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1981.

Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years (nbcnews.com)

402 points by uptown on Apr 16, 2019 | 109 comments

1982.

At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard (latimes.com)

401 points by wallace_f on Mar 22, 2019 | 431 comments

1983.

JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) (arp242.net)

401 points by goranmoomin on Apr 13, 2019 | 426 comments

1984.

Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect (ifixit.org)

401 points by vinhnx on Jan 22, 2019 | 377 comments

1985.

Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen (grumpy.website)

401 points by dmitriid on Jul 3, 2019 | 322 comments

1986.

IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit (mercurynews.com)

401 points by hanging on Mar 27, 2019 | 300 comments

1987.

Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers (scorpia.co.uk)

401 points by styx31 on Jul 5, 2019 | 300 comments

1988.

WeChat and the Surveillance State (bbc.com)

401 points by Markoff on Jun 8, 2019 | 255 comments

1989.

MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud (krebsonsecurity.com)

401 points by headalgorithm on Sep 27, 2019 | 244 comments

1990.

Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

401 points by sohkamyung on Sep 25, 2019 | 231 comments

1991.

PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's standard library (python.org)

401 points by jorshman on May 22, 2019 | 222 comments

1992.

Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B (nvidianews.nvidia.com)

401 points by vostok4 on Mar 11, 2019 | 218 comments

1993.

Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default (twitter.com)

401 points by geekybiz on Feb 22, 2019 | 186 comments

1994.

Performance Matters (hillelwayne.com)

401 points by MattGrommes on Aug 16, 2019 | 136 comments

1995.

Write your own Excel in F# (2018) (tomasp.net)

401 points by eDameXxX on Aug 25, 2019 | 84 comments

1996.

Level Design Patterns in 2D Games (gamasutra.com)

401 points by homarp on Jun 13, 2019 | 48 comments

1997.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)

400 points by whoishiring on Apr 1, 2019 | 862 comments

1998.

Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018) (medium.com)

400 points by dsego on Jul 1, 2019 | 400 comments

1999.

“No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java” (twitter.com)

400 points by tosh on Mar 9, 2019 | 368 comments

2000.

Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust (blog.anp.lol)

400 points by anp on Dec 2, 2019 | 190 comments

2001.

TextMate 2.0 (github.com)

400 points by jjuliano on Sep 15, 2019 | 181 comments

2002.

Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases (nature.com)

400 points by headalgorithm on Oct 4, 2019 | 127 comments

2003.

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (superthinking.com)

400 points by yegg on Jun 18, 2019 | 89 comments

2004.

Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died (news.mit.edu)

400 points by nikofeyn on Jul 19, 2019 | 81 comments

2005.

Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? (blogs.perl.org)

399 points by mtmail on Aug 29, 2019 | 410 comments

2006.

PureOS is convergent (puri.sm)

399 points by iBelieve on Mar 7, 2019 | 293 comments

2007.

Google's ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions (wsj.com)