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Hacker News (2019)

More Data Is Not Better and Machine Learning Is a Grind
196 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy
196 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter
196 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Field notes: London, England (2018)
196 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Risky Mortgage Bonds Are Back and Delinquencies Are Piling Up
196 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Why we're saying no to Google
196 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Overwatch Randomized Trial on Gender
196 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Uptime 15,364 days – The Computers of Voyager [video]
196 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
What design tools get wrong
196 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
196 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too
196 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
MoviePass database exposes 161M records
196 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Meet Dash O’Pepper
196 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year
196 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Sacha Baron Cohen's Thoughts on Social Media and Tech Company Responsibilities
196 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
Movfuscator – Single instruction C compiler
196 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
Warning: Implicit Backdoor
196 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery
196 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today
196 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
On Sharding
196 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
Lsd: The next gen ls command
196 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do
196 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Ask HN: A modern-looking UML diagram tool?
196 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament
196 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unreported F-35 problems
196 points • comment • jun 12, 2019
Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and Now Residents Know Why
196 points • comment • may 05, 2019
TypeScript Tricks: Type Guards
196 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
Demoscene guidebook (2018)
196 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Ask HN: What are some resources to improve speaking skills?
196 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up
196 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
AMP pages displaying your own domain
196 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying
196 points • comment • aug 24, 2019
Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?
196 points • comment • mar 18, 2019
Prosecutors Are Shaping Privacy Law
196 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
I spent way too much effort to win a game show on Dutch national TV
196 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
196 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces
196 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
PyPy v7.0.0: triple release of 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6-alpha
196 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There
196 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)
196 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
John Carmack: writing Rust code feels wholesome
196 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
Facebook's Zuckerberg Preaches Privacy, but Evidence Is Elusive
196 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Braid: Synchronization for HTTP
196 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pandas
196 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day [video]
196 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Using Fourier Transforms to Multiply Numbers
196 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs
196 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
Tinyland
196 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Sunsetting Hire
196 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Samsung warns profit to fall 60%
196 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry
196 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
AI competitions don’t produce useful models
196 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Is China’s corruption-busting AI being turned off for being too efficient?
196 points • comment • feb 03, 2019
The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the U.S.
196 points • comment • jul 26, 2019
Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry
196 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001) [pdf]
196 points • comment • may 06, 2019
Debian 10.2
196 points • comment • nov 16, 2019
Privacy-Preserving Ad Click Attribution for the Web
196 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Simplify Gmail: Bringing the Simplicity of Google Inbox to Gmail
196 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding internal technology)
196 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale
196 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Petrichor: why does rain smell so good?
196 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
Facebook collects a wide range of private data from developers
196 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Health Concerns Mount as More Old Sewer Pipes Are Lined with Plastic
195 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
Coffee Cups Are Next
195 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program
195 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
The AI of GoldenEye 007
195 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Hacking Water
195 points • comment • jun 15, 2019
Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements
195 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage
195 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
195 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
The Growth Stacks of 2019
195 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
I miss Facebook
195 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Artificial intelligence, algorithmic pricing, and collusion
195 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe’s Economy Running
195 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video]
195 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness
195 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
Haskell in Production
195 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Hollywood Upended as Unions Tell Writers to Fire Agents
195 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes
195 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Pre-built solar homes could make renewable energy almost 50% cheaper
195 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Hacking the Casio F-91W to Handle 1000 Psi
195 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Silence is golden, especially when you need to say something important
195 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but can lift 100 times its weight
195 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Cloud Run – Newest member of our serverless compute stack
195 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account
195 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games
195 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
AMA: Bill Gates
195 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Netflix “13 Reasons Why” linked to 29% increase in teen suicides 1 month later
195 points • comment • aug 30, 2019
Firefox 71
195 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Thoughts on Cocoa
195 points • comment • oct 05, 2019
The Sounds That Haunted US Diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn Crickets, Scientists Say
195 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
Indie Game Removed from Switch After Dev Reveals It Has a Hidden Code Editor
195 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
Oberon Operating System
195 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
195 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Tesla Model 3 = 24% of Small and Midsize Luxury Car Sales in USA
195 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
Amazon Personalize: Real-Time Recommendation
195 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Who is horse_js?
195 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
OpenBitTorrent – An Open Tracker Project
195 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by oil wealth?
195 points • comment • sep 16, 2019