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| Articles written in 2019 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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2019 | | The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (programming.guide) |
| 706 points | 3 years ago with 334 comments |
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2019 | | The office is a theatre for work (tomcritchlow.com) |
| 697 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 247 comments |
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2019 | | Fast Software, the Best Software (craigmod.com) |
| 694 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 79 comments |
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2019 | | No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (nomedium.dev) |
| 694 points | 3 years ago with 242 comments |
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2019 | | Why Go and Not Rust? (kristoff.it) |
| 682 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 168 comments |
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2019 | | Cool, but obscure X11 tools (cyber.dabamos.de) |
| 679 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 257 comments |
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2019 | | One week of empathy training (shkspr.mobi) |
| 664 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 286 comments |
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2019 | | I assure you, medieval people bathed (going-medieval.com) |
| 661 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 340 comments |
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2019 | | In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (openculture.com) |
| 627 points | 1 year ago with 149 comments |
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2019 | | It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼♂️".length == 7 (hsivonen.fi) |
| 624 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 300 comments |
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2019 | | Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes (zdnet.com) |
| 622 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 46 comments |
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2019 | | Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (henricodolfing.com) |
| 608 points | 2 years ago with 402 comments |
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2019 | | Petition to open source Flash (github.com) |
| 607 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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2019 | | AWS costs every programmer should know (david-codes.hatanian.com) |
| 598 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 156 comments |
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2019 | | Timsort (skerritt.blog) |
| 595 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 60 comments |
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2019 | | Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (cpomagazine.com) |
| 592 points | 3 years ago with 173 comments |
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2019 | | To be great, be good, repeatably (blog.stephsmith.io) |
| 590 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 56 comments |
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2019 | | Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US (theguardian.com) |
| 577 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 22 comments |
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2019 | | Python built-ins worth learning (treyhunner.com) |
| 571 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 112 comments |
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2019 | | Challenging projects every programmer should try (austinhenley.com) |
| 568 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 324 comments |
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2019 | | What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (arxiv.org) |
| 560 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 173 comments |
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2019 | | If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (smallstep.com) |
| 555 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 332 comments |
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2019 | | Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (codeblog.jonskeet.uk) |
| 547 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 184 comments |
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2019 | | There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train but I did it anyway (nytimes.com) |
| 529 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 125 comments |
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2019 | | Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (practicaltypography.com) |
| 528 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 191 comments |
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2019 | | How to write a bootloader from scratch (interrupt.memfault.com) |
| 521 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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2019 | | I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s (blogs.scientificamerican.com) |
| 510 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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2019 | | JMAP: It’s Like IMAP but Not Really (unencumberedbyfacts.com) |
| 509 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 131 comments |
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2019 | | Unraveling the JPEG (parametric.press) |
| 506 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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2019 | | I Miss the Old Internet (sffworld.com) |
| 500 points | 3 years ago with 424 comments |
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2019 | | I grew up gifted, but my life didn’t turn out the way I expected (cbc.ca) |
| 500 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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2019 | | Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences (srconstantin.wordpress.com) |
| 499 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments |
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2019 | | Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow? (forrestthewoods.com) |
| 493 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 226 comments |
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2019 | | The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence (numenta.com) |
| 490 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 62 comments |
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2019 | | In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’ (nature.com) |
| 490 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 159 comments |
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2019 | | The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (cantorsparadise.com) |
| 484 points | 3 years ago with 261 comments |
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2019 | | Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (zdnet.com) |
| 484 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 117 comments |
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2019 | | Programmers should plan for lower pay (jefftk.com) |
| 482 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 304 comments |
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2019 | | Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D? (blog.mecheye.net) |
| 480 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 71 comments |
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2019 | | I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (blog.samuelmaddock.com) |
| 479 points | 3 years ago with 186 comments |
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2019 | | How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (gankra.github.io) |
| 478 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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2019 | | Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (matuzo.at) |
| 476 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 40 comments |
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2019 | | Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper (nature.com) |
| 471 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 104 comments |
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2019 | | Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (webapp.io) |
| 467 points | 2 years ago with 200 comments |
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2019 | | Racket Is an Acceptable Python (dustycloud.org) |
| 460 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 128 comments |
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2019 | | How random can you be? (expunctis.com) |
| 457 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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2019 | | Is Everything an MLM? (annehelen.substack.com) |
| 453 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 109 comments |
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2019 | | Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (andrewkelley.me) |
| 451 points | 3 years ago with 160 comments |
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2019 | | Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (lincolnquirk.com) |
| 449 points | 2 years ago with 283 comments |
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2019 | | The great American eye-exam scam (theatlantic.com) |
| 448 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 80 comments |
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