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1.

No Thank You, Mr. Pecker (medium.com)

2243 points by coloneltcb 2019-02-07 | 660 comments

2.

Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (medium.com)

1999 points by jamesjyu 2019-02-07 | 347 comments

3.

FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up (9to5mac.com)

1534 points by uptown 2019-01-28 | 429 comments

4.

Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (jarredsumner.com)

1514 points by firloop 2019-01-30 | 586 comments

5.

Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin (bugs.chromium.org)

1502 points by Apylon777 2019-01-22 | 728 comments

6.

Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN (techcrunch.com)

1438 points by randomacct3847 2019-01-29 | 441 comments

7.

Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (hacks.mozilla.org)

1390 points by mfsch 2019-02-04 | 364 comments

8.

Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip (www.workingwa.org)

1320 points by timebomb0 2019-01-29 | 675 comments

9.

Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry (www.latimes.com)

1156 points by prostoalex 2019-01-23 | 587 comments

10.

If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source (www.linuxjournal.com)

1135 points by jrepinc 2019-02-04 | 258 comments

11.

Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week (s-poony.github.io)

1079 points by lovasoa 2019-01-09 | 269 comments

12.

Dotfile madness (0x46.net)

1073 points by boreq 2019-02-02 | 485 comments

13.

John C. Bogle Has Died (www.wsj.com)

1059 points by gdubs 2019-01-16 | 199 comments

14.

I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days (blog.usejournal.com)

1011 points by voroninman 2019-01-18 | 692 comments

15.

When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling (hiringengineersbook.com)

973 points by ashitlerferad 2019-01-20 | 662 comments

16.

MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools (hacker-tools.github.io)

958 points by anishathalye 2019-02-04 | 72 comments

17.

Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases (www.notion.so)

957 points by torvald 2019-01-14 | 471 comments

18.

New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking (www.forbrukerradet.no)

945 points by thg 2019-02-01 | 438 comments

19.

DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps (spreadprivacy.com)

939 points by shritesh 2019-01-15 | 454 comments

20.

Ending our Medium integration (write.as)

934 points by thebaer 2019-01-30 | 367 comments

21.

Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal (www.insidehighered.com)

922 points by dankohn1 2019-01-15 | 124 comments

22.

How to Be Successful (blog.samaltman.com)

891 points by sama 2019-01-24 | 299 comments

23.

Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps (www.theverge.com)

877 points by rising-sky 2019-01-31 | 639 comments

24.

KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++ (github.com)

852 points by haqreu 2019-01-27 | 63 comments

25.

Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook (www.bloomberg.com)

848 points by ourmandave 2019-01-09 | 463 comments

26.

Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016) (www.cbc.ca)

834 points by colinprince 2019-01-09 | 284 comments

27.

AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II (deepmind.com)

799 points by zawerf 2019-01-24 | 451 comments

28.

Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament (www.nytimes.com)

777 points by johnny313 2019-01-15 | 1191 comments

29.

My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag (www.facebook.com)

774 points by griffinmb 2019-01-18 | 441 comments

30.

How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear (www.senteltechsecurity.com)

748 points by loteck 2019-01-16 | 182 comments

31.

“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017) (www.theregister.co.uk)

746 points by peter_d_sherman 2019-02-04 | 393 comments

32.

Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers (www.bloomberg.com)

739 points by pseudolus 2019-01-24 | 435 comments

33.

Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps (www.theverge.com)

731 points by epaga 2019-01-30 | 308 comments

34.

The Man in Seat Sixty-One (www.seat61.com)

727 points by robin_reala 2019-01-13 | 117 comments

35.

Firefox 65.0 released (www.mozilla.org)

720 points by theodorejb 2019-01-29 | 409 comments

36.

Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People (www.reddit.com)

718 points by unquote 2019-01-11 | 309 comments

37.

I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi (onemileatatime.com)

716 points by hispanic 2019-01-11 | 423 comments

38.

Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over (newsroom.mastercard.com)

715 points by hbcondo714 2019-01-17 | 338 comments

39.

Programming Fonts – Test Drive (app.programmingfonts.org)

711 points by ChrisGranger 2019-01-21 | 281 comments

40.

Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation (techcrunch.com)

710 points by e1ven 2019-02-05 | 770 comments

41.

Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees (www.wsj.com)

707 points by treebro 2019-01-22 | 475 comments

42.

Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) (blogs.microsoft.com)

707 points by whatok 2019-01-24 | 187 comments

43.

Airbnb and security camera disclosure (jeffreybigham.com)

679 points by pmlnr 2019-01-16 | 394 comments

44.

Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)

670 points by theBashShell 2019-01-23 | 231 comments

45.

One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI (www.buzzfeednews.com)

662 points by chollida1 2019-02-01 | 304 comments

46.

What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs? (hackaday.com)

656 points by jccalhoun 2019-02-06 | 494 comments

47.

What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail (thehustle.co)

647 points by davesailer 2019-01-27 | 176 comments

48.

HTTP/3 explained (http3-explained.haxx.se)

637 points by signa11 2019-02-05 | 201 comments

49.

Startup Playbook (2015) (playbook.samaltman.com)

634 points by navinsylvester 2019-01-16 | 55 comments

50.

WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork (www.wsj.com)

624 points by dcgudeman 2019-01-16 | 449 comments

51.

A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet (blog.ycombinator.com)

623 points by akharris 2019-01-28 | 168 comments

52.

