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Top of Year 2019

1. Switch from Chrome to Firefox
   (30 May 2019 | 3287 points | Comments)

2. I Sell Onions on the Internet
   (23 Apr 2019 | 3015 points | Comments)

3. Announcing unlimited free private repos
   (7 Jan 2019 | 2867 points | Comments)

4. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
   (20 Nov 2019 | 2776 points | Comments)

5. Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time
   (14 Mar 2019 | 2690 points | Comments)

6. My Business Card Runs Linux
   (24 Dec 2019 | 2595 points | Comments)

7. Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
   (8 Oct 2019 | 2525 points | Comments)

8. Raspberry Pi 4
   (24 Jun 2019 | 2504 points | Comments)

9. Twitter to ban political advertising
   (30 Oct 2019 | 2447 points | Comments)

10. No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
    (7 Feb 2019 | 2444 points | Comments)

11. Julian Assange arrested in London
    (11 Apr 2019 | 2369 points | Comments)

12. Save .org
    (23 Nov 2019 | 2297 points | Comments)

13. Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
    (22 Apr 2019 | 2292 points | Comments)

14. Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
    (17 Jun 2019 | 2220 points | Comments)

15. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
    (1 May 2019 | 2195 points | Comments)

16. Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
    (10 Apr 2019 | 2164 points | Comments)

17. Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
    (7 Feb 2019 | 2101 points | Comments)

18. Ken Thompson's Unix Password
    (9 Oct 2019 | 2101 points | Comments)

19. Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
    (29 May 2019 | 2093 points | Comments)

20. GitHub Sponsors
    (23 May 2019 | 2082 points | Comments)

21. Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
    (12 Nov 2019 | 2063 points | Comments)

22. Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
    (12 Mar 2019 | 2031 points | Comments)

23. The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
    (16 Sep 2019 | 2010 points | Comments)

24. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
    (5 Feb 2019 | 2009 points | Comments)

25. Having Kids
    (14 Dec 2019 | 1992 points | Comments)

26. California bans private prisons
    (12 Sep 2019 | 1952 points | Comments)

27. Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
    (8 Jul 2019 | 1937 points | Comments)

28. Google Is Eating Our Mail
    (26 Apr 2019 | 1931 points | Comments)

29. Joe Armstrong has died
    (20 Apr 2019 | 1928 points | Comments)

30. I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
    (2 Apr 2019 | 1920 points | Comments)

31. Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair
    (13 Mar 2019 | 1903 points | Comments)

32. Google’s GDPR Workaround
    (4 Sep 2019 | 1868 points | Comments)

33. 16-inch MacBook Pro
    (13 Nov 2019 | 1840 points | Comments)

34. Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
    (1 Sep 2019 | 1831 points | Comments)

35. A guide to difficult conversations
    (26 Mar 2019 | 1829 points | Comments)

36. Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
    (28 Sep 2019 | 1793 points | Comments)

37. Serverless: slower and more expensive
    (23 Sep 2019 | 1787 points | Comments)

38. Tesla Cybertruck
    (22 Nov 2019 | 1765 points | Comments)

39. A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
    (12 Oct 2019 | 1757 points | Comments)

40. Richard M. Stallman resigns
    (17 Sep 2019 | 1747 points | Comments)

41. UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access
    (28 Feb 2019 | 1743 points | Comments)

42. Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
    (24 Jun 2019 | 1741 points | Comments)

43. Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)
    (6 Aug 2019 | 1724 points | Comments)

44. IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax
    (31 Dec 2019 | 1721 points | Comments)

45. We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
    (4 Nov 2019 | 1675 points | Comments)

46. Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
    (11 Dec 2019 | 1673 points | Comments)

47. Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
    (9 Feb 2019 | 1668 points | Comments)

48. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
    (8 Aug 2019 | 1663 points | Comments)

