The Best Hacker News Posts of April 2019
We track 1,285 stories from April 2019, averaging 254 points each. nytimes.com was the most linked source, with 60 stories. Together they drew 162,240 comments, 126 per story on average.
1
I Sell Onions on the Internet
deepsouthventures.com · eightturn · 23 Apr 2019
3k pts
435 comments
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2
Julian Assange arrested in London
bbc.co.uk · kragniz · 11 Apr 2019
2.4k pts
1.1k comments
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3
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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4
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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7
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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8
You Are Not Google (2017)
blog.bradfieldcs.com · gerbilly · 4 Apr 2019
1.6k pts
572 comments
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9
I made a smart watch from scratch
m.imgur.com · mnem · 30 Apr 2019
1.5k pts
216 comments
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10
CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust
github.com · formalsystem · 5 Apr 2019
1.3k pts
264 comments
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11
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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12
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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14
Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled
lugg · 27 Apr 2019
1.1k pts
257 comments
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15
Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
napolux · 21 Apr 2019
1.1k pts
717 comments
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16
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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17
Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
strimp099 · 29 Apr 2019
1k pts
292 comments
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18
The inception bar: a new phishing method
jameshfisher.com · jamesfisher · 27 Apr 2019
1k pts
230 comments
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19
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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20
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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21
Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris
bbc.co.uk · kragniz · 15 Apr 2019
989 pts
521 comments
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22
Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]
web.stanford.edu · htiek · 29 Apr 2019
931 pts
83 comments
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23
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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24
Have a personal web site
writing.markchristian.org · markchristian · 30 Apr 2019
883 pts
414 comments
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25
TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines
propublica.org · danso · 26 Apr 2019
881 pts
262 comments
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26
Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
picsum.photos · dmarby · 28 Apr 2019
880 pts
123 comments
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29
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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30
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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31
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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33
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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34
58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
jrl.ninja · JoshuaRLi · 8 Apr 2019
797 pts
225 comments
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35
Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
arstechnica.com · vanburen · 2 Apr 2019
788 pts
413 comments
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36
Let’s Build a Simple Database (2017)
cstack.github.io · AlexeyBrin · 5 Apr 2019
783 pts
88 comments
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37
Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox
blog.nightly.mozilla.org · barryvan · 2 Apr 2019
777 pts
260 comments
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38
Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
phoenix24 · 19 Apr 2019
752 pts
358 comments
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39
Microsimulation of Traffic Flow
traffic-simulation.de · social_quotient · 16 Apr 2019
752 pts
159 comments
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40
1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by amateur astronomers
astrospace-page.blogspot.com · dmitrybrant · 15 Apr 2019
752 pts
114 comments
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41
Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
matthewrayfield.com · bemmu · 17 Apr 2019
747 pts
165 comments
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42
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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43
Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
_lo3k · 22 Apr 2019
740 pts
184 comments
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44
Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
thedailybeast.com · sharkweek · 2 Apr 2019
736 pts
358 comments
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45
I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could
doximity.com · bookofjoe · 7 Apr 2019
729 pts
317 comments
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46
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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47
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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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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50
Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors
twitter.com · azhenley · 30 Apr 2019
702 pts
344 comments
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51
Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
erikbern.com · mzl · 16 Apr 2019
700 pts
317 comments
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52
Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle
csail.mit.edu · MrXOR · 29 Apr 2019
698 pts
118 comments
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53
French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen
torrentfreak.com · obl · 2 Apr 2019
696 pts
368 comments
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54
93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
colinm.org · thaumaturgy · 4 Apr 2019
689 pts
132 comments
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55
Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad
steveblank.com · furkansahin · 10 Apr 2019
678 pts
374 comments
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56
PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again
github.com · cool-RR · 22 Apr 2019
675 pts
168 comments
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57
Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos
github.com · amingilani · 22 Apr 2019
669 pts
80 comments
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58
5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
hackaday.com · szczys · 16 Apr 2019
668 pts
471 comments
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59
Foundations of Databases (1995)
webdam.inria.fr · tosh · 23 Apr 2019
662 pts
52 comments
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60
Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)
cs.otago.ac.nz · andrewl · 21 Apr 2019
656 pts
380 comments
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