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Top of Month - Jan 2020

1. Every Google result now looks like an ad
   (21 Jan 2020 | 3592 points | Comments)

2. Thank HN: You helped me get a new job
   (15 Jan 2020 | 2425 points | Comments)

3. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
   (21 Jan 2020 | 2272 points | Comments)

4. Goodbye, Clean Code
   (11 Jan 2020 | 1678 points | Comments)

5. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
   (21 Jan 2020 | 1636 points | Comments)

6. Which Emoji Scissors Close?
   (3 Jan 2020 | 1545 points | Comments)

7. Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
   (9 Jan 2020 | 1448 points | Comments)

8. Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
   (23 Jan 2020 | 1375 points | Comments)

9. Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
   (5 Jan 2020 | 1337 points | Comments)

10. A Sad Day for Rust
    (17 Jan 2020 | 1243 points | Comments)

11. Not everyone has an internal monologue
    (30 Jan 2020 | 1225 points | Comments)

12. How to Exit Vim
    (8 Jan 2020 | 1111 points | Comments)

13. My Second Year as a Solo Developer
    (31 Jan 2020 | 1066 points | Comments)

14. Monoliths Are the Future
    (30 Jan 2020 | 1065 points | Comments)

15. Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
    (29 Jan 2020 | 1057 points | Comments)

16. An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
    (27 Jan 2020 | 1012 points | Comments)

17. WireGuard is now in Linus' tree
    (29 Jan 2020 | 982 points | Comments)

18. Software Disenchantment (2018)
    (1 Jan 2020 | 934 points | Comments)

19. Mozilla lays off 70
    (15 Jan 2020 | 929 points | Comments)

20. The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
    (7 Jan 2020 | 928 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
    (2 Jan 2020 | 908 points | Comments)

22. VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now
    (10 Jan 2020 | 870 points | Comments)

23. SMS is not 2FA-secure
    (10 Jan 2020 | 867 points | Comments)

24. Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019
    (2 Jan 2020 | 864 points | Comments)

25. Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
    (21 Jan 2020 | 834 points | Comments)

26. My FOSS Story
    (20 Jan 2020 | 833 points | Comments)

27. DigitalOcean is laying off staff
    (17 Jan 2020 | 816 points | Comments)

28. I Was Google’s Head of International Relations
    (2 Jan 2020 | 815 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
    (2 Jan 2020 | 815 points | Comments)

30. EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V
    (3 Jan 2020 | 814 points | Comments)

31. “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
    (23 Jan 2020 | 810 points | Comments)

32. What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?
    (3 Jan 2020 | 803 points | Comments)

33. Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month
    (20 Jan 2020 | 800 points | Comments)

34. Products I Wish Existed
    (6 Jan 2020 | 798 points | Comments)

35. Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level
    (6 Jan 2020 | 792 points | Comments)

36. iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
    (13 Jan 2020 | 781 points | Comments)

37. Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data
    (27 Jan 2020 | 759 points | Comments)

38. Firefox 72.0
    (7 Jan 2020 | 758 points | Comments)

39. List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
    (24 Jan 2020 | 748 points | Comments)

40. When good ideas make bad business
    (3 Jan 2020 | 735 points | Comments)

41. We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)
    (24 Jan 2020 | 732 points | Comments)

42. DuckDuckGo Traffic
    (22 Jan 2020 | 727 points | Comments)

43. Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
    (12 Jan 2020 | 722 points | Comments)

44. Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration
    (19 Jan 2020 | 721 points | Comments)

45. Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
    (3 Jan 2020 | 720 points | Comments)

46. Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]
    (14 Jan 2020 | 714 points | Comments)

47. Off-Facebook activity
    (29 Jan 2020 | 710 points | Comments)

48. The Polygons of Another World
    (2 Jan 2020 | 704 points | Comments)

49. For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
    (6 Jan 2020 | 701 points | Comments)

50. Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?
    (7 Jan 2020 | 699 points | Comments)

