Hacker News Day

Iceland Grey Listed for Inadequate Money Laundering Policies (icelandreview.com)

27 points by punnerud posted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

Revisiting the BlackHat BCard hack of 2018 (hackaday.com)

27 points by sus_007 posted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

‘South Park’ Nears $500 Million bid for its US Streaming Rights, Apple won't bid (bloomberg.com)

22 points by u-dissolve posted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

Congress Condemns Blizzard for Blitzchung Scandal and Urges That Ban Is Reversed (dexerto.com)

20 points by movaxdx posted 9 hours ago

San Francisco Wants to Require Permits Before Rolling Out 'Emerging Technology' (reason.com)

19 points by chr1 posted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

Male brain is programmed to seek out sex over food (2015) (telegraph.co.uk)

17 points by galfarragem posted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Their Taxes for Free (propublica.org)

13 points by motiw posted 8 hours ago

A million people are jailed at China's gulags (haaretz.com)

11 points by chr1 posted 5 hours ago

Record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement (washingtonpost.com)

9 points by pseudolus posted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

“Behold Mark Zuckerberg’s Revised Origin Story for Facebook” (twitter.com)

8 points by aaronbrethorst posted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Ask HN: Why is there this trend to remove/hide useful features from software?

8 points by Ididntdothis posted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Hong Kong is exporting its protest techniques around the world (qz.com)

6 points by reoix posted 11 hours ago

Technology exposed Syrian war crimes over and over again. Was it for nothing? (technologyreview.com)

5 points by anigbrowl posted 5 hours ago

Researchers find bug in Python script may have affected hundreds of studies (arstechnica.com)

5 points by dougb5 posted 10 hours ago

Steve Jobs’ Blueprint for Revolutionary Marketing (medium.com)

5 points by kalpisidia posted 11 hours ago

ESA's Collision Avoidance Challenge (kelvins.esa.int)

4 points by ipernet posted 1 hour ago

We Are Typists First, Programmers Second (2008) (blog.codinghorror.com)

4 points by kick posted 5 hours ago

A Band of Surfer Dudes Pulled Off New York’s Biggest Jewel Heist (nytimes.com)

3 points by pseudolus posted 1 hour ago

HackPPL: A universal probabilistic programming language (blog.acolyer.org)

3 points by grzm posted 1 hour ago

Tesla gets the go-ahead to build cars in China (bbc.com)

3 points by dyslexit posted 6 hours ago

Is Enlightenment Compatible with Sex Scandals? (slatestarcodex.com)

3 points by reedwolf posted 10 hours ago • 1 comments

Scale AI is hiring engineers to accelerate the development of AI (scale.com)

1 points by ayw posted 8 hours ago

Looking for a C++ Software Engineer at Iris Automation – AI Software for Drones (irisonboard.com)

1 points by aharm posted 11 hours ago

California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving (stripes.com)

212 points by spking posted 1 day ago • 150 comments

Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US (techcrunch.com)

208 points by anon1m0us posted 12 hours ago • 182 comments

I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006) (blog.mycology.cornell.edu)

207 points by rococode posted 1 day ago • 182 comments

List of software that has free tiers for developers (free-for.dev)

204 points by seanwilson posted 18 hours ago • 22 comments

Gridsome – A Vue.js static site generator (gridsome.org)

202 points by AlphaWeaver posted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Mark Hurd Has Died (cnbc.com)

197 points by big_chungus posted 20 hours ago • 172 comments

Uptime 15,364 days – The Computers of Voyager [video] (youtube.com)

195 points by big_chungus posted 1 day ago • 56 comments

The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways (blog.archive.org)

193 points by toomuchtodo posted 18 hours ago • 37 comments

Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associated with Reddit (blog.imgur.com)

191 points by void_nill posted 20 hours ago • 123 comments

Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced (flowingdata.com)

187 points by slowhand09 posted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

We moved our servers to Iceland (blog.simpleanalytics.com)

182 points by classified posted 1 day ago • 83 comments

The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks (c4isrnet.com)

168 points by sohkamyung posted 1 day ago • 112 comments

Email marketing regulations around the world (github.com)

161 points by 02thoeva posted 20 hours ago • 56 comments

Boeing 2016 internal messages suggest employees may have misled FAA on 737 MAX (reuters.com)

148 points by HugoHobling posted 19 hours ago • 58 comments

Really Fixing Getrandom() (lwn.net)

148 points by Tomte posted 1 day ago • 92 comments

I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator (meta.stackoverflow.com)

148 points by trothamel posted 1 day ago • 128 comments

Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (2017) (github.com)

147 points by srathi posted 18 hours ago • 49 comments

Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices to Digital Assistant (bloomberg.com)

144 points by MBCook posted 15 hours ago • 75 comments

Scientists create device that cuts desalination costs by 90% (tass.com)

142 points by ohjeez posted 19 hours ago • 69 comments

Machine learning in UK financial services (bankofengland.co.uk)

133 points by goatinaboat posted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (2006) [pdf] (pixelscommander.com)

130 points by trymas posted 23 hours ago • 39 comments

Cortex: Deploy machine learning models in production (github.com)

121 points by ChefboyOG posted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Drones flying in formation acting as a 3D display (2018) (twitter.com)

119 points by Schiphol posted 23 hours ago • 69 comments

Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia (appleinsider.com)

115 points by webwielder2 posted 20 hours ago • 133 comments

Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch (blog.mozilla.org)

114 points by zdunn posted 22 hours ago • 79 comments

Facebook and Speech (continuations.com)

113 points by uptown posted 21 hours ago • 122 comments

Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Issue with 737 Max in 2016 (nytimes.com)

112 points by jgwil2 posted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

D at 20: Hits and Misses [pdf] (digitalmars.com)

99 points by noch posted 14 hours ago • 37 comments

The Beauty of COBOL (2018) (devops.com)

99 points by fortran77 posted 1 day ago • 71 comments

FAA says Boeing withheld ‘concerning’ messages about the 737 Max (cnbc.com)

97 points by kyleblarson posted 18 hours ago • 44 comments

Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience (techcrunch.com)

96 points by elies posted 1 day ago • 74 comments

The Real Reasons I Don’t Hire You (charity.wtf)

94 points by mooreds posted 1 day ago • 115 comments

Nvim-colorizer.lua: The fastest colorizer for neovim (and no dependencies too) (github.com)

94 points by ashkankiani posted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Highlights from “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande (chestergrant.com)

93 points by chegra posted 18 hours ago • 31 comments

The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people (arstechnica.com)

91 points by mataug posted 16 hours ago • 127 comments

We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients Before Profits (rooseveltinstitute.org)

85 points by howard941 posted 19 hours ago • 193 comments

Microchip Adds RISC-V Cores to PolarFire FPGAs (electronicsweekly.com)

82 points by unwind posted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Comparison of X Window Managers (en.wikipedia.org)

81 points by _of posted 22 hours ago • 85 comments

YC Interview Tips from a Former YC Partner [video] (youtube.com)

80 points by garry posted 1 day ago • 21 comments

The outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor (theguardian.com)

76 points by xigency posted 23 hours ago • 97 comments

Oracle Says Co-CEO Mark Hurd Has Died (wsj.com)

70 points by dcgudeman posted 19 hours ago • 23 comments

Options for Saving Yahoo Groups Content (researchbuzz.me)

69 points by elorant posted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Show HN: Booste – a cloud-hosted desktop for developers (devs.booste.io)

68 points by edunteman posted 13 hours ago • 67 comments

A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's What Goes on Inside (haaretz.com)

66 points by jwegan posted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

Knuth – Estimating the Efficiency of Backtrack Programs(1975) [pdf] (ams.org)

64 points by lamchob posted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Show HN: Closest Volcano (closestvolcano.com)

55 points by rontoes posted 15 hours ago • 27 comments

If a tweet declares war, is it treason to take it down? (abe-winter.github.io)

55 points by awinter-py posted 16 hours ago • 22 comments

Frank Lloyd Wright Loved to Hate New York (theamericanconservative.com)

54 points by overwhelm posted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

Detecting and Geolocating Jammers and Spoofers (insidegnss.com)

53 points by bryanrasmussen posted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

Qatar now so hot it has started air-conditioning the outdoors (independent.co.uk)

51 points by nabla9 posted 22 hours ago • 48 comments

The Apple TV 4K has a debug Lightning connector hidden in the ethernet port (twitter.com)

47 points by casefields posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test (quantamagazine.org)

43 points by howard941 posted 22 hours ago • 47 comments

Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations (hackernews.betacat.io)

38 points by feltsense posted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

Free Pascal has now a WebAssembly back end (lists.freepascal.org)

38 points by mariuz posted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It took 10 minutes to convict a 14-year-old and 70 years to exonerate him (2014) (washingtonpost.com)

37 points by EndXA posted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

WireGuard restored in Google Play Store after controversial removal (lists.zx2c4.com)

36 points by christoph-heiss posted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

COBOL turns 60: why it will outlive us all (zdnet.com)

36 points by mindcrime posted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak (voice.mozilla.org)

33 points by tminima posted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

What actually happens if a city gets nuked [video] (youtube.com)

31 points by MKais posted 1 day ago • 9 comments

San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless (city-journal.org)

31 points by Reedx posted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila (nature.com)

30 points by minkeymaniac posted 1 day ago • 14 comments

REST Is the New Soap (medium.com)

30 points by kiyanwang posted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Show HN: Azula – Lightweight GPU Accelerated Electron Alternative (github.com)

29 points by Schampu posted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Ask HN: Where do you find products at their early stage?

