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Hacker News (2019)

Parse, Don’t Validate
627 points • comment • nov 07, 2019
Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity
626 points • comment • apr 22, 2019
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application
626 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
624 points • comment • may 30, 2019
Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
624 points • comment • jan 03, 2019
Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam
624 points • comment • nov 19, 2019
Start Your Own ISP
624 points • comment • aug 17, 2019
Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)
624 points • comment • aug 22, 2019
Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta
623 points • comment • apr 09, 2019
Apple Cancels AirPower Product
623 points • comment • mar 29, 2019
The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
623 points • comment • nov 15, 2019
Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author
623 points • comment • may 30, 2019
The China Cultural Clash
623 points • comment • oct 08, 2019
The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon
622 points • comment • oct 01, 2019
Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players
622 points • comment • nov 27, 2019
Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
622 points • comment • sep 19, 2019
When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques
622 points • comment • nov 11, 2019
Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?
621 points • comment • oct 21, 2019
Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
621 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Gitlab ‘rethinking’ third-party telemetry
620 points • comment • oct 24, 2019
50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
620 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]
620 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Ask HN: How Do You Read?
620 points • comment • aug 31, 2019
Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
620 points • comment • jul 31, 2019
Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw
619 points • comment • mar 12, 2019
Strong_password Rubygem hijacked
619 points • comment • jul 07, 2019
WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork
618 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
618 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output
618 points • comment • feb 19, 2019
Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains
618 points • comment • apr 02, 2019
Going Solo, Successfully
618 points • comment • feb 17, 2019
Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier
618 points • comment • oct 12, 2019
Winning the Blackbird Battle
618 points • comment • feb 14, 2019
Saving Lydia
617 points • comment • jul 25, 2019
In Defense of Richard Stallman
617 points • comment • sep 30, 2019
Show HN: This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
616 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
616 points • comment • may 16, 2019
Argdown
616 points • comment • jul 19, 2019
IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program
615 points • comment • oct 30, 2019
OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites
615 points • comment • oct 15, 2019
Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
615 points • comment • jul 13, 2019
National Park Typeface
615 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Being Bored Is Good
614 points • comment • jul 08, 2019
Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard
614 points • comment • nov 01, 2019
Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users
613 points • comment • mar 14, 2019
Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
613 points • comment • mar 25, 2019
A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet
613 points • comment • jan 28, 2019
Keybase is not softer than TOFU
612 points • comment • mar 27, 2019
Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
612 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
PCI Express on the Raspberry Pi 4
612 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'
612 points • comment • sep 01, 2019
Why wasn't this page found?
612 points • comment • jul 21, 2019
Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound
611 points • comment • nov 05, 2019
Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website
611 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
“I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
610 points • comment • apr 16, 2019
Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software
610 points • comment • mar 26, 2019
Scientists rise up against statistical significance
610 points • comment • mar 20, 2019
Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby
609 points • comment • jun 20, 2019
Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?
609 points • comment • jan 18, 2019
Git rebase in depth
608 points • comment • may 10, 2019
Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
608 points • comment • jun 18, 2019
Sinkholed
608 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys
607 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)
607 points • comment • apr 29, 2019
DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps
607 points • comment • jul 16, 2019
South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
607 points • comment • may 18, 2019
SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
606 points • comment • jan 12, 2019
Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing
606 points • comment • sep 07, 2019
Open source firmware is important for security
605 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
605 points • comment • jul 10, 2019
Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
605 points • comment • oct 11, 2019
Mozilla WebThings
605 points • comment • apr 18, 2019
Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
604 points • comment • apr 23, 2019
Making My Own Glasses
604 points • comment • oct 04, 2019
Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours
603 points • comment • aug 13, 2019
We Can Do Better Than SQL
602 points • comment • may 09, 2019
How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
602 points • comment • mar 15, 2019
Technical Debt
602 points • comment • may 21, 2019
Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
602 points • comment • sep 11, 2019
Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
602 points • comment • may 09, 2019
Use mmap with care
602 points • comment • may 02, 2019
The Grove 8 – Growing Trees in Blender
602 points • comment • oct 20, 2019
How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project
601 points • comment • jan 10, 2019
How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018)
600 points • comment • jun 04, 2019
Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
600 points • comment • may 21, 2019
A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse
599 points • comment • jan 22, 2019
Arabsat-6A mission [video]
599 points • comment • apr 11, 2019
Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage
599 points • comment • jul 29, 2019
A patent lawsuit against GNOME
598 points • comment • sep 25, 2019
YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
598 points • comment • feb 28, 2019
Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)
598 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
Intel publishes misleading benchmarks against AMD
598 points • comment • nov 06, 2019
Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
598 points • comment • mar 13, 2019
The Route of a Text Message
598 points • comment • jan 16, 2019
Happy Hues – Curated colors in context
597 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python
597 points • comment • mar 06, 2019
Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D
596 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
What's Salesforce?
596 points • comment • jun 25, 2019
My Twitch Live Coding Setup
595 points • comment • feb 25, 2019
Apple: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent, just IP addresses
595 points • comment • oct 14, 2019