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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise

    261 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  2. Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster

    261 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  3. Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

    261 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  4. California is cracking down on the gig economy

    260 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  5. Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China

    260 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  6. America’s New Sex Bureaucracy

    260 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  7. 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)

    260 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  8. Memory Management in Python

    260 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  9. Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language

    260 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  10. U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss

    260 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  11. Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short After Her Baby Died

    260 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  12. Skype contact lists may have been exposed (2017)

    260 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  13. File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: lessons from Ceph evolution

    260 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  14. A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies

    260 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  15. Radiotrophic fungus

    260 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  16. Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectious diseases combined

    260 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  17. AT&T to Face EFF Class Action for Selling Customers’ Location to Bounty Hunters

    260 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  18. Crafting Interpreters: Closures

    260 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  19. Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 Released

    260 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  20. VW’s Former CEO Charged in Germany Over Diesel Rigging

    260 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  21. Rust's 2019 Roadmap

    260 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  22. America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military

    260 points • comment • jun 29, 2019

  23. South African authorities admit to mass surveillance

    260 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  24. Super Mario 64 has been decompiled

    260 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  25. The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017)

    260 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  26. A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health

    260 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  27. Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries

    259 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  28. India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try

    259 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  29. Credder Wants to Create an Equivalent to “Rotten Tomatoes” for News

    259 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  30. Deep learning outperformed dermatologists in melanoma image classification task

    259 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  31. Cancer Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls

    259 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  32. Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO

    259 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  33. Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says

    259 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  34. Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?

    259 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  35. Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

    259 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  36. How Dark Deploys Code in 50ms

    259 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  37. Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)

    259 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  38. Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices found ineffective in study

    259 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  39. New flaws in 4G, 5G allow attackers to intercept calls and track phone locations

    259 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  40. Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft

    259 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  41. Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests

    259 points • comment • feb 10, 2019

  42. Ultra Low Latency WebRTC Streaming – Open-Source Media Server

    259 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  43. Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

    259 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  44. STM32 Open Source Multimeter

    259 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  45. Research shows Bitcoin 2017 rally caused by single whale

    259 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  46. Unencrypted patient medical information is being broadcast across Vancouver

    259 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  47. Big Pharma is using faux generics to keep drug prices high, critics say

    259 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  48. BugJail: New Java debugger – debug across time with mouse

    259 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  49. How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?

    259 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  50. Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%

    258 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  51. Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup

    258 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  52. SoftBank could bring down the house?

    258 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  53. Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users

    258 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  54. Pathfinding for Tower Defense

    258 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  55. Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive

    258 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  56. Uber data reveals motoring slower than walking in many cities

    258 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  57. Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number

    258 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  58. I’m only making business card sized games now

    258 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  59. Show HN: Commento: a fast, privacy-focused alternative to Disqus

    258 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  60. Why the ‘Queen of Shitty Robots’ Renounced Her Crown

    258 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  61. What Finally Killed AirPower

    258 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  62. Google refunded $200 because I missed 5 lines of Code

    258 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  63. Why Recycling Doesn't Work

    258 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  64. California power outage triggers chaos in science labs

    258 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  65. 37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl

    258 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  66. NBC took Bob Costas off the Super Bowl for speaking out about concussions

    258 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  67. ITA's old “Hiring Puzzles” is still a treasure trove of good problems

    258 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  68. Matlab–Python–Julia Cheatsheet

    258 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  69. The Art of PNG Glitch (2015)

    258 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  70. If Sapiens were a blog post

    258 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  71. NLP's Clever Hans Moment Has Arrived

    258 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  72. Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines

    258 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  73. Bazel Release 1.0

    258 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  74. Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data

    258 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  75. The U.S. just had the most Q1 layoffs in a decade

    258 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  76. Migrate Jest to TypeScript

    258 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  77. Fastly S-1

    257 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  78. BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability

    257 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  79. Facebook's fake account problem

    257 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  80. Matrix at FOSDEM 2019

    257 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  81. New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model

    257 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  82. A Design Flaw Behind MacBook Pro’s “Stage Light” Effect [video]

    257 points • comment • feb 02, 2019

  83. Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base

    257 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  84. Women: Learn to Program This Summer

    257 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  85. Avoid Indirection in Code

    257 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  86. Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon

    257 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  87. GameBoy CPU Manual (2013) [pdf]

    257 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  88. Forever 21, Which Helped Popularize Fast Fashion, to File for Bankruptcy

    257 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  89. I'm Joining CloudFlare

    257 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  90. Telecom Lobbyists Successfully Remove Canada from Wireless Pricing Report

    257 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  91. Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws?

    257 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  92. Chelsea Manning released from jail with expiration of grand jury

    257 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  93. Immediate brain plasticity after one hour of brain–computer interface

    257 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  94. Tokyo's audiophile venues (2016)

    257 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  95. Unity Engine ToS change makes cloud-based SpatialOS games illegal

    257 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  96. Privacy Tools – Encryption Against Global Mass Surveillance

    257 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  97. IBM releases Elm-powered app

    257 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  98. A new Einstein cross is discovered

    257 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  99. Drilling open a smart door lock in 4 seconds

    257 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  100. Economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal

    257 points • comment • may 21, 2019