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| Articles written in 2019 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2019 | | I Sell Onions on the Internet (deepsouthventures.com) |
| 3248 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2019 | | A DIY business card that runs Linux (thirtythreeforty.net) |
| 2815 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (newyorker.com) |
| 2795 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 243 comments |
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| 2019 | | Algorithms (jeffe.cs.illinois.edu) |
| 2342 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 23 comments |
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| 2019 | | Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (blog.cloudflare.com) |
| 2043 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 2019 | | Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer (monicalent.com) |
| 1986 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 257 comments |
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| 2019 | | This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (secretgeek.github.io) |
| 1895 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (jarredsumner.com) |
| 1840 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 269 comments |
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| 2019 | | Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (apenwarr.ca) |
| 1696 points across 11 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments |
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| 2019 | | Fast (patrickcollison.com) |
| 1528 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why are glasses so expensive? The industry prefers to keep that blurry (latimes.com) |
| 1525 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 309 comments |
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| 2019 | | Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (hacks.mozilla.org) |
| 1523 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 48 comments |
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| 2019 | | Parse, don't validate (lexi-lambda.github.io) |
| 1456 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 214 comments |
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| 2019 | | This page is designed to last (jeffhuang.com) |
| 1450 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2019 | | “DigitalOcean Killed Our Company” (twitter.com) |
| 1398 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2019 | | The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness (city-journal.org) |
| 1346 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2019 | | Dotfile madness (0x46.net) |
| 1335 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Deep Sea (neal.fun) |
| 1306 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 124 comments |
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| 2019 | | WTF Happened in 1971? (wtfhappenedin1971.com) |
| 1162 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 105 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (erikbern.com) |
| 1158 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 171 comments |
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| 2019 | | My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (twitter.com) |
| 1137 points | 3 years ago with 556 comments |
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| 2019 | | Local-First Software (inkandswitch.com) |
| 1119 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2019 | | Going Critical (meltingasphalt.com) |
| 1052 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2019 | | Seriously, Stop Using RSA (blog.trailofbits.com) |
| 1036 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2019 | | Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (localghost.dev) |
| 1003 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2019 | | Lessons learned building an ML trading system that turned $5k into $200k (tradientblog.com) |
| 983 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2019 | | Protocols, not platforms: A technological approach to free speech (knightcolumbia.org) |
| 976 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2019 | | Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (statnews.com) |
| 976 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 300 comments |
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| 2019 | | De-Stressing Booking.com (alexcharlton.co) |
| 960 points | 1 year ago with 359 comments |
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| 2019 | | Chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 (sha-mbles.github.io) |
| 950 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 2019 | | Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (nationalgeographic.com) |
| 911 points | 3 years ago with 292 comments |
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| 2019 | | My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (gwern.net) |
| 887 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments |
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| 2019 | | I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape (castel.dev) |
| 851 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2019 | | National Park Typeface (nationalparktypeface.com) |
| 824 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2019 | | How to Get Rich (nav.al) |
| 824 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2019 | | Popcount CPU instruction (vaibhavsagar.com) |
| 823 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 99 comments |
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| 2019 | | TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (propublica.org) |
| 807 points | 3 years ago with 199 comments |
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| 2019 | | Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (blog.danslimmon.com) |
| 804 points | 3 years ago with 230 comments |
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| 2019 | | Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (arstechnica.com) |
| 797 points | 3 years ago with 424 comments |
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| 2019 | | “Why We Sleep” is riddled with scientific and factual errors (guzey.com) |
| 797 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 115 comments |
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| 2019 | | The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (blog.haschek.at) |
| 795 points | 2 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 2019 | | Intel's “Cripple AMD” Function (agner.org) |
| 794 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2019 | | Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (arstechnica.com) |
| 780 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2019 | | History and effective use of Vim (begriffs.com) |
| 763 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2019 | | Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people (mcdreeamiemusings.com) |
| 753 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 196 comments |
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| 2019 | | Google's PageRank patent has expired (patents.google.com) |
| 749 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 167 comments |
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| 2019 | | Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated (blog.pragmaticengineer.com) |
| 744 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2019 | | What happened to the 100k-hour LED bulbs? (hackaday.com) |
| 723 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 2019 | | How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 719 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2019 | | A free introduction to quantum computing with spaced repetition (quantum.country) |
| 716 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 15 comments |
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