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Hacker News (Jan 2020)

  1. The Firefox Browser is a privacy nightmare on desktop and mobile

    17 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  2. 500000 server, router, and IoT passwords leaked

    17 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  3. Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2019 Computed from Internet Archive

    17 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  4. Video Apparently Showing Flight 572 Missile Strike Geolocated to Iranian Suburb

    17 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  5. A Court Said Au Pairs Deserve Minimum Wage. Some Families Are Protesting

    17 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  6. SoftBank-backed Zume Pizza to lay off up to 80% of its staff

    17 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  7. The Meaning of Margaret Mead

    17 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  8. Modelling BBR's interactions with traditional TCP loss-based congestion control

    17 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  9. “Apple Says ‘No ’” and What That Means for the Future of Better Blocker

    17 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  10. Show HN: Generating privacy policies for iOS apps from their code

    17 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  11. Threatbus: connect open-source threat intelligence tools

    17 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  12. Too Tired to Do Everything? How to Live Better Without Burning Out

    17 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  13. Top three requirements for OTA software updates for IoT

    17 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  14. Show HN: Constraint-Based School Timetabling with Prolog

    17 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  15. A Sense Enhanced Game of Life (2015) [pdf]

    17 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  16. Show HN: How good are you at spotting lookalike domains?

    17 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  17. CBP officers seize $900K worth of counterfeit U.S. currency

    17 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  18. Dev says game started selling 400% better on Steam after releasing torrent

    17 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  19. Aamber Pegasus

    17 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  20. Show HN: Craydom – a pure view abstraction in ES6

    17 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  21. US Government Publishing Office Website Defaced

    17 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  22. Cool color palette tool for designers (And it's free)

    16 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  23. Coronavirus declared global health emergency by WHO

    16 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  24. Doing Things That Scale

    16 points • comment • jan 19, 2020

  25. Bestpetting Cheated

    16 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  26. Night rider: 21 years sleeping on a London bus

    16 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  27. Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999)

    16 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  28. Git-backed static website powered entirely by AWS

    16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  29. Denmark sources record 47% of power from wind in 2019

    16 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  30. Show HN: Xeroxed Paper Style Portfolio

    16 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  31. Mailgun eliminates 'Concept' plan, no longer offering 10000 free emails/mo

    16 points • comment • jan 30, 2020

  32. Comparisons of Alloy and Spin (2018)

    16 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  33. T.S. Eliot letters show love for muse but poet downplays it

    16 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  34. Apple is bullying a security company with a dangerous DMCA lawsuit

    16 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  35. Amazon Engineer Leaked Encryption Keys. Analysts Discovered Them in Minutes

    16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  36. A study examined coordinated care for the most expensive patients

    16 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  37. Hubble detects smallest known dark matter clumps

    16 points • comment • jan 09, 2020

  38. Major US Telcos Teeter Toward Bankruptcy

    16 points • comment • jan 02, 2020

  39. 15 Sweet Websites for Free Artwork

    16 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  40. RefBot: Intelligent Software Refactoring Bot

    16 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  41. SpaceX Is Going to Blow Up a Falcon 9 Rocket Just After Launch

    16 points • comment • jan 11, 2020

  42. Iran offers $80M bounty for POTUS’s head after death of general

    16 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  43. Please Don’t Abbreviate the Year ‘2020’ on Checks and Legal Documents

    16 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  44. Almost 9 out of 10 Canadians feel food prices are rising faster than income

    16 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  45. Ask HN: What benefits of quitting alcohol consumption?

    16 points • comment • jan 06, 2020

  46. (A Few) Ops Lessons We All Learn the Hard Way

    16 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  47. Odd Job: This teen bought a bunch of vending machines. Now he makes six figures

    16 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  48. Brexit will soon cost the UK more than its total payments to the EU

    16 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  49. Teen Vogue’s Yanked Facebook Sponsored Content on Election Integrity

    16 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  50. Tesla cars are accelerating without warning, prompting government scrutiny

    16 points • comment • jan 17, 2020

  51. Archaeal Richmond Mine Acidophilic Nanoorganisms

    16 points • comment • jan 13, 2020

  52. Security on the Internet with Cloudflare for Teams

    16 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  53. Compiling Dark to SQL

