The Best Hacker News Posts of May 2019

1

Switch from Chrome to Firefox mozilla.org · WisNorCan · 30 May 2019

3.3k pts 983 comments

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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 blog.chriszacharias.com · zacman85 · 1 May 2019

2.2k pts 363 comments

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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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GitHub Sponsors github.com · Heliosmaster · 23 May 2019

2.1k pts 501 comments

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Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System play.date · dombili · 22 May 2019

1.4k pts 402 comments

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"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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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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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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How to do hard things drmaciver.com · necrodome · 19 May 2019

1.2k pts 116 comments

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GitHub Package Registry github.com · rtsao · 10 May 2019

1.2k pts 373 comments

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Advanced Data Structures (2017) courses.csail.mit.edu · rjammala · 29 May 2019

1.2k pts 85 comments

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I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page idiallo.com · firefoxd · 15 May 2019

1.1k pts 441 comments

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Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well blog.pragmaticengineer.com · gregdoesit · 31 May 2019

1.1k pts 371 comments

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Common mistakes in PostgreSQL wiki.postgresql.org · kawera · 3 May 2019

1.1k pts 253 comments

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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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DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts github.com · anaphor · 20 May 2019

1.1k pts 265 comments

19

Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf] ourway.keybase.pub · rodmena · 30 May 2019

1.1k pts 161 comments

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

21

Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues nytimes.com · tysone · 23 May 2019

993 pts 593 comments

22

Going Critical meltingasphalt.com · bkudria · 14 May 2019

989 pts 70 comments

23

IT Runs on Java 8 veekaybee.github.io · anielsen · 10 May 2019

964 pts 529 comments

24

Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords cbc.ca · cpncrunch · 5 May 2019

950 pts 457 comments

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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Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API nest.com · cek · 7 May 2019

936 pts 569 comments

27

Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into nathanasmith · 13 May 2019

927 pts 401 comments

28

Can we all stop using Medium now? webdistortion.com · squiggy22 · 16 May 2019

925 pts 327 comments

29

PHP in 2019 stitcher.io · brendt_gd · 15 May 2019

908 pts 473 comments

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We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business blog.niteo.co · dz0ny · 9 May 2019

898 pts 509 comments

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

32

HTTP headers for the responsible developer twilio.com · kiyanwang · 8 May 2019

887 pts 98 comments

33

Go is Google's language, not ours utcc.utoronto.ca · uggedal · 22 May 2019

885 pts 659 comments

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Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers d4stiny.github.io · evanwalsh · 1 May 2019

876 pts 306 comments

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WebGL Fluid Simulation paveldogreat.github.io · joshdance · 20 May 2019

868 pts 102 comments

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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Leaving Google Fi jasonatwood.io · daigoba66 · 19 May 2019

813 pts 277 comments

39

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908) 507movements.com · dvt · 21 May 2019

798 pts 147 comments

40

How I Run a Company with ADHD andrewaskins.com · askins4trouble · 12 May 2019

784 pts 495 comments

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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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I turned my interview task for Google into a startup uxdesign.cc · mmoez · 16 May 2019

752 pts 599 comments

43

Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study medium.com · bluffroom · 11 May 2019

751 pts 335 comments

44

The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013) blog.plover.com · luu · 24 May 2019

732 pts 296 comments

45

.NET 5 devblogs.microsoft.com · benaadams · 6 May 2019

730 pts 410 comments

46

Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) svelte.dev · nailer · 18 May 2019

720 pts 332 comments

47

The struggles of an open source maintainer antirez.com · ngaut · 17 May 2019

719 pts 216 comments

48

Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum harshsikka.me · hsikka · 2 May 2019

714 pts 96 comments

49

A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests scientificamerican.com · headalgorithm · 21 May 2019

695 pts 481 comments

50

Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG zzz.dog · tomek_zemla · 29 May 2019

686 pts 94 comments

51

H.264 is magic (2016) sidbala.com · dpeck · 24 May 2019

680 pts 180 comments

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Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro apple.com · css · 21 May 2019

674 pts 1k comments

53

The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017) jaycarlson.net · howard941 · 7 May 2019

670 pts 195 comments

54

World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later tomorrowcorporation.com · troydavis · 1 May 2019

663 pts 278 comments

55

AMD Ryzen 3000 announced anandtech.com · DuskStar · 27 May 2019

657 pts 339 comments

56

Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop developers.googleblog.com · mikece · 7 May 2019

654 pts 449 comments

57

Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests forums.aws.amazon.com · cyanbane · 3 May 2019

652 pts 268 comments

58

I can see your local web servers http.jameshfisher.com · jamesfisher · 28 May 2019

652 pts 190 comments

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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Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author github.com · fanf2 · 30 May 2019

644 pts 279 comments