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Hacker News (Jan 2019)
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Announcing unlimited free private repos
2842 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
1603 points • comment • jan 04, 2019
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FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
1524 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
1487 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
1462 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson
1444 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
1421 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
1284 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
1152 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
1072 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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John C. Bogle Has Died
1068 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon
1037 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
968 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
968 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
959 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
957 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling
952 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it
937 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal
934 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Ending our Medium integration
930 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
866 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
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Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
859 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++
850 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost
829 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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How to Be Successful
828 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook
820 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
791 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules
772 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
771 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
759 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
754 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Show HN: HN.Academy – Top online courses recommended by Hacker News users
743 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming
743 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
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Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters
742 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear
740 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers
738 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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The Man in Seat Sixty-One
726 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain
725 points • comment • jan 01, 2019
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Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps
723 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
719 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Firefox 65.0 released
703 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
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Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)
699 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule
697 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins
694 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Programming Fonts – Test Drive
694 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
692 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over
689 points • comment • jan 17, 2019
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Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
684 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Airbnb and security camera disclosure
677 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud
672 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
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Websocketd
670 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Practical Linux Hardening Guide
669 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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Software Engineering at Google (2017)
655 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail
642 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
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Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
634 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Startup Playbook (2015)
633 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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The Hand Licking Incident
631 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
624 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
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Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
621 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
620 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork
618 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet
613 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?
609 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
606 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
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How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project
601 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
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A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse
599 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
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The Route of a Text Message
598 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums
595 points • comment • jan 05, 2019
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35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp
594 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging
588 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard
580 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
578 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)
575 points • comment • jan 24, 2019
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When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)
574 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Apple is patenting Swift features
569 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test
567 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
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Pink Trombone
567 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
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After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue
562 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality
562 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers
555 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
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Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
554 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch
554 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push
550 points • comment • jan 26, 2019
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Bed that saved me from the Taliban
548 points • comment • jan 21, 2019
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Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)
541 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
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Statistics Done Wrong
537 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
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We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic
536 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
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Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
531 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
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How to teach Git
531 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
524 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Networking on AWS (2018)
519 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Bash 5.0 released
519 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019
519 points • comment • jan 25, 2019
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Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
517 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
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Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
514 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
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Android vendors, don’t kill my app
510 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
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The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet
510 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
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Coolest Things I Learned in 2018
510 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
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Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
504 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
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Why does APT not use HTTPS?
504 points • comment • jan 21, 2019