The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2019
We track 1,289 stories from May 2019, averaging 254 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 60 stories. Together they drew 169,733 comments, 132 per story on average.
1
Switch from Chrome to Firefox
mozilla.org · WisNorCan · 30 May 2019
3.3k pts
983 comments
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2
A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
blog.chriszacharias.com · zacman85 · 1 May 2019
2.2k pts
363 comments
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3
Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
9to5google.com · estranhosidade · 29 May 2019
2.1k pts
877 comments
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5
Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
play.date · dombili · 22 May 2019
1.4k pts
402 comments
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6
"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
twitter.com · sergiomattei · 31 May 2019
1.3k pts
596 comments
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All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
bugzilla.mozilla.org · xvector · 4 May 2019
1.3k pts
874 comments
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8
Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
blog.mozilla.org · rendall · 30 May 2019
1.3k pts
391 comments
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Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown
reddit.com · mastazi · 23 May 2019
1.3k pts
325 comments
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10
Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline
rmcginnis · 6 May 2019
1.3k pts
565 comments
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13
Advanced Data Structures (2017)
courses.csail.mit.edu · rjammala · 29 May 2019
1.2k pts
85 comments
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14
I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
idiallo.com · firefoxd · 15 May 2019
1.1k pts
441 comments
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15
Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well
blog.pragmaticengineer.com · gregdoesit · 31 May 2019
1.1k pts
371 comments
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16
Common mistakes in PostgreSQL
wiki.postgresql.org · kawera · 3 May 2019
1.1k pts
253 comments
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17
Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent
techcrunch.com · pseudolus · 31 May 2019
1.1k pts
224 comments
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18
DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts
github.com · anaphor · 20 May 2019
1.1k pts
265 comments
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19
Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]
ourway.keybase.pub · rodmena · 30 May 2019
1.1k pts
161 comments
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20
Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end
github.com · bennylope · 7 May 2019
1k pts
148 comments
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21
Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
nytimes.com · tysone · 23 May 2019
993 pts
593 comments
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24
Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
cbc.ca · cpncrunch · 5 May 2019
950 pts
457 comments
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25
WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones
ft.com · EwanToo · 13 May 2019
939 pts
283 comments
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26
Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
nest.com · cek · 7 May 2019
936 pts
569 comments
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27
Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
nathanasmith · 13 May 2019
927 pts
401 comments
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28
Can we all stop using Medium now?
webdistortion.com · squiggy22 · 16 May 2019
925 pts
327 comments
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30
We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
blog.niteo.co · dz0ny · 9 May 2019
898 pts
509 comments
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31
I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code
djhworld.github.io · boyter · 21 May 2019
892 pts
172 comments
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32
HTTP headers for the responsible developer
twilio.com · kiyanwang · 8 May 2019
887 pts
98 comments
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33
Go is Google's language, not ours
utcc.utoronto.ca · uggedal · 22 May 2019
885 pts
659 comments
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34
Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers
d4stiny.github.io · evanwalsh · 1 May 2019
876 pts
306 comments
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35
WebGL Fluid Simulation
paveldogreat.github.io · joshdance · 20 May 2019
868 pts
102 comments
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36
ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs
cyberus-technology.de · Titanous · 14 May 2019
854 pts
308 comments
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I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]
penberg.org · ingve · 3 May 2019
817 pts
277 comments
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39
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)
507movements.com · dvt · 21 May 2019
798 pts
147 comments
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40
How I Run a Company with ADHD
andrewaskins.com · askins4trouble · 12 May 2019
784 pts
495 comments
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41
After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
melmagazine.com · paulpauper · 23 May 2019
775 pts
639 comments
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42
I turned my interview task for Google into a startup
uxdesign.cc · mmoez · 16 May 2019
752 pts
599 comments
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43
Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study
medium.com · bluffroom · 11 May 2019
751 pts
335 comments
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44
The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
blog.plover.com · luu · 24 May 2019
732 pts
296 comments
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46
Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
svelte.dev · nailer · 18 May 2019
720 pts
332 comments
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47
The struggles of an open source maintainer
antirez.com · ngaut · 17 May 2019
719 pts
216 comments
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48
Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum
harshsikka.me · hsikka · 2 May 2019
714 pts
96 comments
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49
A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests
scientificamerican.com · headalgorithm · 21 May 2019
695 pts
481 comments
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50
Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG
zzz.dog · tomek_zemla · 29 May 2019
686 pts
94 comments
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52
Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
apple.com · css · 21 May 2019
674 pts
1k comments
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53
The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)
jaycarlson.net · howard941 · 7 May 2019
670 pts
195 comments
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54
World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
tomorrowcorporation.com · troydavis · 1 May 2019
663 pts
278 comments
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55
AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
anandtech.com · DuskStar · 27 May 2019
657 pts
339 comments
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56
Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
developers.googleblog.com · mikece · 7 May 2019
654 pts
449 comments
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57
Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
forums.aws.amazon.com · cyanbane · 3 May 2019
652 pts
268 comments
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58
I can see your local web servers
http.jameshfisher.com · jamesfisher · 28 May 2019
652 pts
190 comments
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59
Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year
localbabysitter.com · sharkweek · 14 May 2019
650 pts
392 comments
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60
Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author
github.com · fanf2 · 30 May 2019
644 pts
279 comments
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