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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Administration Using the Full Power of the Surveillance State on Whistleblowers

    312 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  2. The XY Problem (2014)

    312 points • comment • jun 01, 2019

  3. China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans from leaving

    312 points • comment • sep 15, 2019

  4. Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (2015)

    312 points • comment • jun 10, 2019

  5. Google's software mistreats or harms the user

    312 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  6. Project Naptha: Make Text in Browser Images Selectable

    312 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  7. Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?

    311 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  8. Asciicker – an online 3D game demo rendering to ASCII text

    311 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  9. Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations

    311 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  10. Senate Testimony on Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy

    311 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  11. GnuCash: Open-source double-entry accounting software

    311 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  12. Show HN: Risp – Lisp in Rust

    311 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  13. Cormac McCarthy on how to write a science paper

    311 points • comment • sep 27, 2019

  14. Go through your family's phone settings and turn on all the privacy features

    311 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  15. Verilog sources for Western Digital's open source RISC-V core

    311 points • comment • jan 27, 2019

  16. Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead

    311 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  17. Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust

    311 points • comment • jul 02, 2019

  18. How not to hire a software engineer

    311 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  19. A book from Alan Turing and a mysterious piece of paper

    311 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  20. Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory for CS and ML [pdf]

    311 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  21. Snark Barker: A 100% compatible replica of the famed SB 1.0 soundcard

    311 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  22. Undercover Agents Target Citizen Lab

    311 points • comment • jan 26, 2019

  23. Former IBM exec says company told her to hide layoff age data from government

    311 points • comment • jan 19, 2019

  24. Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (1998)

    311 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  25. I scanned Austria

    311 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  26. How much bandwidth does the spinal cord have?

    310 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  27. Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups (2015)

    310 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  28. Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?

    310 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  29. Man Underpaid Property Tax by $8.41 County Seized Home, Sold It-Kept Profits

    310 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  30. Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?

    310 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  31. Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib (2012)

    310 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  32. Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software conference

    310 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  33. I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash

    310 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  34. EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing

    310 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  35. Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market

    310 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  36. Tell HN: I Hugely Regret Using Stripe Atlas

    310 points • comment • jan 10, 2019

  37. Show HN: RemoteMore – We connect developers with full-time remote jobs

    310 points • comment • sep 14, 2019

  38. Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools

    310 points • comment • may 16, 2019

  39. Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining

    310 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  40. Open Distro for Elasticsearch

    309 points • comment • mar 11, 2019

  41. Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?

    309 points • comment • may 26, 2019

  42. Power Is Overrated

    309 points • comment • may 27, 2019

  43. Security Checklist

    309 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  44. Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game

    309 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  45. Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare

    309 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  46. The death watch for the X Window System has probably started

    309 points • comment • jul 07, 2019

  47. The Programming Language Conundrum

    309 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  48. Everything Is Getting Louder

    309 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  49. Favorite Interview Questions

    309 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  50. Training algorithms on copyrighted data not illegal: US Supreme Court

    309 points • comment • nov 15, 2019

  51. GitHub Actions is my new favorite free programming tool [video]

    309 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  52. Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com

    309 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  53. Stanford CS 144: Introduction to Computer Networking

    309 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  54. China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media

    309 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  55. An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your pocket

    309 points • comment • nov 02, 2019

  56. Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival

    309 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  57. How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017)

    309 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  58. Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions

    309 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  59. “Reverse location” search warrants identify all cellphones near a crime scene

    309 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  60. Successful machine learning models: lessons learned at Booking.com

    309 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  61. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015)

    309 points • comment • apr 27, 2019

  62. Show HN: Thoughter

    309 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  63. Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says

    309 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  64. Understanding Kafka with Factorio

    308 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  65. Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

    308 points • comment • feb 19, 2019

  66. Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?

    308 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  67. Linux Kernel Through 4.20.10 Found Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution

    308 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  68. A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies

    308 points • comment • sep 30, 2019

  69. Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization

    308 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  70. US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media

    308 points • comment • jun 13, 2019

  71. PHP 8 to Add a JIT

    308 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  72. Hostyoself: Server in a browser – host from your computer, your phone, etc.

    308 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  73. Paying for Open Source Contributions

    308 points • comment • may 03, 2019

  74. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)

    308 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  75. Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World

    308 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  76. Why ElementaryOS Left Medium

    308 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  77. Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died

    308 points • comment • jan 03, 2019

  78. How I Switched to Plan 9

    307 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  79. The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained

    307 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  80. Quiet.js – Transmit and receive data in the browser at 44.1kHz

    307 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  81. Indonesia reports reduced deforestation, triggering carbon payment from Norway

    307 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  82. Kubernetes Failure Stories

    307 points • comment • jun 12, 2019

  83. Erlang OTP 22.0 is released

    307 points • comment • may 14, 2019

  84. You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)

    307 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  85. I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me

    307 points • comment • mar 20, 2019

  86. Aggressive Chess Openings (2012)

    307 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  87. An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in Romania

    307 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  88. Calculus with Julia

    307 points • comment • may 11, 2019

  89. Talent Is Everywhere, Opportunity Is Not

    307 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  90. Technical Breakdown of a new NES game written in Lisp

    307 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  91. The creeping IT apocalypse

    307 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  92. LiteCLI – A user-friendly command-line client for SQLite database

    307 points • comment • jan 05, 2019

  93. Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything

    306 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  94. Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections

    306 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  95. European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings

    306 points • comment • mar 06, 2019

  96. BlazingSQL is Now Open Source

    306 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  97. Thriving on the Technical Leadership Path

    306 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  98. Urbit

    306 points • comment • nov 30, 2019

  99. Slack was down

    306 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  100. Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM

    306 points • comment • jun 18, 2019