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Hacker News (2019)

The realities of 'owning' a Japanese convenience store
229 points • comment • may 28, 2019
Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker
229 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
229 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says Google
229 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Session Types for Rust
229 points • comment • mar 03, 2019
Show HN: Scale Heaven – Browse and play any scale/chord, chord progression
229 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Usability Improvements in GCC 9
229 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations
229 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies
229 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Facebook deceived users about the way it used phone numbers, FTC to allege
229 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Focus on the high-expectation customer
229 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
HandBrake 1.2.0 Released
229 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working (2017)
229 points • comment • jul 14, 2019
Announcing Rust 1.33.0
229 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
Go compiler internals: Adding a new statement to Go
229 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory
229 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Minimal Viable Programs (2014)
229 points • comment • nov 03, 2019
Great products do less, but better
229 points • comment • sep 08, 2019
A Dead-Simple Web Stack in Haskell
229 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students
229 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Ask HN: What are you working on?
229 points • comment • jul 04, 2019
Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
229 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
London police fine pedestrian for trying to cover face from camera
229 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Information Is Physics
229 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Decoded: GNU coreutils (2018)
229 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
228 points • comment • jun 06, 2019
Compact Disc Structure
228 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Color Spaces
228 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text
228 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Federal Prosecutors Conducting Criminal Probe of Juul
228 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019) [video]
228 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety
228 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
228 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have Never Been Approved’
228 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”?
228 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology
228 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
We value your privacy now, but maybe not later
228 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
Uncomfortable AWS Truths
228 points • comment • sep 15, 2019
Man Stole $122M from Facebook and Google by Impersonating Quanta
228 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
React Native Open Source Update
228 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
228 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
SoftBank to take control of WeWork: Sources
228 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Shopping Sucks Now
228 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Show HN: Simple Opt Out – Makes it easier to opt out of data sharing
228 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
OCaml on Baremetal Shakti RISC-V Processor
228 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Gamers for Freedom: A handbook for protesting at this year's Blizzcon
228 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?
228 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Key practices for achieving large professional goals
228 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python (2018)
228 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Firefighting foam leaves toxic legacy in Californians’ drinking water
228 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Apollo Guidance Computer switching power supply works after 50 years
228 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
C++20 Design Is Complete: Modules, Coroutines in C++20
228 points • comment • feb 23, 2019
A general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference
228 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
Ants trapped for years in an old bunker
228 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Security assessment techniques for Go projects
228 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Amazon Lobbied More Government Entities Than Any Other US Company Last Year
228 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Is C++ fast?
228 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
A Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’
228 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap
228 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroying subway commute
228 points • comment • may 22, 2019
In the foundations of physics we haven't seen progress for the past four decades
228 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows
228 points • comment • may 06, 2019
LED light can damage eyes, French health authority warns
228 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion
228 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
Artichoke – A Ruby made with Rust
228 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds
228 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
Homebrew Cray-1A
228 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
How AMD Gave China the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’
228 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
The Bitcoin Blockchain Visualized in 3D
228 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Show HN: Chrome Extension to See IMDB Ratings Directly on Netflix
228 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Hong Kong protests: President Xi warns of 'bodies smashed'
227 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Calculators for Contractors, Builders, Remodelers, Carpenters, Woodworkers
227 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers worldwide
227 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs
227 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power
227 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Reddit was down for over two hours
227 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search?
227 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
China's slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17.5-year low
227 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
Show HN: Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language
227 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
Libmill: Go-Style Concurrency in C
227 points • comment • may 10, 2019
In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels
227 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area
227 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Weighted blankets might ease insomnia and anxiety
227 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (2016)
227 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting
227 points • comment • may 26, 2019
Moons of all the planets in our solar system
227 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Safe Deposit Boxes Aren't Safe
227 points • comment • jul 28, 2019
Why the C++ standard ships every three years
227 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Plants “panic” when it rains
227 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Black Hole Propulsion as Technosignature
227 points • comment • mar 07, 2019
The effects of Portal 2 and Lumosity on cognitive and noncognitive skills
227 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Signal: Incoming call can be connected without user interaction
227 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
String Lengths in Unicode
227 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” (2012)
227 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
227 points • comment • feb 24, 2019
Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful
227 points • comment • may 29, 2019
IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care
227 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image
227 points • comment • feb 12, 2019
A RISC-V CPU for $8
227 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Pacman in 512 bytes of x86 boot sector machine code
227 points • comment • jul 08, 2019