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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Switch from Chrome to Firefox

    3236 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  2. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

    2165 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  3. GitHub Sponsors

    2076 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  4. Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

    2049 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  5. Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System

    1361 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  6. Block Fingerprinting with Firefox

    1290 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  7. "DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"

    1290 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  8. All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

    1266 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  9. Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown

    1252 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  10. Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline

    1232 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  11. GitHub Package Registry

    1177 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  12. How to do hard things

    1162 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  13. Advanced Data Structures (2017)

    1159 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  14. Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well

    1082 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  15. Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent

    1066 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  16. I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page

    1060 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  17. DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

    1058 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  18. Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

    1050 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  19. Common mistakes in PostgreSQL

    1049 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  20. Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end

    993 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  21. Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues

    977 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  22. Going Critical

    963 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  23. IT Runs on Java 8

    939 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  24. WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones

    934 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  25. Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords

    934 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  26. Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API

    932 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  27. PHP in 2019

    897 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  28. We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

    880 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  29. I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code

    879 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  30. HTTP headers for the responsible developer

    875 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  31. Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers

    856 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  32. ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs

    850 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  33. WebGL Fluid Simulation

    850 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  34. Go is Google's language, not ours

    848 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  35. Can we all stop using Medium now?

    844 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  36. Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into

    840 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  37. I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]

    799 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  38. Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)

    785 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  39. Leaving Google Fi

    783 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  40. After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed

    769 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  41. How I Run a Company with ADHD

    765 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  42. Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study

    741 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  43. I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

    736 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  44. The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)

    718 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  45. Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)

    711 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  46. The struggles of an open source maintainer

    704 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  47. .NET 5

    697 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  48. A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests

    679 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  49. Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum

    675 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  50. Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG

    674 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  51. Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro

    661 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  52. World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later

    660 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  53. H.264 is magic (2016)

    659 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  54. The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)

    654 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  55. AMD Ryzen 3000 announced

    644 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  56. Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests

    640 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  57. Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop

    637 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  58. I can see your local web servers

    635 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  59. Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

    634 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  60. A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

    624 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  61. Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author

    623 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  62. Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal

    616 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  63. Git rebase in depth

    608 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  64. South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry

    607 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  65. Open source firmware is important for security

    605 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  66. Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story

    602 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  67. We Can Do Better Than SQL

    602 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  68. Technical Debt

    602 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  69. Use mmap with care

    602 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  70. Free Wolfram Engine for Developers

    600 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  71. Open source collaborative text editors

    591 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  72. Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects

    591 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  73. The Art of Command Line (2015)

    584 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  74. “A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made”

    577 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  75. Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?

    576 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  76. Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

    572 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  77. Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes

    571 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  78. Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence

    568 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  79. Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote

    566 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  80. Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

    551 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  81. AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead

    545 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  82. All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

    541 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  83. Show HN: 30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks

    533 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  84. Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says

    531 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  85. Niki Lauda has died

    530 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  86. “It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net”

    528 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  87. Things to use in Python 3

    524 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  88. Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms

    524 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  89. Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

    524 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  90. How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years

    521 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  91. “Python's batteries are leaking”

    521 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  92. Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

    518 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  93. Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system

    509 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  94. Scrum is fragile, not Agile

    508 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  95. Firefox 67.0 Released

    508 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  96. Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max

    504 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  97. Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion

    503 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  98. Self-distancing can help you make better decisions

    499 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  99. Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard

    499 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  100. What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right

    495 points • comment • may 07, 2019