you want to be a wizard
266 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
The periodic table is 150 years old this week
266 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded
266 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
266 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun
266 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018)
266 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics
266 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
266 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
Angular v8.0
265 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Show HN: A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js
265 points • comment • may 25, 2019
AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to
265 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?
265 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Our Startup Handbook
265 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Pricing Experiments You Can Learn From (2011)
265 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company
265 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web
265 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Network Determines Success More Than People Realize
265 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (2016)
265 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Launch HN: OurWorldInData (YC W19 Nonprofit) – Data on World’s Largest Problems
265 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
“New home page seems like Stack Overflow doesn't allow free use any more”
265 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors
265 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989?
265 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Paint Is Colored Glue
265 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value
265 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
The Future of Mathematics? [video]
265 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
265 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2018)
265 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1k years stuns archaeologists
265 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Rust: Beyond the Typechecker
265 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals
265 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Syslog: Complete System Administrator Guide
265 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Facebook reportedly argues there's no 'expectation of privacy' on social media
265 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email
265 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
The Myth of the Wealthy Welder
265 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Why does all life use the same 20 amino acids?
265 points • comment • aug 21, 2019
In a First, US Doctors Use Crispr Tool to Treat Patient with Genetic Disorder
265 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
OpenAI LP
265 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
2020 Cloud Report: AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure
265 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
265 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Microbrowsers Are Everywhere
265 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Fertilizer plants emit 100 times more methane than reported
264 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra
264 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes
264 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?
264 points • comment • may 24, 2019