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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. Announcing unlimited free private repos

    2842 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  2. Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App

    1603 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  3. FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up

    1524 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  4. Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

    1487 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  5. Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

    1462 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  6. Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

    1444 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  7. Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

    1421 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  8. Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

    1284 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  9. Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

    1152 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  10. Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week

    1072 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  11. John C. Bogle Has Died

    1068 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  12. China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon

    1037 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  13. Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?

    968 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  14. I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

    968 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  15. Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

    959 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  16. DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

    957 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  17. When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling

    952 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  18. GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it

    937 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  19. Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal

    934 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  20. Ending our Medium integration

    930 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  21. Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps

    866 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  22. Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)

    859 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  23. KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++

    850 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  24. Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost

    829 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  25. How to Be Successful

    828 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  26. Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook

    820 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  27. AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

    791 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  28. Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules

    772 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  29. Sears has another chance to avoid closing down

    771 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  30. Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament

    759 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  31. My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag

    754 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  32. Show HN: HN.Academy – Top online courses recommended by Hacker News users

    743 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  33. How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming

    743 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  34. Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters

    742 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  35. How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear

    740 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  36. Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers

    738 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  37. The Man in Seat Sixty-One

    726 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  38. Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain

    725 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  39. Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps

    723 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  40. I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi

    719 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  41. Firefox 65.0 released

    703 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  42. Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)

    699 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  43. New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule

    697 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  44. The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins

    694 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  45. Programming Fonts – Test Drive

    694 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  46. Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

    692 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  47. Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over

    689 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  48. Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People

    684 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  49. Airbnb and security camera disclosure

    677 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  50. Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud

    672 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  51. Websocketd

    670 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  52. Practical Linux Hardening Guide

    669 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  53. Software Engineering at Google (2017)

    655 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  54. What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail

    642 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  55. Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door

    634 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  56. Startup Playbook (2015)

    633 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  57. The Hand Licking Incident

    631 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  58. Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent

    624 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  59. Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language

    621 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  60. 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

    620 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  61. WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork

    618 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  62. A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet

    613 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  63. Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?

    609 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  64. SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce

    606 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  65. How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project

    601 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  66. A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse

    599 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  67. The Route of a Text Message

    598 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  68. Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums

    595 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  69. 35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp

    594 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  70. Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging

    588 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  71. Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard

    580 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  72. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

    578 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  73. Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)

    575 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  74. When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)

    574 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  75. Apple is patenting Swift features

    569 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  76. Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test

    567 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  77. Pink Trombone

    567 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  78. After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue

    562 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  79. On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

    562 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  80. A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers

    555 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  81. Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people

    554 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  82. Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch

    554 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  83. Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push

    550 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  84. Bed that saved me from the Taliban

    548 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  85. Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)

    541 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  86. Statistics Done Wrong

    537 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  87. We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic

    536 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  88. Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

    531 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  89. How to teach Git

    531 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  90. Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?

    524 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  91. Networking on AWS (2018)

    519 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  92. Bash 5.0 released

    519 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  93. Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019

    519 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  94. Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility

    517 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  95. Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time

    514 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  96. Android vendors, don’t kill my app

    510 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  97. The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet

    510 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  98. Coolest Things I Learned in 2018

    510 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  99. Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?

    504 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  100. Why does APT not use HTTPS?

    504 points • comment • jan 21, 2019