The Best Hacker News Posts of September 2019

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The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018) broadcast.listennotes.com · mxschumacher · 16 Sep 2019

2k pts 451 comments

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California bans private prisons theguardian.com · anigbrowl · 12 Sep 2019

2k pts 597 comments

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Google’s GDPR Workaround brave.com · donohoe · 4 Sep 2019

1.9k pts 588 comments

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Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News ramphastidae · 1 Sep 2019

1.8k pts 390 comments

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Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows reddit.com · rahuldottech · 28 Sep 2019

1.8k pts 766 comments

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Serverless: slower and more expensive einaregilsson.com · kiyanwang · 23 Sep 2019

1.8k pts 712 comments

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Richard M. Stallman resigns fsf.org · maxdeviant · 17 Sep 2019

1.7k pts 2.2k comments

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Sunsetting Python 2 python.org · azizsaya · 9 Sep 2019

1.6k pts 704 comments

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Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast techdirt.com · CrankyBear · 18 Sep 2019

1.6k pts 498 comments

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How to do a code review google.github.io · iamaelephant · 5 Sep 2019

1.5k pts 367 comments

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94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet twitter.com · jonkratz · 9 Sep 2019

1.4k pts 680 comments

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Questions to ask a company during a job interview github.com · viraptor · 9 Sep 2019

1.4k pts 455 comments

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France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra reuters.com · superhumanuser · 14 Sep 2019

1.3k pts 783 comments

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Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? bloomberg.com · phissk · 28 Sep 2019

1.2k pts 556 comments

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WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism mattstoller.substack.com · cjbest · 25 Sep 2019

1.2k pts 414 comments

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9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf] cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov · donohoe · 9 Sep 2019

1.1k pts 275 comments

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Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911 seattletimes.com · throwaway413 · 24 Sep 2019

1.1k pts 659 comments

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Get Started Making Music learningmusic.ableton.com · capableweb · 13 Sep 2019

1.1k pts 184 comments

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Uber lays off 435 people techcrunch.com · coloneltcb · 10 Sep 2019

976 pts 579 comments

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Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas apple.com · infodocket · 23 Sep 2019

946 pts 433 comments

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It's later than you think linkedin.com · cloudytoday · 10 Sep 2019

914 pts 136 comments

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ColorBox by Lyft Design colorbox.io · Brajeshwar · 20 Sep 2019

907 pts 85 comments

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How to learn D3.js wattenberger.com · slowhand09 · 5 Sep 2019

895 pts 106 comments

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Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required james.darpinian.com · modeless · 21 Sep 2019

863 pts 151 comments

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Ask HN: Are you ok? quantumwoke · 12 Sep 2019

857 pts 864 comments

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Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO forbes.com · andygcook · 17 Sep 2019

848 pts 349 comments

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Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties nytimes.com · Anon84 · 7 Sep 2019

806 pts 694 comments

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Stripe Capital stripe.com · jonknee · 5 Sep 2019

804 pts 261 comments

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What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) wozniak.ca · BerislavLopac · 20 Sep 2019

795 pts 634 comments

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Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study cbc.ca · simonebrunozzi · 27 Sep 2019

785 pts 368 comments

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Nim 1.0 nim-lang.org · treeform · 23 Sep 2019

785 pts 303 comments

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Show HN: Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy augmented-ui.com · JaneOri · 9 Sep 2019

775 pts 108 comments

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Edward Snowden: Permanent Record amazon.com · peterkelly · 11 Sep 2019

759 pts 429 comments

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Pure Bash Bible github.com · ausjke · 19 Sep 2019

746 pts 248 comments

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Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer localghost.dev · _quhg · 6 Sep 2019

745 pts 378 comments

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In Defense of Richard Stallman geoff.greer.fm · ash · 30 Sep 2019

744 pts 607 comments

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Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · hispanic · 13 Sep 2019

743 pts 301 comments

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3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image sniklaus.com · sniklaus · 15 Sep 2019

729 pts 131 comments

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WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO wsj.com · mudil · 24 Sep 2019

728 pts 533 comments

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Daytripper github.com · omarchowdhury · 9 Sep 2019

727 pts 198 comments

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Do It Yurtself imgur.com · NaOH · 21 Sep 2019

724 pts 192 comments

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California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees nytimes.com · tempsy · 11 Sep 2019

721 pts 721 comments

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Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D 3dforreddit.com · masterspy7 · 10 Sep 2019

720 pts 162 comments

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Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B wsj.com · tempsy · 19 Sep 2019

709 pts 253 comments

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Running GitHub on Rails 6.0 github.blog · edmorley · 9 Sep 2019

703 pts 369 comments

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Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code github.com · BafS · 1 Sep 2019

687 pts 74 comments

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Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook ft.com · hhs · 18 Sep 2019

685 pts 500 comments

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In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default wired.co.uk · whalabi · 4 Sep 2019

679 pts 420 comments

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Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains leebutterman.com · lsb · 6 Sep 2019

673 pts 141 comments

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Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second sciencemag.org · headalgorithm · 4 Sep 2019

671 pts 250 comments

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California Approves Statewide Rent Control nytimes.com · dawhizkid · 11 Sep 2019

670 pts 964 comments

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What do executives do, anyway? apenwarr.ca · panic · 27 Sep 2019

666 pts 203 comments

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Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email caniemail.com · heidijavi · 12 Sep 2019

666 pts 196 comments

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Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList littleblah · 9 Sep 2019

662 pts 143 comments

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WARP is here blog.cloudflare.com · BCM43 · 25 Sep 2019

657 pts 365 comments

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Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125 nytimes.com · CaliforniaKarl · 17 Sep 2019

649 pts 272 comments

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A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online techcrunch.com · bifrost · 4 Sep 2019

649 pts 165 comments

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Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) jonathanwhiting.com · WoodenChair · 21 Sep 2019

647 pts 544 comments

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Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari github.com · n1000 · 20 Sep 2019

645 pts 431 comments

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WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO reuters.com · pseudolus · 30 Sep 2019

645 pts 384 comments