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Hacker News (2019)

  1. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review

    475 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  2. Slack have blocked using the website on mobile

    475 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  3. Facebook is embedding tracking data inside the photos you download

    475 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  4. Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (2011)

    475 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  5. Hey advertisers, track this

    475 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  6. macOS Catalina

    475 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  7. Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the water [video]

    475 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  8. Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases

    474 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  9. Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction

    474 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  10. From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love

    473 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  11. Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S

    473 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  12. Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change

    473 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  13. Google, YouTube to Pay $170M Penalty over Collecting Kids' Personal Info

    473 points • comment • sep 04, 2019

  14. Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

    473 points • comment • nov 24, 2019

  15. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)

    473 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  16. Things that are illegal to build in most American cities now

    473 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  17. Show HN: Space Invaders in C

    473 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

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

    473 points • comment • may 01, 2019

  19. A better zip bomb

    472 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  20. Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law

    472 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  21. Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain

    472 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  22. Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type, researchers say

    472 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  23. New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available

    471 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  24. Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize

    471 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  25. Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner

    471 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  26. Event Sourcing is Hard

    471 points • comment • feb 03, 2019

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

    471 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  28. My Salary Progression in Tech

    470 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  29. Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO

    470 points • comment • jan 20, 2019

  30. Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation

    470 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  31. Relicensing CockroachDB

    470 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  32. Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life

    470 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  33. Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

    470 points • comment • oct 14, 2019

  34. Compounding Knowledge

    470 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  35. 26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband

    470 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  36. Beyond Meat S-1

    470 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  37. A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station

    470 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  38. Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US

    470 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  39. Useless Windows 10 Features

    469 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  40. HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print

    469 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  41. Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes

    469 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  42. Build an 8-bit computer from scratch

    469 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  43. Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine

    469 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  44. Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound

    468 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  45. Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

    467 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  46. Scratch 3.0

    467 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  47. Show HN: ZeroHTTPd: A web server to teach Linux performance, with benchmarks

    467 points • comment • jun 03, 2019

  48. New pathfinding algorithm

    467 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

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

    467 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  50. Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us

    467 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  51. Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him

    467 points • comment • oct 01, 2019

  52. U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers

    467 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  53. "Google Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it"

    466 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  54. A lighter V8

    466 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  55. Some Obscure C Features

    466 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  56. The 3dfx Voodoo1

    466 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  57. Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained

    466 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  58. Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?

    466 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  59. How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance (2016)

    466 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  60. Firefox 68.0

    465 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  61. Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud

    465 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  62. Cars took over because the legal system helped squeezed out alternatives

    465 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  63. Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better

    465 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  64. Building a Search Engine from Scratch

    465 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  65. The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive

    464 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  66. US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypted files from backup

    464 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  67. JSON with Sqlite

    464 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  68. A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016)

    463 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  69. Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret

    463 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  70. Bypassing GitHub's OAuth Flow with a Head Request

    463 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  71. Think in Math, Write in Code

    463 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

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

    463 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  73. A JavaScript-Free Front End

    462 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  74. Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games

    462 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  75. Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology

    462 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  76. Gmail marking email from me as spam

    462 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  77. The modern web is becoming unusable

    462 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

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

    462 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  79. Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many

    462 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  80. Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything

    462 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  81. RoughViz: JS library for creating sketchy/hand-drawn style charts in the browser

    461 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

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

    461 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  83. Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger

    461 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  84. Mesh Spreadsheet

    461 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  85. Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused

    461 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  86. Personal information and ads on Twitter

    461 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  87. I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project

    460 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  88. Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup

    460 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  89. Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

    460 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  90. 38 People are looking at this post right now

    460 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  91. Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a cluster of Raspberry Pis

    460 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  92. Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

    460 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  93. African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone

    460 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  94. A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf]

    460 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  95. The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)

    459 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  96. I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s

    459 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  97. Microsoft's “Love” of Linux

    459 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  98. I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money

    459 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  99. Winding down my Debian involvement

    459 points • comment • mar 10, 2019

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

    459 points • comment • may 16, 2019