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Hacker News (2019)

There is no evil like reCAPTCHA
542 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Project Vesta – Mitigating climate change with green sand beaches
542 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Building Fast Interpreters in Rust
541 points • comment • mar 04, 2019
Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)
541 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B
541 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward
541 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops
541 points • comment • apr 03, 2019
The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy
540 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
540 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode
540 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
539 points • comment • aug 20, 2019
Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
539 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
539 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index
539 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
Visual Information Theory (2015)
539 points • comment • jul 24, 2019
Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined
538 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO
538 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security
538 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir
538 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
538 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
538 points • comment • sep 06, 2019
Statistics Done Wrong
537 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (2012)
537 points • comment • jun 13, 2019
Who Owns Huawei?
536 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic
536 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
536 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision
534 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Shopify and the Power of Platforms
534 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
The Horror of Microsoft Teams
534 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan
534 points • comment • jun 28, 2019
Starship Prototype Unveiled
534 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
Show HN: 30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks
533 points • comment • may 14, 2019
The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I.
533 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
The cost of parsing JSON
533 points • comment • sep 18, 2019
Mastery with SQL: Learn Modern SQL with Postgres
533 points • comment • jun 24, 2019
I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape
533 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
533 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Lyft Files S-1
532 points • comment • mar 01, 2019
Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
531 points • comment • jan 02, 2019
Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
531 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says
531 points • comment • may 06, 2019
How to teach Git
531 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
531 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Niki Lauda has died
530 points • comment • may 21, 2019
What happens when your career becomes your whole identity
530 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
What every computer science major should know (2011)
530 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
New Mac Pro
529 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
529 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use
529 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Calibre 4.0
529 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Tired of Stack Overflow
529 points • comment • sep 02, 2019
The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist
529 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away
529 points • comment • apr 06, 2019
Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)
529 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
528 points • comment • apr 13, 2019
Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy
528 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
Guide to Software Defined Radio
528 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
“It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net”
528 points • comment • may 20, 2019
The Psychological Trap of Freelancing
528 points • comment • feb 11, 2019
WhatsApp sues NSO Group for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world
528 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency
528 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Interviews with developers who became managers
527 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
Text Rendering Hates You
527 points • comment • sep 29, 2019
IPFS, Again
527 points • comment • jun 09, 2019
The benefits of a more asynchronous workplace
527 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics
526 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox
526 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign in with Apple
526 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption
525 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
525 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Working for a startup makes less sense
525 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Denver decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
524 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Things to use in Python 3
524 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Day Trading for a Living?
524 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Regex for Noobs – An Illustrated Guide
524 points • comment • aug 04, 2019
Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
524 points • comment • jan 11, 2019
Chris Hughes Says It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
524 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Stripe Corporate Card
524 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising
523 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
523 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job
523 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)
523 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise
522 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Ask HN: What are the signs that you have a great manager?
522 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
522 points • comment • mar 19, 2019
Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017)
522 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”
522 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
Is this Paypal experience customary?
521 points • comment • jul 05, 2019
“Python's batteries are leaking”
521 points • comment • may 18, 2019
AMD’s Entire Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out in Japan
521 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline
521 points • comment • feb 08, 2019
How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years
521 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Color Emulation
521 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
521 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants
520 points • comment • sep 26, 2019
Networking on AWS (2018)
519 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Bash 5.0 released
519 points • comment • jan 08, 2019
Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
519 points • comment • nov 08, 2019
Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application
519 points • comment • sep 22, 2019
Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019
519 points • comment • jan 25, 2019