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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. 9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0

    300 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  2. Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

    299 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  3. Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?

    299 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  4. DeepMind – StarCraft II Demonstration

    299 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  5. Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?

    299 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  6. Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids

    299 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  7. Secure and Ad-Free Internet Anywhere with Streisand and Pi Hole

    298 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  8. Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more

    297 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  9. Skin printer wipes years from your face [video]

    297 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  10. I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets

    296 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  11. Queueing theory: The science of waiting in line

    295 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  12. “Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata”

    295 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  13. Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?

    294 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  14. Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha

    293 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  15. How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an Investor

    292 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  16. The State of Software Security in 2019

    291 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  17. I'm leaving GitLab to help everyone work remotely

    291 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  18. Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times

    290 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  19. Matz: We are mere mortals

    290 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  20. IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

    290 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  21. Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

    289 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  22. Show HN: Crowdsourced freelance contract template, written in plain language

    289 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  23. Fossil vs Git

    288 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  24. LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009) [pdf]

    287 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  25. Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?

    286 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  26. A Coder Who Became a Crime Boss

    286 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  27. Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K concurrent connections on

    286 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  28. BitPatron – A Bitcoin Censorship-Free Patreon Alternative

    284 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  29. Google Demanded T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data

    283 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  30. Managing Remote Teams

    282 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  31. Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript

    282 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  32. A Fifth of China’s Homes Are Empty (2018)

    282 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  33. Designing an audio adblocker

    281 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  34. Systemd as tragedy

    278 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  35. Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?

    278 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  36. The Embroidered Computer

    278 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  37. The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years

    278 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  38. Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA

    277 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  39. Deliveroo users are getting defrauded

    276 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  40. Zero-shot transfer across 93 languages

    276 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  41. Let’s talk about open-source sustainability

    275 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  42. Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’

    274 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  43. 8bit Workshop

    274 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  44. Making a Game Boy Game. Part 1: Getting Started

    271 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  45. The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale (2014)

    271 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  46. Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017)

    271 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  47. Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years

    270 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  48. How many .com domain names are unused?

    270 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  49. Ask HN: Top three questions for a startup before accepting a job offer?

    269 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  50. Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS

    268 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  51. Gmail Services Global Outage

    268 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  52. C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival

    268 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  53. Syncthing graduation day

    268 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  54. YC 120

    266 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  55. Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

    265 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  56. Google Memo on Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company

    265 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  57. Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email

    265 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  58. Two creators are not always better than one

    263 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  59. Tennessee doctors earn big money denying disability claims

    262 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  60. Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans

    262 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  61. The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing

    262 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  62. Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck

    261 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  63. Ask HN: What is the difference between Burnout/Depression/Laziness/Wrong job?

    261 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  64. A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health

    260 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  65. Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

    259 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  66. Migrate Jest to TypeScript

    258 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  67. Pathfinding for Tower Defense

    258 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  68. Unity Engine ToS change makes cloud-based SpatialOS games illegal

    257 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  69. Privacy Tools – Encryption Against Global Mass Surveillance

    257 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  70. IBM releases Elm-powered app

    257 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  71. Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it suggests it

    256 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  72. AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis

    256 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  73. Birding Like It’s 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game

    256 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  74. YouTube Stars Are Pushing a Shady Gambling Site

    255 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  75. Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS

    255 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  76. PHP Apprentice – An online, open-source book for learning PHP

    255 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  77. To protect kids, don’t send report cards home on Fridays

    255 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  78. EU fines Mastercard more than half a billion euros

    254 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  79. Say no to Venn diagrams when explaining SQL joins (2016)

    252 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  80. What I learned at work this year

    252 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  81. Lessons learned scaling a PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month

    251 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  82. Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me

    251 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  83. Input: Fonts for Code

    250 points • comment • jan 12, 2019

  84. Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row

    250 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  85. SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps

    250 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  86. Insect collapse

    249 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  87. Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?

    249 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  88. Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language

    249 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  89. Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America

    249 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  90. Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

    248 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  91. Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure

    248 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  92. Right to Repair is already hurling into action in 2019

    247 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  93. Seneca Valley Virus has earned a reputation as a potent oncolytic agent

    246 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  94. Toshi: An Elasticsearch competitor written in Rust

    245 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  95. How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating

    244 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  96. How to Use JSON Web Tokens

    244 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  97. Incident Response Documentation

    243 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  98. Cambridge University releases an app that improves concentration akin to Ritalin

    243 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  99. Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M

    243 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  100. HeidiSQL – GUI client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL

    242 points • comment • jan 17, 2019