29 points by gomangogo posted 1 day ago • 11 comments

The climate of a retrograde rotating Earth (2018) (earth-syst-dynam.net)

27 points by otagekki posted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

Apple's Newest Store and the Perverse Logic of Philanthro-Capitalism (bostonreview.net)

27 points by huihuiilly posted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

How Guilty Should You Feel About Flying? (nytimes.com)

27 points by tysone posted 1 day ago • 112 comments

Demikernel: A library OS for kernel-bypass devices, now with Rust TCP/IP stack (github.com)

26 points by drkp posted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Can adding an index make a non SARGable query SARGable? (sqlservercode.blogspot.com)

24 points by furtively posted 14 hours ago • 27 comments

Electrical Brain Implants Enable Man to Control Prosthetic Limbs with ‘Thoughts’ (humanbioscience.org)

24 points by legendarygeek posted 1 day ago

'Think of your family': China threatens European citizens over Xinjiang protests (theguardian.com)

23 points by hkmaxpro posted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Caracas Country Club: Where the 0.01% Await Socialism’s Collapse (bloomberg.com)

21 points by JumpCrisscross posted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The 2018 Olympics Cyberattack (wired.com)

20 points by agarden posted 17 hours ago

Ray Dalio says the world is in a ‘great sag’ and echoes the 1930s (cnbc.com)

20 points by spking posted 20 hours ago • 16 comments

My Repo, My House, My Rules (hueniverse.com)

18 points by feross posted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags (haaretz.com)

18 points by jajag posted 1 day ago • 2 comments

D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way (youtube.com)

17 points by arunc posted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Xubuntu 19.10 vs. Lubuntu 19.10 RAM Comparison (youtube.com)

17 points by maverick74 posted 21 hours ago • 16 comments

Show HN: Serverless Components – Provision Infra with Serverless Framework (github.com)

17 points by ac360 posted 1 day ago

Unpatched Linux bug may open devices to serious attacks over Wi-Fi (arstechnica.com)

16 points by wslh posted 14 hours ago

Practice Sight-Reading Music (sightreading.training)

16 points by disqard posted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Sick of Your Shit, Apple (stilldrinking.org)

15 points by mikenew posted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

Too Cool for Rules: Engineering Principles for Software Development Teams (medium.com)

15 points by mtabini posted 16 hours ago • 1 comments

When “naming things” is done right (github.com)

15 points by ngruhn posted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

If You Can Ban Nipples, You Can Ban Nazis (lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)

14 points by smacktoward posted 18 hours ago

Elon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan's Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $5M (gizmodo.com)

14 points by edward posted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Unpatched Linux bug may open devices to serious attacks over Wi-Fi (arstechnica.com)

14 points by Tepix posted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Ask HN: Which stack will get my MVP API off the ground fastest?

13 points by fastbeef posted 16 hours ago • 29 comments

Apple hid a Lightning connector for debugging in the Apple TV 4K’s ethernet port (9to5mac.com)

13 points by bookofjoe posted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Radio Commander review: “WTF is going on out there?” (rockpapershotgun.com)

13 points by smacktoward posted 1 day ago

Show HN: Create interactive stories with your kids (ikidoo.com)

13 points by ceolin posted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Crystal's New Installation Page Is Just Beautiful (crystal-lang.org)

13 points by sdogruyol posted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Amazon isn’t killing your business, you just suck at it (lastweekinaws.com)

12 points by kaboro posted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Suspected fire on weather radar in Minnesota turns out to be 600k ducks (sctimes.com)

12 points by johnny313 posted 1 day ago

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman – Premortem to eliminate thinking biases (youtube.com)

11 points by rbanffy posted 20 hours ago • 1 comments

Home builders ditch Nest products after Google takeover (arstechnica.com)

10 points by MBCook posted 12 hours ago • 1 comments

Adam Neumann planned for his children and grandchildren to control WeWork (techcrunch.com)

10 points by AshwinDurairaj posted 13 hours ago • 1 comments

Jonathan Haidt: “The Age of Outrage” (city-journal.org)

10 points by rblion posted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes (xojoc.pw)

10 points by xojoc posted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

Show HN: Let your story grow with Skrybe (skrybe.me)

10 points by eatthatpie posted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Atlassian Acquires Code Barrel (atlassian.com)

10 points by soheilpro posted 1 day ago

Zuckerberg Warns China’s Censored Internet Could Still Win Out (bloomberg.com)

10 points by zachguo posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Executives – why do they always ask the hard questions? (leaninberlin.de)

9 points by sturza posted 15 hours ago • 1 comments

Ask HN: Need an API for your weekend project? I'll build one for you

9 points by ruslan_talpa posted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

Which Wrist Watches Do Fighter Pilots Wear in Real Life? (theaviationist.com)

9 points by smacktoward posted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system (arstechnica.com)

9 points by duxup posted 20 hours ago

GetAwesomeness: A Directory of Lists (getawesomeness.herokuapp.com)

9 points by rullopat posted 1 day ago • 4 comments

LSTM for Time Series Prediction (towardsdatascience.com)

9 points by HIP_HOP posted 1 day ago • 3 comments

China’s Sneakerheads Chase 6,600% Returns Flipping Air Jordans (bloomberg.com)

9 points by hhs posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

DIY Sleep Apnea Screening (medium.com)

9 points by memorygrep posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Microsoft Wants to Censor Xbox Live Voice Chat in Real Time (futurism.com)

9 points by stillwater56 posted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Ask HN: What Is the Best University in Europe for MS in Computer Science?

8 points by Recursing posted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Show HN: Workflow, a “Screen Time” App for Linux (gitlab.com)

8 points by cunidev posted 1 day ago • 3 comments

RealmQL (github.com)

8 points by grrkek posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Kik app acquired by holding company MediaLab (betakit.com)

7 points by jmsflknr posted 16 hours ago

Chick-fil-A’s first UK location to close after pressure from LGBTQ rights group (cnbc.com)

7 points by hkmaxpro posted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, Has Died (edition.cnn.com)

7 points by Tomte posted 19 hours ago • 1 comments

First Demonstration of a 1 Petabit per Second (1M Gbps) Network Node (scitechdaily.com)

6 points by jonbaer posted 14 hours ago

Do Cows Have Friends? (theatlantic.com)

6 points by laurex posted 18 hours ago • 1 comments

Explaining how fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (arstechnica.com)

6 points by lordnacho posted 19 hours ago

What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe [video] (youtube.com)

6 points by gk1 posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Samsung's 'Linux on DeX' project shuts down after just 11 months (androidpolice.com)

5 points by xd1936 posted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Andrew Yang Is Full of It (slate.com)

5 points by smacktoward posted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

Automating Firmware Security with FwAnalyzer (medium.com)

5 points by allthingsav posted 14 hours ago

Cereal Masturbation – National Geographic (nationalgeographic.com.au)

5 points by vinnyglennon posted 16 hours ago

Advanced Vue Debugging: A Detective Story (2018) (vuejsdevelopers.com)

5 points by skolos posted 17 hours ago

Writing Safety Critical C++ Software for High Performance AI Hardware (youtube.com)

5 points by pjmlp posted 18 hours ago

Blizzard punishes college Hearthstone team for supporting Hong Kong protests (arstechnica.com)

5 points by lawrenceyan posted 19 hours ago

Can Muslims pray if the sun never sets? (bbc.com)

5 points by MiriamWeiner posted 19 hours ago

How to Design Events to Inspire Girls About Stem Careers (pcmag.com)

5 points by ohjeez posted 20 hours ago

The Republican political operatives who call the shots at Facebook (popular.info)

5 points by aaronbrethorst posted 20 hours ago • 1 comments

California governor gives OK for state, local agencies to destroy emails (thedesk.matthewkeys.net)

5 points by bpchaps posted 21 hours ago

OneTravel creates fake booking urgency via random numbers in JavaScript (twitter.com)

5 points by brokentone posted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Evolution tells us we might be the only intelligent life in the universe (theconversation.com)

5 points by QuitterStrip posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Compiler for the C64: Introducing Turbo Rascal SE (lemonspawn.com)

5 points by mariuz posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

How You Manage These 2 Kinds of Employees Will Define Your Company's Culture (linkedin.com)

5 points by praveenscience posted 1 day ago

Critical UK telecom infrastructure going down with Yahoo Groups (twitter.com)

5 points by BerislavLopac posted 1 day ago

John Carmack: React has turned out to be a bigger win than I expected (twitter.com)

5 points by andrewstuart posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Stackoverflow New CEO (joelonsoftware.com)

5 points by rammy1234 posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

The lines of code that changed everything (slate.com)

5 points by brycehalley posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Mexican police capture then release El Chapo’s Son after Battling with cartel (boomvibes.com)

4 points by tokstesla posted 12 hours ago

How the Women-Only Facebook Group Minbar-Shat Helped Overthrow the Sudanese Gov (elle.com)

4 points by gscott posted 13 hours ago

Software Test Desiderata (medium.com)

4 points by KentBeck posted 13 hours ago • 1 comments

Hacker steals CNN Tech Reporter data in front of him (twitter.com)

4 points by Pete-Codes posted 13 hours ago

Freelance Writers Scramble to Make Sense of New California Law (hollywoodreporter.com)

4 points by aaronbrethorst posted 15 hours ago

NASA Astronauts Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station [Live] (youtube.com)

4 points by reddotX posted 22 hours ago

How to Contribute to Open Source (opensource.guide)

4 points by praxyz posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

The Audio Revolution (alexdanco.com)

4 points by jger15 posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Advanced Coding Skills, Techniques, and Ideas (medium.com)

4 points by kiyanwang posted 1 day ago

Some of the UK’s phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups (theverge.com)

4 points by jkaljundi posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

NASA Executes An all-female spacewalk (boomvibes.com)

3 points by tokstesla posted 13 hours ago

The Eye-Popping Cost of Medicare for All: “According to New Figures: More (Cont) (theatlantic.com)

3 points by noego posted 15 hours ago

Show HN: Simple K8s controller for email/Slack notifications for Velero backups

3 points by SkyLinx posted 16 hours ago

Europe's largest meteorite crater home to deep ancient life (phys.org)

3 points by dnetesn posted 19 hours ago

C++20: What's in it for you? - CppCon 2019 - Marc Gregoire (youtube.com)

