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Hacker News (2019)

How Radar Works
235 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
SpaceX Raptor: Methane fueled full-flow staged combustion cycle engine
235 points • comment • may 25, 2019
Too Much Dark Money in Almonds
235 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
My favorite Rust function
234 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Terence Tao's Raw Notes After His Princeton Comprehensive Exams (1999)
234 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
PartiQL: One query language for all your data
234 points • comment • aug 01, 2019
The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat [pdf]
234 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Fast, Bump-Allocated Virtual Doms with Rust and Wasm
234 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Next.js 8 released
234 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
Elixir v1.8 released
234 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
234 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
How to make your C codebase Rusty: rewriting keyboard firmware keymap
234 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us
234 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15
234 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
We moved our servers to Iceland
234 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data
234 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Canada's New Food Guide
234 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Explore ISS on Google Maps
234 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica
234 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Climate change has turned permafrost into a carbon emitter
234 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
JavaScript Is C
234 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Building a Better Go Linker
234 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic on Fire
234 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
A Look at PureDarwin – An OS Based on the Open Source Core of macOS
234 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations
234 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (2017)
234 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
FTC rules 5-0 that Cambridge Analytica engaged in deceptive practices [pdf]
234 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Attempto Controlled English
234 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella
234 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
Oberlin College case shows how universities are losing their way
234 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
A Field Guide to Power Transmission Lines
234 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes
234 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Why 50 Ohms?
234 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Logical fallacies in software engineering
234 points • comment • may 26, 2019
A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine
233 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
Some Favorite Non-Technical Books (2018)
233 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard
233 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018)
233 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
Getting Ahead by Being Inefficient
233 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Satya Nadella Added $850B to Microsoft
233 points • comment • nov 21, 2019
Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
233 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
A Revolution in Your Pocket
233 points • comment • may 21, 2019
How to Start with Machine Learning
233 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules
233 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
Datashader: turns even the largest data into images, accurately
233 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
To ORM or Not to ORM
233 points • comment • may 07, 2019
G20 nations triple coal power subsidies despite climate crisis
233 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons
233 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
Thousands take to Hong Kong streets to protest new extradition laws
233 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Facebook is the worst thing that's ever happened to the internet
233 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books
233 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
Building ages in the Netherlands
233 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
SpaceX says Crew Dragon capsule exploded due to exotic titanium fire
233 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Ask HN: How does your development team handle database migrations?
233 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year
233 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)
233 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
233 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
What Is a Tech Company?
233 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week
233 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter – DNW
233 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Paid Cerberus 'lifetime' licenses are expiring
233 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
JP Morgan Unveils USD-Backed Cryptocurrency for B2B Payments
233 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Air Pollution in Our Homes
233 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Support for U2F security keys
233 points • comment • jun 11, 2019
Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS
233 points • comment • may 06, 2019
U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data
233 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
OpenSSH's Support for U2F/Fido Security
233 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Ethiopia beats its goal and plants over 350M trees in 12 hours
233 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees
233 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals
233 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
GCP to introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances
233 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Calvin and Hobbes Is Great Literature
233 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
WiringPi – deprecated
233 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Walmart announces next-day delivery, firing back at Amazon
232 points • comment • may 14, 2019
On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Python
232 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
232 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
The culture war at the heart of open source
232 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage
232 points • comment • may 17, 2019
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
232 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Lack of cdnjs activity
232 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
232 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Zachademics: Free games for schools
232 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Thank you, Chris
232 points • comment • aug 29, 2019
The SaaS Opportunity of Unbundling Excel
232 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Future JavaScript: what is still missing?
232 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
Let’s Destroy Robocalls
232 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
ProseMirror – A toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web
232 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy
232 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims
232 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
Cadence: Uber's Workflow Orchestration Engine
232 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Moody’s downgraded Equifax from “stable” to “negative” due to cybersecurity
232 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Money as a System of Control (2017)
232 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Yogababble
232 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
Huawei Seeks Independence from the US with RISC-V and Ascend Chips
232 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
Transputer
232 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Ask HN: Good Remote Work Literature?
232 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
232 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
German BSI withholds Truecrypt security report
232 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alternative
232 points • comment • jun 22, 2019
Show HN: Instant, Self-Destructing Websites
232 points • comment • sep 23, 2019