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Hacker News (Apr 2019)
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I Sell Onions on the Internet
2966 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Julian Assange arrested in London
2341 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
2284 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
2160 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Google Is Eating Our Mail
1926 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
1907 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Joe Armstrong has died
1892 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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You Are Not Google (2017)
1611 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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I made a smart watch from scratch
1430 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust
1321 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display
1299 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
1228 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
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Warp – Mobile VPN
1191 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled
1109 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
1091 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
1088 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist
1028 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
1025 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
1024 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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The inception bar: a new phishing method
1009 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris
964 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]
910 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
874 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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Goodbye Joe
869 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Have a personal web site
866 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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Netlify Dev
864 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines
858 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
836 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
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Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
826 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs
819 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it
812 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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MuseNet
804 points • comment • apr 25, 2019
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SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home Internet from Space
789 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox
776 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Let’s Build a Simple Database (2017)
763 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
748 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by amateur astronomers
742 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
740 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
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Microsimulation of Traffic Flow
738 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
735 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
728 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
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Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
723 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
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I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could
717 points • comment • apr 07, 2019
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How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
708 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Uber S-1
706 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
698 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen
690 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors
689 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
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Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle
682 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
675 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
675 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize
673 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad
668 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again
666 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
658 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos
658 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
655 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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Foundations of Databases (1995)
651 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
650 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)
638 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data
635 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease
633 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017)
630 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity
626 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta
623 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
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Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains
618 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
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“I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
610 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
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I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)
607 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
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Mozilla WebThings
605 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
604 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
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Arabsat-6A mission [video]
599 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
588 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Slack S-1
587 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
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Great developers are raised, not hired
586 points • comment • apr 12, 2019
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Want to learn a new skill? Take some short breaks
584 points • comment • apr 14, 2019
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Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook
583 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking
581 points • comment • apr 04, 2019
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TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes
579 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
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Vim.wasm
568 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
562 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
562 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Name one thing in this photo
559 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
543 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops
541 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
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The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index
539 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape
533 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
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Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away
529 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
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South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
528 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
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Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job
523 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
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LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise
522 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
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Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
521 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo
517 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
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Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018)
514 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer
505 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
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Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection
504 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
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Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries
500 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
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The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News
500 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content
499 points • comment • apr 10, 2019
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Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
499 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
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Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?
497 points • comment • apr 29, 2019