3 points by matt_d posted 19 hours ago

Yahoo is deleting all content ever posted to Yahoo Groups (arstechnica.com)

3 points by hhs posted 20 hours ago

A backlash emerges over automated interviewing (searchhrsoftware.techtarget.com)

3 points by jatsign posted 23 hours ago

Hiring Tips for First-Time Engineering Managers (blog.dashlane.com)

3 points by forty posted 1 day ago

Chicago's Old Post Office, the Largest Building Reuse Project in the US (chicagotribune.com)

3 points by 60654 posted 1 day ago

Zuckerberg: 6 out of top 10 Internet platform apps are Chinese (twitter.com)

3 points by est posted 1 day ago

Russian hackers break into European embassy in Washington (forbes.com)

3 points by NN88 posted 1 day ago

Keeper Tax (YC W19) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Developer in SF

1 points by pkoullick92 posted 15 hours ago

Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Software Developers in Toronto (workable.com)

1 points by linaz posted 18 hours ago

Life Sciences Data Business Analyst (tetrascience.workable.com)

1 points by spinwang posted 22 hours ago

Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) is hiring a Go back end engineer (angel.co)

1 points by andrei posted 1 day ago

Vathys (YC W18) Is Hiring a Machine Learning Engineer

1 points by deepnotderp posted 1 day ago

Pivot (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer – Consumer Fitness Hardware (jobs.lever.co)

1 points by moyayo posted 1 day ago

An Interview with Jose Valim, Creator of Elixir (welcometothejungle.co)

316 points by wickwavy posted 2 days ago • 166 comments

New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics (sciencemag.org)

287 points by furcyd posted 1 day ago • 114 comments

Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] (youtube.com)

282 points by gyre007 posted 2 days ago • 393 comments

Fake doctor saved thousands of infants and changed medical history (2018) (nypost.com)

270 points by Alex3917 posted 2 days ago • 78 comments

DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers (redhat.com)

244 points by tcarriga posted 1 day ago • 35 comments

OpenBSD 6.6 (openbsd.org)

220 points by liv-io posted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices (techcrunch.com)

220 points by bastichelaar posted 2 days ago • 124 comments

Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft (npr.org)

211 points by lnguyen posted 1 day ago • 148 comments

Haskell in Production (felixmulder.com)

195 points by allenleein posted 1 day ago • 216 comments

The “Windmill” Problem on the 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad [video] (youtube.com)

190 points by bobbykrk posted 1 day ago • 77 comments

Which Way Do You Run? (a16z.com)

181 points by yarapavan posted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Show HN: Magic Sandbox – hands-on Kubernetes training on real infra (msb.com)

173 points by mstipetic posted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Docker Compose reads your “.env” without opt-out (github.com)

158 points by otobrglez posted 1 day ago • 75 comments

Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years (bbc.com)

156 points by howsilly posted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Free for Developers (free-for.dev)

153 points by Mike_Andreuzza posted 1 day ago • 12 comments

On Recent Controversial Events (ebb.org)

144 points by richardfontana posted 1 day ago • 105 comments

Trying to improve buffet lines using simulations (erikbern.com)

136 points by sigil posted 2 days ago • 52 comments

The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release (computerhistory.org)

134 points by matt_d posted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Interview with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard (fastcompany.com)

130 points by dsr12 posted 2 days ago • 36 comments

DoNotPay app waits on hold for you (techcrunch.com)

126 points by stunt posted 1 day ago • 82 comments

AI Detects Heart Failure from One Heartbeat: Study (forbes.com)

124 points by rusht posted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Niantic's apps collect a surprising amount of data about where users go (kotaku.com)

111 points by kaikai posted 2 days ago • 53 comments

New Diagnostic Architecture Overview (swift.org)

105 points by xedin posted 1 day ago • 15 comments

J.S. Bach the Rebel: The subversive practice of a canonical composer (laphamsquarterly.org)

105 points by tintinnabula posted 2 days ago • 72 comments

Apple IIa – ROM for the Apple IIe That Compiles Basic (2018) (teamten.com)

98 points by mariuz posted 2 days ago • 12 comments

The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft: Command, Data, and Attitude Control (2017) (allaboutcircuits.com)

92 points by dddddaviddddd posted 1 day ago • 17 comments

New bill ensures Jailtime for CEOs that lie (vice.com)

92 points by elsewhen posted 1 day ago • 45 comments

NBA commissioner Silver says Chinese government asked him to fire Rockets GM (cbssports.com)

91 points by bdz posted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Evidence of market manipulation on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange? (vanityfair.com)

91 points by jbegley posted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Ivan Sutherland: 6 Legged Walker: CMU 1982 and 1983 [video] (youtube.com)

82 points by tobijkl posted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Show HN: Z shell configuration, zsh startup files, when they load, what they do (github.com)

82 points by jph posted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Ask HN: What's your worst undefined C story?

81 points by idiliv posted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Number of Self-Published Titles Jumped 40% in 2018 (publishersweekly.com)

73 points by unquote posted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Europe continues to wrestle with the long arm of American law (european-views.com)

73 points by laurex posted 1 day ago • 112 comments

AMD Lists Threadripper 3000 CPU with 32 Cores, Possible New Socket (tomshardware.com)

72 points by rbanffy posted 2 days ago • 46 comments

Data as a Property Right (yang2020.com)

69 points by peter_d_sherman posted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Launch HN: Multis (YC S19): online business bank account for cryptocurrency

66 points by tsahaghian posted 2 days ago • 25 comments

I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator (meta.stackoverflow.com)

65 points by btilly posted 1 day ago • 12 comments

European Commission President Juncker tweets that a Brexit deal has been done (twitter.com)

65 points by seapunk posted 2 days ago • 102 comments

Senators propose near-total ban on worker noncompete agreements (arstechnica.com)

64 points by Deinos posted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Ask HN: Which online communities do you hang out most on?

61 points by sellingwebsite posted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Trees That Survived California Drought May Hold Clue to Climate Resilience (npr.org)

60 points by pseudolus posted 1 day ago • 11 comments

An Unexpected Character Replacement (datafix.com.au)

59 points by eaguyhn posted 1 day ago • 20 comments

NYC Votes to Close Rikers Island (nytimes.com)

59 points by jbegley posted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Conflicts in the GNU project now affect Guile (lists.gnu.org)

58 points by iso-8859-1 posted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Germany's cyber-security agency recommends Firefox as most secure browser (zdnet.com)

58 points by XzetaU8 posted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Blloc – A Minimalist Smartphone (blloc.com)

57 points by state posted 1 day ago • 23 comments

In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace (pewforum.org)

57 points by smacktoward posted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Building a Simple Spectroscope (2016) (scitoys.com)

57 points by DanBC posted 2 days ago • 8 comments

“Run from Adobe Creative Cloud” (reddit.com)

56 points by martinml posted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Why Richard Stallman Doesn’t Matter (maffulli.net)

56 points by smacktoward posted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Scala: A software tool for microtonic, macrotonic and other alternative tunings (huygens-fokker.org)

56 points by thanatropism posted 2 days ago • 16 comments

A Nun’s 450-Year-Old ‘Last Supper’ Makes Its Museum Debut in Florence (atlasobscura.com)

55 points by Vigier posted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Ubuntu 19.10 (ubuntu.com)

53 points by FeatureIncomple posted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Why Fiber Is Vastly Superior to Cable and 5G (eff.org)

52 points by DiabloD3 posted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Zuckerberg asserts Facebook stands for free expression (nytimes.com)

50 points by furcyd posted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working? (nytimes.com)

50 points by ajay-d posted 1 day ago • 32 comments

The Flying Crowbar (1990) (merkle.com)

49 points by chat posted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Debugging hidden memory leaks in Ruby (samsaffron.com)

48 points by sams99 posted 1 day ago • 6 comments

A Guy on Reddit Turns $766 into $107,758 on Two Options Trades (bloomberg.com)

48 points by undefined3840 posted 1 day ago • 23 comments

The lies I told for insurance companies about 'Medicare for All' worked (nbcnews.com)

46 points by howard941 posted 1 day ago • 7 comments

What Atul Gawande Got Wrong about U.S. Health Care Spending (bostonreview.net)

45 points by fluentmundo posted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Researchers predict which content is to be raided by 4chan and offer solution (newest-websites.com)

41 points by publius-varus posted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Fastest ants in world found in northern Sahara, researchers say (theguardian.com)

40 points by laurex posted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Gitlab Makes a U-Turn (theregister.co.uk)

39 points by ameshkov posted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Road planning with slime mould (2009) (arxiv.org)

37 points by benbreen posted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Tutorial: How to Scrape Amazon Using Python Scrapy (blog.datahut.co)

37 points by sandramoraes posted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Toru Iwatani, 1986 Pac-Man Designer (programmersatwork.wordpress.com)

36 points by danso posted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Microsoft gives Satya Nadella a 66% raise, citing 'strategic leadership' (cnbc.com)

36 points by aloknnikhil posted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Electric-Car Owners Hard Hit by California Power Shutdown (news.yahoo.com)

34 points by elorant posted 2 days ago • 29 comments

California Is in Big Trouble Again, After Averting a Collapse in the 2000s (bloomberg.com)

33 points by siberianbear posted 1 day ago • 71 comments

The Fallacy That Is Cryptocurrency (hackernoon.com)

32 points by eaguyhn posted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Childhood Obesity Is Rising 'Shockingly Fast' Even in Poor Countries (npr.org)

30 points by pseudolus posted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Elon Musk testifies he’s financially illiquid, court filing says (latimes.com)

30 points by ryan_j_naughton posted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Show HN: Tina, a CMS Builder for React Websites (github.com)

29 points by dwalkr posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win (krebsonsecurity.com)

28 points by feross posted 2 days ago

Ask HN: What are your biggest regrets?

