The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2019

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I Sell Onions on the Internet deepsouthventures.com · eightturn · 23 Apr 2019

3k pts 435 comments

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Julian Assange arrested in London bbc.co.uk · kragniz · 11 Apr 2019

2.4k pts 1.1k comments

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Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product smartcar.com · sahaskatta · 22 Apr 2019

2.3k pts 603 comments

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Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] youtube.com · doktorn · 10 Apr 2019

2.2k pts 489 comments

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Google Is Eating Our Mail tablix.org · saintamh · 26 Apr 2019

1.9k pts 685 comments

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Joe Armstrong has died twitter.com · okket · 20 Apr 2019

1.9k pts 188 comments

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I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me blog.samuelmaddock.com · smaddock · 2 Apr 2019

1.9k pts 605 comments

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You Are Not Google (2017) blog.bradfieldcs.com · gerbilly · 4 Apr 2019

1.6k pts 572 comments

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I made a smart watch from scratch m.imgur.com · mnem · 30 Apr 2019

1.5k pts 216 comments

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CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust github.com · formalsystem · 5 Apr 2019

1.3k pts 264 comments

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Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display public-sans.digital.gov · thinkalone · 8 Apr 2019

1.3k pts 237 comments

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We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage resumeskills.us · sixtypoundhound · 20 Apr 2019

1.3k pts 774 comments

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Warp – Mobile VPN blog.cloudflare.com · jgrahamc · 1 Apr 2019

1.2k pts 486 comments

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Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled lugg · 27 Apr 2019

1.1k pts 257 comments

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Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming? napolux · 21 Apr 2019

1.1k pts 717 comments

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It seems that Google is forgetting the old web stop.zona-m.net · barry-cotter · 8 Apr 2019

1.1k pts 302 comments

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Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists? strimp099 · 29 Apr 2019

1k pts 292 comments

18

The inception bar: a new phishing method jameshfisher.com · jamesfisher · 27 Apr 2019

1k pts 230 comments

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Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist bbc.co.uk · fanf2 · 17 Apr 2019

1k pts 366 comments

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Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing propublica.org · el_duderino · 9 Apr 2019

1k pts 696 comments

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Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris bbc.co.uk · kragniz · 15 Apr 2019

989 pts 521 comments

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Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf] web.stanford.edu · htiek · 29 Apr 2019

931 pts 83 comments

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Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image bbc.com · tigerlily · 11 Apr 2019

889 pts 470 comments

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Have a personal web site writing.markchristian.org · markchristian · 30 Apr 2019

883 pts 414 comments

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TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines propublica.org · danso · 26 Apr 2019

881 pts 262 comments

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Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos picsum.photos · dmarby · 28 Apr 2019

880 pts 123 comments

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Goodbye Joe ferd.ca · mononcqc · 21 Apr 2019

875 pts 22 comments

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Netlify Dev netlify.com · cift · 9 Apr 2019

873 pts 229 comments

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Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods nytimes.com · charliepark · 1 Apr 2019

848 pts 637 comments

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I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs possiblywrong.wordpress.com · bookofjoe · 17 Apr 2019

826 pts 207 comments

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Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it downtowndougbrown.com · zdw · 4 Apr 2019

817 pts 178 comments

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MuseNet openai.com · runesoerensen · 25 Apr 2019

814 pts 179 comments

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SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home Internet from Space cordcuttersnews.com · hsnewman · 29 Apr 2019

797 pts 524 comments

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58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere jrl.ninja · JoshuaRLi · 8 Apr 2019

797 pts 225 comments

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Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand arstechnica.com · vanburen · 2 Apr 2019

788 pts 413 comments

36

Let’s Build a Simple Database (2017) cstack.github.io · AlexeyBrin · 5 Apr 2019

783 pts 88 comments

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Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox blog.nightly.mozilla.org · barryvan · 2 Apr 2019

777 pts 260 comments

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Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable? phoenix24 · 19 Apr 2019

752 pts 358 comments

39

Microsimulation of Traffic Flow traffic-simulation.de · social_quotient · 16 Apr 2019

752 pts 159 comments

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1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by amateur astronomers astrospace-page.blogspot.com · dmitrybrant · 15 Apr 2019

752 pts 114 comments

41

Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis matthewrayfield.com · bemmu · 17 Apr 2019

747 pts 165 comments

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Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database 1mb.site · 1mbsite · 28 Apr 2019

744 pts 239 comments

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Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? _lo3k · 22 Apr 2019

740 pts 184 comments

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Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords thedailybeast.com · sharkweek · 2 Apr 2019

736 pts 358 comments

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I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could doximity.com · bookofjoe · 7 Apr 2019

729 pts 317 comments

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How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers whenrulesdontapply.com · alienlid · 15 Apr 2019

717 pts 280 comments

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Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize nytimes.com · jseliger · 6 Apr 2019

712 pts 712 comments

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Uber S-1 sec.gov · wferrell · 11 Apr 2019

708 pts 531 comments

49

Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games github.com · laurent123456 · 16 Apr 2019

705 pts 238 comments

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Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors twitter.com · azhenley · 30 Apr 2019

702 pts 344 comments

51

Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model erikbern.com · mzl · 16 Apr 2019

700 pts 317 comments

52

Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle csail.mit.edu · MrXOR · 29 Apr 2019

698 pts 118 comments

53

French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen torrentfreak.com · obl · 2 Apr 2019

696 pts 368 comments

54

93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs colinm.org · thaumaturgy · 4 Apr 2019

689 pts 132 comments

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Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad steveblank.com · furkansahin · 10 Apr 2019

678 pts 374 comments

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PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again github.com · cool-RR · 22 Apr 2019

675 pts 168 comments

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Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos github.com · amingilani · 22 Apr 2019

669 pts 80 comments

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5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk hackaday.com · szczys · 16 Apr 2019

668 pts 471 comments

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Foundations of Databases (1995) webdam.inria.fr · tosh · 23 Apr 2019

662 pts 52 comments

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Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000) cs.otago.ac.nz · andrewl · 21 Apr 2019

656 pts 380 comments