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Hacker News (2019)

We Need Chrome No More
984 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
982 points • comment • jun 19, 2019
Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
977 points • comment • may 23, 2019
Relearn CSS layout
969 points • comment • jun 16, 2019
How to assess the quality of garments (2014)
968 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
968 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
968 points • comment • jan 06, 2019
What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
968 points • comment • aug 10, 2019
Interactive Linear Algebra
967 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
Uber lays off 435 people
967 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris
964 points • comment • apr 15, 2019
Going Critical
963 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
959 points • comment • jan 14, 2019
DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
957 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling
952 points • comment • jan 20, 2019
Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results
951 points • comment • nov 24, 2019
Learning Synths
949 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
945 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas
944 points • comment • sep 23, 2019
Why Bother with What Three Words?
943 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
942 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
IT Runs on Java 8
939 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
939 points • comment • aug 06, 2019
New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking
938 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it
937 points • comment • jan 13, 2019
Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal
934 points • comment • jan 15, 2019
Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
934 points • comment • may 05, 2019
WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones
934 points • comment • may 13, 2019
Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
932 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s
931 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Ending our Medium integration
930 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender
929 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
927 points • comment • oct 02, 2019
Developers don't understand CORS
925 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
923 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
QuickJS JavaScript Engine
919 points • comment • jul 11, 2019
Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users
919 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
HIV Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient
916 points • comment • mar 05, 2019
Productivity Is About Attention Management
913 points • comment • mar 31, 2019
Cloudflare S-1
913 points • comment • aug 15, 2019
The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790
911 points • comment • nov 09, 2019
Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]
910 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
908 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
902 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Adblocking: How about Nah?
901 points • comment • jul 27, 2019
8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
898 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
PHP in 2019
897 points • comment • may 15, 2019
Public protest against Amazon
895 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
ColorBox by Lyft Design
895 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]
893 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down
892 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook
892 points • comment • mar 24, 2019
Lessons learned building an ML trading system
891 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
889 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
888 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
888 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
885 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
885 points • comment • nov 10, 2019
SQL queries don't start with SELECT
884 points • comment • oct 03, 2019
I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
883 points • comment • nov 04, 2019
On Being a Principal Engineer
882 points • comment • feb 10, 2019
Challenging projects every programmer should try
881 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
880 points • comment • may 09, 2019
I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code
879 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
877 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
How to learn D3.js
877 points • comment • sep 05, 2019
HTTP headers for the responsible developer
875 points • comment • may 08, 2019
Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
875 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
875 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
874 points • comment • apr 28, 2019
It's later than you think
873 points • comment • sep 10, 2019
Python Is Eating the World
872 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
Facebook to ban white nationalist content
872 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices
871 points • comment • nov 17, 2019
Goodbye Joe
869 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
869 points • comment • aug 12, 2019
No More Cheap Shipping for Chinese Sellers
867 points • comment • aug 27, 2019
Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google
867 points • comment • jun 01, 2019
Have a personal web site
866 points • comment • apr 30, 2019
Build Your Own X
866 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
866 points • comment • jan 31, 2019
Flightradar24 – how it works
864 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Netlify Dev
864 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Fight back against Google AMP (2018)
864 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Text Editing Hates You Too
864 points • comment • oct 29, 2019
'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology
862 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
860 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub
860 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
859 points • comment • jan 09, 2019
TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines
858 points • comment • apr 26, 2019
Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers
856 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%
856 points • comment • aug 16, 2019
What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth
855 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Math Basics for Computer Science and Machine Learning [pdf]
852 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News
851 points • comment • feb 27, 2019
WebGL Fluid Simulation
850 points • comment • may 20, 2019
KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++
850 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs
850 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Give Me Back My Monolith
849 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline
849 points • comment • jun 24, 2019