2019-01-01 front | Hacker News

Stories from January 1, 2019

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain (arstechnica.com)
		727 points by Tomte on Jan 1, 2019 \| 307 comments
2.		New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule (nytimes.com)
		426 points by daegloe on Jan 1, 2019 \| 81 comments
3.		Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better (quoteunquoteapps.com)
		444 points by ingve on Jan 1, 2019 \| 94 comments
4.		Learning KVM – implement your own kernel (david942j.blogspot.com)
		323 points by signa11 on Jan 1, 2019 \| 8 comments
5.		Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019 (letsencrypt.org)
		408 points by jaas on Dec 31, 2018 \| 68 comments
6.		The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years (macworld.com)
		285 points by PretzelFisch on Jan 1, 2019 \| 135 comments
7.		Build your own IoT/MQTT node for less than $2 (albert-david.blogspot.com)
		198 points by albert007_d on Dec 31, 2018 \| 40 comments
8.		Pathfinding for Tower Defense (redblobgames.com)
		264 points by ingve on Jan 1, 2019 \| 63 comments
9.		The Chinese scientist who allegedly created CRISPR babies is being detained (techcrunch.com)
		171 points by neom on Jan 1, 2019 \| 150 comments
10.		Personal Notes on Corman Lisp 3.1 Release (chaoticlab.io)
		129 points by ingve on Dec 31, 2018 \| 3 comments
11.		A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because of glaciers (nationalgeographic.com)
		183 points by gricardo99 on Jan 1, 2019 \| 62 comments
12.		Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and agent written in Go (github.com/ne0nd0g)
		181 points by SEJeff on Jan 1, 2019 \| 58 comments
13.		Detroit's Big Comeback: Out of Bankruptcy, a Rebirth (npr.org)
		118 points by evo_9 on Jan 1, 2019 \| 68 comments
14.		Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t (newyorker.com)
		200 points by anuragsoni on Jan 1, 2019 \| 80 comments
15.		It’s time to reappraise the humble Choose Your Own Adventure book (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
		151 points by glassworm on Jan 1, 2019 \| 85 comments
16.		Russian Cosmonauts Say That the Hole in the Soyuz Was Drilled from the Inside (universetoday.com)
		172 points by tlrobinson on Dec 31, 2018 \| 130 comments
17.		Flat Design vs. Traditional Design: Comparative Experimental Study (2015) (researchgate.net)
		207 points by karmakaze on Jan 1, 2019 \| 137 comments
18.		Show HN: Snigl – Forth with Lisp in C (gitlab.com/sifoo)
		87 points by sifoobar on Jan 1, 2019 \| 8 comments
19.		A list of useful books for game AI programming (2014) (media.mit.edu)
		136 points by rglover on Jan 1, 2019 \| 10 comments
20.		In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes on Tricky Public Health Role (nytimes.com)
		75 points by mindgam3 on Jan 1, 2019 \| 100 comments
21.		How much less efficient are north-facing solar modules? (2016) (solarpowerworldonline.com)
		72 points by curtis on Dec 31, 2018 \| 41 comments
22.		“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart” (twitter.com/random_walker)
		307 points by randomwalker on Dec 31, 2018 \| 197 comments
23.		LVC – Linear Verified Compiler (uni-saarland.de)
		108 points by matt_d on Jan 1, 2019 \| 7 comments
24.		FreeCAD BIM development news December 2018 (github.com/yorikvanhavre)
		99 points by buovjaga on Jan 1, 2019 \| 22 comments
25.		NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Enters Close Orbit Around Bennu (asteroidmission.org)
		54 points by sohkamyung on Jan 1, 2019 \| 9 comments
26.		Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You (2017) (kalzumeus.com)
		148 points by mtmail on Jan 1, 2019 \| 30 comments
27.		Zero-knowledge attestation (imperialviolet.org)
		107 points by zdw on Jan 1, 2019 \| 15 comments
28.		Be Moore Like Chuck (sigusr2.net)
		84 points by signa11 on Jan 1, 2019 \| 18 comments
29.		Make Your Own Pythagorean Cup (divisbyzero.com)
		48 points by JohnHammersley on Dec 31, 2018 \| 22 comments
30.		Ask HN: Academics who switched to industry, what's your experience been like?
		113 points by onuralp on Jan 1, 2019 \| 72 comments
		More

HN For You