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Articles written in 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2019Spartan School (acoup.blog)
172 points | 3 years ago with 154 comments
2019How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? (bbc.com)
172 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments
2019Travel photos are underrated (devonzuegel.com)
171 points | 2 years ago with 118 comments
2019Gaussian Processes from Scratch (peterroelants.github.io)
171 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2019The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (nature.com)
171 points | 3 years ago with 459 comments
2019Efficient IO in Linux with io_uring [pdf] (kernel.dk)
171 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2019The Superhero Industry Hates Children (hmmdaily.com)
170 points | 2 years ago with 268 comments
2019Sleep quality and consistency associated with better academic performance (nature.com)
170 points | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2019Hungry men exposed to blue light are sensitive to Earth's magnetic field (journals.plos.org)
170 points | 3 years ago with 90 comments
2019The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive (vice.com)
169 points | 2 years ago with 120 comments
2019How to weaponize the Yubikey (blackhillsinfosec.com)
168 points | 1 year ago with 20 comments
2019Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (twitter.com)
168 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments
2019Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic (thestrategybridge.org)
167 points | 1 year ago with 197 comments
2019Why time “speeds up” as we get older (sitn.hms.harvard.edu)
167 points | 3 years ago with 159 comments
2019Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (masteringmonero.com)
166 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments
2019The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? (daily.jstor.org)
166 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2019Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? (bbc.com)
166 points | 3 years ago with 241 comments
2019Calibre replacement considerations (anarc.at)
166 points | 1 year ago with 85 comments
2019Opening Up the Samsung Q60 Series Smart TV (labs.f-secure.com)
165 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments
2019Wet/Dry Vacuum Buying Guide (wet-dry-vac.com)
165 points | 2 years ago with 226 comments
2019Best command-line-only video games (linuxjournal.com)
164 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2019A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked (theatlantic.com)
163 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2019How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (figma.com)
163 points | 3 years ago with 129 comments
2019The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking (medium.com)
162 points | 1 year ago with 26 comments
2019Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop? (grantwinney.com)
162 points | 1 year ago with 173 comments
2019The Peacekeeper missile’s navigation suite (thedrive.com)
162 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 91 comments
2019Freedom to Roam in Scotland (apidura.com)
161 points | 1 year ago with 130 comments
2019The Canoe Commuters of the CIA (mensjournal.com)
159 points | 1 year ago with 84 comments
2019The Zettelkasten Method (lesswrong.com)
159 points | 3 years ago with 90 comments
2019Earthworms after rain (blog.nature.org)
159 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
2019Explaining 4K 60Hz Video Through USB-C Hub (bigmessowires.com)
158 points | 3 years ago with 108 comments
2019What is wrong with TOML? (hitchdev.com)
157 points | 1 year ago with 294 comments
2019Anime Video Encoding Guide for X265 (HEVC) & AAC/Opus (kokomins.wordpress.com)
157 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2019Flash Boys 2: Frontrunning, transaction reordering, consensus instability (arxiv.org)
156 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 48 comments
2019Why it can ‘take a few days’ to be unsubscribed from an email list (twitter.com)
156 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2019A Mulching Proposal (arxiv.org)
155 points | 1 year ago with 102 comments
2019Let's Build a Regex Engine (kean.blog)
155 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2019Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)
155 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2019Project SPHINX – When the USSR tried to change the computer (inexhibit.com)
154 points | 3 years ago with 143 comments
2019The true villain of Disney’s Frozen (pixelatedgeek.com)
154 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments
2019Runtime improvement for Minimum Cut algorithm first time in 25 years (arxiv.org)
153 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
2019Rewrite, refactor, or reinvent? Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (herbcaudill.com)
153 points | 1 year ago with 56 comments
2019Bringing Palm OS devices back online – A journey into vintage computing (medium.com)
151 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2019Citizen sleuths exposed pollution from a century-old Michigan factory (science.org)
151 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments
2019Bitmap Indexes in Go: Search Speed (habr.com)
151 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2019ACLU Statement Opposing the 'Confronting the Threat of Domestic Terrorism Act' (aclu.org)
151 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments
2019When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition (gkogan.co)
150 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
2019Eton and all the murder (johnhiggs.com)
150 points | 1 year ago with 141 comments
2019With Category Theory, Mathematics Escapes from Equality (quantamagazine.org)
150 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 93 comments
2019The Weight I Carry (theatlantic.com)
150 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments
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