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Hacker News (Sep 2019)

  1. The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company

    1966 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  2. California bans private prisons

    1941 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  3. Google’s GDPR Workaround

    1864 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  4. Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

    1786 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  5. Serverless: slower and more expensive

    1776 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  6. Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

    1697 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  7. Richard M. Stallman resigns

    1644 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  8. Sunsetting Python 2

    1607 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  9. Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

    1581 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  10. How to do a code review

    1453 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  11. 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

    1424 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  12. Questions to ask a company during a job interview

    1357 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  13. France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra

    1251 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  14. Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?

    1160 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  15. WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism

    1150 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  16. 9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf]

    1133 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  17. Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911

    1094 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  18. Get Started Making Music

    1064 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  19. Uber lays off 435 people

    967 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  20. Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas

    944 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  21. ColorBox by Lyft Design

    895 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  22. How to learn D3.js

    877 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  23. It's later than you think

    873 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  24. Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

    845 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  25. Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required

    826 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  26. Ask HN: Are you ok?

    805 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  27. Stripe Capital

    802 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  28. Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties

    801 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  29. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

    782 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  30. Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study

    780 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  31. Nim 1.0

    769 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  32. Show HN: Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy

    756 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  33. Edward Snowden: Permanent Record

    742 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  34. Pure Bash Bible

    737 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  35. Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914

    728 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  36. WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

    726 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  37. Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer

    725 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  38. 3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image

    715 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  39. California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

    715 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  40. Do It Yurtself

    713 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  41. Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

    702 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  42. Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

    702 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  43. Running GitHub on Rails 6.0

    697 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  44. Daytripper

    691 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  45. Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

    683 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  46. Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code

    673 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  47. Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains

    669 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  48. California Approves Statewide Rent Control

    666 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  49. In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default

    660 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  50. Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email

    660 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  51. Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second

    655 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  52. What do executives do, anyway?

    652 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  53. WARP is here

    648 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  54. Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList

    648 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  55. A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online

    641 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  56. Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products

    640 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  57. WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO

    639 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  58. Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari

    638 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  59. Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)

    632 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  60. Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125

    627 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  61. Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

    622 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  62. In Defense of Richard Stallman

    617 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  63. Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'

    612 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  64. Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing

    606 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  65. Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet

    602 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  66. A patent lawsuit against GNOME

    598 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  67. Bring Back the SE

    590 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  68. Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found

    590 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  69. Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1

    588 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  70. Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill

    587 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  71. Weld: Accelerating numpy, scikit and pandas as much as 100x with Rust and LLVM

    586 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  72. Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app

    584 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  73. Modern C, Second Edition

    584 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  74. Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ

    578 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  75. Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated

    565 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  76. iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

    561 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  77. Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

    557 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  78. The Internet Relies on People Working for Free

    552 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  79. Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

    552 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  80. Firefox 69.0 Released

    546 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  81. Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking

    545 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  82. Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986

    543 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  83. 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

    538 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  84. Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket

    538 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  85. Starship Prototype Unveiled

    534 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  86. The cost of parsing JSON

    533 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  87. Tired of Stack Overflow

    529 points • comment • sep 02, 2019

  88. Text Rendering Hates You

    527 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  89. A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics

    526 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  90. Stripe Corporate Card

    524 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  91. Day Trading for a Living?

    524 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  92. Color Emulation

    521 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  93. DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants

    520 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  94. Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application

    519 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  95. The Octopus: An Alien Among Us

    513 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  96. The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition

    512 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  97. Programming Idioms

    510 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  98. Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian

    504 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  99. Comparing Database Types

    503 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  100. Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

    497 points • comment • sep 22, 2019