27 points by gautamcgoel posted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Released (lists.ubuntu.com)

25 points by seagullz posted 1 day ago • 3 comments

A Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions of Dollars from Unsuspecting Boomers (buzzfeednews.com)

25 points by laurex posted 1 day ago • 4 comments

HBO Max Acquires U.S. Streaming Rights to Studio Ghibli Library (deadline.com)

23 points by WillPostForFood posted 1 day ago • 3 comments

UK phone number transfers between networks are handled through a Yahoo Group (twitter.com)

21 points by ga-vu posted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Earth and Sun (ciechanow.ski)

20 points by mmackh posted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high (washingtonpost.com)

20 points by hirundo posted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home (hackaday.com)

20 points by paulcarroty posted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Ask HN: What is your information distillation pipeline?

19 points by mariomeissner posted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Laptop Survey from r/thinkpad and r/mac (imgur.com)

18 points by zhte415 posted 1 day ago • 7 comments

US green economy’s growth dwarfs the fossil fuel industry’s (arstechnica.com)

17 points by rblion posted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Not even Airbnb can turn a profit (fastcompany.com)

16 points by rblion posted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Tired light: a theory with the world's worst PR team (kirstenhacker.wordpress.com)

16 points by nixtaken posted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Show HN: Touchable augmented reality on your phone, 3 years in the making (portalble.cs.brown.edu)

15 points by lazyjeff posted 2 days ago • 4 comments

What is the oldest continuously operating electronic computer, and where is it? (quora.com)

14 points by ferenczy posted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home (hackaday.com)

14 points by rolph posted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Show HN: My son's first GitHub repo

14 points by pythonbase posted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Why Are U.S. Nuclear Bombs Still in Turkey? (newrepublic.com)

14 points by tartoran posted 2 days ago

Ask HN: What SaaS expenses do you wish you could reduce?

13 points by thorwasdfasdf posted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions Through Iterative Query Generation (arxiv.org)

13 points by sel1 posted 1 day ago

I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator (meta.stackoverflow.com)

13 points by suresh70 posted 2 days ago

Fomu – An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port (crowdsupply.com)

12 points by peter_d_sherman posted 2 days ago

Dangerous Kubernetes Bugs Allow Authentication Bypass, DoS (threatpost.com)

11 points by LinuxBender posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Show HN: Code Collaboration Charts (networkperspective.io)

11 points by n16e posted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Millions of Amazon Echos, Kindles Vulnerable to Wi-Fi Attack (tomsguide.com)

11 points by slowhand09 posted 1 day ago

EU parliament quietly hoards visitors' wi-fi data (euobserver.com)

11 points by 925dk posted 1 day ago

John Oliver buys $15M of medical debt for $60k (2016) (theguardian.com)

11 points by bartkappenburg posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

NDK r21: our first Long Term Support release (android-developers.googleblog.com)

10 points by el_duderino posted 1 day ago

Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice (fs.blog)

10 points by hhs posted 1 day ago

Berkeley City Council Unanimously Votes to Ban Face Recognition (eff.org)

10 points by DiabloD3 posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors (washingtonpost.com)

10 points by jpindar posted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk reportedly testified that he's low on cash, financially illiquid (businessinsider.com)

10 points by Alupis posted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Some of the UK’s phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups (theverge.com)

9 points by mreome posted 1 day ago

Kids these days: Why the youth of today seem lacking (advances.sciencemag.org)

9 points by bookofjoe posted 1 day ago

Via-ipv6.com: enabling IPv4 sites for IPv6 only networks (ungleich.ch)

9 points by telmich posted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Ask HN: How much time do you think you waste on Cookie prompts?

9 points by buboard posted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Blizzard Gives 6-Month Ban to College Team That Held Up 'Free Hong Kong' Sign (kotaku.com)

9 points by doener posted 2 days ago

Machine learning isn’t effective at identifying fake news (fastcompany.com)

8 points by embit posted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Welcome to the Land (statesider.us)

8 points by smollett posted 1 day ago

California has banned political deep fakes (theverge.com)

8 points by jonplackett posted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The US military is trying to read minds (technologyreview.com)

8 points by howard941 posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Google Funds Climate Deniers (thebulletin.org)

8 points by perfunctory posted 2 days ago

Ask HN: When do you think smartphones will become obsolete?

8 points by karanganesan posted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Hong Kong may be the battleground for a new cyber cold war (slate.com)

7 points by gexos posted 1 day ago

Trump Campaign Website Left Open to Email Server Hijack (threatpost.com)

7 points by hsnewman posted 1 day ago

Ford announces launch of largest electric vehicle charging network in the US (cnn.com)

7 points by SmkyMt posted 1 day ago

California finds widespread water contamination of 'forever chemicals' (msn.com)

7 points by eplanit posted 1 day ago

Facebook’s Libra Faceplant: Beware of CEO Bright Ideas (nakedcapitalism.com)

7 points by CaptainZapp posted 1 day ago

Brexit Deal Is Done (mobile.twitter.com)

7 points by jandeboevrie posted 2 days ago

Loopless Programming (code.jsoftware.com)

7 points by codesections posted 2 days ago

The More Active Your Brain, the Shorter Your Lifespan May Be (time.com)

7 points by rrauenza posted 2 days ago

The democracy-destroying golden age of free speech (wired.com)

6 points by anigbrowl posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Blizzard Reinstates Hong Kong Gamer’s Prize but Reaffirms Censure of His Speech (variety.com)

6 points by lawrenceyan posted 1 day ago

Study reveals how collapse of protein processes is driver of aging and death (phys.org)

6 points by adinb posted 1 day ago

When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested (features.propublica.org)

6 points by pseudolus posted 1 day ago

A Guide to the Implementation of Idea Management Software (ideadrop.co)

6 points by IndreKula posted 2 days ago

Google Ejects Open-Source WireGuard from Android Play Store over Donation Link (phoronix.com)

6 points by OrgNet posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

Voyage Through the Hidden Physics of the Cosmic Web (arxiv.org)

5 points by ArtWomb posted 1 day ago

John Tate Has Died (mobile.twitter.com)

5 points by ZeroCool2u posted 1 day ago

The Apps Using Social Credit in China (technode.com)

5 points by arkadyark posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand? (quantamagazine.org)

5 points by theafh posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

5 points by furcyd posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Switzerland has the most highly skilled workers in the world. This is why (weforum.org)

5 points by motiw posted 1 day ago

Experiment with HTTP/3 using Nginx and quiche (blog.cloudflare.com)

5 points by sahin-boydas posted 1 day ago

Xkcd: What is dark-matter and dark-energy? (xkcd.com)

5 points by dilawar posted 2 days ago

When you win the game, you stop playing (sivers.org)

5 points by simonebrunozzi posted 2 days ago

Venezuela Wins a Seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council (washingtonpost.com)

4 points by kyleblarson posted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Scientists discover skin keeps time independent of the brain (phys.org)

4 points by respinal posted 1 day ago

Carlsbad book store owner handed sudden eviction notice (10news.com)

4 points by gscott posted 1 day ago

Male and female mice have different brain cells (phys.org)

4 points by dnetesn posted 1 day ago

The Imperial Presidency, Secrecy, and the Intelligence Community (medium.com)

4 points by georgeshi posted 1 day ago

Recent Site Isolation Improvements (blog.chromium.org)

4 points by twapi posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Natural Bridge on the Moon (2010) (nasa.gov)

4 points by Amorymeltzer posted 1 day ago

The Impossible Whopper is driving steady traffic to Burger King, data shows (cnbc.com)

4 points by pvsukale3 posted 1 day ago

How would you add 'reputation' to what people post?

4 points by gw666 posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

Miaow: An Open-Source RTL Implementation of the AMD Southern Islands Gpgpu ISA (github.com)

4 points by exrook posted 2 days ago

Blizzard bans 3 college 'Hearthstone' players for Hong Kong protest sign (businessinsider.com)

3 points by colinprince posted 1 day ago

CppCon 2019: Chandler Carruth, Titus Winters “What Is C++” (youtube.com)

3 points by pjmlp posted 1 day ago

Chromium in Ubuntu – deb to snap transition (ubuntu.com)

3 points by reddotX posted 1 day ago

Stewart Brand Meets the Cybernetic Counterculture (edge.org)

3 points by kick posted 1 day ago

A country’s third-most spoken language can be surprising (economist.com)

3 points by respinal posted 1 day ago • 1 comments

Scientists create fully electronic 2-D spin transistors (phys.org)

3 points by peter_d_sherman posted 1 day ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends allowing politicians to lie in ads

3 points by clay_the_ripper posted 1 day ago

Fortnite just pulled off a marketing scam (velocitypartners.com)

3 points by govind201 posted 2 days ago

Mother’s attention may shape baby’s hormone system and temperament (newscientist.com)

3 points by sahin-boydas posted 2 days ago

UK mobile number portability requests are handled via Yahoo Groups (twitter.com)

3 points by ceejayoz posted 2 days ago

Show HN: TechReviewHQ – Thousands of Tech Product Reviews in One Place (techreviewhq.com)

3 points by murph37 posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Open-sourcing cockpit for harvest projects (github.com)

2 points by rocket-science posted 2 days ago

Elemeno Health (YC S16) Is Hiring a Lead Engineer in Oakland (angel.co)

1 points by enanale posted 1 day ago

BuildZoom (YC W13) is hiring – help us build better homes (jobs.lever.co)

1 points by the_economist posted 1 day ago

Jido Maps (YC W18) is hiring full-stack developers for AR – Bay Area/NY/Remote (apply.workable.com)

1 points by jysung100 posted 1 day ago

Tab (YC W15) Is Hiring Lead and Full-Stack Engineers in London (jobs.tab.travel)

1 points by wodow posted 2 days ago

Streak (YC S11), CRM for Gmail, Is Hiring in Vancouver (streak.com)

1 points by alooPotato posted 2 days ago

ReadMe (YC W15) is hiring – Help us make APIs easy to use (readme.io)

1 points by gkoberger posted 2 days ago

Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index (digiconomist.net)