Practical Linux Hardening Guide (github.com)

621 points by covertress 2019-01-24 | 187 comments

53.

50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016) (www.npr.org)

614 points by deegles 2019-01-18 | 274 comments

54.

SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce (www.latimes.com)

613 points by berbec 2019-01-12 | 528 comments

55.

Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language (www.destroyallsoftware.com)

610 points by kalimatas 2019-01-22 | 71 comments

56.

Websocketd (websocketd.com)

604 points by mmcclure 2019-01-25 | 203 comments

57.

EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone (www.dw.com)

600 points by Nux 2019-02-01 | 382 comments

58.

Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging (os.phil-opp.com)

594 points by ingve 2019-01-14 | 79 comments

59.

When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017) (www.bicycling.com)

586 points by edward 2019-01-26 | 261 comments

60.

Bed that saved me from the Taliban (www.bbc.co.uk)

576 points by ahamedirshad123 2019-01-21 | 133 comments

61.

After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue (digiday.com)

572 points by chrisxcross 2019-01-16 | 452 comments

62.

On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality (www.gwern.net)

571 points by pizza 2019-01-21 | 305 comments

63.

Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code (techcrunch.com)

564 points by jbegley 2019-02-07 | 256 comments

64.

Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push (www.geekwire.com)

559 points by jkuria 2019-01-26 | 328 comments

65.

Pink Trombone (dood.al)

559 points by errozero 2019-01-15 | 75 comments

66.

About V, the language Volt is written in (volt.ws)

554 points by AndyKelley 2019-02-05 | 328 comments

67.

Sex censorship killed the internet we love (www.engadget.com)

554 points by coding123 2019-02-02 | 410 comments

68.

Apple is patenting Swift features (forums.swift.org)

552 points by maxdesiatov 2019-01-25 | 199 comments

69.

Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018) (ahrefs.com)

543 points by nkurz 2019-01-24 | 125 comments

70.

How to teach Git (rachelcarmena.github.io)

536 points by amanzi 2019-01-16 | 261 comments

71.

Bye, Bye, Google (defn.io)

527 points by Bogdanp 2019-02-04 | 282 comments

72.

Networking on AWS (2018) (grahamlyons.com)

526 points by petercooper 2019-01-16 | 103 comments

73.

Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time (ruben.verborgh.org)

521 points by Schoolmeister 2019-01-11 | 277 comments

74.

Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility (aws.amazon.com)

519 points by ifcologne 2019-01-09 | 305 comments

75.

Statistics Done Wrong (www.statisticsdonewrong.com)

518 points by lawlorino 2019-01-30 | 51 comments

76.

The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (blog.haschek.at)

516 points by geek_at 2019-01-16 | 154 comments

77.

Android vendors, don’t kill my app (dontkillmyapp.com)

510 points by kumaranvpl 2019-01-14 | 393 comments

78.

Why does APT not use HTTPS? (whydoesaptnotusehttps.com)

508 points by rishabhd 2019-01-21 | 412 comments

79.

For the Love of Pipes (blog.jessfraz.com)

503 points by ingve 2019-01-22 | 302 comments

80.

H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017) (www.propublica.org)

502 points by aaronbrethorst 2019-01-21 | 188 comments

81.

Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public (www.bloomberg.com)

500 points by chollida1 2019-02-04 | 322 comments

82.

Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test (www.cbc.ca)

500 points by Gaessaki 2019-01-18 | 258 comments

83.

AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source (stratechery.com)

500 points by abd12 2019-01-14 | 248 comments

84.

Kubernetes Failure Stories (srcco.de)

500 points by hjacobs 2019-01-20 | 225 comments

85.

New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available (bartongeorge.io)

488 points by sahaskatta 2019-01-23 | 470 comments

86.

Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool (dbeaver.io)

481 points by vbv 2019-01-17 | 202 comments

87.

Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better (juliareda.eu)

481 points by walterbell 2019-02-05 | 227 comments

88.

A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station (kotaku.com)

478 points by omnibrain 2019-01-11 | 201 comments

89.

Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories (postmake.io)

473 points by Malfunction92 2019-01-29 | 81 comments

90.

Oslo made its city center basically car-free (www.fastcompany.com)

473 points by prostoalex 2019-01-25 | 478 comments

91.

Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games (www.usgamer.net)

472 points by throwaway2048 2019-01-31 | 296 comments

92.

Count the people around you by monitoring wifi signals (github.com)

472 points by captn3m0 2019-01-17 | 144 comments

93.

How to Hack an Expensive Camera (alexhude.github.io)

471 points by pi-rat 2019-01-26 | 63 comments

94.

Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger (www.nytimes.com)

470 points by tysone 2019-01-25 | 306 comments

95.

U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers (www.wsj.com)

465 points by godelmachine 2019-01-31 | 611 comments

96.

Internals of PostgreSQL (www.interdb.jp)

462 points by billwashere 2019-01-20 | 25 comments

97.

Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy (www.fastcompany.com)

459 points by jbredeche 2019-01-14 | 290 comments

98.

Event Sourcing is Hard (chriskiehl.com)

459 points by goostavos 2019-02-03 | 143 comments

99.

$1.2T in risky corporate debt showing similar warning signs to subprime crisis (www.latimes.com)

458 points by prostoalex 2019-01-21 | 263 comments

100.

AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan (github.com)

458 points by ajr0 2019-01-22 | 155 comments

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