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Hacker News (2019)

Show HN: Calenvy.com – YC alum launches new scheduling app powered by email
6 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
'League of Legends' Studio Faces Employee Walkout, Promises Changes
6 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
BMW Volleys Open-Source “Ramses” Distributed 3D Rendering System
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
China’s Social Credit System:Millions Banned from Taking Flights, Trains in 2018
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
New ransomware is targeting network attached storage devices
6 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
A Systems Design Interview Primer for New Engineers
6 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Apple to unlock iPhone NFC to read secure data from passports
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Ask HN: Is 5G Safe?
6 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Are smartphones the new 'opium of the people'?
6 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
A Non-Expert’s Guide to a Black Hole’s Silhouette
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings
6 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses (2017)
6 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Google Cloud Next – New Hybrid Cloud ‘Anthos,’ Partnerships, Data Centres
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
How to 10x Your Own Productivity as a Manager Through Writing
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
NAPS2 – Document Scanning in .NET
6 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Dragonblood – several design flaws discovered in WPA3
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Ask HN: When selling a software business, does code quality affect sale price?
6 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Flexport Hits $3.2B Valuation After $1B Investment Led by SoftBank
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
David Maurer, the Dean of Criminal Language
6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
A woman reported a burglar locked in her bathroom. It was a trapped Roomba
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
What Happened When The DEA Demanded Passwords From LastPass
6 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
Putin Claims His Hypersonic Missiles Are Invincible but He Jailed the Developers
6 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Things I learnt after quitting Google for a job at a hyper-growth startup
6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Hints How Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan Are Planning to Upend the US Healthcare
6 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
CppCon 2019: Andrei Alexandrescu “Speed Is Found in the Minds of People”
6 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
How The New York Times Thinks About Privacy
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Ask HN: Has anyone had success as a “dev partner” for a SaaS co
6 points • comment • may 27, 2019
Ukrainian special forces capture commander of Malaysia Airlines flight shootdown
6 points • comment • jul 06, 2019
Report Blasts Palantir for ICE Work, Trump Ties
6 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Mozilla should give up on Firefox and go with Chromium too
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Navy pilots report UFOs with no visible engine, hypersonic speeds
6 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Thom Yorke’s beautiful new nightmare
6 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Matrix.org and Riot.im is down for emergency security maintenance
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
LinkedIn is not a dating site
6 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Ask HN: Creative Ways You Have Gotten Users?
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Mozilla Hubs For Education?
6 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
The Sartan Contamination Story
6 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
My sixth day with Haiku: Under the hood of resources, icons, and packages
6 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Why myths and metaphors are pivotal to philosophical thinking–not opposed to it
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Ask HN: Would You Accept a Trial/Exploratory Week Before Joining a Company?
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Google Nest: Why Google finally embraced Nest as its smart home brand
6 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Ask HN: I'b building an email analytics plugin/app
6 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
PagerDuty Hits $1.8B Valuation at IPO
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Ask HN: How to help non-technical designers work with CSS?
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Climate Change Enters Its Blood-Sucking Phase
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Why the S-400 and the F-35 Can’t Get Along
6 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Anthropocene now: influential panel votes to recognize Earth’s new epoch
6 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Many books aren’t fact-checked, and we’re realizing they’re full of errors
6 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Why Socrates Hated Democracy
6 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Ask HN: A browser extension to auto-archive every Hacker News story you read?
6 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Need?
6 points • comment • aug 14, 2019
I’m Proposing a Big New Idea: The Real Corporate Profits Tax
6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
PhD student solves “unsolvable” math problem by not realizing it was unsolvable
6 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
RMS resigns from MIT and FSF over Epstein comments
6 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
AI can’t protect us from deepfakes, argues new report
6 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
The Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components (1952) [pdf]
6 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Steven Pinker Responds to Critics of 'Enlightenment Now'
6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
The Tragedy of the Common Lisp: Why Large Languages Explode
6 points • comment • may 27, 2019
Disney+ to Launch in November $6.99 Monthly including 30 Seasons of the Simpsons
6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Download 400 Colouring Books by Museums and Libraries Based on Their Collections
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Junior high school kills scientific curiosity
6 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Lyft Cutting API Support
6 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
‘Hangxiety’: why alcohol gives you a hangover and anxiety
6 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Pull Reminders: Bootstrapping a Side Project into GitHub Marketplace
6 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Proofree – Free Proofreading by Humans
6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Green New Deal Is Feasible and Affordable
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Ask HN: What Are the KPIs or Metrics for Success in 'Developer Relations'?
6 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
How to Make Your Organization Attractive to Engineering Talent
6 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
The Pentagon Wants to Stop Enemies from 'Poisoning' AI
6 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern Misrecognition (2016)
6 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Tolkien’s Guide to Contemporary Politics
6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Fake reviews: How the Facebook 'factories' are still ripping us off
6 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Why Silicon Valley Pushes the UBI Narrative
6 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Star Wars: Episode IX – Teaser
6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
The Dead Code Society
6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Ask HN: Hobbies/Activities with robust online communities but no Reddit presence
6 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Researchers hope a blood test can reveal early signs of cancer
6 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Top environmental threats caused by digital electronics
6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
SpaceX wants to buy out residents of a small Texas hamlet
6 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
When Zora and Langston Took a Road Trip
6 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
SpaceX Plans to Reuse Fairing from Falcon Heavy Launch
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Former HTC official convicted of trade theft
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Treadreaderapp homepage is a conspiracy theory tire fire
6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Trello Hacks and Cross-Board Workflows for Busy Entrepreneurs
6 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
The last reactor at Three Mile Island is shutting down
6 points • comment • may 11, 2019
US Navy confirms leaked UFO videos are genuine
6 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Nike’s Self-Lacing Sneakers Turn into Bricks After Faulty Firmware Update
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
Can ‘Pods’ Bring Quiet to the Noisy Open Office?
6 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Why Chicago train tracks are being set on fire
6 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Dotgrid is a distractionless vector tool
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Google releases 53 gender fluid emoji
6 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
6 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Where on Earth Is Sam Sayers?
6 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Object Oriented C: Interfaces
6 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
YouTube Drives Young People to White Nationalism
6 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
The holy grail for solving IT problems?
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Tiny light-up barcodes identify molecules by their twinkling
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
New AI tool lets you doctor photos, and it’s showing surprising potential
6 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Consumer Reports: Tesla Must Prove Safety Before Claiming “Self-Driving” Ability
6 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
How the Navy’s Top Commander Botched the Highest-Profile Investigation in Years
6 points • comment • apr 13, 2019