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Hacker News (May 2019)

  1. Clear is better than clever [pdf]

    495 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  2. Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

    494 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  3. Windows gets a new terminal

    491 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  4. A Decade of Remote Work

    490 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  5. Practices for writing high-performance Go

    489 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  6. Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords

    486 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  7. Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

    485 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  8. W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM

    483 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  9. CBS censors a ‘Good Fight’ segment whose topic was Chinese censorship

    482 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  10. Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building

    481 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  11. The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]

    480 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  12. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)

    473 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  13. MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries

    471 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  14. CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history

    467 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  15. Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

    463 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  16. Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage

    462 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  17. Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused

    461 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  18. I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00

    461 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  19. I froze the salaries of my executive team to benefit other workers

    459 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  20. GNU Guix 1.0

    458 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  21. Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy

    457 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  22. Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

    456 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  23. Google suspends some business with Huawei

    456 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  24. Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild

    455 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  25. Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

    455 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  26. Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

    452 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  27. Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets

    452 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  28. SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics

    451 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  29. Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor

    451 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  30. Twilio Super SIM

    449 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  31. Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE

    447 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  32. Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

    447 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  33. Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long

    446 points • comment • may 07, 2019

  34. Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default

    445 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  35. Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed

    444 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  36. Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978

    443 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  37. Ask HN: What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?

    442 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  38. Nasa Says Metals Fraud Caused $700M Satellite Failure

    440 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  39. Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse

    439 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  40. Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs

    438 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  41. Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox

    437 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  42. Betrayed by an app she had never heard of

    436 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  43. Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements

    432 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  44. Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time

    431 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  45. Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users

    431 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  46. Game Engine Black Books Update

    430 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  47. New Game: Minecraft Earth

    428 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  48. U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly

    425 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  49. For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection

    424 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  50. I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected

    422 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  51. Founder Books

    421 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  52. GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud

    419 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  53. Why I'm still using jQuery

    416 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  54. A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (2017)

    409 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  55. Google Fights Back

    409 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  56. Geoff Ralston taking over as President of YC

    407 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  57. First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records

    407 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  58. Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes

    405 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  59. Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python

    404 points • comment • may 04, 2019

  60. China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

    401 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  61. PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's standard library

    399 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  62. Ask HN: Which books teach mental models?

    399 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  63. Black – Uncompromising Python code formatter

    399 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  64. JetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face

    396 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  65. Uber opens at $42 per share

    394 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  66. Firms That Promised Ransomware Decryption Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers

    393 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  67. Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

    391 points • comment • may 05, 2019

  68. U.S. regulators approve the Long-Term Stock Exchange

    390 points • comment • may 10, 2019

  69. Ask HN: How can I work towards building a company while employed?

    389 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  70. Scene report from the Chernobyl Zone

    389 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  71. Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History

    389 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  72. Oh shit, git (2016)

    388 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  73. John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (1996)

    388 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  74. 3D Game Shaders for Beginners

    387 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  75. Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash

    385 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  76. Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete

    383 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  77. Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit limiting ability to shut off MCAS

    383 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  78. SaaS CTO Security Checklist

    382 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  79. 0x Launch Kit – Launch your own cryptocurrency exchange or marketplace

    381 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  80. Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010)

    381 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  81. Guide to Deep Work

    380 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  82. Unraveling the JPEG

    380 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  83. We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible

    375 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  84. Show HN: Turn an Excel file into a web application

    372 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  85. Android App Reverse Engineering 101

    372 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  86. In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc

    371 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  87. The State of Apple's Developer Documentation

    368 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  88. Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites

    364 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  89. iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms

    364 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  90. What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft

    363 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  91. Removing duplicate lines from files keeping the original order with Awk

    362 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  92. Employing QUIC Protocol to Optimize Uber’s App Performance

    360 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  93. Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from an abandoned building

    358 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  94. YTMND has shut down

    357 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  95. Making a Game Boy Game in 2017

    357 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  96. Blue Moon

    357 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  97. Three.js Fundamentals

    356 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  98. Translating math into code with examples in Java, Racket, Haskell, Python (2011)

    356 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  99. Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own design review

    356 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  100. Mathics – A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica

    356 points • comment • may 07, 2019