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Hacker News (2019)

Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids
167 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Launch HN: Quilt – A versioned data portal for S3
167 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
Rethinking Encryption
167 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human intelligence
167 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
Vim 101: How to Start Using the Text Editor for Developers
167 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy
167 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic
167 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
My Parents Are Flat Earthers
167 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Peloton S-1
167 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Science Vigilante Calls Out Bogus Results in Prestigious Journals
167 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on security risk
167 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
3D Modelling in a Browser
167 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
US International Students Lose Internships Because of Outdated Work Policies
167 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Database as Filesystem [video]
167 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
The Service Mesh: What Engineers Need to Know
167 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
WebKit Goals for 2020
167 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Facebook Is Dying
167 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
Someone is trying to steal archive.is's domain
167 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
This is Your Brain on Exercise (2017)
167 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Archeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4k-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt
167 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Many people are getting rare cancers in a small Georgia town
167 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Belarus’s Soviet Economy
167 points • comment • nov 30, 2019
A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]
167 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?
167 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Linode GPU Instances
167 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Mexico becomes the deadliest country for journalists in 2019
167 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
167 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
'We're going to electrify the F-Series,' Ford exec says
167 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
A guide to pricing and hedging (2003) [pdf]
167 points • comment • may 22, 2019
How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 Not So Easy Steps
167 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Grafana v6.2
167 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Write Junior Code
167 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Processes
167 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
167 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
Bill Gates Resume (1974)
167 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers
166 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defendants in lawsuits
166 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4M high-risk clients has leaked
166 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Launch HN: Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) – Fuzzing as a Service
166 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates
166 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
JetBlue has started using facial recognition instead of boarding passes
166 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
The Crash of United Flight 232 (2017)
166 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
BlackBerry cofounder Jim Balsillie is sounding the alarm about surveillance
166 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Apple said Qualcomm’s tech was no good, but privately it was ‘the best’
166 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
PureBoot, the High Security Boot Process
166 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Show HN: Scarf – Platform to help open-source developers monetize their work
166 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
The Hallmarks of Aging (2013)
166 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
SoftBank Reveals $6.5B Loss from Uber, WeWork Turmoil
166 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations
166 points • comment • mar 23, 2019
B-threads: programming in a way that allows for easier changes
166 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
Reinventing the Network Stack for Compute-Intensive Applications
166 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Simple Does Not Mean Ugly
166 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator
166 points • comment • jul 01, 2019
South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons
166 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater
166 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Formatting floating point numbers
166 points • comment • jun 14, 2019
Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow
166 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Parallelism in PostgreSQL
166 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
A DIY Cruise Missile (2004)
166 points • comment • feb 20, 2019
We decided to go for the big rewrite
166 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Interview with the creators of levels.fyi
166 points • comment • jun 17, 2019
How the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions
166 points • comment • mar 22, 2019
Paternity Leave Was Crucial After the Birth of My Child
166 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Filing Your Taxes Is an Expensive Time Sink. That’s Not an Accident
166 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
Email marketing regulations around the world
166 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Wio: A Clone of Plan 9’s Rio for Wayland
166 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Machine Learning and Data Science Applications in Industry
166 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Spacebook: AGI's near Real-Time satellite viewer
166 points • comment • aug 26, 2019
RISC-V from scratch 2: Hardware layouts, linker scripts, and C runtimes
166 points • comment • may 18, 2019
Crafting Interpreters: Calls and Functions
166 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
Connecticut moves to help low-paid workers hurt by noncompete rules
166 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
Nebraska Furniture Mart
166 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare Program
166 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History (2018) [video]
166 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Environmentalist didn't speak for 17 years to learn how to listen to opponents
166 points • comment • may 02, 2019
Show HN: TeXnique – A LaTeX Typesetting Game
166 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
AI Portraits
166 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
U.N., Unicef, Red Cross Under Ongoing Mobile Attack
166 points • comment • oct 27, 2019
FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad
166 points • comment • sep 03, 2019
Matestack: Rapidly create interactive UIs in Ruby
166 points • comment • nov 28, 2019
Hong Kong Protesters Keep Up the Pressure
166 points • comment • jun 21, 2019
Introduction to Bayesian Filter
166 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Show HN: Muon, a low-level programming language inspired by C, C# and Go
166 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
Payroll startup Gusto raises $200M
166 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
SVG Icons Using MIT License
166 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name (2015)
166 points • comment • may 11, 2019
I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but it didn't go to plan
166 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
A New Search Engine
166 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Two years of postmarketOS
166 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Front End Development Topics to Learn in 2019
166 points • comment • jan 19, 2019
Linux 3.8 introduced unprivileged user namespaces [pdf]
166 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Ford to put $500M into electric vehicle startup Rivian
166 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code
166 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
HK social media users writing phonetically spelled posts to shut out trolls
166 points • comment • aug 18, 2019
Using Web Technologies to Print a Book
166 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
Everything You Should Know About Sound (2016)
166 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Somehow I Became Respectable
166 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD
166 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
India will soon overtake China to become the most populous country in the world
166 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
Strongest earthquake in years rattles Southern California
166 points • comment • jul 04, 2019