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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

    264 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  2. Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra

    264 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  3. Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox

    264 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  4. Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?

    264 points • comment • jul 19, 2019

  5. How not to sign a JSON object

    264 points • comment • jul 24, 2019

  6. It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy

    264 points • comment • jul 09, 2019

  7. Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions

    264 points • comment • oct 02, 2019

  8. For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes

    264 points • comment • jul 10, 2019

  9. Feynman’s Breakthrough, Disregard Others (2017)

    264 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  10. Simple words that save lives: lessons from “expert talkers”

    264 points • comment • sep 23, 2019

  11. Inventors killed by their own inventions

    264 points • comment • jun 06, 2019

  12. WebGPU and WSL in Safari

    264 points • comment • sep 12, 2019

  13. Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging [pdf]

    264 points • comment • aug 27, 2019

  14. Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg but can’t do anything

    264 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  15. You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes

    264 points • comment • jun 30, 2019

  16. An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers (2018) [pdf]

    264 points • comment • feb 11, 2019

  17. Fertilizer plants emit 100 times more methane than reported

    264 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  18. Nations of the Amazon are seeking “shared governance” of the .amazon TLD

    264 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  19. The Case for Rooms

    264 points • comment • may 20, 2019

  20. Nim vs. Crystal

    264 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  21. A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates

    263 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  22. The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new computer model confirms

    263 points • comment • oct 21, 2019

  23. Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (2015)

    263 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  24. How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works

    263 points • comment • oct 28, 2019

  25. RIP Culture War Thread

    263 points • comment • feb 22, 2019

  26. Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer

    263 points • comment • oct 12, 2019

  27. US to build six nuclear power plants in India

    263 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  28. Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl

    263 points • comment • jun 19, 2019

  29. Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ

    263 points • comment • sep 03, 2019

  30. Python built-ins worth learning

    263 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  31. Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature

    263 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  32. Functional Programming in OCaml

    263 points • comment • mar 03, 2019

  33. DeepSpeech 0.6

    263 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  34. Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding

    263 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  35. Using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare Workers for free image hosting

    263 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  36. Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?

    263 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  37. Krita 4.2.0: First painting application with HDR support on Windows

    263 points • comment • mar 14, 2019

  38. Jailbreaking Subaru StarLink

    263 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  39. Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++

    263 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  40. Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast

    263 points • comment • nov 27, 2019

  41. Interview with Edward Snowden

    263 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  42. Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?

    263 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  43. Two creators are not always better than one

    263 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  44. Learn Just a Little Awk (2010)

    263 points • comment • sep 28, 2019

  45. Quantum supremacy: the gloves are off

    263 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  46. UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018)

    263 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  47. Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans

    262 points • comment • jan 15, 2019

  48. We need new data books, so we started one: Cloud Data Management

    262 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  49. DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer

    262 points • comment • sep 13, 2019

  50. I got asked LeetCode questions for a dev-ops systems engineering job today

    262 points • comment • jun 14, 2019

  51. The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing

    262 points • comment • jan 28, 2019

  52. Toilets of the World

    262 points • comment • jul 23, 2019

  53. Librem One – A growing bundle of ethical services

    262 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  54. Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?

    262 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  55. United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden

    262 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  56. Tennessee doctors earn big money denying disability claims

    262 points • comment • jan 07, 2019

  57. Better Bash History (2012)

    262 points • comment • may 30, 2019

  58. Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans

    262 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  59. The GitHub registry public beta is live

    262 points • comment • aug 20, 2019

  60. Dutch radio amateurs image far side of the Moon using Chinese satellite data

    262 points • comment • feb 06, 2019

  61. Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%

    262 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  62. The future of undersea Internet cables: Are big tech companies forming a cartel?

    262 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  63. GNU Radio 3.8

    262 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  64. China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains

    262 points • comment • oct 03, 2019

  65. Easy to Remember Color Guide for Non-Designers

    262 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  66. The difference a dad can make

    262 points • comment • jun 17, 2019

  67. Cancer death rates are falling, five-year survival rates rising

    262 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  68. PyTorch Mobile

    261 points • comment • oct 10, 2019

  69. Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster

    261 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  70. Dark matter nightmare: What if we are just using the wrong equations?

    261 points • comment • oct 16, 2019

  71. How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (2017)

    261 points • comment • sep 17, 2019

  72. L-systems

    261 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  73. Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck

    261 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  74. In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer

    261 points • comment • oct 04, 2019

  75. On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality

    261 points • comment • jun 05, 2019

  76. How the UK Security Services neutralised The Guardian

    261 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  77. Openpilot – open-source self-driving agent

    261 points • comment • may 12, 2019

  78. Tone.js – A framework for making interactive music in the browser

    261 points • comment • mar 28, 2019

  79. L.A. temporarily suspends Uber’s permit to rent out electric scooters and bikes

    261 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  80. Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA

    261 points • comment • oct 20, 2019

  81. Pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

    261 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  82. Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back

    261 points • comment • aug 28, 2019

  83. Ask HN: What is the difference between Burnout/Depression/Laziness/Wrong job?

    261 points • comment • jan 13, 2019

  84. Show HN: The Cyber Plumber's Handbook – SSH Tunnel Like a Boss

    261 points • comment • may 18, 2019

  85. Biometric YubiKey

    261 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  86. Minify Your SVGs

    261 points • comment • aug 12, 2019

  87. France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights

    261 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  88. Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone

    261 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  89. Inheritance versus Composition

    261 points • comment • may 08, 2019

  90. Studying the demise of historic civilisations

    261 points • comment • mar 05, 2019

  91. Google and Binomial Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format

    261 points • comment • may 22, 2019

  92. Mystery meat OpenJDK builds strike again

    261 points • comment • may 19, 2019

  93. Wind is outpacing coal as a power source in Texas for the first time

    261 points • comment • jul 26, 2019

  94. Four Years of Rust

    261 points • comment • may 15, 2019

  95. Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn

    261 points • comment • aug 18, 2019

  96. America is turning against facial-recognition software

    261 points • comment • may 24, 2019

  97. Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

    261 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  98. Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise

    261 points • comment • aug 25, 2019

  99. Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster

    261 points • comment • sep 21, 2019

  100. Curl to shell isn't so bad

    261 points • comment • nov 09, 2019