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Hacker News (2019)

  1. A.I. Took a Test to Detect Lung Cancer. It Got an A

    5 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  2. We Haven’t Done Enough to Ensure That America Never Tortures Again

    5 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  3. Engineered Heart-on-a-Chip Replicates Drug Responses Found in Adult Humans

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  4. Is Writing More Important Than Programming? (2006)

    5 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  5. DuckDB Is an Embeddable SQL OLAP Database Management System

    5 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  6. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Origins of Religion

    5 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  7. Do You Live in a Bubble?

    5 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  8. Hiring a coach was the best investment I’ve ever made

    5 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  9. Bokeh: Private, independent, and user-funded photo sharing

    5 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  10. Leaked contents of a forum of Nazis and white nationalists

    5 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  11. Intrinsic Neural Style Transfer

    5 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  12. Doubting death: how our brains shield us from mortal truth

    5 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  13. A free Argo Tunnel for your next project

    5 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  14. China produces 95% of world's gallium, used in 5G base station chipsets

    5 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  15. Two tactics effectively limit the spread of science denialism

    5 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  16. An Inspector General’s Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke

    5 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  17. Software engineering leaders lead successful teams

    5 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  18. PHP Arrays Aren’t Arrays

    5 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  19. KDE Applications 19.04 is out

    5 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  20. Bayesian inference explains human choices in group decision-making

    5 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  21. 500px Got Hacked

    5 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  22. Google Co-Founders Give Up Management Roles – Sundar Pichai to lead Alphabet

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  23. I'd ride the hell out of this solar-powered electric mobility scooter

    5 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  24. Beginner’s Guide to Participating in ICANN [pdf]

    5 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  25. Tails 3.14 Is Out

    5 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  26. Sacha Baron Cohen calls out social media as ‘the greatest propaganda machine’

    5 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  27. Image Lazy Loading with Inline SVG

    5 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  28. Skydio 2 is a $999 4K autonomous drone that will keep DJI on its toes

    5 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  29. Scientists Discover a Major Lasting Benefit of Growing Up Outside the City

    5 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  30. Goldman Sachs plans giving Wall Street some of its most valuable software free

    5 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  31. Google defends tracking cookies–some experts aren’t buying it

    5 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  32. Boost's shared_ptr up to 10× slower than OCaml's garbage collection (2011)

    5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  33. Court documents show Apple purposefully bought pools of cheap patents

    5 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  34. What Cloudflare's Earnings Tell Us About High-Growth, Unprofitable Unicorns

    5 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  35. Silicon Valley’s whiz-kids finally ran out of friends

    5 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  36. The world’s top economists just made the case for why we need English majors

    5 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  37. Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Programming

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  38. Is psychopathy untreatable? Why researchers are starting to change their minds

    5 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  39. Y Combinator Partner, Paul Buchheit: Surprising Lesson from 200 Startups (2017)

    5 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  40. Disney+ surpasses 10M signups one day after launch

    5 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  41. China threatens corporate hit-list on eve of new tariffs on U.S. imports

    5 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  42. Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS

    5 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  43. Swift Property Wrappers

    5 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  44. The Republican political operatives who call the shots at Facebook

    5 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  45. TensorFlow Lite adds GPU support for Android making ML models run 4-7X faster

    5 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  46. Ask HN: Net Neutrality Repeal Consequences?

    5 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  47. Reducing the pain of developing apps

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  48. Chrome Dev Summit 2019 – Advancing the web framework ecosystem [video]

    5 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  49. Lifetime of drinking California water could raise cancer risk, study finds

    5 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  50. It's Big Tech Too Big?

    5 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  51. The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don’t rely on billionaires

    5 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  52. Ask HN: Best Practices when expanding a community geographically

    5 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  53. Icelandic Names

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  54. The Marketer’s Guide to Customer Lifetime Value

    5 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  55. What Hedge Funds Consider a Win Is a Disaster for Everyone Else

    5 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  56. Microsoft Employees Being Put in Charge of Linux

    5 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  57. What AngelList Data Says About Power-Law Returns in Venture Capital

    5 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  58. SoftBank sells stake back to Wag

    5 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  59. Problems in Computer Vision that Deep Learning alone may not be able to solve

    5 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  60. Why are there so many Paxos variants and derivatives and what should you use?

    5 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  61. The explosions, reenactments, and animals that made Vauxhall Gardens a hot spot

    5 points • comment • jun 28, 2019

  62. Why millennials never want to leave their apartment anymore

    5 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  63. ‘Completely unacceptable’ US-funded scheme to shape Iran debate

    5 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  64. A Quick Primer on Dig

    5 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  65. Facebook's plan to break the global financial system

    5 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  66. Google finally ends support for the old Google Glass after a controversial life

    5 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  67. Unlocking NHS service transformation with data

    5 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  68. 'This is small talk purgatory': what Tinder taught me about love

    5 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  69. Can we really get a universe from nothing?

    5 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  70. A Wearable Wiretap: A new generation of ankle monitors raises thorny questions

    5 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

  71. Ask HN: What app do you wish existed but doesn't?

    5 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  72. Ask HN: Why is there no standard encryption file format?

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  73. Go memory management, TCP keep alive in Go, adopting gRPC and more (Go Gazette)

    5 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  74. C++20’s Conditionally Explicit Constructors

    5 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  75. African artists are not benefiting from digital music

    5 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  76. Dehumanize social interactions through a Tinder bot

    5 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  77. A Hidden Order of Reality

    5 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  78. Imagededup: Finding duplicate images made easy

    5 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  79. Mackenzie “Mac” Book

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  80. Sanders Couldn’t Stop Laughing at Bezos Asking Bloomberg About Presidential Run

    5 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  81. Constantinople enables new Reentrancy Attack

    5 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  82. Webcomponents with React

    5 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  83. 4K OLED comes to Dell's 15-inch XPS, Alienware and G laptops

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  84. How Fake News and Rumors Are Stoking Division in Hong Kong

    5 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  85. Twitter takes down Chinese-language accounts ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

    5 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  86. Open Letter to the Founder and CEO of Instacart

    5 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  87. Analog gems: 10 additional film cameras worth buying

    5 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  88. Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Triggers Federal Probe

    5 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  89. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tabletop RPGs

    5 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  90. Spell Checker in Python

    5 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  91. Warning Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

    5 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  92. Working Retail in the Middle of the Retail Apocalypse

    5 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  93. 'Extraordinary thinning’ of ice sheets revealed deep inside Antarctica

    5 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  94. Taiwan loses 3k chip engineers to 'Made in China 2025'

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  95. How I Met My Chinese Husband

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  96. Jonathan Ward's Icon 1949 Mercury Has the Heart of a Tesla

    5 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  97. California is burning 26 times less than it did in 2018. Why?

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  98. History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin

    5 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  99. Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems

    5 points • comment • jun 15, 2019

  100. Elon Musk donates $1M to plant trees after testifying that he’s cash-poor

    5 points • comment • oct 30, 2019