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Hacker News (2019)

My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine
663 points • comment • oct 14, 2019
Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance
663 points • comment • nov 22, 2019
One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI
662 points • comment • feb 01, 2019
Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
662 points • comment • oct 17, 2019
Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
661 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
661 points • comment • jun 08, 2019
Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
661 points • comment • jun 26, 2019
Blender 2.80
661 points • comment • jul 30, 2019
In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
660 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
660 points • comment • sep 12, 2019
Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV
660 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
660 points • comment • may 01, 2019
Write yourself a Git (2018)
659 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
EU brings in 'right to repair' rules for appliances
659 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
H.264 is magic (2016)
659 points • comment • may 24, 2019
Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care
659 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
658 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications
658 points • comment • jun 10, 2019
Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos
658 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
COI – Chat Over IMAP
657 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
656 points • comment • feb 06, 2019
Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
655 points • comment • apr 19, 2019
Software Engineering at Google (2017)
655 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
655 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
655 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)
654 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing
654 points • comment • aug 02, 2019
The Google Squeeze
654 points • comment • nov 12, 2019
Bullshit.js
653 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
What do executives do, anyway?
652 points • comment • sep 27, 2019
No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers
651 points • comment • jul 23, 2019
Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes
651 points • comment • nov 14, 2019
Foundations of Databases (1995)
651 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
650 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
649 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
WARP is here
648 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
648 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList
648 points • comment • sep 09, 2019
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1996) [pdf]
647 points • comment • oct 19, 2019
Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid
647 points • comment • jul 12, 2019
iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone
647 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
646 points • comment • aug 08, 2019
Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
645 points • comment • oct 22, 2019
AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
644 points • comment • may 27, 2019
Django 3
644 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide
643 points • comment • oct 13, 2019
We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
643 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Kerbal Space Program 2
642 points • comment • aug 19, 2019
What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail
642 points • comment • jan 27, 2019
DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
642 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?
642 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
99% of the Git commands you'll need at work, demonstrated in a single script
641 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
641 points • comment • sep 04, 2019
Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS
640 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
640 points • comment • may 03, 2019
Off-Grid Cyberdeck: Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit
640 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protesters
640 points • comment • oct 10, 2019
Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products
640 points • comment • sep 16, 2019
Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone
639 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO
639 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees
638 points • comment • feb 21, 2019
Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari
638 points • comment • sep 20, 2019
Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)
638 points • comment • apr 21, 2019
LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light
637 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
637 points • comment • may 07, 2019
Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
636 points • comment • jul 09, 2019
Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
635 points • comment • nov 02, 2019
Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data
635 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
635 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Consume less, create more
635 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
635 points • comment • nov 25, 2019
I can see your local web servers
635 points • comment • may 28, 2019
More Intel speculative execution vulnerabilities
634 points • comment • nov 13, 2019
Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year
634 points • comment • may 14, 2019
Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
634 points • comment • jan 30, 2019
A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign
633 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
What's Coming in Python 3.8
633 points • comment • jul 17, 2019
Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease
633 points • comment • apr 24, 2019
At what time of day do famous programmers work?
633 points • comment • jul 18, 2019
Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
633 points • comment • jul 15, 2019
Startup Playbook (2015)
633 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
632 points • comment • sep 21, 2019
MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
631 points • comment • aug 28, 2019
The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
631 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
The Hand Licking Incident
631 points • comment • jan 07, 2019
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation
630 points • comment • jul 22, 2019
Cloudflare Network Performance Issues
630 points • comment • jul 02, 2019
Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017)
630 points • comment • apr 05, 2019
Lesser Known Coding Fonts
629 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
What Happens to the Body on No Sleep
629 points • comment • oct 09, 2019
How to write idempotent Bash scripts
629 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
Tesla Model Y
629 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer
629 points • comment • aug 05, 2019
I Miss Rails
628 points • comment • mar 28, 2019
Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?
628 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
628 points • comment • aug 23, 2019
Photorealistic Path Tracer
628 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125
627 points • comment • sep 17, 2019
We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
627 points • comment • oct 23, 2019
Parse, Don’t Validate
627 points • comment • nov 07, 2019