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Articles written in 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2019Why the American shoe disappeared and is hard to bring back (npr.org)
148 points | 3 years ago with 244 comments
2019Why Architecture Oriented Programming Matters (blog.metaobject.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 38 comments
2019I give up on free software phones (yotam.net)
148 points | 1 year ago with 202 comments
2019Stop using low DNS TTLs (blog.apnic.net)
147 points | 2 years ago with 105 comments
2019Why is there no open source firmware for laser or inkjet printers? (hackaday.io)
147 points | 1 year ago with 73 comments
2019Einstein's Philosophy of Science (plato.stanford.edu)
147 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 14 comments
2019A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (wired.com)
147 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2019IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down [video] (youtube.com)
146 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 115 comments
2019Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (nytimes.com)
146 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 40 comments
2019Incrementing Vectors (travisdowns.github.io)
146 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 17 comments
2019Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (towardsdatascience.com)
146 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments
2019Why does pepperoni curl? (seriouseats.com)
146 points | 2 years ago with 154 comments
2019The Legasov Tapes (legasovtapetranslation.blogspot.com)
145 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2019ANSI escape codes (notes.burke.libbey.me)
145 points | 3 years ago with 82 comments
2019Always tell kids the truth (outsideonline.com)
145 points | 2 years ago with 249 comments
2019Sonic 3D: Director's Cut (info.sonicretro.org)
145 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
2019Pocket gets worse the more you use it (web.archive.org)
144 points | 1 year ago with 156 comments
2019How life sciences work: Findings of a year-long investigation (guzey.com)
144 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2019Using <details> for menus and dialogs (css-tricks.com)
144 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2019Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (activenorcal.com)
143 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2019The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (samoburja.com)
143 points | 3 years ago with 138 comments
2019I got nerd sniped into benchmarking legacy x86 instructions (acepace.net)
143 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments
2019What I learned from Erlang about resiliency in systems design (mgasch.com)
142 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
2019How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions (blog.teddykatz.com)
142 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2019Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection (wh0.github.io)
141 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2019Tokyo public schools will stop forcing students to dye their hair black (japantoday.com)
141 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2019The clever reason scammers can’t spell (itservices.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk)
141 points | 1 year ago with 106 comments
2019The team that powers VLC (increment.com)
140 points | 2 years ago with 70 comments
2019What Is Rust's Unsafe? (nora.codes)
140 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments
2019Lung cancer in never-smokers: a hidden disease (journals.sagepub.com)
140 points | 3 years ago with 169 comments
2019Plotnine: Grammar of Graphics for Python (datascienceworkshops.com)
139 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2019A second look at "no code" tools (webflow.com)
139 points | 3 years ago with 154 comments
2019TV, or not TV: the story of our bike box (vanmoof.com)
137 points | 2 years ago with 52 comments
2019Create an Inexpensive Flying Wing / Drone (robotshop.com)
137 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2019Qemu.js – a proof-of-concept port of QEMU to web browser using WASM JIT (github.com)
137 points | 1 year ago with 28 comments
2019Dreams change under authoritarianism (newyorker.com)
137 points | 1 year ago with 132 comments
2019Google/IAC/Expedia (techemails.com)
137 points | 1 year ago with 61 comments
2019Faux86: A portable, open-source 8086 emulator for bare metal Raspberry Pi (github.com)
137 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2019Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction (theparisreview.org)
136 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments
2019Commercial 3D printers emit traces of toxic fumes, study finds (eandt.theiet.org)
136 points | 1 year ago with 158 comments
2019Python vs Common Lisp, workflow and ecosystem (lisp-journey.gitlab.io)
135 points | 3 years ago with 82 comments
2019A mystery of the ketogenic diet: benevolent pseudo-diabetes in mice (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
134 points | 2 years ago with 136 comments
2019What is a programmable programming language? (hiphish.github.io)
134 points | 2 years ago with 124 comments
2019Many use cases don’t require Kafka (vicki.substack.com)
134 points | 3 years ago with 124 comments
2019Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry (theverge.com)
133 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 20 comments
2019Rewatch: Stargate SG-1 (macmanx.com)
133 points | 2 years ago with 141 comments
2019Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language (colobot.info)
133 points | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2019What was the last breakthrough in computer programming? (quora.com)
132 points | 3 years ago with 223 comments
2019Autism and responding to authority (neuroclastic.com)
130 points | 1 year ago with 285 comments
2019Irish teen invents magnetic liquid trap to remove microplastics in water (preparednessmama.com)
129 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments
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