49. You Are Not Google (2017)
    (4 Apr 2019 | 1623 points | Comments)

50. Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
    (4 Jan 2019 | 1620 points | Comments)

51. Sunsetting Python 2
    (9 Sep 2019 | 1616 points | Comments)

52. Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast
    (18 Sep 2019 | 1606 points | Comments)

53. Firefox Replay
    (28 Nov 2019 | 1596 points | Comments)

54. Firefox 70
    (22 Oct 2019 | 1595 points | Comments)

55. John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
    (13 Nov 2019 | 1574 points | Comments)

56. YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
    (4 Jul 2019 | 1553 points | Comments)

57. Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank
    (18 Nov 2019 | 1549 points | Comments)

58. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
    (16 Dec 2019 | 1536 points | Comments)

59. FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
    (28 Jan 2019 | 1534 points | Comments)

60. Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
    (7 Jun 2019 | 1529 points | Comments)

61. Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
    (22 Jan 2019 | 1527 points | Comments)

62. TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free
    (17 Oct 2019 | 1519 points | Comments)

63. Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
    (30 Jan 2019 | 1516 points | Comments)

64. Build Your Own React
    (14 Nov 2019 | 1478 points | Comments)

65. Introducing nushell
    (23 Aug 2019 | 1477 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
    (23 Oct 2019 | 1474 points | Comments)

67. How to do a code review
    (5 Sep 2019 | 1471 points | Comments)

68. Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson
    (2 Jan 2019 | 1463 points | Comments)

69. Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track
    (3 Nov 2019 | 1460 points | Comments)

70. Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
    (20 Nov 2019 | 1460 points | Comments)

71. Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
    (7 Oct 2019 | 1456 points | Comments)

72. Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
    (29 Jan 2019 | 1454 points | Comments)

73. I made a smart watch from scratch
    (30 Apr 2019 | 1451 points | Comments)

74. Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
    (22 Nov 2019 | 1439 points | Comments)

75. Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links
    (16 Oct 2019 | 1438 points | Comments)

76. 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
    (9 Sep 2019 | 1430 points | Comments)

77. U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property
    (20 Feb 2019 | 1426 points | Comments)

78. Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
    (4 Feb 2019 | 1415 points | Comments)

79. Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
    (29 Aug 2019 | 1400 points | Comments)

80. Google Cloud Is Down
    (2 Jun 2019 | 1395 points | Comments)

81. Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14
    (8 Dec 2019 | 1393 points | Comments)

82. Questions to ask a company during a job interview
    (9 Sep 2019 | 1388 points | Comments)

83. I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
    (15 Oct 2019 | 1385 points | Comments)

84. Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
    (22 May 2019 | 1370 points | Comments)

85. NordVPN confirms it was hacked
    (21 Oct 2019 | 1368 points | Comments)

86. YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
    (14 Jul 2019 | 1362 points | Comments)

87. Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
    (10 Jul 2019 | 1358 points | Comments)

88. Choose Boring Technology
    (1 Jul 2019 | 1357 points | Comments)

89. YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
    (3 Jul 2019 | 1355 points | Comments)

90. Broken
    (10 Oct 2019 | 1354 points | Comments)

91. "DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
    (31 May 2019 | 1343 points | Comments)

92. Google's Captcha in Firefox vs. in Chrome
    (10 Jun 2019 | 1343 points | Comments)

93. CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust
    (5 Apr 2019 | 1340 points | Comments)

94. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan
    (18 Jul 2019 | 1336 points | Comments)

95. The Lesson to Unlearn
    (7 Dec 2019 | 1333 points | Comments)

96. Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
    (22 Oct 2019 | 1331 points | Comments)

97. The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness
    (6 Jun 2019 | 1329 points | Comments)

98. Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
    (3 Oct 2019 | 1325 points | Comments)

99. I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
    (31 Oct 2019 | 1324 points | Comments)

100. This Page is Designed to Last
     (19 Dec 2019 | 1321 points | Comments)