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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

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

    497 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  2. Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it

    495 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  3. SpaceX nails triple booster landing after satellite delivery

    489 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  4. When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup

    488 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  5. OpenShot – Open-Source Video Editor

    486 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  6. Joe the office mate

    482 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  7. Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life

    480 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  8. Ask HN: Amazon delisted me – what do I do?

    479 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  9. Emacs 26.2 Released

    477 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  10. Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer

    477 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  11. Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law

    472 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  12. Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation

    470 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  13. Beyond Meat S-1

    470 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  14. 26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband

    470 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  15. Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

    467 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  16. Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us

    467 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  17. How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance (2016)

    466 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  18. The 3dfx Voodoo1

    466 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  19. I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money

    459 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  20. All of Toyota’s electric vehicle patents are now royalty-free

    455 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  21. VPN – Very Precarious Narrative

    454 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  22. Gimli – A Visual Studio Code extension for front-end developers

    453 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  23. Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

    450 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  24. Jenkins Is Getting Old

    449 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  25. Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns

    448 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  26. SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

    446 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  27. Web Components could replace frontend frameworks?

    446 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  28. Why there’s so little left of the early internet

    445 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  29. VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trackers

    442 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  30. 2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail

    442 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  31. Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions

    435 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  32. Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon

    434 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  33. The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be Most Disruptive Yet

    433 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  34. Random Forests for Complete Beginners

    432 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  35. Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information

    428 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  36. EU gives 'high-level' protection to whistleblowers

    427 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  37. Python at Netflix

    424 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  38. Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs

    420 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  39. How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera

    420 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  40. I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

    411 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  41. Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

    410 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  42. Agile Lite: Agile without all the burnout

    409 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  43. US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums

    409 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  44. Ikonate – fully customisable and accessible vector icons

    407 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  45. Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absolute no control over it

    405 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  46. Mastodon and Keybase

    403 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  47. First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus

    402 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  48. Half of England Is Owned by Less Than 1% of Its Population, Researcher Says

    401 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  49. Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police

    399 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  50. Intel Exiting 5G Modems

    399 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  51. Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner

    398 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  52. Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership

    394 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  53. Ripgrep 11 Released

    394 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  54. A Recipe for Training Neural Networks

    393 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  55. Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

    391 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  56. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)

    391 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  57. Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash

    389 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  58. San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

    389 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  59. Should you be concerned about LastPass uploading your passwords to its server?

    388 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  60. Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young

    388 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  61. Golden: Mapping human knowledge

    387 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  62. The U.S. government is about to bar the IRS from creating a free e-filing system

    387 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  63. Google search only has 60% of my content from 2006

    387 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  64. JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)

    386 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  65. Popular Google Play store apps are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud

    384 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  66. A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla

    383 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  67. The Embedded Rust Book

    380 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  68. No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick

    380 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  69. Learn TLA+ (2018)

    379 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  70. Icons: Avoid temptation and start with user needs

    378 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  71. Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

    378 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  72. Pyodide: Bringing the scientific Python stack to the browser

    377 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  73. Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (2016)

    377 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  74. No one should have to travel in fear

    377 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  75. Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source

    376 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  76. Rust 1.34.0

    375 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  77. Commit messages guide

    375 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  78. The Lobster Programming Language

    373 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  79. Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil

    372 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  80. 996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening

    371 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  81. Death by PowerPoint: The slide that killed seven people

    371 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  82. Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, and Seattle

    368 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  83. America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity

    368 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  84. Buy Yourself a Latte

    367 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  85. PostgreSQL Features to Try

    366 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  86. Slack Is Not Where 'Deep Work' Happens

    365 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  87. Design Tools for Everything

    365 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  88. Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

    363 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  89. Show HN: CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images

    363 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  90. Git implemented in Rust

    361 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  91. Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole?

    360 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  92. From Show HN to Series D

    358 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  93. Programming: Doing it more vs. doing it better

    357 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  94. Flutter desktop shells

    357 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  95. How a Single Raspberry Pi Made My Home Network Faster

    355 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  96. People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours

    354 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  97. Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)

    353 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  98. Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Huawei driver

    353 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  99. Super Mario Bros. has been released for the Commodore 64

    351 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  100. Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server

    350 points • comment • apr 27, 2019