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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. Build your own Mint

    370 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  2. AresDB: Uber’s GPU-Powered Open-Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine

    369 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  3. People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

    367 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  4. Costco opening a $440M chicken farm to escape America's chicken monopoly

    367 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  5. Happy Birthday, Ruby

    366 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  6. Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble?

    364 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  7. NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA to Public at RSA

    361 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  8. DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains

    361 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  9. Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?

    358 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  10. Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week

    358 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  11. WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality

    358 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  12. Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit

    355 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  13. Oracle v. Google and the future of software development

    354 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  14. Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)

    351 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  15. Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain

    350 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  16. The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)

    349 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  17. Marriott Concedes 5M Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted

    349 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  18. Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing

    349 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  19. The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons

    346 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  20. Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M

    346 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  21. Intro to hacking MicroSD cards (2013)

    345 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  22. Sequel Pro – Open source macOS native MySQL GUI client

    345 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  23. Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library

    343 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  24. Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue

    343 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  25. Dive into Deep Learning: Berkeley Course

    341 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  26. The Day I Fell in Love with Fuzzing

    341 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  27. Migrating from Google Analytics

    341 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  28. Bytecode compilers and interpreters

    341 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  29. Bungie departs from Activision

    341 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  30. Switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls

    341 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  31. Office 365 global authentication outage

    340 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  32. Show HN: X-spreadsheet – A JavaScript canvas spreadsheet for web

    340 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  33. Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps

    339 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  34. Too Many Workers Are Trapped by Non-Competes

    338 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  35. Marble Marcher: ray-traced real time game on the surface of evolving fractals

    338 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  36. Retro game engine for developers that enjoy creating games like it's 1997

    337 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  37. The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan

    337 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  38. Google Earth Reverse Engineering

    335 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  39. The UAE’s secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries

    334 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  40. Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

    333 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  41. Thunderbird in 2019

    333 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  42. HTTP/3: from root to tip

    333 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  43. Pharo 7.0 released

    332 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  44. Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam

    332 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  45. Ten minutes a day

    332 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  46. Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging

    332 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  47. Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software

    332 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  48. Design Patterns for Managing Up

    331 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  49. Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point

    331 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  50. Oracle allegedly underpaid $400M in wages to underrepresented employees

    330 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  51. My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales

    329 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  52. Microsoft pledges $500M for affordable housing in Seattle area

    329 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  53. My PHP Development Setup

    328 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  54. How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software

    327 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  55. Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash

    326 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  56. Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets

    325 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  57. Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store

    325 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  58. U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks

    325 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  59. Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skill Workers

    324 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  60. No more XS4ALL is unthinkable

    323 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  61. If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP?

    323 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  62. CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google

    322 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  63. Monorepos: Please don’t

    319 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  64. JMAP: Like IMAP but Not Really

    319 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  65. Outperforming everything with anything: Python? Sure, why not?

    319 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  66. Lock-Free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019

    319 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  67. Use perfect hashing, instead of binary search, for keyword lookup

    319 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  68. AWS gives open source the middle finger?

    317 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  69. FoundationDB Record Layer

    317 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  70. Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2017)

    316 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  71. 64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant

    316 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  72. The 773M Record “Collection #1” Data Breach

    316 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  73. Ask HN: Highest paying remote companies?

    316 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  74. Chromium blacklists Nouveau

    315 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  75. Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

    313 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  76. Digitized Books from 1923 Now Available at the Internet Archive

    313 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  77. Learning KVM – implement your own kernel

    312 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  78. Open source Molten salt nuclear reactor design

    312 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  79. FatBoy SoundFont

    312 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  80. Undercover Agents Target Citizen Lab

    311 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  81. Snark Barker: A 100% compatible replica of the famed SB 1.0 soundcard

    311 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  82. Verilog sources for Western Digital's open source RISC-V core

    311 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  83. Former IBM exec says company told her to hide layoff age data from government

    311 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  84. Tell HN: I Hugely Regret Using Stripe Atlas

    310 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  85. Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups (2015)

    310 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  86. EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing

    310 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  87. Security Checklist

    309 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  88. Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions

    309 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  89. Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died

    308 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  90. Talent Is Everywhere, Opportunity Is Not

    307 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  91. You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)

    307 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  92. The creeping IT apocalypse

    307 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  93. LiteCLI – A user-friendly command-line client for SQLite database

    307 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  94. Guix: An advanced operating system

    305 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  95. Mendeley encrypts users' database after Zotero provides an importer

    304 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  96. Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran

    304 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  97. Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?

    302 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  98. Tech Choices I Regret at Spectrum

    301 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  99. My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror (2018)

    301 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  100. President Signs Government-Wide Open Data Bill

    301 points • comment • jan 15, 2019