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Hacker News (2019)

Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration
237 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
The NYC subway system runs on OS/2
237 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Fast Way to Load Data into PostgreSQL Using Python
237 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European markets
237 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
USB 3.2 is going to make the current USB branding even worse
237 points • comment • feb 26, 2019
Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
237 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Why We’re Switching to gRPC
237 points • comment • may 27, 2019
Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop in Applications
237 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service
237 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
237 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
237 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Homemade IC (2018)
237 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
237 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
How we made Haskell search strings as fast as Rust
237 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration
237 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers
237 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
The Afsluitdijk
237 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
237 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
UFOs invading military airspace multiple times a month, but public won't be told
237 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Spaced Repetition
237 points • comment • may 04, 2019
CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
237 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
237 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud
237 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
Apple admits iPhone 11 Pro still collects location data even when told not to
237 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Cairo Desktop Environment
237 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4
237 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
Regulate Facebook and Twitter? The Case Is Getting Stronger
237 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
237 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
The Feynman Lectures on Physics now free
237 points • comment • may 11, 2019
Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic
236 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system and ACLU is suing
236 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition
236 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Unusual, evidence-based ways to get better at a new language
236 points • comment • aug 07, 2019
Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale
236 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Insulin Pumps, Decapped Chips and Software Defined Radios
236 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
Calculus for the Curious
236 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
How to rewrite it in Rust
236 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
The Slow Death of Hollywood
236 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
What You Can't Say (2004)
236 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction
236 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
236 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field
236 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
New York State Attorney General Investigating WeWork
236 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Mathematics and Computation [pdf]
236 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Ableton Connection Kit (2016)
236 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
It’s worth spending weeks on research before wasting years on a hopeless project
236 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
Reasons not to reveal your DNA
236 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up in Crowdfunding
236 points • comment • mar 10, 2019
Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels
236 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
MS TextWorld: open-source engine that both generates and simulates text games
236 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years
236 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a toll on society
236 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019
236 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
First all-electric seaplane takes flight in B.C.
236 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Open Hardware on Its Own Doesn’t Solve the Trust Problem
236 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly
236 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Chinese telecoms must use "AI and other technical means" to identify phone users
236 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Steve Wozniak Says People Should Get Off Facebook Permanently
236 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI
236 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Atlantropa
236 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
236 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Internet in Iran gradually shuttting down due to protests
236 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord of the Rings
236 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Uncaptcha2: Defeat ReCaptcha with Google Speech2Text
236 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
Why Clojure?
236 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones
236 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Allow 0.0.0.0/8 as a valid address range
236 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Stealing the Enemy's Urban Advantage: The Battle of Sadr City
236 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (2017)
236 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Tesla's Screen Saga Shows Why Automotive Grade Matters
235 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Remove default "terraform" partner_id
235 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
“I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”
235 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
What is it like working at a company after releasing a negatively-received game?
235 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China
235 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
SpaceX Raptor: Methane fueled full-flow staged combustion cycle engine
235 points • comment • may 25, 2019
WeWork CEO gives back $5.9M from 'We' trademark after criticism
235 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Major survey finds worms are rare or absent in 20% of fields in England
235 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
“We would like to apologize to the user for the error on our part this morning”
235 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Office 365 is now on Mac App Store
235 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Processing 40TB of code from 10M projects with a dedicated server and Go
235 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout
235 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’
235 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
Viewing Matrices and Probability as Graphs
235 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Which programming language is used for making Windows 10?
235 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7
235 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Too Much Dark Money in Almonds
235 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
What It's Like to View a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch
235 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight
235 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Scientists Likely Found Way to Grow New Teeth for Patients
235 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Construction has kept rent in Chongqing, China to $75 a month
235 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid
235 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Creating a Magical Videobooth for a Wedding
235 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Algebraic Data Types: Things I wish someone had explained about FP
235 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?
235 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Announcing Startup School 2019
235 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
235 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (2017)
235 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
How Radar Works
235 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved
235 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Shorewall – The End of the Road
235 points • comment • feb 21, 2019