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Hacker News (2019)

  1. The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago

    431 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  2. Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users

    431 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  3. Psytrance Guide

    431 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  4. Super Mario 64 has been decompiled

    431 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  5. Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time

    431 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  6. Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?

    431 points • comment • feb 14, 2019

  7. Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting

    431 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  8. Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code

    431 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  9. Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)

    431 points • comment • sep 22, 2019

  10. Game Engine Black Books Update

    430 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  11. Tell HN: Danny Cohen Has Died

    430 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  12. Copyright Troll May Have Set an Expensive Precedent for Copyright Trolls

    430 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  13. I thought I made a hard game and then speedrunners destroyed it

    430 points • comment • jul 01, 2019

  14. Tony Brooker, creator of Mark 1 Autocode, has died

    430 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  15. macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address

    430 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  16. Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help

    429 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  17. Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive

    429 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  18. London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third

    429 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  19. Animated Knots: Learn how to tie knots with step-by-step animation

    429 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  20. We are making Sandboxie a free tool, with plans to transition it to open source

    429 points • comment • nov 10, 2019

  21. iTerm2 3.3

    429 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  22. Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system

    429 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  23. Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet

    428 points • comment • aug 09, 2019

  24. Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018

    428 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  25. Ask HN: What are must-know concepts for back end development?

    428 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  26. Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information

    428 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  27. New Game: Minecraft Earth

    428 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  28. Rules for Intuitive UX

    428 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  29. Kdenlive: an open-source video editor

    428 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  30. Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

    428 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  31. Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show

    427 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  32. Facebook Dating

    427 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  33. MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14

    427 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  34. Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions

    427 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  35. Costco gained a cult following by breaking every rule of retail

    427 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  36. EU gives 'high-level' protection to whistleblowers

    427 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  37. Famous Laws of Software Development (2017)

    427 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  38. The Gyllenhaal Experiment

    426 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  39. KDE Connect removed from Google Play store for violating new policy on SMS

    426 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  40. WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation

    426 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  41. Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)

    426 points • comment • aug 03, 2019

  42. Coconut: Pythonic functional programming

    426 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  43. Rust Language Cheat Sheet

    426 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  44. Everything I know about freelancing

    426 points • comment • mar 29, 2019

  45. Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)

    426 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  46. Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation

    425 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  47. If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot

    425 points • comment • sep 25, 2019

  48. Datadog S-1

    425 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  49. Mathematician Disproves Hedetniemi’s Graph Theory Conjecture

    425 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  50. Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it

    425 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  51. Myths in Machine Learning Research

    425 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  52. B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens

    425 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  53. Starship Update

    425 points • comment • sep 29, 2019

  54. U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly

    425 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  55. Medical equipment pricing is completely broken when a sling costs $200

    425 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  56. Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

    425 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  57. Python at Netflix

    424 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  58. A Message about iOS Security

    424 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  59. Ask HN: Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?

    424 points • comment • mar 01, 2019

  60. Bedridden for 11 years, he discovered a surgery for his adrenal condition

    424 points • comment • jul 27, 2019

  61. Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

    424 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  62. For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection

    424 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  63. Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app

    424 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  64. New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule

    423 points • comment • jan 01, 2019

  65. Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

    423 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  66. Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

    423 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  67. AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review

    423 points • comment • nov 14, 2019

  68. Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables

    423 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  69. To motivate people, talk about the context of the work to be done

    423 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  70. SSH gets protection against side-channel attacks

    423 points • comment • jun 21, 2019

  71. Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript

    422 points • comment • jan 14, 2019

  72. Amazon CodeGuru – Preview

    422 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  73. Rust 1.40

    422 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  74. How Not to Die (2007)

    422 points • comment • nov 11, 2019

  75. What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues

    422 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  76. I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected

    422 points • comment • may 31, 2019

  77. Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener

    422 points • comment • feb 27, 2019

  78. US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages

    422 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  79. Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators

    422 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  80. Google Kills Cloud Print

    422 points • comment • nov 21, 2019

  81. Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies

    421 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  82. Founder Books

    421 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  83. React Concurrent Mode

    421 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  84. Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis

    421 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  85. Vital Wikipedia Articles

    421 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  86. Chromecast Support for Firefox

    421 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  87. Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’

    421 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  88. I was seven words away from being spear-phished

    420 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  89. New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity

    420 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  90. How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera

    420 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  91. Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs

    420 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  92. I was an astrologer

    420 points • comment • nov 07, 2019

  93. GitHub Releases an ImageNet for Code

    420 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  94. A Secure Runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript Built with V8, Rust, and Tokio

    420 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  95. 'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPhones of foes

    419 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  96. GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud

    419 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  97. Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste

    419 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  98. No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy

    419 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  99. Down the Rabbit-Hole

    419 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  100. Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails

    419 points • comment • jul 02, 2019