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Articles written in 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2019Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (faultlore.com)
206 points | 1 year ago with 266 comments
2019The Science of Wi-Fi on Airplanes (onezero.medium.com)
205 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 27 comments
2019Senior Engineers Build Consensus (hyperbo.la)
205 points | 3 years ago with 115 comments
2019Revealed: Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops (vice.com)
204 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2019What the world can learn from Hong Kong (media.ccc.de)
203 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 17 comments
2019USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (pcgamer.com)
202 points | 1 year ago with 412 comments
2019The 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations (edition.cnn.com)
201 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2019The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (atlasobscura.com)
200 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2019Illustrations of Japan’s “unseen” workforce of trains that work at night (spoon-tamago.com)
199 points | 1 year ago with 152 comments
2019Silicon Valley Runs on Saudi (vicki.substack.com)
198 points | 3 years ago with 153 comments
2019Work peak and professional decline (theatlantic.com)
198 points | 3 years ago with 155 comments
2019How to develop black and white film at home with coffee (fieldmag.com)
198 points | 2 years ago with 45 comments
2019What Beirut was like before the war (the961.com)
197 points | 2 years ago with 235 comments
2019No One Ever Saw the Snow Cruiser Again (orangebeanindiana.com)
197 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments
2019The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (newyorker.com)
196 points | 2 years ago with 75 comments
2019Ex-NSA cyberspies reveal how they helped hack foes of UAE (reuters.com)
194 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments
2019It is your responsibility to follow up (guzey.com)
194 points | 2 years ago with 225 comments
2019Taking sex differences in personality seriously (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
193 points | 3 years ago with 228 comments
2019Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (bofh.org.uk)
193 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2019I loved jQuery, and still do (withblue.ink)
191 points | 3 years ago with 183 comments
201916-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes (arstechnica.com)
191 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2019Change your MAC address with a shell script (josh.works)
190 points | 3 years ago with 102 comments
2019Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (tdarb.org)
189 points | 2 years ago with 198 comments
2019Some career advice (lethain.com)
189 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2019Modern C++ Won't Save Us (alexgaynor.net)
189 points | 3 years ago with 255 comments
2019Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (blog.scottlogic.com)
189 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 31 comments
2019A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon (wired.com)
187 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 62 comments
2019IP over Spaghetti (github.com)
187 points | 11 months ago with 59 comments
2019Time protection: the missing OS abstraction (blog.acolyer.org)
186 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2019I Miss the Old Internet (misc-stuff.terraaeon.com)
186 points | 3 years ago with 178 comments
2019History of Lisp Parentheses (github.com)
185 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 72 comments
2019The Whole Code Catalog (futureofcoding.org)
185 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2019The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Why Your Data Will Always Survive (vmwareblog.org)
184 points | 2 years ago with 199 comments
2019The Next Hot Job: Pretending to Be a Robot (wsj.com)
184 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2019An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (jezzamon.com)
184 points | 1 year ago with 27 comments
2019Frank Rosenblatt's perceptron paved the way for AI 60 years too soon (news.cornell.edu)
182 points | 2 years ago with 55 comments
2019Every Fucking Bootstrap Website Ever (dagusa.com)
181 points | 2 years ago with 127 comments
2019Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (bbc.com)
181 points | 1 year ago with 119 comments
2019Plundervolt (plundervolt.com)
181 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2019Theory to systems: A grounded approach to programming language education (arxiv.org)
180 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 12 comments
2019How to Read “Gilgamesh” (newyorker.com)
179 points | 3 years ago with 118 comments
2019Pricing a SaaS product (bannerbear.com)
178 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2019The Road to OCIv2 Images: What's Wrong with Tar? (cyphar.com)
178 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 15 comments
20192D Graphics on Modern GPU (raphlinus.github.io)
178 points | 3 years ago with 87 comments
2019Latin as she is spoke: How classicists tricked themselves (blogicarian.blogspot.com)
178 points | 2 years ago with 189 comments
2019No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime (theatlantic.com)
177 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2019Habits of Expert Software Designers (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
176 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments
2019Framework Patterns (blog.startifact.com)
175 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments
2019A Product Engineer’s Guide to Platform Engineers (rinaarts.medium.com)
174 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
2019Wealth as a predictor of whether an person pursues a creative profession (smithsonianmag.com)
173 points | 2 years ago with 172 comments
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