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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Proposed Jail Time for Tech Companies Who Steal Data

    253 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  2. Google – My Activity

    253 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  3. Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Email 24/7, Lawsuit Claims

    253 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  4. Physicists finally nail the proton’s size, eliminating an anomaly

    253 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  5. Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation

    253 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  6. Why doesn't mathematics collapse, though humans often make mistakes in proofs?

    253 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  7. Launch HN: Hatchways (YC S19) – Internships Instead of Interviews

    253 points • comment • jul 31, 2019

  8. Non-English-based programming languages

    253 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  9. U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid

    253 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  10. Ask HN: What Neural Networks/Deep Learning Books Should I Read?

    253 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  11. Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool, free project management platform

    253 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  12. SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (2011)

    253 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  13. U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks

    253 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  14. We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up (2015)

    253 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  15. Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depends on Image Rotation

    253 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  16. OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model

    253 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  17. Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even non-users

    253 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  18. Downtime is an effortless way to improve your memory (2018)

    253 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  19. What I learned at work this year

    252 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  20. Curl exercises

    252 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  21. Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

    252 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  22. MyCPU – Homebrew Computer from Discrete Logic Gates

    252 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  23. Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug

    252 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  24. New Radiotracer Can Identify Nearly 30 Types of Cancer

    252 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  25. Say no to Venn diagrams when explaining SQL joins (2016)

    252 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  26. Soviet Arcade Games from the 70s and 80s

    252 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  27. Tesla to Buy Energy Storage Firm Maxwell Tech at $4.75 a Share

    252 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  28. Carcinogens Have Infiltrated the Generic Drug Supply in the U.S.

    252 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  29. The Dutch East India Co was richer than Apple, Google, Facebook combined (2017)

    252 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  30. Show HN: uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart

    252 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  31. Tracking my phone's silent connections

    252 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  32. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019

    252 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  33. US Files Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden for Violation of CIA and NSA NDAs

    252 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  34. Regulatory Capture at ICANN

    252 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  35. For Men Who Hate Talking on the Phone, Games Keep Friendships Alive

    251 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  36. Meshroom: Open Source 3D Reconstruction Software (2018) [video]

    251 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  37. Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month

    251 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  38. India's Meghalaya 'living root bridges' get stronger as the trees grow

    251 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  39. Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware

    251 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  40. 40% of multinational profits are shifted to tax havens each year

    251 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  41. Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in California

    251 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  42. How we hit our $30k ARR milestone

    251 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  43. Intermediate Vim

    251 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  44. I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (2015)

    251 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  45. Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet

    251 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  46. Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?

    251 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  47. MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs

    251 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  48. Blizzard has blocked the possibility to remove account

    251 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  49. Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardian Exposé

    251 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  50. RIP Syd Mead (Blade Runner, TRON Designer)

    251 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  51. ACM signed letter opposing open access

    251 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  52. Decoded: GNU Coreutils

    251 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  53. Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me

    251 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  54. Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

    251 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  55. The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2003) [pdf]

    251 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  56. Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates

    251 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  57. Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store

    250 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  58. Let's build a circuit that displays an image on a VGA monitor [video]

    250 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  59. Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row

    250 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  60. VS Code on a Remote Server

    250 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  61. Why the Boeing 737 will never take the place of the 757

    250 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  62. Welcoming Semmle to GitHub

    250 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  63. Ask HN: What company environment has enabled your best work?

    250 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  64. Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain

    250 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  65. Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US

    250 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  66. One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions

    250 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  67. The Theory of Relational Databases (1983)

    250 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  68. Hackers ship their exploits directly to their target’s mailroom

    250 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  69. Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless

    250 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  70. React Table is a “headless” UI library

    250 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  71. Creating a Great Team Culture, and Why It Matters

    250 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  72. A backyard mechanic who is taking on Tesla

    250 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  73. Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority over GDPR

    250 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  74. Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of US Treasurys

    250 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  75. The Mind of a Mathematician

    250 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  76. SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps

    250 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  77. Working asynchronously

    250 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  78. A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs

    250 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  79. Input: Fonts for Code

    250 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  80. Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries

    250 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  81. Data-Oriented Design (2018)

    250 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  82. Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault with Boeing and FAA

    250 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  83. Go Module Mirror and Checksum Database Launched

    250 points • comment • aug 30, 2019

  84. Functor, Applicative, and Monad

    250 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  85. Explaining Sex Rate Changes

    250 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  86. Molten Bismuth Shader

    250 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  87. Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014)

    250 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  88. Why I don't use web components

    250 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  89. Rust Koans (2015)

    250 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  90. A new study uses camera footage to track the frequency of bystander intervention

    250 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  91. Brain signals translated into speech using AI

    250 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  92. How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a color printout

    250 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  93. Keybase cancels Stellar token airdrop

    250 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  94. The Go runtime scheduler's way of dealing with system calls

    250 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  95. Algorithm can pick out almost any American in supposedly anonymized databases

    250 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  96. Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources

    250 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  97. HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s

    250 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  98. Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy

    250 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  99. New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People

    250 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  100. Enabling developers and organizations to use differential privacy

    250 points • comment • sep 05, 2019