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Hacker News (2019)

My Favourite Git Commit
1294 points • comment • oct 18, 2019
Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
1292 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
1290 points • comment • may 30, 2019
"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
1290 points • comment • may 31, 2019
U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
1288 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Why Enterprise Software Sucks
1288 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
1286 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
1284 points • comment • jan 29, 2019
Show HN: Bel
1278 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)
1276 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
Fast
1275 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
1272 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
1266 points • comment • may 04, 2019
Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)
1256 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown
1252 points • comment • may 23, 2019
France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra
1251 points • comment • sep 14, 2019
Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
1235 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline
1232 points • comment • may 06, 2019
We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
1228 points • comment • apr 20, 2019
Startup idea checklist
1223 points • comment • jun 23, 2019
Thank You, Guido
1222 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
Ebola Is Now Curable
1221 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
1219 points • comment • mar 21, 2019
Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
1216 points • comment • nov 26, 2019
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
1214 points • comment • oct 31, 2019
How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
1213 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Perfectly Cropped
1210 points • comment • oct 25, 2019
Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
1201 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
1195 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
1195 points • comment • feb 09, 2019
US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
1193 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
Warp – Mobile VPN
1191 points • comment • apr 01, 2019
I Miss Microsoft Encarta
1187 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
1185 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
1183 points • comment • jul 03, 2019
GitHub Package Registry
1177 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
1172 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”
1169 points • comment • jun 05, 2019
Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
1165 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
How to do hard things
1162 points • comment • may 19, 2019
Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?
1160 points • comment • sep 28, 2019
Advanced Data Structures (2017)
1159 points • comment • may 29, 2019
Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
1153 points • comment • oct 16, 2019
Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
1152 points • comment • jan 23, 2019
WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism
1150 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’
1140 points • comment • aug 09, 2019
Apple Sign In
1137 points • comment • jun 03, 2019
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
1135 points • comment • nov 23, 2019
JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
1135 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf]
1133 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Dotfile madness
1133 points • comment • feb 02, 2019
If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source
1126 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
1117 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled
1109 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
1100 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Async-await on stable Rust
1096 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
1094 points • comment • sep 24, 2019
It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
1091 points • comment • apr 08, 2019
Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
1090 points • comment • feb 15, 2019
Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
1088 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side
1086 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well
1082 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project
1082 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
1078 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Terminating Service for 8Chan
1074 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
1073 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
1072 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
John C. Bogle Has Died
1068 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent
1066 points • comment • may 31, 2019
Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
1065 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Get Started Making Music
1064 points • comment • sep 13, 2019
I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
1060 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
1059 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts
1058 points • comment • may 20, 2019
Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
1058 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
1051 points • comment • mar 11, 2019
Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]
1050 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Common mistakes in PostgreSQL
1049 points • comment • may 03, 2019
China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon
1037 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist
1028 points • comment • apr 17, 2019
The Great Cannon has been deployed again
1028 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
1025 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?
1025 points • comment • aug 25, 2019
Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
1024 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
The inception bar: a new phishing method
1009 points • comment • apr 27, 2019
The cognitive costs of air pollution
1009 points • comment • nov 18, 2019
Apple has locked me out of my developer account
1008 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
“The books will stop working.”
1001 points • comment • jun 27, 2019
Brave launches 1.0
997 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
996 points • comment • feb 13, 2019
Leukemia Has Won
996 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools
996 points • comment • feb 04, 2019
Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end
993 points • comment • may 07, 2019
PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
992 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
992 points • comment • oct 07, 2019
uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
989 points • comment • nov 20, 2019
How to Build Good Software
989 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
Thinkpad X210
989 points • comment • mar 17, 2019
ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
986 points • comment • nov 29, 2019
NULL license plate not such a bright idea
985 points • comment • aug 12, 2019