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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. Every Google result now looks like an ad

    3582 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  2. Thank HN: You helped me get a new job

    2392 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  3. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

    2270 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  4. Goodbye, Clean Code

    1642 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  5. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

    1605 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  6. Which Emoji Scissors Close?

    1498 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  7. Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

    1434 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  8. Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

    1343 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  9. Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

    1306 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  10. A Sad Day for Rust

    1195 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  11. Not everyone has an internal monologue

    1153 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  12. How to Exit Vim

    1101 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  13. My Second Year as a Solo Developer

    1039 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  14. Monoliths Are the Future

    1009 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  15. An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

    993 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  16. WireGuard is now in Linus' tree

    978 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  17. Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)

    955 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  18. The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1

    923 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  19. Mozilla lays off 70

    900 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  20. Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)

    896 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  21. Software Disenchantment (2018)

    889 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  22. VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now

    862 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  23. SMS is not 2FA-secure

    856 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  24. Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019

    837 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  25. My FOSS Story

    821 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  26. DigitalOcean is laying off staff

    812 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  27. Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

    807 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  28. EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V

    789 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  29. What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?

    783 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  30. iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry

    777 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  31. “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”

    773 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  32. Products I Wish Existed

    772 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  33. Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month

    771 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  34. Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?

    758 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  35. Firefox 72.0

    752 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  36. I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

    736 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  37. List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

    727 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  38. We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)

    718 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  39. Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data

    717 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  40. Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level

    715 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  41. Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration

    715 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  42. Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]

    711 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  43. Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code

    704 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  44. When good ideas make bad business

    704 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  45. For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity

    698 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  46. Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run

    695 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  47. Unofficial Apple Archive

    693 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  48. The Polygons of Another World

    693 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  49. Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

    689 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  50. DuckDuckGo Traffic

    689 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  51. Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers

    676 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  52. Off-Facebook activity

    673 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  53. Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?

    667 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  54. BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X

    664 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  55. Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

    659 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  56. Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

    656 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  57. Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go

    654 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  58. Terry Jones has died

    644 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  59. Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

    644 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  60. Reverse engineering course

    640 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  61. The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)

    640 points • comment • jan 10, 2020

  62. Float Toy

    634 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  63. City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

    634 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  64. BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next

    624 points • comment • jan 16, 2020

  65. Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine (2018)

    622 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  66. The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

    619 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  67. TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages

    614 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  68. Responsive Pixel Art

    610 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  69. Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'

    608 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  70. The EARN IT Act: how to ban end-to-end encryption without banning it

    604 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  71. CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions

    602 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  72. Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay

    602 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  73. Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment

    601 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  74. Clayton Christensen has died

    600 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  75. Hipmunk Says Goodbye

    600 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  76. Google backtracks on search results design

    594 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  77. U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software

    593 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  78. Why I Keep a Research Blog

    591 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  79. Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware

    590 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  80. 13.3" full color ePaper display

    589 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  81. An alternative argument for why women leave STEM

    588 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  82. Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers

    587 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  83. Bug #915: Please help

    587 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  84. Being a Noob

    586 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  85. Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

    584 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  86. OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall

    579 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  87. Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system

    579 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  88. EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces

    575 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  89. Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States

    574 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  90. Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server

    569 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  91. DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU

    566 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  92. Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

    555 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  93. The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

    549 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  94. How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study

    549 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  95. Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud

    549 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  96. In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average

    543 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  97. “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

    540 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  98. Linus: Don't Use ZFS

    539 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  99. Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?

    538 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  100. No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation)

    533 points • comment • jan 05, 2020