297 points by arcticbull posted 2 days ago • 442 comments

Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb (simblob.blogspot.com)

281 points by Sindisil posted 2 days ago • 155 comments

Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015) (dev.stephendiehl.com)

269 points by Cieplak posted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously (sfchronicle.com)

265 points by almost_usual posted 3 days ago • 209 comments

Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

262 points by lordnacho posted 2 days ago • 203 comments

How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? (space.com)

261 points by QuitterStrip posted 2 days ago • 215 comments

Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy (nytimes.com)

256 points by mykowebhn posted 2 days ago • 163 comments

Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger, with auth and no infra (pipedream.com)

240 points by todsac posted 2 days ago • 102 comments

Books: an immutable double-entry accounting database service (developer.squareup.com)

238 points by strzalek posted 2 days ago • 65 comments

US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site (coindesk.com)

230 points by srameshc posted 2 days ago • 332 comments

The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht (bicycledutch.wordpress.com)

228 points by sgwil posted 3 days ago • 116 comments

What happens when a city bans cars from its streets? (bbc.com)

222 points by pseudolus posted 2 days ago • 231 comments

Writing Great Mystery Plots (vulture.com)

184 points by jawns posted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Show HN: Change Python code while it's running using a reloading loop (github.com)

182 points by julvo posted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet (nasa.gov)

181 points by el_duderino posted 2 days ago • 70 comments

Kubernetes Networking: Behind the Scenes (itnext.io)

179 points by ITNEXT posted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Pontevedra, Spain’s Happy Little Carless City (reasonstobecheerful.world)

179 points by imartin2k posted 3 days ago • 80 comments

Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservices (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)

174 points by gabrtv posted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak (voice.mozilla.org)

174 points by mjlee posted 3 days ago • 49 comments

Designing Accessible Color Systems (stripe.com)

167 points by boyter posted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Paris zoo unveils a slime mould (reuters.com)

160 points by hhs posted 2 days ago • 52 comments

Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell (chrispenner.ca)

158 points by rachitnigam posted 3 days ago • 173 comments

UK drops plans for online pornography age verification system (theguardian.com)

143 points by JulianMorrison posted 2 days ago • 121 comments

Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1% (bloomberg.com)

141 points by pseudolus posted 2 days ago • 218 comments

Google and Ambient Computing (stratechery.com)

141 points by hvass posted 2 days ago • 96 comments

How to Read “Gilgamesh” (newyorker.com)

137 points by akkartik posted 2 days ago • 46 comments

A History of Pizza (historytoday.com)

130 points by appwiz posted 3 days ago • 100 comments

Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house (amazon.com)

125 points by lisper posted 3 days ago • 84 comments

Show HN: USB PD Stand-Alone Sink Controller (blog.oxplot.com)

123 points by oxplot posted 3 days ago • 57 comments

People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct (cnn.com)

114 points by shawndumas posted 2 days ago • 57 comments

Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times (lemire.me)

114 points by ingve posted 3 days ago • 110 comments

The World's First 20-Hour Airline Flight (bloomberg.com)

111 points by pseudolus posted 3 days ago • 156 comments

Mu: A minimal hobbyist computing stack (akkartik.name)

104 points by panic posted 3 days ago • 29 comments

U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran after Saudi oil attack: officials (reuters.com)

103 points by el_duderino posted 2 days ago • 78 comments

Show HN: Sparkler – A KVM-Based Virtual Machine Manager (unixism.net)

101 points by shuss posted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Guitar Machine (media.mit.edu)

98 points by kick posted 3 days ago • 21 comments

AndOTP Removed from the Google Play Store Due to Donation Link (github.com)

93 points by segfaultbuserr posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

HAMR – 3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation from a Single RGB Image (heartbeat.fritz.ai)

91 points by posnererez posted 2 days ago • 18 comments

ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days (washingtonpost.com)

90 points by primroot posted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Where you place your food in the fridge does matter (electrafixbc.ca)

89 points by mulletator posted 2 days ago • 59 comments

Xi Jinping's daughter has returned to US to resume studies at Harvard (taiwannews.com.tw)

89 points by sexy_seedbox posted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium (blogs.windows.com)

88 points by coldtea posted 2 days ago • 91 comments

Dietlibc – a Libc optimized for small size (fefe.de)

87 points by kick posted 3 days ago • 38 comments

LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed Operating System (legoos.io)

84 points by kick posted 3 days ago • 76 comments

Docker containers in space (balena.io)

83 points by adunk posted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable (mosaicscience.com)

82 points by Kaibeezy posted 2 days ago • 73 comments

The Exquisite Precision of Time Crystals (scientificamerican.com)

81 points by laurex posted 2 days ago • 20 comments

In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course (arstechnica.com)

79 points by feross posted 3 days ago • 79 comments

The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris (2017) (dtrace.org)

79 points by kick posted 3 days ago • 124 comments

Two kernel mysteries and the most technical talk I've ever seen (brendangregg.com)

74 points by psanford posted 3 days ago

UK Government drops controversial 'porn blocker' plan (bbc.co.uk)

73 points by kerrsclyde posted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“I was told to buy a software or lose my computer: I ignored it” (blog.acolyer.org)

68 points by feross posted 3 days ago • 61 comments

No One Knows Why Humans Can Walk (lithub.com)

67 points by sergeant3 posted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Czech Trail Marking System (2006) (blog.myczechrepublic.com)

67 points by PopeDotNinja posted 3 days ago • 27 comments

IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust (kottke.org)

65 points by tobr posted 3 days ago • 41 comments

Teaching Ethics in Appalachia Taught Me About Bridging America’s Partisan Divide (politico.com)

62 points by nkurz posted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Timing Technology (gwern.net)

61 points by ordiblah posted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Scientists pinpoint neural activity's role in human longevity (sciencebeta.com)

61 points by Indirector posted 2 days ago • 15 comments

The Myth of 10,000 hours (medium.com)

61 points by senthil_rajasek posted 2 days ago • 51 comments

IAU Statement on Satellite Constellations (iau.org)

59 points by Tomte posted 2 days ago • 38 comments

The Pioneering Maps of Alexander von Humboldt (smithsonianmag.com)

59 points by pseudolus posted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Lifting the lid on Japan’s bento boxes (bbc.com)

58 points by pseudolus posted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Show HN: A simple scheduler for running jobs on GPUs (github.com)

58 points by ExpectationMax posted 2 days ago • 28 comments

How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries (quantamagazine.org)

58 points by _Microft posted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I hate Xlib (remlab.net)

58 points by kick posted 3 days ago • 41 comments

The type of char + char (blog.knatten.org)

57 points by alexchamberlain posted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Smart speaker system uses white noise to monitor infants' breathing (techxplore.com)

54 points by dnetesn posted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Analogue Pocket (analogue.co)

52 points by dhritzkiv posted 2 days ago • 6 comments

SpaceX just filed a request to run 30k more Starlink satellites in orbit (technologyreview.com)

51 points by howard941 posted 2 days ago • 73 comments

The Apple iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max Review: Performance, Battery, Camera (anandtech.com)

47 points by endorphone posted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Extinction Rebellion Blockade Google HQ (independent.co.uk)

47 points by willemmerson posted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Study in mice explains how brain can turn pain signals up or down (nih.gov)

46 points by laurex posted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor (charlespetzold.com)

45 points by ingve posted 2 days ago • 97 comments

Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM) (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)

43 points by gabrtv posted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Turkey ‘effectively holding 50 US nuclear bombs hostage’ at air base (independent.co.uk)

42 points by aaronbrethorst posted 2 days ago • 21 comments

PhD candidate made a skirt out of rejection letters (eu.lansingstatejournal.com)

42 points by EndXA posted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Prewarming PostgreSQL I/O caches (cybertec-postgresql.com)

40 points by suresh70 posted 3 days ago • 9 comments

And 'Lo!': How the internet was born (bbc.co.uk)

39 points by alexanderdmitri posted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Computers Don't Argue (1965) (atariarchives.org)

37 points by EndXA posted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I hate the X11 ICCCM selection system (call-with-current-continuation.org)

36 points by fanf2 posted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Ask HN: What software do you use to manage contacts?

36 points by camjohnson26 posted 3 days ago • 26 comments

The worst keyboard ever made (getrevue.co)

35 points by rbanffy posted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Training Neural Nets: A Hacker’s Perspective (blog.floydhub.com)

32 points by ReginaDeiPirati posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of homeless encampments (latimes.com)

32 points by jaredwiener posted 2 days ago • 102 comments

The Big Die-Up (2017) (americancowboy.com)

32 points by rococode posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Kubernetes: K8s vs. Rancher K3s (civo.com)

31 points by notkaiho posted 2 days ago

More on Ancient Scripts and the History of Writing (kottke.org)

28 points by peter_d_sherman posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Why Switzerland? (2007) (fourmilab.ch)

28 points by kick posted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Ask HN: Recommended reading for building a chatbot?

