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Articles written in 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2019Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (arxiv.org)
337 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 70 comments
2019Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (blog.wolfram.com)
337 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 292 comments
2019“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (neuroclastic.com)
335 points | 2 years ago with 387 comments
2019Greg Brockman: How I became a machine learning practitioner (blog.gregbrockman.com)
331 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2019Give me back my monolith (craigkerstiens.com)
330 points | 2 years ago with 296 comments
2019Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (journals.plos.org)
329 points | 2 years ago with 457 comments
2019Understanding Kafka with Factorio (ruurtjan.medium.com)
329 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 109 comments
2019How to write idempotent Bash scripts (arslan.io)
327 points | 2 years ago with 99 comments
2019Roguelike Tutorial in Rust (bfnightly.bracketproductions.com)
326 points | 2 years ago with 115 comments
2019Always Own Your Platform (alwaysownyourplatform.com)
319 points | 2 years ago with 177 comments
2019A Forty-Year Career (lethain.com)
316 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 86 comments
2019C++ Modules Might Be Dead-on-Arrival (vector-of-bool.github.io)
316 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 54 comments
2019Commoditize Your Complement (gwern.net)
306 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments
2019How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (productivityhub.org)
302 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments
2019Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained (fangpenlin.com)
298 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2019To reinvent the processor (medium.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2019China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (cbc.ca)
297 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
2019How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (ki.infil.net)
297 points | 3 years ago with 106 comments
2019Shamelessness as a strategy (nadia.xyz)
296 points | 2 years ago with 212 comments
2019A group of activists got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital (theatlantic.com)
295 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 163 comments
2019The $440M software error at Knight Capital (henricodolfing.com)
293 points | 2 years ago with 170 comments
2019Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera (blog.robertelder.org)
292 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2019Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (r-bloggers.com)
292 points | 3 years ago with 215 comments
2019SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop (jasoneckert.github.io)
291 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
2019What's Salesforce? (retool.com)
290 points | 3 years ago with 200 comments
2019Not a real engineer (twitchard.github.io)
290 points | 11 months ago with 77 comments
2019Ian Fleming explains how to write a thriller (lithub.com)
289 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 122 comments
2019My Tungsten Cube (thume.ca)
288 points | 3 years ago with 330 comments
2019Amazon Web Services In Plain English (web3us.com)
288 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments
2019Text rendering hates you (faultlore.com)
287 points | 1 year ago with 118 comments
2019Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (ash.ms)
286 points | 3 years ago with 132 comments
2019The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (repeller.com)
286 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2019Your online identity is owned by your email provider (ctrl.blog)
286 points | 2 years ago with 221 comments
2019Event Sourcing Is Hard (chriskiehl.com)
286 points | 2 years ago with 119 comments
2019Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (quantamagazine.org)
285 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2019Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (vice.com)
280 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments
2019Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (bbc.com)
278 points | 3 years ago with 191 comments
2019Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (erikbern.com)
277 points | 3 years ago with 131 comments
2019The Illustrated GPT-2: Visualizing Transformer Language Models (jalammar.github.io)
277 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 5 comments
2019Lines of code that changed everything (slate.com)
273 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 20 comments
2019The new dot com bubble is online advertising (thecorrespondent.com)
273 points | 3 years ago with 167 comments
2019The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion (arxiv.org)
272 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2019Reasons Not to Be a Manager (charity.wtf)
270 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 182 comments
2019What the hell is Forth? (blog.information-superhighway.net)
269 points | 1 year ago with 120 comments
2019Why America's prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror (mcall.com)
269 points | 3 years ago with 304 comments
2019Britain can help you get away with stealing millions (theguardian.com)
267 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2019What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (daily.jstor.org)
262 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 214 comments
2019It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (arxiv.org)
261 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 52 comments
2019San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene (facebook.com)
260 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments
2019The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works (twitchard.github.io)
260 points | 11 months ago with 262 comments
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