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Articles written in 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2019I Sell Onions on the Internet (deepsouthventures.com)
3248 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 89 comments
2019The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (newyorker.com)
2569 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 243 comments
2019Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (blog.cloudflare.com)
2043 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 239 comments
2019Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer (monicalent.com)
1986 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 257 comments
2019This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (secretgeek.github.io)
1895 points across 3 posts | 8 months ago with 44 comments
2019Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (jarredsumner.com)
1840 points across 3 posts | 10 months ago with 269 comments
2019Fast (patrickcollison.com)
1528 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 97 comments
2019Why are glasses so expensive? The industry prefers to keep that blurry (latimes.com)
1525 points across 2 posts | 6 months ago with 309 comments
2019Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (hacks.mozilla.org)
1523 points across 2 posts | 2 months ago with 48 comments
2019Parse, don't validate (lexi-lambda.github.io)
1456 points across 4 posts | 2 months ago with 214 comments
2019This page is designed to last (jeffhuang.com)
1450 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2019“DigitalOcean Killed Our Company” (twitter.com)
1398 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 24 comments
2019The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness (city-journal.org)
1346 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 8 comments
2019Dotfile madness (0x46.net)
1335 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 181 comments
2019My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (twitter.com)
1137 points | 1 year ago with 556 comments
2019Local-First Software (inkandswitch.com)
1119 points across 6 posts | 11 months ago with 28 comments
2019Going Critical (meltingasphalt.com)
1052 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 11 comments
2019Seriously, Stop Using RSA (blog.trailofbits.com)
1036 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 101 comments
2019Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (localghost.dev)
1003 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 97 comments
2019Lessons learned building an ML trading system that turned $5k into $200k (tradientblog.com)
983 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 35 comments
2019Protocols, not platforms: A technological approach to free speech (knightcolumbia.org)
976 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 37 comments
2019Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (statnews.com)
976 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 300 comments
2019De-Stressing Booking.com (alexcharlton.co)
960 points | 1 month ago with 359 comments
2019Chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 (sha-mbles.github.io)
950 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 8 comments
2019Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (nationalgeographic.com)
911 points | 2 years ago with 292 comments
2019I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape (castel.dev)
851 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 76 comments
2019National Park Typeface (nationalparktypeface.com)
824 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 31 comments
2019How to Get Rich (nav.al)
824 points across 3 posts | 6 months ago with 53 comments
2019TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (propublica.org)
807 points | 2 years ago with 199 comments
2019Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (blog.danslimmon.com)
804 points | 1 year ago with 230 comments
2019Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (arstechnica.com)
797 points | 2 years ago with 424 comments
2019“Why We Sleep” is riddled with scientific and factual errors (guzey.com)
797 points across 4 posts | 5 months ago with 115 comments
2019The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (blog.haschek.at)
795 points | 1 year ago with 261 comments
2019Intel's “Cripple AMD” Function (agner.org)
794 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 107 comments
2019Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (arstechnica.com)
780 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 128 comments
2019History and effective use of Vim (begriffs.com)
763 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 95 comments
2019Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people (mcdreeamiemusings.com)
753 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 196 comments
2019Google's PageRank patent has expired (patents.google.com)
749 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 167 comments
2019Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
744 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 31 comments
2019What happened to the 100k-hour LED bulbs? (hackaday.com)
723 points across 3 posts | 1 month ago with 0 comments
2019How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer (spectrum.ieee.org)
719 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 136 comments
2019A free introduction to quantum computing with spaced repetition (quantum.country)
716 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 15 comments
2019The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (programming.guide)
706 points | 1 year ago with 334 comments
2019Fast Software, the Best Software (craigmod.com)
694 points across 3 posts | 6 months ago with 79 comments
2019No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (nomedium.dev)
694 points | 1 year ago with 242 comments
2019Why Go and Not Rust? (kristoff.it)
682 points across 3 posts | 4 months ago with 168 comments
2019I assure you, medieval people bathed (going-medieval.com)
661 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 340 comments
2019Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes (zdnet.com)
622 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 46 comments
2019Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (henricodolfing.com)
608 points | 10 months ago with 402 comments
2019Petition to open source Flash (github.com)
607 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments
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