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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Bladder cancer 'attacked and killed by common cold virus'

    355 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  2. Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas

    355 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  3. Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain

    354 points • comment • oct 29, 2019

  4. Troubles with the AWS web console

    354 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  5. Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

    354 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  6. Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end?

    354 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  7. Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

    354 points • comment • aug 13, 2019

  8. “Once-in-a-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan

    354 points • comment • may 23, 2019

  9. Welcome to the Old Internet Again

    354 points • comment • jun 27, 2019

  10. Oracle v. Google and the future of software development

    354 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  11. After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promised in treaty

    354 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  12. Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 to 4 learn logic

    354 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  13. Google Calendar Is Down

    354 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  14. People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours

    354 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  15. Let's Build a Compiler

    353 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  16. One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online

    353 points • comment • jul 13, 2019

  17. GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely

    353 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  18. India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon

    353 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  19. ‘They Get Fired All the Time. And They Have No Idea Why’

    353 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  20. U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator

    353 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  21. Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)

    353 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  22. MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work

    353 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  23. The Value in Go’s Simplicity

    353 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  24. Microsoft finds privilege escalation vulnerability in Huawei driver

    353 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  25. A listing of companies that don't do whiteboard job interviews

    353 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  26. Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice

    352 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  27. Close Encounter with a Gigantic Jet

    352 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  28. The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature

    352 points • comment • jun 08, 2019

  29. The California DMV Is Selling Drivers’ Personal Information

    352 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  30. Algebraic Structures: Things I wish someone had explained about FP

    352 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  31. Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

    352 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  32. Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

    352 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  33. Keyhut POS: Free Point-of-Sale Software for DOS

    352 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  34. Updates from YC

    352 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  35. Couple wins millions using lottery loophole

    352 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  36. Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair

    352 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  37. Tether: The Story So Far

    351 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  38. Super Mario Bros. has been released for the Commodore 64

    351 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  39. How the Internet Travels Across Oceans

    351 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  40. Google to Acquire Looker

    351 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  41. Carnival Cruises emits ten times more sulphur oxide than all of Europe’s cars

    351 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  42. Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)

    351 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  43. Estonia is running its country like a tech company

    351 points • comment • oct 22, 2019

  44. Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source

    351 points • comment • nov 18, 2019

  45. Mimalloc – A compact general-purpose allocator

    351 points • comment • jun 22, 2019

  46. Procrastination Has Nothing to Do with Self-Control

    351 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  47. Overwatch's Mei Is Becoming a Symbol of the Hong Kong Resistance

    351 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  48. Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition

    350 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  49. Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning

    350 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  50. Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests

    350 points • comment • oct 24, 2019

  51. 600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015)

    350 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  52. Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server

    350 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  53. Fracking in North America could be partly to blame for methane spike – study

    350 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  54. Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain

    350 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  55. Cool but obscure X11 tools

    350 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  56. Cue – A language for defining, generating, and validating data

    349 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  57. Dutch join backlash at expensive drugs by making their own

    349 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  58. Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source

    349 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  59. Marriott Concedes 5M Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted

    349 points • comment • jan 04, 2019

  60. WeWTF, Part Deux

    349 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  61. China's social network surveillance databases are apparently leaked to Internet

    349 points • comment • mar 04, 2019

  62. Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road

    349 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  63. SerenityOS: From Zero to HTML in a Year

    349 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  64. 35 Over 35

    349 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  65. The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether

    349 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  66. Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design

    349 points • comment • jul 14, 2019

  67. Fashionable Problems

    349 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  68. The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)

    349 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  69. HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client

    349 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  70. Show HN: GuiLite – Tiny UI framework, runs on MCU without OS

    349 points • comment • feb 01, 2019

  71. Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing

    349 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  72. Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins

    349 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  73. A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundred Published Studies

    348 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  74. How Is NordVPN Unblocking Disney+?

    348 points • comment • nov 29, 2019

  75. A Julia Interpreter and Debugger

    348 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  76. Lectures in Quantitative Economics as Python and Julia Notebooks

    348 points • comment • feb 05, 2019

  77. A Humility Training Exercise for Technical Interviewers

    348 points • comment • feb 04, 2019

  78. The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised

    348 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  79. V8: A Year with Spectre

    348 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  80. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

    348 points • comment • aug 01, 2019

  81. The pointlessness of daily standups

    348 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  82. Advanced NLP with SpaCy

    348 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  83. Get Your Book, Make It Free

    348 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  84. Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?

    348 points • comment • aug 26, 2019

  85. Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018)

    348 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  86. New ‘past’ link on HN front page

    347 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  87. Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?

    347 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  88. Blizzard's Weibo Account Just Posted an Apology To China

    347 points • comment • oct 09, 2019

  89. Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages

    347 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  90. Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban

    347 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  91. Why Hashbrown Does a Double Lookup

    347 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  92. A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions

    347 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  93. Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few

    347 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  94. Tell HN: I used to be homeless and want to work as a software developer

    347 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  95. France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax

    347 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  96. The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced

    347 points • comment • jun 18, 2019

  97. Show HN: patchbay.pub – Poor man's ngrok/IFTTT/serverless

    347 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  98. Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

    347 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  99. The Great American Eye Exam Scam

    346 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  100. Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M

    346 points • comment • jan 28, 2019