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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Switch from Chrome to Firefox

    3236 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  2. I Sell Onions on the Internet

    2966 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  3. Announcing unlimited free private repos

    2842 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  4. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

    2760 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  5. Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

    2674 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  6. My Business Card Runs Linux

    2579 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  7. Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

    2492 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  8. Raspberry Pi 4

    2487 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  9. Twitter to ban political advertising

    2420 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  10. No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

    2416 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  11. Julian Assange arrested in London

    2341 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  12. Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

    2284 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  13. Save .org

    2279 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  14. Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

    2210 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  15. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

    2165 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  16. Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]

    2160 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  17. Ken Thompson's Unix Password

    2082 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  18. GitHub Sponsors

    2076 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  19. Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

    2075 points • comment • feb 07, 2019

  20. Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional

    2050 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

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

    2049 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  22. Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

    2020 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

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

    1966 points • comment • sep 16, 2019

  24. California bans private prisons

    1941 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  25. Having Kids

    1935 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  26. Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

    1929 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  27. Google Is Eating Our Mail

    1926 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  28. I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

    1907 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  29. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

    1899 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  30. Joe Armstrong has died

    1892 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  31. Google’s GDPR Workaround

    1864 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  32. Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

    1846 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  33. 16-inch MacBook Pro

    1833 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  34. A guide to difficult conversations

    1802 points • comment • mar 26, 2019

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

    1786 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  36. Serverless: slower and more expensive

    1776 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  37. UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

    1741 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  38. Tesla Cybertruck

    1734 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  39. A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store

    1710 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  40. Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)

    1708 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  41. Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

    1704 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

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

    1697 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  43. We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

    1666 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  44. IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax

    1664 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  45. Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it

    1659 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  46. Richard M. Stallman resigns

    1644 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  47. Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

    1642 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  48. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

    1639 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  49. You Are Not Google (2017)

    1611 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  50. Sunsetting Python 2

    1607 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  51. Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App

    1603 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  52. Firefox Replay

    1590 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  53. Firefox 70

    1586 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

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

    1581 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  55. YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

    1549 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  56. John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence

    1538 points • comment • nov 13, 2019

  57. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

    1531 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  58. Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

    1527 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  59. FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up

    1524 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  60. TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free

    1496 points • comment • oct 17, 2019

  61. Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

    1487 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  62. Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer

    1475 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  63. Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

    1462 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  64. Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track

    1457 points • comment • nov 03, 2019

  65. Build Your Own React

    1454 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  66. How to do a code review

    1453 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  67. Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

    1444 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  68. Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links

    1434 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  69. I made a smart watch from scratch

    1430 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  70. Introducing nushell

    1430 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  71. U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property

    1425 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  72. 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

    1424 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  73. Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

    1423 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  74. Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

    1421 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  75. Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak

    1416 points • comment • nov 22, 2019

  76. Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14

    1391 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  77. Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

    1390 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  78. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

    1389 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  79. Google Cloud Is Down

    1381 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  80. Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app

    1378 points • comment • aug 29, 2019

  81. I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

    1373 points • comment • oct 15, 2019

  82. NordVPN confirms it was hacked

    1362 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  83. Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System

    1361 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  84. Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?

    1359 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  85. Questions to ask a company during a job interview

    1357 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  86. Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server

    1355 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  87. YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

    1347 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  88. Choose Boring Technology

    1333 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  89. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

    1329 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  90. YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

    1326 points • comment • jul 03, 2019

  91. CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust

    1321 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  92. Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

    1319 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  93. Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome

    1318 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  94. Broken

    1317 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  95. This Page is Designed to Last

    1312 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  96. The Lesson to Unlearn

    1310 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  97. The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness

    1303 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  98. Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?

    1300 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  99. Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display

    1299 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  100. 1000fps image projection on deforming non-rigid surface

    1296 points • comment • nov 21, 2019