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Hacker News (2019)

  1. Blender Is Free Software

    710 points • comment • jun 09, 2019

  2. How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit

    709 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  3. How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers

    708 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  4. California law banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure

    708 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  5. U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8

    707 points • comment • mar 13, 2019

  6. Addressing Spotify’s Claims

    707 points • comment • mar 15, 2019

  7. Uber S-1

    706 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  8. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

    706 points • comment • nov 06, 2019

  9. Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed to Make Money

    704 points • comment • mar 19, 2019

  10. The struggles of an open source maintainer

    704 points • comment • may 17, 2019

  11. Whitespace killed an enterprise app

    704 points • comment • feb 13, 2019

  12. Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal

    703 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  13. How the Dat Protocol Works

    703 points • comment • jul 05, 2019

  14. Firefox 65.0 released

    703 points • comment • jan 29, 2019

  15. Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon

    703 points • comment • mar 08, 2019

  16. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

    703 points • comment • jul 08, 2019

  17. Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

    702 points • comment • sep 19, 2019

  18. Give Firefox a chance

    702 points • comment • jun 23, 2019

  19. Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

    702 points • comment • sep 10, 2019

  20. Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset

    700 points • comment • feb 28, 2019

  21. Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore

    699 points • comment • aug 23, 2019

  22. Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)

    699 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  23. Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client

    699 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  24. Google claims copyright on employee side projects

    698 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  25. Stripe CLI

    698 points • comment • nov 05, 2019

  26. Magic Lantern

    698 points • comment • feb 18, 2019

  27. Four kinds of documentation

    698 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  28. Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

    698 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  29. Habits of Expert Software Designers

    698 points • comment • oct 08, 2019

  30. Running GitHub on Rails 6.0

    697 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  31. Build Your Own Text Editor

    697 points • comment • aug 04, 2019

  32. New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule

    697 points • comment • jan 02, 2019

  33. .NET 5

    697 points • comment • may 06, 2019

  34. Graying Out

    696 points • comment • mar 12, 2019

  35. I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is siding with the thief

    695 points • comment • jun 24, 2019

  36. The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins

    694 points • comment • jan 08, 2019

  37. Programming Fonts – Test Drive

    694 points • comment • jan 21, 2019

  38. EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others

    694 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  39. Earth and Sun

    694 points • comment • oct 18, 2019

  40. Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study

    694 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  41. HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide

    693 points • comment • jul 18, 2019

  42. Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

    692 points • comment • jan 22, 2019

  43. Twitter was down

    691 points • comment • jul 11, 2019

  44. Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor

    691 points • comment • oct 23, 2019

  45. Daytripper

    691 points • comment • sep 09, 2019

  46. The Deep Sea

    691 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  47. Downsides to working at a tech giant

    691 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  48. French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

    690 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  49. Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows

    690 points • comment • jun 20, 2019

  50. For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate

    690 points • comment • oct 07, 2019

  51. Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over

    689 points • comment • jan 17, 2019

  52. Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors

    689 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  53. Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company

    688 points • comment • jun 04, 2019

  54. Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019

    688 points • comment • jul 12, 2019

  55. Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates

    686 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  56. Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

    686 points • comment • jun 11, 2019

  57. Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

    686 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  58. Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable Go programs

    684 points • comment • feb 21, 2019

  59. Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People

    684 points • comment • jan 11, 2019

  60. How Discount Brokerages Make Money

    683 points • comment • jun 25, 2019

  61. Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

    683 points • comment • sep 18, 2019

  62. Apple announces Apple Card credit card

    682 points • comment • mar 25, 2019

  63. Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle

    682 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  64. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

    681 points • comment • jul 15, 2019

  65. Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People

    680 points • comment • oct 19, 2019

  66. Employee happiness and business success are linked

    680 points • comment • jul 30, 2019

  67. Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

    679 points • comment • oct 25, 2019

  68. I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”

    679 points • comment • aug 16, 2019

  69. A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests

    679 points • comment • may 21, 2019

  70. NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

    678 points • comment • oct 31, 2019

  71. New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

    678 points • comment • aug 06, 2019

  72. Fibery – yet another collaboration tool

    677 points • comment • nov 26, 2019

  73. Airbnb and security camera disclosure

    677 points • comment • jan 16, 2019

  74. Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum

    675 points • comment • may 02, 2019

  75. Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

    675 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  76. Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine

    675 points • comment • jun 26, 2019

  77. 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs

    675 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  78. Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality

    675 points • comment • aug 05, 2019

  79. Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG

    674 points • comment • may 29, 2019

  80. How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim

    673 points • comment • mar 21, 2019

  81. Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code

    673 points • comment • sep 01, 2019

  82. Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize

    673 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  83. Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud

    672 points • comment • jan 23, 2019

  84. Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)

    670 points • comment • feb 20, 2019

  85. Websocketd

    670 points • comment • jan 25, 2019

  86. PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years

    669 points • comment • feb 09, 2019

  87. Practical Linux Hardening Guide

    669 points • comment • jan 24, 2019

  88. YouTube video has its own URL in it

    669 points • comment • jul 16, 2019

  89. Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains

    669 points • comment • sep 06, 2019

  90. What Working at Stripe Has Been Like

    669 points • comment • mar 18, 2019

  91. YouTube was launched as a dating site

    669 points • comment • jul 21, 2019

  92. How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night

    669 points • comment • aug 22, 2019

  93. The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug

    668 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  94. Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad

    668 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  95. Epstein's injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says

    667 points • comment • oct 30, 2019

  96. Counterfeit books “shipped and sold by Amazon”?

    666 points • comment • oct 13, 2019

  97. PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again

    666 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  98. California Approves Statewide Rent Control

    666 points • comment • sep 11, 2019

  99. Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm

    665 points • comment • nov 04, 2019

  100. Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code

    665 points • comment • dec 29, 2019