The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2019

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No Thank You, Mr. Pecker medium.com · coloneltcb · 7 Feb 2019

2.4k pts 730 comments

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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company medium.com · jamesjyu · 7 Feb 2019

2.1k pts 353 comments

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Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? apitman · 5 Feb 2019

2k pts 1.2k comments

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UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access universityofcalifornia.edu · tingletech · 28 Feb 2019

1.7k pts 233 comments

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Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account blog.usejournal.com · jacquesm · 9 Feb 2019

1.7k pts 498 comments

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U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property nytimes.com · ComputerGuru · 20 Feb 2019

1.4k pts 423 comments

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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio hacks.mozilla.org · mfsch · 4 Feb 2019

1.4k pts 368 comments

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Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure blog.stephenwolfram.com · perardi · 21 Feb 2019

1.3k pts 393 comments

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Immersive Linear Algebra (2016) immersivemath.com · reverse · 27 Feb 2019

1.3k pts 140 comments

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Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute instant.page · dieulot · 9 Feb 2019

1.2k pts 337 comments

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Dotfile madness 0x46.net · boreq · 2 Feb 2019

1.1k pts 514 comments

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If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source linuxjournal.com · jrepinc · 4 Feb 2019

1.1k pts 261 comments

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Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms bradfrost.com · octosphere · 15 Feb 2019

1.1k pts 506 comments

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Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus nytimes.com · uptown · 14 Feb 2019

1.1k pts 964 comments

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MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools hacker-tools.github.io · anishathalye · 4 Feb 2019

1k pts 79 comments

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Leukemia Has Won alex.blog · yagodragon · 19 Feb 2019

1k pts 184 comments

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We Need Chrome No More redalemeden.com · kaishin · 27 Feb 2019

1k pts 518 comments

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Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? quora.com · grzm · 13 Feb 2019

1k pts 618 comments

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New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking forbrukerradet.no · thg · 1 Feb 2019

953 pts 445 comments

20

On Being a Principal Engineer blog.dbsmasher.com · kiyanwang · 10 Feb 2019

893 pts 331 comments

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Flightradar24 – how it works habr.com · crunchiebones · 17 Feb 2019

874 pts 155 comments

22

I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon reddit.com · sohkamyung · 18 Feb 2019

873 pts 113 comments

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This person does not exist thispersondoesnotexist.com · bpierre · 12 Feb 2019

872 pts 236 comments

24

Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News redislabs.com · mrburton · 27 Feb 2019

855 pts 215 comments

25

SQL: One of the most valuable skills craigkerstiens.com · duck · 13 Feb 2019

821 pts 382 comments

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You probably don't need a single-page app journal.plausible.io · ukutaht · 17 Feb 2019

816 pts 499 comments

27

My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8 mailarchive.ietf.org · baptou12 · 15 Feb 2019

810 pts 496 comments

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Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers techcrunch.com · sinstein · 8 Feb 2019

799 pts 931 comments

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$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now tesla.com · felipemesquita · 28 Feb 2019

785 pts 713 comments

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Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation techcrunch.com · e1ven · 5 Feb 2019

774 pts 835 comments

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“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017) theregister.co.uk · peter_d_sherman · 4 Feb 2019

746 pts 395 comments

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A Heavily-Commented Linux Kernel Source Code [pdf] oldlinux.org · turingbook · 22 Feb 2019

739 pts 40 comments

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Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission nytimes.com · jimktrains2 · 13 Feb 2019

728 pts 221 comments

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HTTP/3 explained http3-explained.haxx.se · signa11 · 5 Feb 2019

716 pts 233 comments

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Whitespace killed an enterprise app uxdesign.cc · kirkbackus · 13 Feb 2019

708 pts 435 comments

36

Magic Lantern magiclantern.fm · chris_overseas · 18 Feb 2019

707 pts 234 comments

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Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset blog.mozilla.org · Vinnl · 28 Feb 2019

705 pts 61 comments

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Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable Go programs dave.cheney.net · ra7 · 21 Feb 2019

688 pts 226 comments

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One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI buzzfeednews.com · chollida1 · 1 Feb 2019

677 pts 314 comments

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PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years fosdem.org · lelf · 9 Feb 2019

676 pts 307 comments

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Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015) cbc.ca · colinprince · 20 Feb 2019

674 pts 330 comments

42

What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs? hackaday.com · jccalhoun · 6 Feb 2019

668 pts 498 comments

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COI – Chat Over IMAP coi-dev.org · smartmic · 21 Feb 2019

660 pts 248 comments

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Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees techcrunch.com · mayneack · 21 Feb 2019

652 pts 278 comments

45

Going Solo, Successfully kev.inburke.com · kevinburke · 17 Feb 2019

638 pts 191 comments

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Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output theguardian.com · uxhacker · 19 Feb 2019

635 pts 221 comments

47

Sex censorship killed the internet we love engadget.com · coding123 · 2 Feb 2019

627 pts 493 comments

48

Winning the Blackbird Battle blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 14 Feb 2019

620 pts 138 comments

49

Redesigning GitHub Repository Page tonsky.me · kirushik · 28 Feb 2019

614 pts 303 comments

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YouTube bans comments on all videos of children bbc.co.uk · _wmd · 28 Feb 2019

610 pts 530 comments

51

My Twitch Live Coding Setup medium.com · ingve · 25 Feb 2019

606 pts 113 comments

52

EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone dw.com · Nux · 1 Feb 2019

604 pts 383 comments

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Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code techcrunch.com · jbegley · 7 Feb 2019

603 pts 278 comments

54

Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D nytimes.com · bookofjoe · 25 Feb 2019

601 pts 331 comments

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Simdjson – Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second github.com · cmsimike · 21 Feb 2019

598 pts 196 comments

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Books I Recommend blog.jessfraz.com · ingve · 25 Feb 2019

597 pts 147 comments

57

Google Docs gets an API for task automation techcrunch.com · Manu1987 · 11 Feb 2019

594 pts 191 comments

58

A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency news.mit.edu · salvadormon · 18 Feb 2019

584 pts 815 comments

59

Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch blakesmith.me · blakesmith · 16 Feb 2019

584 pts 129 comments

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Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video github.com · smacke · 25 Feb 2019

583 pts 124 comments