27 points by jakobov posted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Ask HN: GSuite / Office365 Alternatives for Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits

26 points by andrew_ posted 2 days ago • 25 comments

SoftBank Plans $5B Rescue Financing for WeWork (bloomberg.com)

25 points by dr_robert posted 2 days ago • 15 comments

The Myth That Capitalism Saved the World (eand.co)

24 points by idl3Y posted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 – 2019 [video] (youtube.com)

24 points by tomerbd posted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Show HN: Django REST – Typed Views (github.com)

24 points by rsinger87 posted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Show HN: Wikipedia articles in AR with React Native (takota.net)

23 points by drpancake posted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Illinois red-light cameras have collected more than $1B from drivers since 2008 (illinoispolicy.org)

23 points by SQL2219 posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary (engadget.com)

20 points by ductionist posted 2 days ago • 7 comments

A house is a terrible investment (2013) (jlcollinsnh.com)

20 points by kaues posted 2 days ago • 17 comments

The FCC has voted to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger (theverge.com)

20 points by goohex posted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Infrastructure as Code, Not Infrastructure as Files (hackernoon.com)

19 points by mv1 posted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Show HN: Strangers – A non-fiction book club focused on technology and society (strangers.club)

19 points by sjustns posted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I analyzed 10 years of my Amazon Purchase History

19 points by freediver posted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Hacking 20 high-profile dev accounts could compromise half of the NPM ecosystem (zdnet.com)

19 points by sus_007 posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Maintainability Through Colocation (kentcdodds.com)

17 points by yvonnick posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

What did Monica do to violate the CoC? (meta.stackexchange.com)

17 points by jolmg posted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home (hackaday.com)

17 points by slowhand09 posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Zuck says cloud computing is too expensive (techradar.com)

15 points by bifrost posted 2 days ago

NASA unveils new spacesuit for next Moon landing (bbc.com)

15 points by gaisturiz posted 2 days ago • 11 comments

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15 points by andrenth posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

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15 points by Borkdude posted 2 days ago

Len Deighton’s Bomber, the first book ever written on a word processor (2013) (slate.com)

15 points by sohkamyung posted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Tesla's Risky Gamble and the Future of Lithium-Ion Batteries (contrarianedge.com)

14 points by imartin2k posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Your landlord turns your apartment into a smart home. Now what? (cnet.com)

14 points by howard941 posted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Man agrees to pay $25,000 for abusing YouTube’s takedown system (arstechnica.com)

14 points by prawn posted 3 days ago • 5 comments

UK's controversial 'porn blocker' plan dropped (bbc.com)

13 points by colinprince posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

Court rules officer who ran and hid, while inmate raped a nurse, cannot be sued (reason.com)

13 points by wallace_f posted 2 days ago

Coral Reef Starter Kit (udel.edu)

13 points by rbanffy posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

Child Porn Ring Busted as Authorities Cite Ability to Crack Bitcoin Privacy (gizmodo.com)

13 points by djsumdog posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The Life, Death and Resurrection of Computer Art Group Mistigris (paleotronic.com)

13 points by empressplay posted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Trump appears to confirm U.S. nukes are in Turkey (washingtonpost.com)

12 points by ssully posted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk testifies he’s financially illiquid, court filing says (latimes.com)

12 points by ilamont posted 2 days ago • 6 comments

It’s Time to Get over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have (rob.conery.io)

12 points by fastbmk_com posted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Digital pollution (sivers.org)

12 points by galfarragem posted 3 days ago

Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell (collaborativefund.com)

11 points by imartin2k posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

A Company You Have Never Heard Of (jacquesmattheij.com)

11 points by weinzierl posted 3 days ago

Ask HN: How are you separate your personal vs. work laptop?

11 points by somethingbroken posted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Tech Book Face Off: How to Design Programs vs. SICP (sam-koblenski.blogspot.com)

11 points by koblenski posted 3 days ago

Apple's Destructive macOS Catalina Update Betrays Trust in Your Broken MBP (forbes.com)

10 points by behnamoh posted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Seized North Korean cargo ship sold to compensate parents of Otto Warmbier (navytimes.com)

10 points by slowhand09 posted 2 days ago

.NET Core 3.1 Preview 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com)

10 points by flipchart posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

America Thought It Could Shape China. But China Is Shaping America (theatlantic.com)

10 points by pseudolus posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Show HN: PostgREST as a Service (subzero.cloud)

10 points by ruslan_talpa posted 3 days ago • 2 comments

U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran in wake of Saudi oil attack (reuters.com)

10 points by NN88 posted 3 days ago

LeBron James’s Big Miss on China (wsj.com)

10 points by wei_jok posted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Texas Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $50M from Peter Thiel (fortune.com)

9 points by momentmaker posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Children told lies by parents lie more as adults (sciencedaily.com)

9 points by EndXA posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

Headless Brands (otherinter.net)

9 points by jger15 posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Natron: Cross-Platform Open Source After Effects Alternative (natrongithub.github.io)

9 points by kick posted 2 days ago

Amazon RDS on VMware Now Available (aws.amazon.com)

8 points by jeffbarr posted 2 days ago

Ask HN: Do you work with a “hands-on” VP/CTO?

8 points by throwaway95821 posted 2 days ago • 9 comments

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8 points by the-dude posted 2 days ago

Just Published: Adventures of a Computational Explorer (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

8 points by QuitterStrip posted 2 days ago

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8 points by rbanffy posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive (theatlantic.com)

8 points by pseudolus posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

Mess Paper Simulator (2015) (blog.arrozcru.org)

8 points by rbanffy posted 3 days ago

The Pixelbook Go Is a Smaller Cheaper Google-Made Chromebook (gizmodo.com)

8 points by nwrk posted 3 days ago • 3 comments

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7 points by hhs posted 2 days ago

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7 points by bsears posted 2 days ago

Maduro unveils plan to fund Venezuela's economy in petro cryptocurrency (decrypt.co)

7 points by euphemized posted 2 days ago

The Introverted Leader (medium.com)

7 points by matthewsinclair posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

Google employees are debating company's decision to ban HK Protest game (vox.com)

7 points by s3r3nity posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

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7 points by LaSombra posted 3 days ago

Ask HN: Technical Writing course suggestions?

6 points by gtirloni posted 2 days ago • 3 comments

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6 points by gripfx posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

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6 points by huihuiilly posted 2 days ago

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6 points by datitran posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPN to home (boingboing.net)

6 points by pmlnr posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

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6 points by QuitterStrip posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Blood money is fine with us, says Gitlab (theregister.co.uk)

6 points by baud147258 posted 3 days ago

U.S., U.K. sign deal to access data from tech companies like Facebook and Google (nbcnews.com)

6 points by rahuldottech posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

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6 points by laurex posted 3 days ago

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6 points by lostmsu posted 3 days ago

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6 points by livueta posted 3 days ago

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5 points by smacktoward posted 2 days ago

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5 points by Kapura posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

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5 points by xenocyon posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

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5 points by jtra92 posted 2 days ago

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5 points by alexellisuk posted 2 days ago

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5 points by abruzzi posted 2 days ago

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5 points by ohjeez posted 2 days ago

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5 points by affect_alien posted 2 days ago

Man agrees to pay $25,000 for abusing YouTube’s takedown system (arstechnica.com)

5 points by headShrinker posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

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5 points by codeforgeek posted 2 days ago

Hong Kong is exporting its protest techniques around the world (qz.com)

5 points by hkmaxpro posted 3 days ago

Without encryption, we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground (theguardian.com)

5 points by stiray posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Eritrea, where ATMs are unknown and SIM cards are like gold dust (bbc.co.uk)

5 points by kick posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Hong Kong, Visualized (relay.nationalgeographic.com)

5 points by wei_jok posted 3 days ago

US House Okays Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act (scmp.com)

5 points by wbraun posted 3 days ago

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4 points by baylearn posted 2 days ago

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4 points by ccwilson10 posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

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4 points by guessmyname posted 2 days ago

Hong Kong Protest Leader Assaulted by Masked Hammer Wielding Assailants (reddit.com)

4 points by CorruptedArc posted 2 days ago

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4 points by 6nomads posted 2 days ago

NASA Introduces New Spacesuits for the Moon and Mars (youtube.com)

4 points by jasoncartwright posted 2 days ago

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4 points by Tomte posted 2 days ago

AWT GUI Facade (2): Draw – Design Pattern and Video Games (learngameprog.com)

4 points by phylyp posted 2 days ago

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4 points by velmu posted 3 days ago

Are China's Tantrums Signs of Strength or Weakness? (theatlantic.com)

4 points by baylearn posted 3 days ago

China's helicopter prototype looks like a UFO (edition.cnn.com)

3 points by elorant posted 2 days ago

The Monstrous Intimacy of the Online Self (tamarshafrir.com)

3 points by jger15 posted 2 days ago • 1 comments

SpaceX says 12,000 satellites isn’t enough, so it might launch another 30k (arstechnica.com)

3 points by wil_I_am_27 posted 2 days ago • 2 comments

State of Play: Trends in Games (a16z.com)

3 points by jger15 posted 2 days ago

Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism (quillette.com)

3 points by andrenth posted 2 days ago

Spark History Server and monitoring jobs performance (luminousmen.com)

3 points by luminousmen posted 2 days ago

Be Part of Something Bigger (simplybetter.me)

3 points by jslon posted 2 days ago

Edison’s greatest invention was a way of thinking about technology (theatlantic.com)

3 points by seapunk posted 2 days ago

Resurrecting the SuperH Architecture (2015) (lwn.net)

3 points by beefhash posted 3 days ago

We Talked to Andrew Yang. Here’s How He’d Fix the Internet (nytimes.com)

3 points by artur_makly posted 3 days ago

OneSignal (YC S11) raised a Series B, is hiring full-stack, back-end, iOS devs (onesignal.com)

1 points by gdeglin posted 2 days ago

Fond.co (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Engineer in Portland (jobs.lever.co)

1 points by tarof posted 2 days ago

Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a senior back-end engineer (jobs.lever.co)

1 points by sangwen posted 2 days ago

CareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring a Director of Operations (Venice Beach, CA)

1 points by sofia_ posted 3 days ago

DuckDuckGo Search Improvements (spreadprivacy.com)

342 points by tagawa posted 3 days ago • 184 comments

Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service (techcrunch.com)

315 points by sfg75 posted 4 days ago • 101 comments

.NET Core 3.0 Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project (github.com)

294 points by mandar_badve22 posted 4 days ago • 306 comments

Ionic React (ionicframework.com)

288 points by asaddhamani posted 3 days ago • 109 comments

Dutch family 'waiting for end of time' discovered in basement (bbc.com)

261 points by pseudolus posted 3 days ago • 162 comments

My Vision of D’s Future (dlang.org)

261 points by ingve posted 3 days ago • 200 comments

How we hit our $30k ARR milestone (blog.simpleanalytics.com)

259 points by AdriaanvRossum posted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop in Applications (wsj.com)

