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Top of Month - Jan 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
   (29 Jan 2019 | 1320 points | Comments)

9. Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry
   (23 Jan 2019 | 1158 points | Comments)

10. John C. Bogle Has Died
    (16 Jan 2019 | 1084 points | Comments)

11. Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
    (9 Jan 2019 | 1079 points | Comments)

12. China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon
    (3 Jan 2019 | 1040 points | Comments)

13. I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
    (18 Jan 2019 | 1012 points | Comments)

14. Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
    (6 Jan 2019 | 985 points | Comments)

15. When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling
    (20 Jan 2019 | 973 points | Comments)

16. Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
    (14 Jan 2019 | 970 points | Comments)

17. DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
    (15 Jan 2019 | 961 points | Comments)

18. GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it
    (13 Jan 2019 | 949 points | Comments)

19. Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal
    (15 Jan 2019 | 940 points | Comments)

20. Ending our Medium integration
    (30 Jan 2019 | 936 points | Comments)

21. How to Be Successful
    (24 Jan 2019 | 894 points | Comments)

22. Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
    (31 Jan 2019 | 882 points | Comments)

23. Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
    (9 Jan 2019 | 862 points | Comments)

24. KABOOM in 180 lines of bare C++
    (27 Jan 2019 | 854 points | Comments)

25. Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook
    (9 Jan 2019 | 848 points | Comments)

26. Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost
    (7 Jan 2019 | 839 points | Comments)

27. AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
    (24 Jan 2019 | 805 points | Comments)

28. Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules
    (14 Jan 2019 | 787 points | Comments)

29. Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
    (15 Jan 2019 | 777 points | Comments)

30. My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
    (18 Jan 2019 | 775 points | Comments)

31. Show HN: HN.Academy – Top online courses recommended by Hacker News users
    (3 Jan 2019 | 773 points | Comments)

32. Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
    (8 Jan 2019 | 773 points | Comments)

33. How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming
    (6 Jan 2019 | 754 points | Comments)

34. How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear
    (16 Jan 2019 | 749 points | Comments)

35. Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers
    (24 Jan 2019 | 749 points | Comments)

36. Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters
    (8 Jan 2019 | 748 points | Comments)

37. The Man in Seat Sixty-One
    (13 Jan 2019 | 738 points | Comments)

38. Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps
    (30 Jan 2019 | 735 points | Comments)

39. I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi
    (11 Jan 2019 | 733 points | Comments)

40. Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain
    (1 Jan 2019 | 727 points | Comments)

41. Firefox 65.0 released
    (29 Jan 2019 | 724 points | Comments)

42. Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
    (11 Jan 2019 | 718 points | Comments)

43. Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over
    (17 Jan 2019 | 716 points | Comments)

44. Programming Fonts – Test Drive
    (21 Jan 2019 | 712 points | Comments)

45. Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
    (22 Jan 2019 | 707 points | Comments)

46. Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)
    (24 Jan 2019 | 707 points | Comments)

47. The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins
    (8 Jan 2019 | 698 points | Comments)

48. New Horizons’ first hi-res imagery of Ultima Thule
    (2 Jan 2019 | 697 points | Comments)

49. Software Engineering at Google (2017)
    (3 Jan 2019 | 685 points | Comments)

50. Practical Linux Hardening Guide
    (24 Jan 2019 | 683 points | Comments)

51. Airbnb and security camera disclosure
    (16 Jan 2019 | 680 points | Comments)

52. Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud
    (23 Jan 2019 | 680 points | Comments)

53. Websocketd
    (25 Jan 2019 | 680 points | Comments)

54. Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?
    (18 Jan 2019 | 654 points | Comments)

55. What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail
    (27 Jan 2019 | 652 points | Comments)

56. How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project
    (10 Jan 2019 | 647 points | Comments)

57. 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
    (18 Jan 2019 | 645 points | Comments)

58. The Hand Licking Incident
    (7 Jan 2019 | 641 points | Comments)

59. Startup Playbook (2015)
    (16 Jan 2019 | 640 points | Comments)

60. Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
    (30 Jan 2019 | 640 points | Comments)

61. Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
    (22 Jan 2019 | 635 points | Comments)

62. The Route of a Text Message
    (16 Jan 2019 | 627 points | Comments)

63. Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
    (3 Jan 2019 | 626 points | Comments)

64. WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork
    (16 Jan 2019 | 624 points | Comments)

65. A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet
    (28 Jan 2019 | 623 points | Comments)

66. Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums
    (5 Jan 2019 | 622 points | Comments)

67. SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
    (12 Jan 2019 | 613 points | Comments)

68. 35-year-old vulnerability discovered in scp
    (15 Jan 2019 | 601 points | Comments)

69. A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse
    (22 Jan 2019 | 600 points | Comments)

70. Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging
    (14 Jan 2019 | 597 points | Comments)

71. Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard
    (25 Jan 2019 | 597 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
    (2 Jan 2019 | 587 points | Comments)

73. Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)
    (24 Jan 2019 | 587 points | Comments)

74. When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)
    (26 Jan 2019 | 586 points | Comments)

75. Apple is patenting Swift features
    (25 Jan 2019 | 580 points | Comments)

76. Bed that saved me from the Taliban
    (21 Jan 2019 | 576 points | Comments)

77. On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality
    (21 Jan 2019 | 576 points | Comments)

78. Pink Trombone
    (15 Jan 2019 | 575 points | Comments)

79. Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
    (12 Jan 2019 | 574 points | Comments)

80. Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test
    (18 Jan 2019 | 574 points | Comments)

81. After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue
    (16 Jan 2019 | 572 points | Comments)

82. A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers
    (13 Jan 2019 | 566 points | Comments)

83. Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push
    (26 Jan 2019 | 566 points | Comments)

84. Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
    (2 Jan 2019 | 559 points | Comments)

85. Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch
    (30 Jan 2019 | 559 points | Comments)

86. Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019
    (25 Jan 2019 | 556 points | Comments)

87. Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)
    (20 Jan 2019 | 553 points | Comments)

88. Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
    (11 Jan 2019 | 551 points | Comments)

89. We can confirm that there was a successful 51% attack on Ethereum Classic
    (7 Jan 2019 | 549 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
    (28 Jan 2019 | 548 points | Comments)

91. Statistics Done Wrong
    (30 Jan 2019 | 547 points | Comments)

92. How to teach Git
    (16 Jan 2019 | 544 points | Comments)

93. Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
    (5 Jan 2019 | 542 points | Comments)

94. Coolest Things I Learned in 2018
    (8 Jan 2019 | 539 points | Comments)

95. Thank u, next
    (7 Jan 2019 | 537 points | Comments)

96. Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
    (2 Jan 2019 | 535 points | Comments)

97. Bash 5.0 released
    (8 Jan 2019 | 534 points | Comments)

98. Networking on AWS (2018)
    (16 Jan 2019 | 533 points | Comments)

99. Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
    (11 Jan 2019 | 527 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?
     (4 Jan 2019 | 519 points | Comments)