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Hacker News (2019)

  1. The Many Possibilities of iMessage File Vulnerability

    277 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  2. The Door Problem of Combat Design

    277 points • comment • aug 08, 2019

  3. Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf]

    277 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  4. A random dungeon generator in C, small enough to fit on a business card

    277 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  5. Defining a Distinguished Engineer

    277 points • comment • mar 22, 2019

  6. Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA

    277 points • comment • jan 31, 2019

  7. My Product Is Unexpectedly Being Used to Help People with Dementia

    276 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  8. China Tortured Me over Hong Kong, Says Former British Consulate Employee

    276 points • comment • nov 20, 2019

  9. Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

    276 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  10. When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

    276 points • comment • jul 22, 2019

  11. Show HN: Shiori v1.5 – Self hosted bookmarks manager, now with archival support

    276 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  12. NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014)

    276 points • comment • sep 20, 2019

  13. More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors

    276 points • comment • nov 12, 2019

  14. Don Valentine has died

    276 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  15. Deliveroo users are getting defrauded

    276 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  16. The sad state of personal data and infrastructure

    276 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  17. What Is a Manifold?

    276 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  18. Zero-shot transfer across 93 languages

    276 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  19. The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

    276 points • comment • mar 17, 2019

  20. How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

    276 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  21. Writing a game engine in pure C: The Graphic Initialization

    276 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  22. The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought

    276 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  23. An apology to our community, and next steps

    276 points • comment • oct 06, 2019

  24. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory

    276 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  25. What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?

    276 points • comment • sep 26, 2019

  26. Ways to Tweak Slow SQL Queries

    276 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  27. PHP 7.4

    276 points • comment • nov 28, 2019

  28. India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius

    276 points • comment • jun 02, 2019

  29. Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease [pdf]

    276 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  30. Health insurance companies are useless

    276 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  31. Details about MIDI 2.0

    275 points • comment • may 25, 2019

  32. PIA open-sources and announces audit plans

    275 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  33. Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York

    275 points • comment • mar 31, 2019

  34. A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin

    275 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  35. The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers

    275 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  36. Why Japan lost its comparative advantage in producing electronic parts

    275 points • comment • oct 05, 2019

  37. Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide

    275 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  38. Fundamental design principles for non-designers

    275 points • comment • may 13, 2019

  39. Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old

    275 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  40. Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way

    275 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  41. Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

    275 points • comment • nov 16, 2019

  42. Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May

    275 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  43. Debian Buster will only be 54% reproducible, while we could be at 90%

    275 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  44. Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS

    275 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  45. Terraform 0.12

    275 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  46. Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust

    275 points • comment • nov 01, 2019

  47. Are We Wayland Yet?

    275 points • comment • nov 25, 2019

  48. Let’s talk about open-source sustainability

    275 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  49. Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus

    275 points • comment • aug 14, 2019

  50. Let's Get Going with Org-Mode

    275 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  51. Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (1995)

    275 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  52. The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals

    274 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  53. What it's like to bootstrap a business before it can financially support you

    274 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  54. An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks

    274 points • comment • jul 25, 2019

  55. Insect Apocalypse German Bug Watchers Sound Alarm

    274 points • comment • jul 04, 2019

  56. Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf]

    274 points • comment • sep 08, 2019

  57. Scientists discover the chemicals behind the unique Parkinson’s smell

    274 points • comment • mar 30, 2019

  58. Eliminating Robocalls

    274 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  59. NYC scientist fired after raising questions about a DNA test gets $1M settlement

    274 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  60. Glass discs that can store 360TB and remain intact for billions of years (2016)

    274 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  61. AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering

    274 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  62. Kubernetes Academy, a free product-agnostic education platform

    274 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  63. Tell HN: GitHub deleted anti-censorship activist repositories

    274 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  64. Secretly Public Domain: Most books published in the US before 1964

    274 points • comment • aug 02, 2019

  65. Observable’s Not JavaScript

    274 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  66. The Tech of Pixar: Piper (2017)

    274 points • comment • nov 08, 2019

  67. Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’

    274 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  68. Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'

    274 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  69. PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8

    274 points • comment • may 09, 2019

  70. 8bit Workshop

    274 points • comment • jan 30, 2019

  71. Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners

    274 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  72. Google collects face data now – what it means and how to opt out

    274 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  73. Developing for Android is like being a demonetized YouTuber

    274 points • comment • mar 27, 2019

  74. Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading

    274 points • comment • aug 17, 2019

  75. What Is Good About Haskell?

    274 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  76. A personal story about 10× development

    274 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  77. Thousands of scientists run up against Elsevier’s paywall

    273 points • comment • feb 08, 2019

  78. AdTech Sucks

    273 points • comment • jun 07, 2019

  79. Betrusted: A Security Enclave for Humans

    273 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  80. Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers

    273 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  81. The Last POWER1 CPU on Mars Is Dead

    273 points • comment • feb 25, 2019

  82. C++ 20: The Core Language

    273 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  83. Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes

    273 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  84. Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie

    273 points • comment • mar 02, 2019

  85. The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks

    273 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  86. Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15

    273 points • comment • oct 11, 2019

  87. Slow Mornings May Be a Secret to Tech-Life Balance

    273 points • comment • sep 05, 2019

  88. Show HN: Editable, royalty-free SVG illustrations

    273 points • comment • mar 24, 2019

  89. Two Large Chinese Borrowers Miss Bond Payments, Sources Say

    273 points • comment • feb 12, 2019

  90. Doctor T, don’t you get tired of only seeing older patients?

    273 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  91. Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)

    273 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  92. Monotype launches the first redesign of Helvetica in 35 years

    273 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  93. Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Small Ones, and Taking Their Jobs with Them

    273 points • comment • sep 07, 2019

  94. Alan Moore on superhero culture

    273 points • comment • nov 19, 2019

  95. A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners (2017)

    273 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  96. The design of littlefs: A fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers

    273 points • comment • aug 31, 2019

  97. Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments

    273 points • comment • feb 24, 2019

  98. GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea

    273 points • comment • jul 29, 2019

  99. To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight

    273 points • comment • sep 24, 2019

  100. Slack Security Incident

    273 points • comment • jul 19, 2019