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Hacker News (2019)

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

    568 points • comment • may 28, 2019

  2. Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake

    568 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  3. Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

    568 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  4. Pink Trombone

    567 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  5. Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test

    567 points • comment • jan 18, 2019

  6. How Containers Work: Overlayfs

    567 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  7. Undocumented Catalina file access change

    566 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  8. Half-Life: Alyx

    566 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  9. Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote

    566 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  10. WireGuard for MacOS

    566 points • comment • feb 17, 2019

  11. Google Cloud Networking Incident Postmortem

    565 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  12. NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts

    565 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  13. It’s Not Enough to Be Right – You Also Have to Be Kind

    565 points • comment • nov 09, 2019

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

    565 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  15. Let's build houses for people, not cars

    565 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  16. I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx

    565 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  17. Debian 10 “Buster” Released

    564 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  18. System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open-Source Firmware

    564 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  19. I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)

    564 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  20. Unfork()

    564 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  21. How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?

    564 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  22. Ten Years of Erlang

    563 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  23. Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

    563 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  24. Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future'

    563 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  25. Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’

    563 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  26. Books I Recommend

    563 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  27. Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry

    563 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  28. WireGuard is in net-next

    563 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  29. Beating C with one line of Brainfuck

    563 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  30. The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan

    563 points • comment • jul 17, 2019

  31. Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages

    563 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  32. Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?

    562 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  33. On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

    562 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  34. Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment

    562 points • comment • aug 15, 2019

  35. Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake

    562 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  36. Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report

    562 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  37. Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns

    562 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  38. After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue

    562 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  39. Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes

    562 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  40. LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

    562 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  41. iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

    561 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  42. New pill can deliver insulin

    561 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  43. Facebook won’t let you opt out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting

    560 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  44. Name one thing in this photo

    559 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  45. The internet is an SEO landfill

    559 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  46. Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…

    559 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  47. How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?

    558 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  48. NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002)

    558 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  49. Some items from my “reliability list”

    558 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  50. Daydreaming about the future instead of doing work today

    557 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  51. Rails 6.0

    557 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  52. Paged Out – a new experimental magazine about programming

    557 points • comment • aug 11, 2019

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

    557 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  54. Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit

    557 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  55. Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web

    557 points • comment • nov 17, 2019

  56. A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers

    555 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  57. Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes

    555 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  58. About V, the language Volt is written in

    555 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  59. Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch

    554 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  60. Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people

    554 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  61. The most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities

    553 points • comment • feb 26, 2019

  62. Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?

    553 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  63. HTML is the Web

    553 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  64. The Internet Relies on People Working for Free

    552 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  65. Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

    552 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  66. We Have Ruined Childhood

    552 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  67. Home Chip Fab

    552 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  68. Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit

    552 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

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

    552 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  70. A mathematician's way of converting miles to kilometers

    552 points • comment • aug 10, 2019

  71. Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated

    551 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

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

    551 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  73. Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers

    551 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  74. Algorithm allows video editors to modify talking-head videos as if editing text

    551 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  75. Firefox Monitor

    550 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  76. Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push

    550 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  77. Windows 95 UI Design

    549 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  78. If 'Big Tech' Is an Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom?

    549 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  79. 16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines

    549 points • comment • aug 21, 2019

  80. Switching from Chrome to Firefox

    549 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  81. Bed that saved me from the Taliban

    548 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  82. RSS Is Better Than Twitter

    547 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  83. Firefox is getting language translation

    547 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  84. AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)

    546 points • comment • nov 23, 2019

  85. How does a video codec work?

    546 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  86. Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet

    546 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  87. People with Greater Intellectual Humility Have Superior General Knowledge

    546 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  88. Firefox 69.0 Released

    546 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

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

    545 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  90. Advent of Code 2019

    545 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  91. Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago

    545 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

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

    545 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  93. Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine

    545 points • comment • feb 15, 2019

  94. Google Employees Uncover Ongoing Work on Censored China Search

    545 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  95. How to parent more predictably (2018)

    544 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  96. Scaling React Server Side Rendering

    543 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

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

    543 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  98. Breaking max efficiency of solar cells by activating 2 electrons with 1 photon

    543 points • comment • jul 06, 2019

  99. Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues

    543 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  100. Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware

    543 points • comment • jul 26, 2019