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Articles written in 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2019Why American construction costs are so high (pedestrianobservations.com)
129 points | 3 years ago with 153 comments
2019Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (wesmckinney.com)
129 points | 2 years ago with 179 comments
2019Breaking the 100bps barrier with Matrix, meshsim and coap-proxy (matrix.org)
129 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2019EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (arstechnica.com)
129 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2019Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in Public Spaces (npr.org)
128 points | 3 years ago with 106 comments
2019A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (smithsonianmag.com)
128 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments
2019Apple I Emulator (shadertoy.com)
128 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2019Exploring the Macintosh ROM (macgui.com)
128 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 34 comments
2019Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (arstechnica.com)
128 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments
2019Civic honesty around the globe (science.org)
128 points | 1 year ago with 167 comments
2019TROS: How IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers (righto.com)
128 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2019Inefficient Efficiency (medium.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2019Sinkholed: A DNS Horror Story (susam.net)
127 points | 1 year ago with 34 comments
20198-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (imgur.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2019Filecoin, StorJ and the problem with decentralized storage (randomoracle.wordpress.com)
126 points | 3 years ago with 114 comments
2019I was an astrologer – here's how it really works (theguardian.com)
126 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
2019Code quality only matters in context (adamtornhill.com)
126 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments
2019A 100x Investment (blog.comma.ai)
126 points | 2 years ago with 92 comments
2019What Happened to Tagging? (daily.jstor.org)
125 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments
2019Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (macadie.net)
124 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments
2019Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art (theringer.com)
124 points | 3 years ago with 142 comments
2019Princeton lab simulates nuclear war (sgs.princeton.edu)
124 points | 2 years ago with 273 comments
2019I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (accu.org)
123 points | 1 year ago with 111 comments
2019Linux Air Combat (askmisterwizard.com)
122 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2019Modern LZ Compression (glinscott.github.io)
122 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2019Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs go to jail after the financial crisis? (features.marketplace.org)
122 points | 3 years ago with 131 comments
2019The humble egg is an example of what’s wrong with nutrition studies (undark.org)
121 points | 3 years ago with 131 comments
2019Industrial ammonia emits more CO2 than other chemical-making reactions (cen.acs.org)
121 points | 2 years ago with 115 comments
2019Switzerland’s astonishingly polite armed conflict of 1847 (militaryhistorynow.com)
120 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments
2019FreeCAD User Book (bassmatifreecad.github.io)
120 points | 1 year ago with 54 comments
2019Scientific Bias in Favor of Studies Finding Gender Bias (psychologytoday.com)
120 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2019A comment in Hacker News led Girish Mathrubootham to create Freshworks (yourstory.com)
120 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2019Sparse Matrices (matteding.github.io)
120 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2019The Top Shelf Principle (listed.to)
120 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2019How to fuck up software releases (drewdevault.com)
119 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2019JVM Anatomy Quark #10: String.intern (shipilev.net)
119 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2019For many widows, the hardest part is mealtime (nytimes.com)
119 points | 1 year ago with 121 comments
2019Recap of the funding experiment (feross.org)
118 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2019Flight characteristics of anomalous unidentified aerial vehicles (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
118 points | 2 years ago with 116 comments
2019Linux Capabilities in a nutshell (k3a.me)
118 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2019Camera Repair Course (learncamerarepair.com)
117 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2019How do cash transfers impact the people who don’t receive them? (givedirectly.org)
117 points | 2 years ago with 94 comments
2019Solving the regex of madness, and snarky answers on StackOverflow (cargocultcode.com)
117 points | 3 years ago with 126 comments
2019How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (arstechnica.com)
117 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments
2019A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (zenhack.net)
117 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments
2019The ‘flow state’: Where creative work thrives (bbc.com)
117 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2019RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (nirsoft.net)
116 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
2019Mike Levin on using bioelectricity to study how cells form (wyss.harvard.edu)
116 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2019VR optics and why IPD means too many things (tomforsyth1000.github.io)
116 points | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2019The Bicycle Thief (chicagomag.com)
115 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
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