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Top of Month - Sep 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
    (9 Sep 2019 | 1430 points | Comments)

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

13. France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra
    (14 Sep 2019 | 1255 points | Comments)

14. Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?
    (28 Sep 2019 | 1179 points | Comments)

15. WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism
    (25 Sep 2019 | 1158 points | Comments)

16. 9th Circuit holds that scraping a public website does not violate the CFAA [pdf]
    (9 Sep 2019 | 1136 points | Comments)

17. Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
    (24 Sep 2019 | 1105 points | Comments)

18. Get Started Making Music
    (13 Sep 2019 | 1085 points | Comments)

19. Uber lays off 435 people
    (10 Sep 2019 | 976 points | Comments)

20. Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas
    (23 Sep 2019 | 946 points | Comments)

21. It's later than you think
    (10 Sep 2019 | 914 points | Comments)

22. ColorBox by Lyft Design
    (20 Sep 2019 | 907 points | Comments)

23. How to learn D3.js
    (5 Sep 2019 | 895 points | Comments)

24. Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required
    (21 Sep 2019 | 863 points | Comments)

25. Ask HN: Are you ok?
    (12 Sep 2019 | 857 points | Comments)

26. Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO
    (17 Sep 2019 | 848 points | Comments)

27. Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties
    (7 Sep 2019 | 806 points | Comments)

28. Stripe Capital
    (5 Sep 2019 | 804 points | Comments)

29. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
    (20 Sep 2019 | 795 points | Comments)

30. Nim 1.0
    (23 Sep 2019 | 785 points | Comments)

31. Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
    (27 Sep 2019 | 785 points | Comments)

32. Show HN: Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy
    (9 Sep 2019 | 775 points | Comments)

33. Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
    (11 Sep 2019 | 759 points | Comments)

34. Pure Bash Bible
    (19 Sep 2019 | 746 points | Comments)

35. Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
    (6 Sep 2019 | 745 points | Comments)

36. In Defense of Richard Stallman
    (30 Sep 2019 | 744 points | Comments)

37. Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914
    (13 Sep 2019 | 743 points | Comments)

38. 3D Ken Burns Effect from a Single Image
    (15 Sep 2019 | 729 points | Comments)

39. WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO
    (24 Sep 2019 | 728 points | Comments)

40. Daytripper
    (9 Sep 2019 | 727 points | Comments)

41. Do It Yurtself
    (21 Sep 2019 | 724 points | Comments)

42. California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees
    (11 Sep 2019 | 721 points | Comments)

43. Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D
    (10 Sep 2019 | 720 points | Comments)

44. Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B
    (19 Sep 2019 | 709 points | Comments)

45. Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
    (9 Sep 2019 | 703 points | Comments)

46. Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code
    (1 Sep 2019 | 687 points | Comments)

47. Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook
    (18 Sep 2019 | 685 points | Comments)

48. In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default
    (4 Sep 2019 | 679 points | Comments)

49. Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains
    (6 Sep 2019 | 673 points | Comments)

50. Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
    (4 Sep 2019 | 671 points | Comments)

51. California Approves Statewide Rent Control
    (11 Sep 2019 | 670 points | Comments)

52. Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
    (12 Sep 2019 | 666 points | Comments)

53. What do executives do, anyway?
    (27 Sep 2019 | 666 points | Comments)

54. Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList
    (9 Sep 2019 | 662 points | Comments)

55. WARP is here
    (25 Sep 2019 | 657 points | Comments)

56. A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
    (4 Sep 2019 | 649 points | Comments)

57. Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125
    (17 Sep 2019 | 649 points | Comments)

58. Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
    (21 Sep 2019 | 647 points | Comments)

59. Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari
    (20 Sep 2019 | 645 points | Comments)

60. WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO
    (30 Sep 2019 | 645 points | Comments)

61. Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products
    (16 Sep 2019 | 642 points | Comments)

62. Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found
    (22 Sep 2019 | 639 points | Comments)

63. Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
    (19 Sep 2019 | 623 points | Comments)

64. Run Commands, the 'rc' in '.bashrc'
    (1 Sep 2019 | 620 points | Comments)

65. Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing
    (7 Sep 2019 | 610 points | Comments)

66. Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
    (2 Sep 2019 | 609 points | Comments)

67. Hong Kong leader to announce formal withdrawal of extradition bill
    (4 Sep 2019 | 608 points | Comments)

68. Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated
    (18 Sep 2019 | 608 points | Comments)

69. Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
    (11 Sep 2019 | 606 points | Comments)

70. Bring Back the SE
    (10 Sep 2019 | 604 points | Comments)

71. A patent lawsuit against GNOME
    (25 Sep 2019 | 604 points | Comments)

72. Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1
    (18 Sep 2019 | 603 points | Comments)

73. Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ
    (23 Sep 2019 | 603 points | Comments)

74. Modern C, Second Edition
    (18 Sep 2019 | 597 points | Comments)

75. Weld: Accelerating numpy, scikit and pandas as much as 100x with Rust and LLVM
    (21 Sep 2019 | 592 points | Comments)

76. Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy
    (18 Sep 2019 | 574 points | Comments)

77. The Internet Relies on People Working for Free
    (17 Sep 2019 | 569 points | Comments)

78. iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
    (10 Sep 2019 | 567 points | Comments)

79. Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
    (19 Sep 2019 | 566 points | Comments)

80. Firefox 69.0 Released
    (3 Sep 2019 | 563 points | Comments)

81. Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket
    (16 Sep 2019 | 553 points | Comments)

82. 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
    (6 Sep 2019 | 552 points | Comments)

83. Tired of Stack Overflow
    (2 Sep 2019 | 548 points | Comments)

84. Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking
    (19 Sep 2019 | 546 points | Comments)

85. Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
    (8 Sep 2019 | 545 points | Comments)

86. Day Trading for a Living?
    (11 Sep 2019 | 543 points | Comments)

87. The cost of parsing JSON
    (18 Sep 2019 | 543 points | Comments)

88. Starship Prototype Unveiled
    (29 Sep 2019 | 543 points | Comments)

89. Text Rendering Hates You
    (29 Sep 2019 | 542 points | Comments)

90. A Gentle introduction to Kubernetes with more than just the basics
    (19 Sep 2019 | 540 points | Comments)

91. Programming Idioms
    (26 Sep 2019 | 532 points | Comments)

92. Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application
    (22 Sep 2019 | 531 points | Comments)

93. Color Emulation
    (13 Sep 2019 | 527 points | Comments)

94. DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants
    (26 Sep 2019 | 526 points | Comments)

95. Stripe Corporate Card
    (10 Sep 2019 | 525 points | Comments)

96. The Octopus: An Alien Among Us
    (26 Sep 2019 | 525 points | Comments)

97. The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition
    (19 Sep 2019 | 524 points | Comments)

98. Comparing Database Types
    (24 Sep 2019 | 521 points | Comments)

99. Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says
    (26 Sep 2019 | 519 points | Comments)

100. I Quit Social Media for a Year
     (10 Sep 2019 | 509 points | Comments)