241 points by drkimball posted 3 days ago • 211 comments

Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers (swissdevjobs.ch)

234 points by Varqu posted 3 days ago • 326 comments

Flash Memory Wear Killing Older Teslas Due to Excessive Data Logging: Report (tomshardware.com)

230 points by rbanffy posted 3 days ago • 169 comments

Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3 (lists.debian.org)

217 points by mkesper posted 3 days ago • 180 comments

Rustup 1.20.0 (blog.rust-lang.org)

216 points by pietroalbini posted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Baltimore Blew Off Ransomware Demand Only to Find Data Had Never Been Backed Up (techdirt.com)

188 points by miles posted 3 days ago • 113 comments

Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20% (nytimes.com)

174 points by tysone posted 3 days ago • 226 comments

By Quitting Social Media You Could Read 200 Books a Year (qz.com)

170 points by elorant posted 4 days ago • 122 comments

Bjarne Stroustrup Answers C++ Questions (news.codecademy.com)

170 points by praveenscience posted 4 days ago • 69 comments

Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand (openai.com)

168 points by gdb posted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy (wsj.com)

168 points by howard941 posted 3 days ago • 222 comments

5G Mobile Networks: A Systems Approach (5g.systemsapproach.org)

166 points by mhandley posted 4 days ago • 107 comments

Face-recognition technology is the new norm (nytimes.com)

161 points by ryan_j_naughton posted 3 days ago • 83 comments

Ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change (smithsonianmag.com)

152 points by motorogo posted 4 days ago • 79 comments

YouTube Regrets (foundation.mozilla.org)

149 points by edwinjm posted 3 days ago • 196 comments

The 'glass floor' keeps the children of the rich at the top (huffingtonpost.ca)

148 points by elorant posted 3 days ago • 208 comments

DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH (netmeister.org)

131 points by fanf2 posted 3 days ago • 95 comments

Apache Arrow Flight: A Framework for Fast Data Transport (arrow.apache.org)

126 points by stablemap posted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor (theguardian.com)

122 points by pseudolus posted 4 days ago • 65 comments

Docker Hub Registry is down (status.docker.com)

116 points by 0vermorrow posted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere (assist.app)

115 points by gsundeep posted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Show HN: Interactive visual solver for the traveling salesman problem (tspvis.com)

113 points by intrepidev posted 3 days ago • 10 comments

OpenVMS: state of the x86 port (vmssoftware.com)

111 points by lelf posted 3 days ago • 86 comments

What the Hell Was Modernism? (vulture.com)

110 points by whatami posted 3 days ago • 50 comments

Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue (beamjobs.com)

104 points by justingreet posted 3 days ago • 27 comments

My 2019 Mathematics a to Z: Linear Programming (nebusresearch.wordpress.com)

99 points by ColinWright posted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Google Announces Nest WiFi (blog.google)

99 points by aminecodes posted 3 days ago • 114 comments

A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer (arstechnica.com)

97 points by c89X posted 4 days ago • 87 comments

Zombie debts are hounding struggling Americans (theguardian.com)

96 points by rwmj posted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Ploopy: An Open-Source Trackball (ploopy.co)

95 points by zdw posted 3 days ago • 83 comments

Whales Keep Carbon out of the Atmosphere (2017) (scientificamerican.com)

93 points by yurisagalov posted 4 days ago • 41 comments

Show HN: Policy_sentry, an AWS IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator (github.com)

92 points by kmcquade posted 3 days ago • 35 comments

You may never see Studio Ghibli’s movies on streaming services (polygon.com)

92 points by minimaxir posted 3 days ago • 74 comments

Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables (2013) (edinburghhacklab.com)

92 points by polm23 posted 4 days ago • 7 comments

$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home (wsj.com)

91 points by forgingahead posted 3 days ago • 306 comments

College admissions officers rank prospective students before they apply (washingtonpost.com)

89 points by pseudolus posted 4 days ago • 33 comments

ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria (reddit.com)

88 points by slowhand09 posted 3 days ago • 37 comments

CVE-2019-14287: Sudo Bug Allows Restricted Users to Run Commands as Root (sensorstechforum.com)

87 points by massacre posted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Google Announces Pixel 4 (store.google.com)

86 points by exacube posted 3 days ago • 137 comments

Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures (cosmosmagazine.com)

83 points by tintinnabula posted 4 days ago • 15 comments

America’s Pistachio Industry Came from a Single Seed (atlasobscura.com)

78 points by thedday posted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Blizzard employees strongly support punishing HK advocate, censorship – survey (nwn.blogs.com)

77 points by Kroeler posted 3 days ago • 45 comments

IMF predicts slowest global economic growth since 2008 financial crisis (axios.com)

73 points by hhs posted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Show HN: Schema.org with GitHub and scripts: A tool to make data more useful (ditabase.io)

66 points by IsaiahShiner posted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Learning to Simulate (towardsdatascience.com)

66 points by natanielruiz posted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Getting started with regular expressions: An example (redhat.com)

65 points by tcarriga posted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Beyond Good and Evil (1886) [pdf] (holybooks.com)

64 points by dawg- posted 3 days ago • 10 comments

What IBM Pays H-1B Software Engineers and Developers (insights.dice.com)

62 points by SunTzu9087 posted 3 days ago • 58 comments

The Arrogance of the Anthropocene (theatlantic.com)

59 points by Sandman posted 3 days ago • 45 comments

How Apple's Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustrating parents (washingtonpost.com)

59 points by tysone posted 3 days ago • 60 comments

Meetup.com payment changes coming soon (meetup.com)

59 points by gadjo95 posted 4 days ago • 19 comments

CBP Agent Rams Vehicle into Videographer (roadblockrevelations.org)

57 points by wonder_er posted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Association of Neurocognitive and Physical Function with Gait Speed in Midlife (jamanetwork.com)

55 points by bookofjoe posted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Slack Workflow Builder (slackhq.com)

51 points by bauerpl posted 3 days ago • 9 comments

British holidaymakers 'traumatised' after arrest at US border (bbc.com)

51 points by smacktoward posted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in Real-Time, even when offline (techcrunch.com)

51 points by bgrynol posted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Google SVP Hardware: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home (bbc.com)

47 points by PeterStuer posted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Mind the Secret Bunker (laphamsquarterly.org)

46 points by pepys posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Real-space charge-density imaging with sub-angstrom resolution (nature.com)

46 points by bookofjoe posted 3 days ago • 6 comments

The Structure of DNA (nature.com)

42 points by mr_golyadkin posted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Loot Box Lottery (minnesotalawreview.org)

41 points by danso posted 3 days ago • 56 comments

We bet you $10K that we will outperform your pricing strategy (modernpricing.com)

39 points by jmarbach posted 3 days ago • 22 comments

The pioneers of cultural anthropology who created “cultural relativism” (bostonreview.net)

38 points by huihuiilly posted 3 days ago • 46 comments

How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries (quantamagazine.org)

37 points by theafh posted 3 days ago • 35 comments

Analysis of Solitaire Cipher (arxiv.org)

37 points by howard941 posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Britains ancient yews – mystical, magnificent, and unprotected (theguardian.com)

37 points by DanBC posted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Why do we write dedications in books? (spectator.co.uk)

36 points by lermontov posted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Orchids: An Ugly History of Beautiful Things (longreads.com)

36 points by axiomdata316 posted 3 days ago • 11 comments

A History of Chop Suey (historytoday.com)

36 points by Thevet posted 3 days ago • 17 comments

What is causing the rise of Remote Work? (friday.app)

35 points by lukethomas posted 4 days ago • 13 comments

SpaceX submits paperwork for 30k more Starlink satellites (spacenews.com)

33 points by tshannon posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Soviet Space Dogs (en.wikipedia.org)

33 points by RomanPushkin posted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty (wsj.com)

32 points by jriot posted 3 days ago • 53 comments

Exceptionally Gifted Children: Long-term effects of grade-skipping (davidsongifted.org)

32 points by waterhouse posted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Five Reasons the Diet Soda Myth Won’t Die (nytimes.com)

31 points by johnny313 posted 3 days ago • 27 comments

30 years after communism, eastern Europe divided on democracy's impact (theguardian.com)

29 points by pehtis posted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Ask HN: Where can I work as a software engineer to combat large global problems?

29 points by talking_panda posted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Kparc/kcc: k crash course (github.com)

28 points by sansnomme posted 4 days ago • 7 comments

The Future of PHP (medium.com)

27 points by kiyanwang posted 4 days ago • 62 comments

Firing mods and forced relicensing (meta.stackexchange.com)

25 points by tsegratis posted 3 days ago • 12 comments

WeWork set to sack 2,000 staff as anger towards Adam Neumann grows (theguardian.com)

25 points by purple_ducks posted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Google Kills Daydream VR (engadget.com)

24 points by tachion posted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Dang is a terrible moderator who engages in ideological censorship

24 points by bonetopick posted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Scientific knowledge is drowning in a flood of research (massivesci.com)

24 points by prostoalex posted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Facebook employee says he was fired for speaking out about his colleague suicide (cnbc.com)

23 points by SirLJ posted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Chipotle Will Offer Free College Tuition to All Employees (fortune.com)

23 points by kposehn posted 3 days ago • 7 comments

To change your life, learn to write (medium.com)

23 points by mese848 posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Ask HN: Y Combinator Video Call Canceled Last Minute

22 points by ousama posted 3 days ago • 11 comments

On Recent Controversial Events – Bradley M. Kuhn (ebb.org)

21 points by geofft posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

WeWork is Desperately Squeezing Cash Out of Meetup.com (freecodecamp.org)

21 points by dsr12 posted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Tau is easier than Pi (2014) (scientificamerican.com)

20 points by ajoy posted 3 days ago • 8 comments

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20 points by throwconsultant posted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Without encryption, we will lose all privacy – Edward Snowden (theguardian.com)

20 points by radicalriddler posted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The Triumphs and Tribulations of Towboats on the Mississippi River (atlasobscura.com)

19 points by samclemens posted 4 days ago

‘Abominable’ pulled from Vietnamese cinemas because of a map of China (latimes.com)

18 points by ilamont posted 4 days ago

One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Scooter-Bots (citylab.com)

16 points by cienega posted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Ubuntu ZFS support in 19.10: ZFS on root (didrocks.fr)

16 points by rbanffy posted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Braille Music (rnib.org.uk)

15 points by Schiphol posted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Ask HN: What is your personal photo/video storage and archival plan?

