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Hacker News (Jan 2019)

  1. Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer (2018)

    162 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  2. Reahl – A Python-only web framework

    162 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  3. The worst career advice I ever received

    161 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  4. 1500 Private Jets Fly to Davos for Climate Talks

    161 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  5. Warby Parker built a 1,400-employee company by focusing on team culture

    161 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  6. $1T is leaving Britain because of Brexit

    161 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  7. DeepMind StarCraft II Demonstration [video]

    161 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  8. Metasploit 5.0 Released

    161 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  9. Marie Kondo's Advice Praised by Scientists: “Clutter Is Not a Good Thing”

    161 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  10. CNC milling with open source software

    161 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  11. Itch.io – Marketplace for Indie Games

    161 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  12. Compilers for Free

    160 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  13. The heroes of the Thai cave rescue

    160 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  14. South Korea's program of higher wages and taxes – so far, it's not working

    160 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  15. Adding a Trackpoint to an Inexpensive Mechanical Keyboard

    160 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  16. Lazarus 2.0 RC3 – Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE

    160 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  17. Google launches an AI contest for social good

    160 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  18. Show HN: Apprise – A lightweight all-in-one notification solution

    159 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  19. Ferrock: A Stronger, Greener Alternative to Concrete?

    159 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  20. 7-zip broken password random number generator

    159 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  21. Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China

    158 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  22. Adding new DNA letters makes novel proteins possible

    157 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  23. How much Americans make in wages

    156 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  24. Potential Employer Cancels Return Flight

    156 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  25. An Open Source UI Builder for React

    156 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  26. Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

    156 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  27. ImmortalDB – A resilient key-value store for the browser

    155 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  28. Preparing for Prison (2016)

    155 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  29. Writing things down (how to know what to do next)

    155 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  30. Problems plagued U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald before fatal collision

    155 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  31. No-fly list trial: Court awards fees on government attorneys’ bad faith

    155 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  32. Ask HN: What is your best passive income 2019?

    154 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  33. Hiring Is Broken

    154 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  34. Best of Show: PDP-7 and PDP-11/40 emulation

    154 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  35. “The default name prefix is changed to be ‘sqlite’ spelled backwards” (2006)

    154 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  36. Geometric Understanding of Deep Learning (2018)

    154 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  37. Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers

    154 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  38. Open redirects – a vulnerability class no one but attackers cares about

    154 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  39. How to teach programming to your loved ones [video]

    154 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  40. The Space Shuttle’s Military Threat

    154 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  41. Darkstar: A Xerox Star Emulator

    154 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  42. Nobody Cares About OAuth or OpenID Connect

    154 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  43. Underclocking the ESP8266 Leads to WiFi Weirdness

    153 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  44. Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning

    153 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  45. Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]

    153 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  46. John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)

    153 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  47. Goodbye Big Five: Google

    153 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  48. Problems With Open-Source Business Models

    153 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  49. Scott Alexander Reviews Thiel's Zero to One

    153 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  50. Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration

    152 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  51. Ditching Medium

    152 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  52. Rise and Demise of RSS

    152 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  53. The Art of Decision-Making

    152 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  54. The Overloaded Soldier: Why U.S. Infantry Now Carry More Weight Than Ever

    152 points • comment • jan 06, 2019

  55. How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too

    152 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  56. Maze Design (2005)

    152 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  57. German politicians targeted in mass data attack

    151 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  58. An investigative reporter has changed his tech habits after what he has learned

    151 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  59. HelenOS 0.8

    151 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  60. Inventory of Homes for Sale Is Rising in Silicon Valley and San Francisco

    151 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  61. Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement (2018)

    151 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  62. Understanding the BeagleBone’s built in microcontrollers (2016)

    151 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  63. Lapis – A web framework for Lua or Moonscript

    151 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  64. Deep packet inspection is dead, and here's why (2017)

    151 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  65. Writing Apps in Go and Swift

    151 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  66. Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct (2013)

    151 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  67. Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now

    151 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  68. A most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle [video]

    150 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  69. “The Book of Why” by Pearl and Mackenzie

    150 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  70. Hospitals release lists of retail prices for services

    150 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  71. The body’s microbial community may influence the brain and behavior

    150 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  72. Rayshader – An open-source R package for producing 2D and 3D hillshaded maps

    150 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  73. Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8

    150 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  74. Google+ for consumers will shut down on April 2nd

    150 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  75. How to give a great scientific talk

    150 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  76. Things we've learned about Series As

    149 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  77. Ricochet-IM: Anonymous, decentralized, metadata-resistant instant messaging

    149 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  78. Most lives are lived by default (2012)

    149 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  79. Cdecl – Turns English phrases into C declarations

    149 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  80. Parmigiano-Reggiano: Italy's 'practically perfect' food

    149 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  81. Strang's “Linear Algebra and Learning from Data” is printed and available

    149 points • comment • jan 09, 2019

  82. To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat

    148 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  83. “The artists live their life, and I live my laundry life.”

    148 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  84. Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

    148 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  85. The relentless honesty of Ludwig Wittgenstein (2017)

    148 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  86. A proposed API for full-memory encryption

    148 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  87. Building a “Simple” Distributed System – Formal Verification

    148 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  88. Kuleshov effect

    148 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  89. Politicians cannot block social media foes: U.S. appeals court

    147 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  90. Here is my collection of 600+ “old” digital cameras

    147 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  91. China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked to Huawei row

    147 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  92. Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2017)

    147 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  93. Making C Less Dangerous in the Linux Kernel [video]

    147 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  94. Interesting Tech Markets for 2019

    147 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  95. Strength in Numbers: An Entire Ecosystem Relies on Tor

    146 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  96. Launch HN: Upsolve (YC Nonprofit W19) – TurboTax for Bankruptcy

    146 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  97. Facebook Watch Isn’t Living Up to Its Name

    146 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  98. AVX512 VBMI – remove spaces from text

    146 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  99. It’s time to reappraise the humble Choose Your Own Adventure book

    146 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  100. Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects

    145 points • comment • jan 20, 2019