The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2020

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Every Google result now looks like an ad twitter.com · cmod · 21 Jan 2020

3.6k pts 972 comments

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Thank HN: You helped me get a new job atum47 · 15 Jan 2020

2.4k pts 193 comments

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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained reuters.com · n1000 · 21 Jan 2020

2.3k pts 696 comments

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Goodbye, Clean Code overreacted.io · danabramov · 11 Jan 2020

1.7k pts 575 comments

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Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it deprocrastination.co · vitabenes · 21 Jan 2020

1.6k pts 368 comments

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Which Emoji Scissors Close? wh0.github.io · _nhynes · 3 Jan 2020

1.5k pts 126 comments

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Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees dystroy.org · gilad · 9 Jan 2020

1.4k pts 287 comments

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Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time bbc.com · clouddrover · 23 Jan 2020

1.4k pts 361 comments

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Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this? futur321 · 5 Jan 2020

1.3k pts 970 comments

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A Sad Day for Rust words.steveklabnik.com · pjmlp · 17 Jan 2020

1.2k pts 991 comments

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Not everyone has an internal monologue ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com · altacc · 30 Jan 2020

1.2k pts 876 comments

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How to Exit Vim github.com · justinzollars · 8 Jan 2020

1.1k pts 395 comments

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My Second Year as a Solo Developer mtlynch.io · mtlynch · 31 Jan 2020

1.1k pts 374 comments

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Monoliths Are the Future changelog.com · feross · 30 Jan 2020

1.1k pts 552 comments

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Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) parsers.me · ehurynovich · 29 Jan 2020

1.1k pts 388 comments

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An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google bradfitz.com · jgrahamc · 27 Jan 2020

1k pts 271 comments

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WireGuard is now in Linus' tree lists.zx2c4.com · axiomdata316 · 29 Jan 2020

982 pts 278 comments

18

Software Disenchantment (2018) tonsky.me · ibdknox · 1 Jan 2020

934 pts 488 comments

19

Mozilla lays off 70 techcrunch.com · ameshkov · 15 Jan 2020

929 pts 904 comments

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The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 sha-mbles.github.io · ynezz · 7 Jan 2020

928 pts 352 comments

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Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) news.ycombinator.com · tcharlton · 2 Jan 2020

908 pts 437 comments

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VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now distractionware.com · ciroduran · 10 Jan 2020

870 pts 223 comments

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SMS is not 2FA-secure issms2fasecure.com · sergeant3 · 10 Jan 2020

867 pts 371 comments

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Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019 twitter.com · anonymfus · 2 Jan 2020

864 pts 505 comments

25

Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' theguardian.com · mnem · 21 Jan 2020

834 pts 293 comments

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My FOSS Story blog.burntsushi.net · mfrw · 20 Jan 2020

833 pts 200 comments

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DigitalOcean is laying off staff techcrunch.com · progapandist · 17 Jan 2020

816 pts 399 comments

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Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? napsterbr · 2 Jan 2020

815 pts 1.1k comments

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I Was Google’s Head of International Relations medium.com · sleepyshift · 2 Jan 2020

815 pts 297 comments

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EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V forums.lutris.net · WoodenKatana · 3 Jan 2020

814 pts 484 comments

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“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” twitter.com · slater · 23 Jan 2020

810 pts 378 comments

32

What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple? kqed.org · vo2maxer · 3 Jan 2020

803 pts 116 comments

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Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month frits1993 · 20 Jan 2020

800 pts 187 comments

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Products I Wish Existed blog.eladgil.com · eladgil · 6 Jan 2020

798 pts 419 comments

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Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level drive.google.com · zuhayeer · 6 Jan 2020

792 pts 589 comments

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iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry appleinsider.com · clairity · 13 Jan 2020

781 pts 451 comments

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Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data vice.com · jeremiahlee · 27 Jan 2020

759 pts 192 comments

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Firefox 72.0 mozilla.org · Shinkirou · 7 Jan 2020

758 pts 525 comments

39

List of Twitter mute words for your timeline gist.github.com · rmason · 24 Jan 2020

748 pts 209 comments

40

When good ideas make bad business tjcx.me · tomjcleveland · 3 Jan 2020

735 pts 341 comments

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We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019) indiehackers.com · sloka · 24 Jan 2020

732 pts 199 comments

42

DuckDuckGo Traffic duckduckgo.com · eitland · 22 Jan 2020

727 pts 242 comments

43

Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run alexolivier.me · alex-olivier · 12 Jan 2020

722 pts 380 comments

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Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration spacex.com · eps · 19 Jan 2020

721 pts 328 comments

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Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code github.com · netgusto · 3 Jan 2020

720 pts 116 comments

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Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf] media.defense.gov · Moral_ · 14 Jan 2020

714 pts 228 comments

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Off-Facebook activity facebook.com · bigbaguette · 29 Jan 2020

710 pts 379 comments

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The Polygons of Another World fabiensanglard.net · ibobev · 2 Jan 2020

704 pts 125 comments

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For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity startribune.com · sbuccini · 6 Jan 2020

701 pts 494 comments

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Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? kevinrooke.com · 123six · 7 Jan 2020

699 pts 671 comments

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Unofficial Apple Archive applearchive.org · todotask · 16 Jan 2020

699 pts 151 comments

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Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize? yarapavan · 11 Jan 2020

698 pts 727 comments

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Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers jstanier · 13 Jan 2020

695 pts 234 comments

54

Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go blog.jse.li · eat_veggies · 4 Jan 2020

692 pts 90 comments

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BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X hackaday.com · fogus · 9 Jan 2020

672 pts 415 comments

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City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once anvaka.github.io · jordinebot · 22 Jan 2020

668 pts 143 comments

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Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native engineering.shopify.com · arbhassan · 29 Jan 2020

666 pts 571 comments

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Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years wikimediafoundation.org · EndXA · 26 Jan 2020

662 pts 258 comments

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Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code beepb00p.xyz · october_sky · 27 Jan 2020

661 pts 157 comments

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Reverse engineering course github.com · Edouar1 · 16 Jan 2020

656 pts 55 comments