51. Unofficial Apple Archive
    (16 Jan 2020 | 699 points | Comments)

52. Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
    (11 Jan 2020 | 698 points | Comments)

53. Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers
    (13 Jan 2020 | 695 points | Comments)

54. Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go
    (4 Jan 2020 | 692 points | Comments)

55. BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
    (9 Jan 2020 | 672 points | Comments)

56. City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
    (22 Jan 2020 | 668 points | Comments)

57. Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
    (29 Jan 2020 | 666 points | Comments)

58. Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years
    (26 Jan 2020 | 662 points | Comments)

59. Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
    (27 Jan 2020 | 661 points | Comments)

60. Reverse engineering course
    (16 Jan 2020 | 656 points | Comments)

61. Terry Jones has died
    (22 Jan 2020 | 650 points | Comments)

62. Float Toy
    (22 Jan 2020 | 649 points | Comments)

63. The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
    (10 Jan 2020 | 646 points | Comments)

64. Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
    (12 Jan 2020 | 646 points | Comments)

65. An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
    (17 Jan 2020 | 629 points | Comments)

66. TLDR pages: Simplified, community-driven man pages
    (22 Jan 2020 | 628 points | Comments)

67. BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next
    (16 Jan 2020 | 627 points | Comments)

68. Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine (2018)
    (31 Jan 2020 | 627 points | Comments)

69. Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
    (20 Jan 2020 | 625 points | Comments)

70. Responsive Pixel Art
    (26 Jan 2020 | 624 points | Comments)

71. The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
    (28 Jan 2020 | 624 points | Comments)

72. Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?
    (19 Jan 2020 | 613 points | Comments)

73. The EARN IT Act: how to ban end-to-end encryption without banning it
    (31 Jan 2020 | 613 points | Comments)

74. Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment
    (31 Jan 2020 | 611 points | Comments)

75. Hipmunk Says Goodbye
    (14 Jan 2020 | 608 points | Comments)

76. Clayton Christensen has died
    (24 Jan 2020 | 608 points | Comments)

77. Why I Keep a Research Blog
    (13 Jan 2020 | 607 points | Comments)

78. CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions
    (27 Jan 2020 | 607 points | Comments)

79. Google backtracks on search results design
    (25 Jan 2020 | 605 points | Comments)

80. Being a Noob
    (29 Jan 2020 | 602 points | Comments)

81. U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
    (4 Jan 2020 | 595 points | Comments)

82. Glia – High-quality low-cost open source medical hardware
    (15 Jan 2020 | 595 points | Comments)

83. Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
    (28 Jan 2020 | 595 points | Comments)

84. 13.3" full color ePaper display
    (8 Jan 2020 | 591 points | Comments)

85. Bug #915: Please help
    (12 Jan 2020 | 591 points | Comments)

86. EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces
    (17 Jan 2020 | 591 points | Comments)

87. Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit
    (1 Jan 2020 | 590 points | Comments)

88. OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
    (31 Jan 2020 | 589 points | Comments)

89. Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
    (2 Jan 2020 | 587 points | Comments)

90. DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
    (12 Jan 2020 | 586 points | Comments)

91. Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
    (30 Jan 2020 | 582 points | Comments)

92. “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
    (27 Jan 2020 | 577 points | Comments)

93. Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server
    (29 Jan 2020 | 575 points | Comments)

94. Linus: Don't Use ZFS
    (9 Jan 2020 | 572 points | Comments)

95. How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study
    (21 Jan 2020 | 568 points | Comments)

96. The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
    (15 Jan 2020 | 560 points | Comments)

97. Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
    (26 Jan 2020 | 560 points | Comments)

98. In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average
    (26 Jan 2020 | 558 points | Comments)

99. Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
    (30 Jan 2020 | 556 points | Comments)

100. Ask HN: Are books worth it?
     (4 Jan 2020 | 553 points | Comments)