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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. I Sell Onions on the Internet

    2966 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  2. Julian Assange arrested in London

    2341 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  3. Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

    2284 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  4. Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

    2160 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  5. Google Is Eating Our Mail

    1926 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  6. I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

    1907 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  7. Joe Armstrong has died

    1892 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  8. You Are Not Google (2017)

    1611 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  9. I made a smart watch from scratch

    1430 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  10. CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust

    1321 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  11. Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display

    1299 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  12. We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage

    1228 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  13. Warp – Mobile VPN

    1191 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  14. Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled

    1109 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  15. It seems that Google is forgetting the old web

    1091 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  16. Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?

    1088 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  17. Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist

    1028 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  18. Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?

    1025 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  19. Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing

    1024 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  20. The inception bar: a new phishing method

    1009 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  21. Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris

    964 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  22. Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]

    910 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  23. Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

    874 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  24. Goodbye Joe

    869 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  25. Have a personal web site

    866 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  26. Netlify Dev

    864 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  27. TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines

    858 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  28. Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

    836 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  29. Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image

    826 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  30. I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs

    819 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  31. Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it

    812 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  32. MuseNet

    804 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  33. SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home Internet from Space

    789 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  34. Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox

    776 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  35. Let’s Build a Simple Database (2017)

    763 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  36. Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

    748 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  37. 1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by amateur astronomers

    742 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  38. 58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

    740 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  39. Microsimulation of Traffic Flow

    738 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  40. Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords

    735 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  41. Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis

    728 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  42. Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

    723 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  43. I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could

    717 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  44. How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers

    708 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  45. Uber S-1

    706 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  46. Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

    698 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  47. French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

    690 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  48. Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors

    689 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  49. Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle

    682 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  50. Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

    675 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  51. 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs

    675 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  52. Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

    673 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  53. Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad

    668 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  54. PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again

    666 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  55. Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model

    658 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  56. Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos

    658 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  57. Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?

    655 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  58. Foundations of Databases (1995)

    651 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  59. 5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk

    650 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  60. Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)

    638 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  61. Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data

    635 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  62. Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

    633 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  63. Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017)

    630 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  64. Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity

    626 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  65. Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta

    623 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  66. Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains

    618 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  67. “I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”

    610 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  68. I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)

    607 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  69. Mozilla WebThings

    605 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  70. Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark

    604 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  71. Arabsat-6A mission [video]

    599 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  72. Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them

    588 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  73. Slack S-1

    587 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  74. Great developers are raised, not hired

    586 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  75. Want to learn a new skill? Take some short breaks

    584 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  76. Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook

    583 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  77. Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking

    581 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  78. TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes

    579 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  79. Vim.wasm

    568 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  80. Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake

    562 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  81. Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report

    562 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  82. Name one thing in this photo

    559 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  83. Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues

    543 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  84. Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops

    541 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  85. The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index

    539 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  86. I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape

    533 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  87. Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away

    529 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  88. South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste

    528 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  89. Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job

    523 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  90. LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise

    522 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  91. Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent

    521 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  92. Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo

    517 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  93. Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018)

    514 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  94. How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer

    505 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  95. Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection

    504 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  96. Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries

    500 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  97. The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News

    500 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  98. EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content

    499 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  99. Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties

    499 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  100. Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?

    497 points • comment • apr 29, 2019