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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Why Angry Librarians Are Going to War with Publishers over E-Books

    5 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  2. Ask HN: Examples of 'hand drawn' animations in blog posts?

    5 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  3. Hyperinflation and trust in Ancient Rome

    5 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  4. Vim Tricks That Will Take You from Beginner to Expert

    5 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  5. Anthropologists and Novelists (2018)

    5 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  6. Biometrics Class Actions Target Lowe's, Home Depot

    5 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  7. Whistle-Blower Complaint Sets Off a Battle Involving Trump

    5 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  8. Bechdel Test

    5 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  9. Web Browser History

    5 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  10. Advanced C# for Low-Level Programming [pdf]

    5 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  11. Weighing in: Physicists cut upper limit on neutrino’s mass in half

    5 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  12. When You Electronically Sign Documents, Always Keep a Copy

    5 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  13. Google reportedly attains 'quantum supremacy'

    5 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  14. Samizdat

    5 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  15. How to Lose a Third of a Million Dollars Without Trying

    5 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  16. Fossil fuel subsidies reach US$87B in EU countries – and they’re growing

    5 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  17. LPC-2019: SQLite on Linux

    5 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  18. Act legalises personal cannabis use, becoming first Australian jurisdiction to

    5 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  19. The Guide to Kubernetes Security

    5 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  20. Warp+ is finally here to protect your phones

    5 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  21. Peter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment” – Uncommon Knowledge [video]

    5 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  22. The Ethics of Whistleblowing

    5 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  23. Show HN: 123Metrics – Privacy centered website metrics

    5 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  24. Why I’m bullish on Hydrogen from electrolysis

    5 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  25. The Most Common Security Mistakes React Devs Make

    5 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  26. Show HN: Is Yield Curve Inverted?

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  27. iOS 13 Autocorrect Is Drunk

    5 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  28. Fine-Grained, Language-Based Access Control for Database-Backed Applications

    5 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  29. What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About Texting (2008)

    5 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  30. Google shutters Bulletin, its hyperlocal news experiment

    5 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  31. Joe Biden Brags about Getting Ukranian Prosecutor Fired [video]

    5 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  32. A Phishing URL to give you nightmares

    5 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  33. Drones vs. Lightning (2017) [video]

    5 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  34. Build Your Own Programming Language with Scala

    5 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  35. iPhone exploit could allow permanent jailbreak for millions of devices

    5 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  36. German Police Busts Cyber Bunker Hosting Darknet Sites

    5 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  37. Synthetic networks with molecular recognition: Precision medicine applications

    5 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  38. From Pocket Computers to Palmtops: An Early History of Mobile Telecomputing

    5 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  39. Another SF attack spotlights city's mental illness and drug addiction crisis

    5 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  40. In Quest of a Pangram (1988) [pdf]

    5 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  41. As Amazon floods the market with Alexa devices, the business model is murky

    5 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  42. Natural Selection

    5 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  43. Show HN: A Full-Text RSS Reader for the Pebble Smartwatch

    5 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  44. There is no climate emergency says UN letter by 500 scientists

    5 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  45. The Incels Getting Extreme Plastic Surgery to Become ‘Chads’

    5 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  46. Show HN: Project productivity tool to compete with big brands

    5 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  47. Brain Chooses What to Let You See

    5 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  48. Peter Norvig – Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach – AI Podcast

    5 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  49. Show HN: Customize your Google Form to suit your website

    5 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  50. Some of the most successful people are also some of the most anxious

    5 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  51. Have we hit ‘peak beef’?

    5 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  52. Shiok Meats Raises $4.6M Seed Round to Develop Cell-Based Shrimp

    5 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  53. Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons

    5 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  54. Former NSA director jokes about targeted killings and Snowden on kill list (2013

    5 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  55. Show HN: Killing credit cards – meet Bits, a privacy first borrowing app

    5 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  56. Dropbox irks Mac users with annoying Dock icon, offers clueless support

    5 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  57. Xiaomi Is Stealing Artworks

    5 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  58. Multiple Linear Regression with Python

    5 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  59. Ask HN: If HN didn't exist, which other community would you default to?

    5 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  60. YouTube: No, We Won't Remove These Videos of Racist, Anti-Gay Harassment

    5 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  61. Create a facial recognition attendance app in React Native

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  62. The Postal Inspector Who Took Down America’s First Organized Crime Ring (2018)

    5 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  63. Climate change likely to increase human exposure to toxic methylmercury

    5 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  64. Gnome Shell JavaScript Documentation

    5 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  65. The Achievement of Vasily Grossman

    5 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  66. Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC

    5 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  67. Google's Go team decides not to give it a try

    5 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  68. Changing My Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data

    5 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  69. Ask HN: How often does your company replace your laptop?

    5 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  70. Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale is a model of longform worldbuilding

    5 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  71. Spider uses its web like a catapult to fling itself toward its prey

    5 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  72. Stanford Lectures about Fourier Transform and Its Applications (2008) [video]

    5 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  73. CES 2019 Roundup: the driving forces of the touch industry

    5 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  74. Truth: A Love Story – Harvard Magazine

    5 points • comment • jun 16, 2019

  75. Ask HN: TypeScript experts, is this a type checking issue?

    5 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  76. Show HN: Launching GoatCounter; or: let's try and make a living from Open Source

    5 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  77. Unix at 50

    5 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  78. Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial compartments at life origins

    5 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  79. Linux Commands Raspberry Pi Users Need to Know

    5 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  80. Hear Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old instrument play for the first time

    5 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  81. The Mind-Blowing Amount of Time Americans Spend Watching TV

    5 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  82. JavaScript and evidence-based language design

    5 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  83. Tracking the Journey of a Uranium Cube

    5 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  84. The Staggering Cost of Training SOTA AI Models

    5 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  85. Innocence lost: what did you do before the internet?

    5 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  86. American whiskeys leave behind a web-like “fingerprint” as they evaporate

    4 points • comment • oct 26, 2019

  87. The FTC-Facebook Settlement Does Too Little to Protect Your Privacy

    4 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  88. Al and Georgia and Beck and Paul

    4 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  89. Engineering Roles Defined

    4 points • comment • aug 07, 2019

  90. Legislation Would Require Search Engines to Disclose Algorithms

    4 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  91. When the Earth Had Two Moons

    4 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  92. Julia Robinson helped define the limits of mathematical knowledge

    4 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  93. Peter Shor (inventor of quantum factoring) et al. answer questions from public

    4 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  94. The secret world of America's top eavesdropping spies

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  95. Efficiency Leap for Solar Power with Tungsten Disulfide Nanotubes

    4 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  96. Ants are “immune” to traffic jams

    4 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  97. Google's Privacy Moves Are a Big Deal

    4 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  98. To Make This Tofu, Start by Burning Toxic Plastic

    4 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  99. DE Shaw staff get ultimatum over non-compete contracts

    4 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  100. Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) 1.0 release

    4 points • comment • nov 28, 2019