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Hacker News (May 2019)
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Switch from Chrome to Firefox
3236 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
2165 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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GitHub Sponsors
2076 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
2049 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
1361 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
1290 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
1290 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
1266 points • comment • may 04, 2019
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Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown
1252 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline
1232 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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GitHub Package Registry
1177 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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How to do hard things
1162 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Advanced Data Structures (2017)
1159 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well
1082 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent
1066 points • comment • may 31, 2019
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I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
1060 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts
1058 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]
1050 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Common mistakes in PostgreSQL
1049 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end
993 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
977 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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Going Critical
963 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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IT Runs on Java 8
939 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones
934 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
934 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
932 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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PHP in 2019
897 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
880 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code
879 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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HTTP headers for the responsible developer
875 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers
856 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs
850 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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WebGL Fluid Simulation
850 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Go is Google's language, not ours
848 points • comment • may 22, 2019
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Can we all stop using Medium now?
844 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
840 points • comment • may 13, 2019
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I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]
799 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)
785 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Leaving Google Fi
783 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
769 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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How I Run a Company with ADHD
765 points • comment • may 12, 2019
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Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study
741 points • comment • may 11, 2019
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I turned my interview task for Google into a startup
736 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
718 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
711 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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The struggles of an open source maintainer
704 points • comment • may 17, 2019
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.NET 5
697 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests
679 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum
675 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG
674 points • comment • may 29, 2019
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Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
661 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
660 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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H.264 is magic (2016)
659 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)
654 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
644 points • comment • may 27, 2019
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Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
640 points • comment • may 03, 2019
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Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
637 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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I can see your local web servers
635 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year
634 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
624 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author
623 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
616 points • comment • may 16, 2019
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Git rebase in depth
608 points • comment • may 10, 2019
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South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
607 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Open source firmware is important for security
605 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
602 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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We Can Do Better Than SQL
602 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Technical Debt
602 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Use mmap with care
602 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
600 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Open source collaborative text editors
591 points • comment • may 07, 2019
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Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects
591 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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The Art of Command Line (2015)
584 points • comment • may 23, 2019
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“A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made”
577 points • comment • may 19, 2019
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Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?
576 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
572 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes
571 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence
568 points • comment • may 28, 2019
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Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote
566 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
551 points • comment • may 02, 2019
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AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead
545 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward
541 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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Show HN: 30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks
533 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says
531 points • comment • may 06, 2019
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Niki Lauda has died
530 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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“It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net”
528 points • comment • may 20, 2019
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Things to use in Python 3
524 points • comment • may 15, 2019
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Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
524 points • comment • may 08, 2019
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Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
524 points • comment • may 09, 2019
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How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years
521 points • comment • may 30, 2019
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“Python's batteries are leaking”
521 points • comment • may 18, 2019
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Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)
518 points • comment • may 01, 2019
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Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system
509 points • comment • may 24, 2019
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Scrum is fragile, not Agile
508 points • comment • may 26, 2019
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Firefox 67.0 Released
508 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max
504 points • comment • may 14, 2019
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Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion
503 points • comment • may 21, 2019
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Self-distancing can help you make better decisions
499 points • comment • may 25, 2019
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Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard
499 points • comment • may 05, 2019
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What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
495 points • comment • may 07, 2019