top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-02-19

Explorabl.es

https://explorabl.es

6 years ago

894 upvotes – 36 comments

Bert Sutherland Has Died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Sutherland

6 years ago

680 upvotes – 33 comments

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296

6 years ago

602 upvotes – 374 comments

Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)

https://changelog.com/podcast/201

6 years ago

589 upvotes – 281 comments

Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/hackers-were-inside-citrix-for-five-months/

6 years ago

520 upvotes – 232 comments

Stop Using Encrypted Email

https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted.html

6 years ago

475 upvotes – 547 comments

Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v1-v2-validating-challenges-from-multiple-network-vantage-points/112253

6 years ago

469 upvotes – 137 comments

How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/why-is-ethernet-mtu-1500

6 years ago

433 upvotes – 162 comments

Internet Society told to halt .org sale by its own advisory council

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/19/internet_society_org_sale/

6 years ago

412 upvotes – 111 comments

IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/facebook-faces-tax-court-trial-over-ireland-offshore-deal

6 years ago

409 upvotes – 3 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments