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1.

Switch from Chrome to Firefox (www.mozilla.org)

3282 points by WisNorCan 2019-05-30 | 981 comments

2.

Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users (9to5google.com)

2090 points by estranhosidade 2019-05-29 | 877 comments

3.

GitHub Sponsors (github.com)

2082 points by Heliosmaster 2019-05-23 | 501 comments

4.

Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System (play.date)

1370 points by dombili 2019-05-22 | 402 comments

5.

"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company" (twitter.com)

1333 points by sergiomattei 2019-05-31 | 593 comments

6.

Block Fingerprinting with Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)

1291 points by rendall 2019-05-30 | 386 comments

7.

Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown (www.reddit.com)

1276 points by mastazi 2019-05-23 | 325 comments

8.

How to do hard things (www.drmaciver.com)

1189 points by necrodome 2019-05-19 | 116 comments

9.

Advanced Data Structures (2017) (courses.csail.mit.edu)

1176 points by rjammala 2019-05-29 | 83 comments

10.

Apple Sign In (techcrunch.com)

1141 points by ikarandeep 2019-06-03 | 525 comments

11.

Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

1097 points by gregdoesit 2019-05-31 | 369 comments

12.

Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent (techcrunch.com)

1072 points by pseudolus 2019-05-31 | 219 comments

13.

DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts (github.com)

1067 points by anaphor 2019-05-20 | 265 comments

14.

Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf] (ourway.keybase.pub)

1057 points by rodmena 2019-05-30 | 158 comments

15.

Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default (blog.mozilla.org)

1018 points by teddyfrozevelt 2019-06-04 | 262 comments

16.

Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues (www.nytimes.com)

993 points by tysone 2019-05-23 | 593 comments

17.

“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics” (developer.apple.com)

974 points by donohoe 2019-06-05 | 283 comments

18.

Can we all stop using Medium now? (www.webdistortion.com)

925 points by squiggy22 2019-05-16 | 327 comments

19.

I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code (djhworld.github.io)

892 points by boyter 2019-05-21 | 172 comments

20.

Go is Google's language, not ours (utcc.utoronto.ca)

885 points by uggedal 2019-05-22 | 658 comments

21.

Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google (www.wsj.com)

870 points by Despegar 2019-06-01 | 414 comments

22.

WebGL Fluid Simulation (paveldogreat.github.io)

868 points by joshdance 2019-05-20 | 101 comments

23.

Leaving Google Fi (jasonatwood.io)

813 points by daigoba66 2019-05-19 | 277 comments

24.

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908) (507movements.com)

798 points by dvt 2019-05-21 | 147 comments

25.

After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed (melmagazine.com)

775 points by paulpauper 2019-05-23 | 639 comments

26.

Zero Rupee Note (en.wikipedia.org)

766 points by aaronharnly 2019-06-03 | 234 comments

27.

SwiftUI (developer.apple.com)

755 points by fphilipe 2019-06-03 | 364 comments

28.

The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013) (blog.plover.com)

732 points by luu 2019-05-24 | 296 comments

29.

Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) (svelte.dev)

720 points by nailer 2019-05-18 | 331 comments

30.

The struggles of an open source maintainer (antirez.com)

719 points by ngaut 2019-05-17 | 216 comments

31.

Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal (aerc-mail.org)

709 points by jcamou 2019-06-04 | 255 comments

32.

A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests (www.scientificamerican.com)

695 points by headalgorithm 2019-05-21 | 481 comments

33.

Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company (techcrunch.com)

693 points by eklavyaa 2019-06-04 | 461 comments

34.

Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG (zzz.dog)

686 points by tomek_zemla 2019-05-29 | 94 comments

35.

H.264 is magic (2016) (sidbala.com)

680 points by dpeck 2019-05-24 | 180 comments

36.

Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro (www.apple.com)

674 points by css 2019-05-21 | 1033 comments

37.

AMD Ryzen 3000 announced (www.anandtech.com)

657 points by DuskStar 2019-05-27 | 339 comments

38.

I can see your local web servers (http.jameshfisher.com)

651 points by jamesfisher 2019-05-28 | 189 comments

39.

Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author (github.com)

642 points by fanf2 2019-05-30 | 277 comments

40.

A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident (pudding.cool)

629 points by brandonhall 2019-05-30 | 214 comments

41.

South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry (www.koreaherald.com)

627 points by jrepinc 2019-05-18 | 270 comments

42.

Technical Debt (martinfowler.com)

610 points by BerislavLopac 2019-05-21 | 240 comments

43.

Free Wolfram Engine for Developers (blog.stephenwolfram.com)

606 points by GWOLF 2019-05-21 | 337 comments

44.

National Park Typeface (nationalparktypeface.com)

599 points by zwieback 2019-06-04 | 84 comments

45.

The Art of Command Line (2015) (github.com)

597 points by axiomdata316 2019-05-23 | 169 comments

46.

“A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made” (twitter.com)

596 points by MagicPropmaker 2019-05-19 | 304 comments

47.

Password expiration is dead, long live passwords (techcrunch.com)

585 points by davidgh 2019-06-02 | 311 comments

48.

Show HN: This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (secretgeek.github.io)

584 points by LeonB 2019-06-04 | 92 comments

49.

Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-national evidence (voxeu.org)

581 points by howard941 2019-05-28 | 523 comments

50.

How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018) (medium.com)

572 points by rodneyg_ 2019-06-04 | 206 comments

51.

If 'Big Tech' Is an Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom? (www.techdirt.com)

561 points by fyoving 2019-06-04 | 173 comments

52.

“Python's batteries are leaking” (pyfound.blogspot.com)

552 points by narimiran 2019-05-18 | 409 comments

53.

An update on last week's customer shutdown incident (blog.digitalocean.com)

551 points by grzm 2019-06-04 | 258 comments

54.

“It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net” (twitter.com)

548 points by boramalper 2019-05-20 | 372 comments

55.

Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox (www.forbes.com)

546 points by mhr_online 2019-06-02 | 214 comments

56.

Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion (cognitiontoday.com)

542 points by whack 2019-05-21 | 168 comments

57.

Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web framework for Rust (docs.rs)

539 points by Dowwie 2019-06-05 | 128 comments

58.

New Mac Pro (www.apple.com)

539 points by fumar 2019-06-03 | 702 comments

59.

Niki Lauda has died (www.theguardian.com)

537 points by CaliforniaKarl 2019-05-21 | 86 comments

60.

Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google' (www.kerkour.fr)

537 points by z0mbie42 2019-06-05 | 149 comments

61.

Firefox Monitor (monitor.firefox.com)

534 points by madhukarah 2019-06-05 | 202 comments

62.

Scrum is fragile, not Agile (www.dennisweyland.net)

534 points by pplonski86 2019-05-26 | 321 comments

63.

Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system (www.starlink.com)

533 points by mulcahey 2019-05-24 | 359 comments

64.

Firefox 67.0 Released (www.mozilla.org)

528 points by Spydar007 2019-05-21 | 255 comments

65.

How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (arstechnica.com)

528 points by headalgorithm 2019-05-30 | 297 comments

66.

SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO (www.sec.gov)

528 points by khartig 2019-06-04 | 325 comments

67.

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (www.nytimes.com)

520 points by gerbilly 2019-06-04 | 238 comments

68.

Self-distancing can help you make better decisions (effectiviology.com)

518 points by EndXA 2019-05-25 | 114 comments

69.

Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets (edition.cnn.com)

512 points by oftenwrong 2019-05-17 | 629 comments

70.

Google's PageRank patent has expired (patents.google.com)

505 points by dfabulich 2019-06-01 | 217 comments

71.

A Decade of Remote Work (blog.viktorpetersson.com)

503 points by mvip 2019-05-19 | 163 comments

72.

Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building (www.derrickreimer.com)

494 points by rwalling 2019-05-17 | 215 comments

73.

W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM (www.w3.org)

493 points by klez 2019-05-28 | 272 comments

74.

Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog (github.com)

490 points by mathieudutour 2019-05-31 | 129 comments

75.

Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship (cpj.org)

490 points by panic 2019-06-03 | 133 comments

76.

MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries (microg.org)

484 points by xvilka 2019-05-20 | 147 comments

77.

Relicensing CockroachDB (www.cockroachlabs.com)

476 points by SEJeff 2019-06-04 | 281 comments

78.

Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change (www.nytimes.com)

476 points by razin 2019-06-01 | 268 comments

79.

Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements (pi-hole.net)

471 points by DanielRibeiro 2019-05-30 | 248 comments

80.

Show HN: ZeroHTTPd: A web server to teach Linux performance, with benchmarks (unixism.net)

469 points by shuss 2019-06-03 | 57 comments

81.

SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics (github.com)

469 points by yankcrime 2019-05-22 | 179 comments

82.

Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms (www.nytimes.com)

469 points by ingve 2019-05-17 | 444 comments

83.

I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00 (nickdrozd.github.io)

469 points by Supermighty 2019-05-18 | 140 comments

84.

Google suspends some business with Huawei (www.reuters.com)

466 points by samsonradu 2019-05-19 | 479 comments

85.

Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (codingnest.com)

465 points by kachnuv_ocasek 2019-05-19 | 118 comments

86.

A home microhydro plant (2009) (ludens.cl)

462 points by fanf2 2019-06-02 | 87 comments

87.

Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default (pythonspeed.com)

460 points by itamarst 2019-05-28 | 157 comments

88.

Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978 (thecompost.io)

457 points by ajhaupt7 2019-05-22 | 329 comments

89.

iPadOS (techcrunch.com)

457 points by pgm8705 2019-06-03 | 330 comments

90.

Why I'm still using jQuery (arp242.net)

455 points by Supermighty 2019-05-27 | 229 comments

91.

I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected (www.cbc.ca)

450 points by pseudolus 2019-05-31 | 407 comments

92.

When it comes to privacy, default settings matter (blog.mozilla.org)

442 points by nachtigall 2019-06-04 | 127 comments

93.

Betrayed by an app she had never heard of (www.privacyinternational.org)

441 points by Brajeshwar 2019-05-31 | 241 comments

94.

New Game: Minecraft Earth (www.minecraft.net)

441 points by eDameXxX 2019-05-17 | 227 comments

95.

Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users (blog.discordapp.com)

441 points by O_H_E 2019-05-18 | 65 comments

96.

Why aren’t more companies remote-first? (upside.fm)

441 points by ekhornung 2019-06-05 | 431 comments

97.

Founder Books (postmake.io)

437 points by ashtavakra01 2019-05-25 | 93 comments

98.

Game Engine Black Books Update (fabiensanglard.net)

436 points by brundolf 2019-05-17 | 68 comments

99.

Animated Knots: Learn how to tie knots with step-by-step animation (www.animatedknots.com)

433 points by wilsonfiifi 2019-06-02 | 65 comments

100.

Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac (support.apple.com)

423 points by jhack 2019-06-03 | 238 comments

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