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Hacker News (2019)

Why are the username and password on two different pages?
175 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018)
175 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
U.S. Seeks to Heighten Scrutiny of Foreign Investment in Tech, Infra, Data
175 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
British Museum realises 'vase' is in fact an ancient mace-head upside down
175 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
The Tragedy of Baltimore
175 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Swift Numerics
175 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Lithium-ion batteries from Amazon are exploding
175 points • comment • may 06, 2019
'It's crazy': Chase forgiving all debt owed by its Canada credit card customers
175 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Toys ‘R’ Us, Back from the Dead, Will Open U.S. Stores in 2019
175 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
Tor Browser 8.5
175 points • comment • may 22, 2019
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)
175 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (2002)
175 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Indonesia election: More than 270 election staff die counting votes
174 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
Show HN: I wrote a book on GNU grep and ripgrep
174 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the TicTocTrack Watch
174 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Simulating blobs of fluid
174 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Poor-quality relationships linked to greater distress than too few relationships
174 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
ZFS on Linux 0.8.0
174 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Alexa and Google Home expose users to vishing and eavesdropping
174 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Betrayal at Krondor
174 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
Tokyo's 2D Cafe
174 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
“Startup Robs Every Customer They Have for Thousands of Dollars Overnight”
174 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
Kill Sticky Headers (2013)
174 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Daniel Radcliffe and the Art of the Fact-Check (2018)
174 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Paged.js: Paginating content and making books in the browser
174 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
Datomic, Datalog, GraphQL, APIs, etc.
174 points • comment • feb 22, 2019
Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk
174 points • comment • jun 30, 2019
Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says
174 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)
174 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Pizza Dough
174 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor
174 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
The first high-resolution map of America’s food supply chain
174 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
Green Material for Refrigeration Identified
174 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Logistic Regression from Bayes’ Theorem
174 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Battle testing data integrity verification with ZFS and Btrfs
174 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece (2018)
174 points • comment • oct 26, 2019
We All Work for Facebook
174 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
DoNotPay's new service auto-cancels free trials
174 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Jack Ma retires as Alibaba’s chairman
174 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Judge orders police to stop collecting data from license plate readers
174 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
Cathay CEO lists self instead of giving names to CCP
174 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
OpenDroneMap – Simple Images into 3D
174 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Cats Cannot Taste Sweets (2007)
174 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
What It’s Like to Grow Up with More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend
174 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
Ask HN: Where should I start as a 34-year-old switching to software as a career?
174 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
An American Father and Son Exporting Tear Gas to Hong Kong
174 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann (1956) [pdf]
174 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Oregon Bottle Deposit System Hits 90 Percent Redemption Rate
174 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Build a WhatsApp Chatbot with Python, Flask and Twilio
174 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and agent written in Go
174 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking sensitive data
174 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Mail a Letter Online
174 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
Rust – Compile Time Memory Safety
174 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Robot Academy – Open online robotics education resource
174 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
Chariot is shutting down
174 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer
174 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
Anonymous Google Employees Voted Arms Control Persons of the Year
174 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
RPCS3 PS3 Emulator – January 2019 Progress Report
174 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
Stepping into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun
174 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Cheap Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kubeadm
174 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists
174 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Let over Lambda – Common Lisp Book (2008)
174 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Focusmate – Virtual Coworking Helps You Get Things Done
174 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Combine statistical and symbolic artificial intelligence techniques
174 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Franky Zapata: Flyboarding Frenchman crosses English Channel
174 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research
174 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
PyTorch internals
174 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Ask HN: What do you automate in your life and work?
174 points • comment • oct 28, 2019
BBC Sound Effects
174 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Debugging Network Stalls on Kubernetes
174 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
First-class air travel is in decline
174 points • comment • mar 08, 2019
Some young people are buying houses with friends
173 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Treat Facebook Like Big Tobacco
173 points • comment • may 17, 2019
Brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way
173 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping
173 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images
173 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to HTC VIVE Devices
173 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Amazon stores Alexa transcripts indefinitely
173 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
GNU Nano 4.0
173 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
The Celera 500L aircraft may fly soon
173 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Lockheed's Skunk Works Building Bigger Fusion Reactor
173 points • comment • jul 20, 2019
The moon may be tectonically active
173 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Welcome to the K-12 Surveillance State
173 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Hong Kong Protests Live Updates: Police Violence Puts Government on Defensive
173 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Repair delays for Tesla owners
173 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Apple’s Use of Swift in iOS 13
173 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Terminal latency (2017)
173 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Why Operators Are Useful
173 points • comment • mar 16, 2019
German Regulators Tell Tesla to Stop Advertising Cars with Gas Savings in Price
173 points • comment • mar 09, 2019
Killersheep – Silly game to show off the new features of Vim 8.2
173 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?
173 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes personality (2017)
173 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Microsoft deletes face recognition database
173 points • comment • jun 07, 2019
Airbnb Plans to Verify Every Listing
173 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Show HN: Imgsquash – My image compression website project
173 points • comment • may 27, 2019
Classic Mathematics Books for Lifelong Learners
173 points • comment • feb 16, 2019
Cryptocurrency trading bot in ~40 lines of JavaScript
173 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Julian Assange: Wikileaks co-founder jailed over bail breach
173 points • comment • may 01, 2019
How Stoicism can help us
173 points • comment • jun 02, 2019
Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D
173 points • comment • dec 03, 2019