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Top of Month - Apr 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display
    (8 Apr 2019 | 1310 points | Comments)

12. We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
    (20 Apr 2019 | 1289 points | Comments)

13. Warp – Mobile VPN
    (1 Apr 2019 | 1211 points | Comments)

14. Docker Hub Hacked – 190k accounts, GitHub tokens revoked, builds disabled
    (27 Apr 2019 | 1146 points | Comments)

15. Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
    (21 Apr 2019 | 1134 points | Comments)

16. It seems that Google is forgetting the old web
    (8 Apr 2019 | 1102 points | Comments)

17. The inception bar: a new phishing method
    (27 Apr 2019 | 1046 points | Comments)

18. Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
    (29 Apr 2019 | 1046 points | Comments)

19. Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist
    (17 Apr 2019 | 1036 points | Comments)

20. Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
    (9 Apr 2019 | 1034 points | Comments)

21. Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris
    (15 Apr 2019 | 989 points | Comments)

22. Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]
    (29 Apr 2019 | 931 points | Comments)

23. Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
    (11 Apr 2019 | 889 points | Comments)

24. Have a personal web site
    (30 Apr 2019 | 883 points | Comments)

25. TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines
    (26 Apr 2019 | 881 points | Comments)

26. Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
    (28 Apr 2019 | 880 points | Comments)

27. Goodbye Joe
    (21 Apr 2019 | 875 points | Comments)

28. Netlify Dev
    (9 Apr 2019 | 873 points | Comments)

29. Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
    (1 Apr 2019 | 848 points | Comments)

30. I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs
    (17 Apr 2019 | 826 points | Comments)

31. Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it
    (4 Apr 2019 | 817 points | Comments)

32. MuseNet
    (25 Apr 2019 | 814 points | Comments)

33. 58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
    (8 Apr 2019 | 797 points | Comments)

34. SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home Internet from Space
    (29 Apr 2019 | 797 points | Comments)

35. Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
    (2 Apr 2019 | 788 points | Comments)

36. Let’s Build a Simple Database (2017)
    (5 Apr 2019 | 783 points | Comments)

37. Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox
    (2 Apr 2019 | 777 points | Comments)

38. 1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by amateur astronomers
    (15 Apr 2019 | 752 points | Comments)

39. Microsimulation of Traffic Flow
    (16 Apr 2019 | 752 points | Comments)

40. Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?
    (19 Apr 2019 | 752 points | Comments)

41. Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
    (17 Apr 2019 | 747 points | Comments)

42. Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
    (28 Apr 2019 | 744 points | Comments)

43. Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?
    (22 Apr 2019 | 740 points | Comments)

44. Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords
    (2 Apr 2019 | 736 points | Comments)

45. I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could
    (7 Apr 2019 | 729 points | Comments)

46. How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired against their own workers
    (15 Apr 2019 | 717 points | Comments)

47. Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize
    (6 Apr 2019 | 712 points | Comments)

48. Uber S-1
    (11 Apr 2019 | 708 points | Comments)

49. Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
    (16 Apr 2019 | 705 points | Comments)

50. Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors
    (30 Apr 2019 | 702 points | Comments)

51. Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
    (16 Apr 2019 | 700 points | Comments)

52. Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle
    (29 Apr 2019 | 698 points | Comments)

53. French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen
    (2 Apr 2019 | 696 points | Comments)

54. 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
    (4 Apr 2019 | 689 points | Comments)

55. Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad
    (10 Apr 2019 | 678 points | Comments)

56. PySnooper: Never use print for debugging again
    (22 Apr 2019 | 675 points | Comments)

57. Manim – 3Blue1Brown's animation engine for explanatory math videos
    (22 Apr 2019 | 669 points | Comments)

58. 5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
    (16 Apr 2019 | 668 points | Comments)

59. Foundations of Databases (1995)
    (23 Apr 2019 | 662 points | Comments)

60. Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)
    (21 Apr 2019 | 656 points | Comments)

61. Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017)
    (5 Apr 2019 | 651 points | Comments)

62. Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease
    (24 Apr 2019 | 650 points | Comments)

63. “I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
    (16 Apr 2019 | 640 points | Comments)

64. Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity
    (22 Apr 2019 | 639 points | Comments)

65. Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data
    (24 Apr 2019 | 639 points | Comments)

66. Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta
    (9 Apr 2019 | 630 points | Comments)

67. Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains
    (2 Apr 2019 | 623 points | Comments)

68. Mozilla WebThings
    (18 Apr 2019 | 621 points | Comments)

69. Great developers are raised, not hired
    (12 Apr 2019 | 620 points | Comments)

70. I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)
    (29 Apr 2019 | 617 points | Comments)

71. Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
    (23 Apr 2019 | 616 points | Comments)

72. Arabsat-6A mission [video]
    (11 Apr 2019 | 609 points | Comments)

73. TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes
    (22 Apr 2019 | 608 points | Comments)

74. Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
    (12 Apr 2019 | 602 points | Comments)

75. Want to learn a new skill? Take some short breaks
    (14 Apr 2019 | 596 points | Comments)

76. Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops
    (3 Apr 2019 | 594 points | Comments)

77. Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking
    (4 Apr 2019 | 593 points | Comments)

78. Slack S-1
    (26 Apr 2019 | 593 points | Comments)

79. Zuckerberg’s Rules Would Hurt Everyone but Facebook
    (3 Apr 2019 | 592 points | Comments)

80. Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
    (15 Apr 2019 | 579 points | Comments)

81. Vim.wasm
    (24 Apr 2019 | 576 points | Comments)

82. Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to admit its mistake
    (19 Apr 2019 | 573 points | Comments)

83. Name one thing in this photo
    (24 Apr 2019 | 568 points | Comments)

84. Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
    (24 Apr 2019 | 562 points | Comments)

85. The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index
    (21 Apr 2019 | 548 points | Comments)

86. I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape
    (27 Apr 2019 | 542 points | Comments)

87. Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away
    (6 Apr 2019 | 541 points | Comments)

88. South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste
    (13 Apr 2019 | 538 points | Comments)

89. Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job
    (5 Apr 2019 | 537 points | Comments)

90. Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?
    (29 Apr 2019 | 537 points | Comments)

91. Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection
    (11 Apr 2019 | 531 points | Comments)

92. LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise
    (15 Apr 2019 | 528 points | Comments)

93. How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer
    (18 Apr 2019 | 528 points | Comments)

94. Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo
    (21 Apr 2019 | 526 points | Comments)

95. The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News
    (10 Apr 2019 | 525 points | Comments)

96. Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
    (18 Apr 2019 | 525 points | Comments)

97. EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content
    (10 Apr 2019 | 519 points | Comments)

98. Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it
    (10 Apr 2019 | 519 points | Comments)

99. Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018)
    (10 Apr 2019 | 518 points | Comments)

100. Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries
     (24 Apr 2019 | 518 points | Comments)