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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

    501 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  2. For the Love of Pipes

    497 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  3. Thank u, next

    496 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  4. Kubernetes Failure Stories

    496 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  5. AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan

    493 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  6. AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

    490 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  7. Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?

    488 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  8. H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017)

    488 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  9. Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals

    483 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  10. Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool

    481 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  11. Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?

    481 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  12. Oslo made its city center basically car-free

    477 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  13. New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available

    471 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  14. Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize

    471 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  15. A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station

    470 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  16. Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO

    470 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  17. Scratch 3.0

    467 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  18. U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers

    467 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  19. Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?

    466 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  20. Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger

    461 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  21. So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

    458 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  22. Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy

    457 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  23. How to Hack an Expensive Camera

    457 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  24. Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

    456 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  25. Internals of PostgreSQL

    456 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  26. Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games

    454 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  27. $1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis

    452 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  28. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?

    452 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  29. Travis CI acquired by Idera

    450 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  30. Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer

    448 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  31. Interactive SICP

    446 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  32. 773M Password ‘Megabreach’ Is Years Old

    444 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  33. DOJ: Hackers broke into an SEC database and made millions from inside info

    443 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  34. I'm not convinced that this wasn't the second biggest mistake of my life

    442 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  35. Tree Style Tabs

    442 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  36. Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon – free textbook

    441 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  37. Wine 4.0 released

    437 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  38. Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets

    434 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  39. Courier Prime: It’s Courier, Just Better

    434 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  40. Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom

    433 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  41. Ask HN: What are must-know concepts for back end development?

    428 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  42. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018

    428 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  43. Coconut: Pythonic functional programming

    426 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  44. Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it

    425 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  45. B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens

    425 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  46. New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule

    423 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  47. Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript

    422 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  48. US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages

    422 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  49. Chromecast Support for Firefox

    421 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  50. Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies

    421 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  51. 'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes

    419 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  52. Why I use old hardware

    418 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  53. Rust 1.32 released

    416 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  54. Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics

    415 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  55. Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry

    412 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  56. Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton

    412 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  57. Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?

    410 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  58. NetHack beaten in 7 minutes 15 seconds real time

    410 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  59. AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation

    409 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  60. An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys

    409 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  61. Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?

    407 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  62. Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL

    406 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  63. Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards

    406 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  64. Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets

    404 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  65. iOS Menu

    404 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  66. Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing

    402 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  67. Remote code execution vulnerability in apt/apt-get

    402 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  68. 25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning

    401 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  69. Our Software Dependency Problem

    400 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  70. Proper Breathing Brings Better Health

    396 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  71. Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2

    396 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  72. MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced

    394 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  73. EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive

    393 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  74. It’s Time to Move on from Two Phase Commit

    392 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  75. 75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (2017)

    392 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  76. California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low

    390 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  77. Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?

    390 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  78. I'm going to work full-time on free software

    389 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  79. Startups Rejecting Venture Capital

    386 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  80. Students learn from people they love

    384 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  81. DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]

    384 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  82. System Down: A systemd-journald exploit

    384 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  83. MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license

    381 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  84. Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript

    381 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  85. Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal

    380 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  86. Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect

    380 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  87. Advice to new programmers

    378 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  88. Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018

    377 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  89. Game Loop

    377 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  90. H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads

    376 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  91. The Man Who Invented Information Theory (2017)

    376 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  92. Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (2012)

    376 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  93. How LinkedIn detects browser extensions

    376 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  94. Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens

    376 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  95. Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond

    375 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  96. Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway

    373 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  97. A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum

    373 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  98. Show HN: A tool to find related subreddits

    373 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  99. Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?

    372 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  100. Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime

    371 points • comment • jan 23, 2019