    16 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  54. Ancient never-before-seen viruses discovered locked up in Tibetan glacier

    16 points • comment • jan 22, 2020

  55. The Pesticide Industry's Playbook for Poisoning the Earth

    16 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  56. How to evaluate candidates for your first UX hire when you don't know UX

    16 points • comment • jan 15, 2020

  57. Show HN: SaaS Growth Calculator – Calculate growth using common metrics

    16 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  58. My book, Principles of PM, helps new product managers launch their careers

    16 points • comment • jan 12, 2020

  59. Vine Relaunches as Byte

    16 points • comment • jan 25, 2020

  60. Immune cell which kills most cancers discovered by accident

    16 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  61. Jamming GPS Signals Is Illegal, Dangerous, Cheap, and Easy (2017)

    16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  62. Disciplined People Rarely Need to Use Willpower or Self-Control

    16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  63. Don't abbreviate 2020. It's for your own good

    16 points • comment • jan 04, 2020

  64. Clearview Says Its Software Identified a Terrorism Suspect. Cops Say Otherwise

    16 points • comment • jan 23, 2020

  65. Hierarchical JSON with SQLite / RediSQL

    16 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  66. Iranian Missiles into Iraq

    16 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  67. Public Domain Day 2020

    16 points • comment • jan 01, 2020

  68. Introducing Yarn 2

    16 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  69. Ask HN: Strategy for changing your primary email?

    16 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  70. Ask HN: I can't specialize, how to differentiate myself?

    16 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  71. Booker beware: Airbnb scans your online life to see if you’re a suitable guest

    16 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  72. The Polygons of Another World: Atari ST

    15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  73. Freelancer Scams: How to stay wary of dubious freelancers?

    15 points • comment • jan 07, 2020

  74. Redshirt: Experimental OS where binaries are WASM, run in ring 0

    15 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  75. Dijkstra: Philips and I – a few snapshots (2001) [pdf]

    15 points • comment • jan 28, 2020

  76. Facebook closes down 6%, wiping out more than $30B in market value

    15 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  77. RustZone: Writing (ARM) Trusted Applications in Rust

    15 points • comment • jan 18, 2020

  78. We sell advertising, not search results

    15 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  79. Republic of Zaqistan (2012)

    15 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  80. Top JavaScript Frameworks and Topics to Learn in 2020 and the New Decade

    15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  81. Re-keying every lock in your house all by yourself

    15 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  82. Japanese teachers expel school intruder with the Sasumata

    15 points • comment • jan 03, 2020

  83. The Road to Reliability Starts with Better Observability

    15 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  84. Show HN: Golang AMQP Fluent Interface

    15 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  85. Unable to unlock gunman’s iPhones, the FBI (once again) asks for Apple’s help

    15 points • comment • jan 08, 2020

  86. NYT: Russian hackers successfully targeted Ukrainian gas company Burisma

    15 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  87. Smokejumper

    15 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  88. Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts

    15 points • comment • jan 31, 2020

  89. Show HN: React Nice Dates

    15 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  90. Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors with Ukrainian Firmware

    15 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  91. GitOps for Node.js and Express.js Using Helm3 and Flux

    15 points • comment • jan 20, 2020

  92. The sad truth about our boldest climate target

    15 points • comment • jan 05, 2020

  93. The Fall of Trada (2019)

    15 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  94. GDPR: 160k data breaches reported already, so expect the big fines to follow

    15 points • comment • jan 21, 2020

  95. One Question You Should Never Ask Your Boss

    15 points • comment • jan 24, 2020

  96. The Firefox Browser is a privacy nightmare on desktop and mobile

    15 points • comment • jan 26, 2020

  97. Observing Your API Traffic with Tyk, Elasticsearch and Kibana

    15 points • comment • jan 14, 2020

  98. Netflix to Lay Off Employees as It Shifts Marketing Strategy

    15 points • comment • jan 29, 2020

  99. The World’s Most-Profitable Hedge Fund Is Now a Climate Radical

    15 points • comment • jan 27, 2020

  100. Judge0 IDE – Free and open-source online code editor

    15 points • comment • jan 05, 2020