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Articles written in 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2019The office is a theatre for work (tomcritchlow.com)
697 points across 3 posts | 4 months ago with 247 comments
2019Fast Software, the Best Software (craigmod.com)
694 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 79 comments
2019No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (nomedium.dev)
694 points | 2 years ago with 242 comments
2019Why Go and Not Rust? (kristoff.it)
682 points across 3 posts | 10 months ago with 168 comments
2019Cool, but obscure X11 tools (cyber.dabamos.de)
679 points across 2 posts | 4 months ago with 257 comments
2019One week of empathy training (shkspr.mobi)
664 points across 2 posts | 4 months ago with 286 comments
2019I assure you, medieval people bathed (going-medieval.com)
661 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 340 comments
2019In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (openculture.com)
627 points | 3 weeks ago with 149 comments
2019It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (hsivonen.fi)
624 points across 3 posts | 5 months ago with 300 comments
2019Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes (zdnet.com)
622 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 46 comments
2019Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (henricodolfing.com)
608 points | 1 year ago with 402 comments
2019Petition to open source Flash (github.com)
607 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2019AWS costs every programmer should know (david-codes.hatanian.com)
598 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 156 comments
2019Timsort (skerritt.blog)
595 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 60 comments
2019Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (cpomagazine.com)
592 points | 2 years ago with 173 comments
2019Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US (theguardian.com)
577 points across 4 posts | 9 months ago with 22 comments
2019Python built-ins worth learning (treyhunner.com)
571 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 112 comments
2019What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (arxiv.org)
560 points across 3 posts | 2 months ago with 173 comments
2019If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (smallstep.com)
555 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 332 comments
2019Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (codeblog.jonskeet.uk)
547 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 184 comments
2019There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train but I did it anyway (nytimes.com)
529 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 125 comments
2019Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (practicaltypography.com)
528 points across 3 posts | 6 months ago with 191 comments
2019How to write a bootloader from scratch (interrupt.memfault.com)
521 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2019I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
510 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 10 comments
2019JMAP: It’s Like IMAP but Not Really (unencumberedbyfacts.com)
509 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 131 comments
2019Unraveling the JPEG (parametric.press)
506 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments
2019I Miss the Old Internet (sffworld.com)
500 points | 2 years ago with 424 comments
2019I grew up gifted, but my life didn’t turn out the way I expected (cbc.ca)
500 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 53 comments
2019Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences (srconstantin.wordpress.com)
499 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 6 comments
2019Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow? (forrestthewoods.com)
493 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 226 comments
2019The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence (numenta.com)
490 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 62 comments
2019In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’ (nature.com)
490 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 159 comments
2019The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (cantorsparadise.com)
484 points | 2 years ago with 261 comments
2019Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (zdnet.com)
484 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 117 comments
2019Programmers should plan for lower pay (jefftk.com)
482 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 304 comments
2019Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D? (blog.mecheye.net)
480 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 71 comments
2019I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (blog.samuelmaddock.com)
479 points | 2 years ago with 186 comments
2019How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (gankra.github.io)
478 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2019Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (matuzo.at)
476 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 40 comments
2019Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper (nature.com)
471 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 104 comments
2019Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (webapp.io)
467 points | 1 year ago with 200 comments
2019Racket Is an Acceptable Python (dustycloud.org)
460 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 128 comments
2019How random can you be? (expunctis.com)
457 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 56 comments
2019Is Everything an MLM? (annehelen.substack.com)
453 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 109 comments
2019Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (andrewkelley.me)
451 points | 2 years ago with 160 comments
2019Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (lincolnquirk.com)
449 points | 1 year ago with 283 comments
2019The great American eye-exam scam (theatlantic.com)
448 points across 3 posts | 2 months ago with 80 comments
2019US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries (theconversation.com)
448 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 18 comments
2019Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search (opensourceconnections.com)
442 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2019Don't ask to ask, just ask (dontasktoask.com)
442 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 360 comments
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