The Best Hacker News Posts of June 2019
We track 1,250 stories from June 2019, averaging 249 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 59 stories. Together they drew 164,186 comments, 131 per story on average.
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Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
motorauthority.com · meteor333 · 17 Jun 2019
2.2k pts
952 comments
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Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
xylo · 24 Jun 2019
1.7k pts
1.1k comments
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Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
monicalent.com · dcu · 7 Jun 2019
1.5k pts
511 comments
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Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
grumpy.website · kojoru · 10 Jun 2019
1.3k pts
483 comments
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The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness
city-journal.org · paulpauper · 6 Jun 2019
1.3k pts
1.2k comments
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“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”
developer.apple.com · donohoe · 5 Jun 2019
1.2k pts
379 comments
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Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
decrypt.co · timcc50 · 18 Jun 2019
1.2k pts
1.3k comments
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Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side
fastcompany.com · ProAm · 27 Jun 2019
1.1k pts
542 comments
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Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
apple.com · briandear · 27 Jun 2019
1.1k pts
834 comments
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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
blog.mozilla.org · teddyfrozevelt · 4 Jun 2019
1.1k pts
274 comments
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“The books will stop working.”
twitter.com · _Microft · 27 Jun 2019
1k pts
439 comments
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Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
theverge.com · notinversed · 19 Jun 2019
1k pts
590 comments
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Relearn CSS layout
every-layout.dev · aarohmankad · 16 Jun 2019
985 pts
182 comments
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Learning Synths
learningsynths.ableton.com · navidhg · 25 Jun 2019
969 pts
172 comments
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Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
techcrunch.com · albertwang · 10 Jun 2019
950 pts
376 comments
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Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
meta.stackoverflow.com · iokanuon · 26 Jun 2019
909 pts
402 comments
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Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development
blog.juliobiason.net · pbowyer · 18 Jun 2019
872 pts
293 comments
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Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google
wsj.com · Despegar · 1 Jun 2019
870 pts
414 comments
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Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline
blog.cloudflare.com · steveklabnik · 24 Jun 2019
863 pts
274 comments
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Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home
returntonow.net · rmason · 21 Jun 2019
850 pts
221 comments
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US Customs Database Of Traveler Photos Was Hacked And Stolen
buzzfeednews.com · pseudolus · 10 Jun 2019
825 pts
198 comments
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Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml
thume.ca · trishume · 15 Jun 2019
783 pts
370 comments
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Apollo 11 in Real Time
apolloinrealtime.org · rosser · 16 Jun 2019
783 pts
133 comments
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A janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2017)
thehustle.co · andygcook · 19 Jun 2019
780 pts
356 comments
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Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
youglish.com · interweb · 19 Jun 2019
770 pts
236 comments
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Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
kerkour.fr · _3lin · 5 Jun 2019
747 pts
230 comments
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No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
doist.com · eugenegamma · 11 Jun 2019
745 pts
303 comments
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How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit
medium.com · danielfoster · 25 Jun 2019
735 pts
387 comments
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Blender Is Free Software
code.blender.org · kiki_jiki · 9 Jun 2019
730 pts
326 comments
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Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
aerc-mail.org · jcamou · 4 Jun 2019
722 pts
264 comments
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Reinventing Firefox for Android
blog.mozilla.org · mncolinlee · 27 Jun 2019
721 pts
387 comments
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Support for right-to-repair laws slowly grows
arstechnica.com · headalgorithm · 20 Jun 2019
707 pts
240 comments
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Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company
techcrunch.com · eklavyaa · 4 Jun 2019
706 pts
468 comments
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I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is siding with the thief
stavros.io · jstanley · 24 Jun 2019
705 pts
352 comments
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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
troyhunt.com · benmarks · 11 Jun 2019
700 pts
145 comments
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How Discount Brokerages Make Money
kalzumeus.com · charlieirish · 25 Jun 2019
696 pts
219 comments
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Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care
wsj.com · harshreality · 25 Jun 2019
690 pts
548 comments
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Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
techcrunch.com · sohkamyung · 8 Jun 2019
682 pts
308 comments
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Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine
cbc.ca · lxm · 26 Jun 2019
681 pts
320 comments
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Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
brave.com · teovoinea · 26 Jun 2019
669 pts
359 comments
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Android now forces apps to include proprietary code for push notifications
reddit.com · lelf · 10 Jun 2019
665 pts
271 comments
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Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation
npr.org · lgats · 20 Jun 2019
651 pts
782 comments
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Show HN: This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
secretgeek.github.io · LeonB · 4 Jun 2019
633 pts
94 comments
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National Park Typeface
nationalparktypeface.com · zwieback · 4 Jun 2019
623 pts
84 comments
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Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby
sorbet.org · abhorrence · 20 Jun 2019
617 pts
268 comments
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Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
nationalgeographic.com · TuringTest · 18 Jun 2019
612 pts
371 comments
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How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018)
medium.com · rodneyg_ · 4 Jun 2019
611 pts
217 comments
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Chase did a bad thing, so we did a good thing
chaseoptout.com · zbruhnke · 11 Jun 2019
610 pts
231 comments
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Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web framework for Rust
docs.rs · Dowwie · 5 Jun 2019
600 pts
147 comments
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