15 points by ryeguy_24 posted 4 days ago • 25 comments

FreeCodeCamp is building an OSS alternative to Meetup after Meetup's new pricing (twitter.com)

15 points by Michie posted 4 days ago

Roomba Maker Sues Upstart SharkNinja (bloomberg.com)

14 points by hhs posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Show HN: Repo for learning how to fix tech debt (github.com)

14 points by timgl posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

How to Change a Mind (forge.medium.com)

14 points by elliekelly posted 4 days ago • 2 comments

WeWork says it found cancer-causing chemical in its phone booths (reuters.com)

13 points by rubyn00bie posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Open Source Is Broken (dev.to)

13 points by stanzheng posted 3 days ago • 9 comments

How Stripe Builds APIs and Teams (youtube.com)

13 points by rglover posted 3 days ago

Fight Club at 20: the prescience and power of David Fincher's drama (theguardian.com)

13 points by pseudolus posted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Blizzard cancels Overwatch's Switch launch event (twitter.com)

12 points by belltaco posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Parsing in Python: Tools and Libraries (tomassetti.me)

12 points by bhy posted 4 days ago

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11 points by nwrk posted 3 days ago

Reducers Are Fuzzers (blog.regehr.org)

11 points by harperlee posted 3 days ago

SketchUp tweet include link to article with FreeCAD screenshot (twitter.com)

11 points by app4soft posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

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11 points by TinyPenguin posted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Warning: Apple code deleted all my reminders – I am not alone (lifehacker.com.au)

11 points by Brett_S posted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Millennials are about to trigger a major ‘changeover point’ for the US economy (cnbc.com)

10 points by spking posted 3 days ago • 3 comments

E. M. Forster, The Art of Fiction No. 1 (1953) (theparisreview.org)

10 points by animalcule posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis – Episode 6 – Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution (kaue.me)

10 points by kaues posted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Basecamp no longer requires Google for two-factor authentication (m.signalvnoise.com)

10 points by g4k posted 3 days ago

Apple Releases iOS 13.1.3 (macrumors.com)

10 points by tosh posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

AWS’ Sponsorship of the Rust Project (aws.amazon.com)

10 points by thewildloop posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Top Microsoft exec says online privacy has reached 'a crisis point' (edition.cnn.com)

10 points by samuell posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Learning Wi-Fi Connection Loss Predictions for Seamless Handovers (umr-ds.github.io)

10 points by jonashoechst posted 4 days ago

The gig economy’s deepest problem isn’t about tech at all (fastcompany.com)

9 points by DoreenMichele posted 3 days ago

The Lines of Code That Changed Everything (slate.com)

9 points by DSpinellis posted 3 days ago

Synology replacing user certificates with their own revoked one

9 points by fcvarela posted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Ask HN: Should I Ask for Promotion?

9 points by naikas posted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Zcash’s Halo Breakthrough Is a Big Deal – Not Just for Cryptocurrencies (coindesk.com)

9 points by wslh posted 4 days ago

Climate change activists are focused on all the wrong solutions (nypost.com)

8 points by kgwgk posted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Reverse Engineering Liberates Dash Cam Video (hackaday.com)

8 points by slowhand09 posted 3 days ago

Leader of Largest US Organic Food Fraud Gets 10-Year Term (usnews.com)

8 points by kyleblarson posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Show HN: I created a non-money-oriented crowdsourcing alternative for developers (crowdsourcer.io)

8 points by MikeDaniel posted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Jennifer Aniston’s Instagram debut sends platform crashing (theguardian.com)

8 points by ryan_j_naughton posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

LeBron undermines values he's espoused in most disgraceful moment of career (usatoday.com)

8 points by nsss posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Are you ready for America's data protection laws? (venturebeat.com)

8 points by elorant posted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The Herbicide Glyphosate Doesn’t Cause Cancer. It Saves Natural Ecosystems (slate.com)

8 points by pseudolus posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Killing Kafka: The Pitfalls of Over-Architecting (medium.com)

8 points by umerf posted 4 days ago

WeWork Prefers JPMorgan Financing Lifeline to Rescue by SoftBank (bloomberg.com)

8 points by pl0x posted 4 days ago

UK Renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels for the first time (twitter.com)

8 points by Osiris30 posted 4 days ago

Ask HN: Do you know any nice open-source projects in need of SE or design work?

7 points by Twixes posted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Silicon Valley billionaires are trying to invest in slowing the aging process (telegraph.co.uk)

7 points by lawrenceyan posted 3 days ago • 3 comments

What Is Predictive Modeling (theseattledataguy.com)

7 points by dataguy12 posted 3 days ago

Google employees are fighting decision to ban a Hong Kong protest video game app (vox.com)

7 points by yomly posted 3 days ago

Understanding legacy code with TCR (test && commit || revert) (youtube.com)

7 points by KentBeck posted 3 days ago

Scientists pinpoint cause of harmful dendrites and whiskers in lithium batteries (phys.org)

7 points by mvgoogler posted 4 days ago

Council rejects plans to build 5G masts (theregister.co.uk)

6 points by LinuxBender posted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Evergov: Find All Government Services in a Single Place (evergov.com)

6 points by jeffleft posted 3 days ago

DockerHub Full Service Disruption (status.docker.com)

6 points by Chickenosaurus posted 3 days ago

VPNs, how to use them properly and stay anonymous (minds.com)

6 points by targeted posted 3 days ago

Busting, Sony’s Ghostbusters AR Display (and a Little Sprite History) (kguttag.com)

6 points by pro_zac posted 4 days ago • 1 comments

YouTube links no longer allowed on r/Linux (reddit.com)

6 points by OJFord posted 4 days ago • 1 comments

History of open-source C++ GUI libraries [Reddit] (reddit.com)

6 points by starbugs posted 4 days ago

The IMF confirms that ‘trickle-down’ economics is, indeed, a joke (psmag.com)

6 points by gfmio posted 4 days ago

War on plastic waste faces setback as cost of recycled material soars (theguardian.com)

5 points by elorant posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Ergotism (en.wikipedia.org)

5 points by simonebrunozzi posted 3 days ago

Mind-reading technology is everyone's next big security nightmare (zdnet.com)

5 points by onetimemanytime posted 3 days ago

Better privacy and more flexibility with Nest devices (blog.google)

5 points by neon_electro posted 3 days ago

Apple's Long, Bumpy Road to Hollywood (hollywoodreporter.com)

5 points by spking posted 3 days ago

Hong Kong Protesters Are Targeting Starbucks. Apple Could Be Next (nytimes.com)

5 points by paulcarroty posted 3 days ago

List of Open-Source Meetup Alternatives (github.com)

5 points by msis posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Tencent Cancels ESPN Basketball Show After Host “Likes” Hong Kong Tweet (deadspin.com)

5 points by ilamont posted 4 days ago

Information overload in group communication (royalsocietypublishing.org)

5 points by hhs posted 4 days ago

World Leaders on Twitter: Principles and Approach (blog.twitter.com)

4 points by NN88 posted 3 days ago

Remember the Acid Rain 'Scare'? Global Warming Hysteria Is Pouring Down (forbes.com)

4 points by sebastianconcpt posted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Software company in accordance with the theory of constraints (medium.com)

4 points by NikolayN posted 3 days ago • 2 comments

A Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Neural Conversation Model (arxiv.org)

4 points by lawrenceyan posted 3 days ago

A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity (Or the Ultimate Guide to Russian Roulette) (taylorpearson.me)

4 points by yarapavan posted 3 days ago

Lines of code that changed the world (slate.com)

4 points by gricardo99 posted 4 days ago • 1 comments

Harley-Davidson stops electric motorcycle production due to charging problem (theverge.com)

4 points by iancmceachern posted 4 days ago • 1 comments

Ask HN: What advances in chemistry make super efficient cleaners possible?

3 points by gtirloni posted 3 days ago • 4 comments

MIDI – Not an ideal data format for editing (2000) (bikexprt.com)

3 points by BafS posted 3 days ago • 1 comments

Sculpting a tic-tac-toe game using b-threads (lmatteis.github.io)

3 points by sktrdie posted 4 days ago

What is posts.google.com? (posts.google.com)

3 points by ssn posted 4 days ago

Picture descriptions in Twitter for blind/sight-limited (threadreaderapp.com)

3 points by rcarmo posted 4 days ago

Introducing split diffs (2014) (github.blog)

3 points by krigath posted 4 days ago

Should hospitals make their own medicine? (theguardian.com)

3 points by davidodio posted 4 days ago

Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker (bloomberg.com)

3 points by pseudolus posted 4 days ago • 1 comments

Debugging hidden memory leaks in Ruby (samsaffron.com)

3 points by sams99 posted 4 days ago

Guilded (YC S17) is hiring senior engineers to connect esports teams – remote (guilded.gg)

1 points by iEchoic posted 3 days ago

Tesorio (YC S15) Raised a $10M Series A and Is Hiring (tesorio.com)

1 points by FabioFleitas posted 3 days ago

Taplytics (YC W14) is hiring all engineering roles in Toronto (taplytics.com)

1 points by aboris26 posted 3 days ago

Flexport Is Hiring Engineers in SF, Chicago, Shenzhen, and Amsterdam (flexport.com)

1 points by thedogeye posted 4 days ago

Chartio Is Hiring an Engineering Manager in SF (jobs.lever.co)

1 points by thingsilearned posted 4 days ago