top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-07-19

Tell HN: Hello

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9910487

11 years ago

847 upvotes – 179 comments

The self-hating web developer

http://joequery.me/code/the-self-hating-web-developer/

11 years ago

379 upvotes – 195 comments

How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity

https://medium.com/@ainiesta/how-instagram-closed-my-account-and-gave-it-to-a-football-celebrity-625a6a770eb3

11 years ago

337 upvotes – 104 comments

See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

http://bemmu.github.io/hncakeday/

11 years ago

237 upvotes – 99 comments

The Gluglug – GNU/Linux laptop with libreboot firmware

http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/about/

11 years ago

225 upvotes – 99 comments

Sorry to burst your bubble

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21657817-new-research-suggests-it-debt-not-frothy-asset-prices-should-worry?frsc=dg%7Ca

11 years ago

219 upvotes – 182 comments

If David Cameron bans secure encryption he can't intercept

http://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2015/01/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mythic-beasts-employee-after-david-cameron-bans-the-secure-encryption/

11 years ago

197 upvotes – 96 comments

Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

http://faqt.co/

11 years ago

184 upvotes – 110 comments

Never, ever, ever use MongoDB

http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2015/07/19/why-you-should-never-ever-ever-use-mongodb/

11 years ago

182 upvotes – 116 comments

Purism – Privacy-Respecting Laptops

https://puri.sm/

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 104 comments

The None Programming Language

https://bitbucket.org/duangle/none/overview

11 years ago

169 upvotes – 41 comments

Finding MongoDB instances without any authentication

https://blog.shodan.io/its-the-data-stupid/

11 years ago

131 upvotes – 42 comments

Goodbye, OpenStack

http://gigofham.com/archives/47

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 25 comments

Superheroes a 'cultural catastrophe', says comics guru Alan Moore (2014)

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/21/superheroes-cultural-catastrophe-alan-moore-comics-watchmen

11 years ago

116 upvotes – 93 comments

A mixed-format, mixed-architecture, mixed-sided diskette (2008)

http://trixter.oldskool.org/2008/09/28/the-diskette-that-blew-trixters-mind/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 21 comments

Ask HN: How do I stay motivated to learn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9909842

11 years ago

110 upvotes – 64 comments

Modus Operandi: Poses as an investor to be wined and dined, then disappears

http://cecileortlieb.com

11 years ago

106 upvotes – 42 comments

Go GC: Latency Problem Solved [pdf]

https://talks.golang.org/2015/go-gc.pdf

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 99 comments

Trade secrets of the oldest family firm in the US (2012)

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-18261045

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 28 comments

Why it takes so long to get data back from New Horizons

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/01300800-talking-to-pluto-is-hard.html

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 53 comments
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