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1411.

Water (oimo.io)

1231 points by thunderbong on Aug 6, 2023 | 133 comments

1412.

Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend (arnoldgalovics.com)

1230 points by galovics on Dec 16, 2021 | 445 comments

1413.

Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing (theintercept.com)

1230 points by tony101 on Mar 31, 2020 | 339 comments

1414.

Plagiarism (notes.unwieldy.net)

1230 points by endtwist on May 14, 2012 | 311 comments

1415.

Medium-hard SQL interview questions (quip.com)

1230 points by thomzi12 on May 2, 2020 | 287 comments

1416.

All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (medium.com)

1230 points by mbellotti on Aug 5, 2019 | 266 comments

1417.

CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike (clownstrike.lol)

1230 points by clownstrikelol on Aug 1, 2024 | 229 comments

1418.

WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation (freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com)

1230 points by swills on Nov 17, 2014 | 204 comments

1419.

H.264 is Magic (sidbala.com)

1228 points by LASR on Nov 4, 2016 | 219 comments

1420.

Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses (about.fb.com)

1227 points by mfiguiere on Sep 25, 2024 | 1045 comments

1421.

Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive (wsj.com)

1227 points by longdefeat on May 26, 2020 | 977 comments

1422.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months (microsoft.com)

1227 points by tomorgan on Aug 23, 2013 | 763 comments

1423.

BitTorrent v2 (blog.libtorrent.org)

1227 points by jakobdabo on Sep 7, 2020 | 560 comments

1424.

Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans (eff.org)

1227 points by FlemishBeeCycle on Jun 6, 2013 | 444 comments

1425.

As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years of source code (dunfield.themindfactory.com)

1227 points by elvis70 on Nov 3, 2023 | 323 comments

1426.

Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development (medium.com)

1227 points by maxidog on Jan 13, 2015 | 278 comments

1427.

Reliability: It’s not great (community.fly.io)

1226 points by bishopsmother on Mar 6, 2023 | 455 comments

1428.

I Went to SQL Injection Court (sockpuppet.org)

1226 points by mrkurt on Feb 25, 2025 | 434 comments

1429.

Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet (blog.cloudflare.com)

1226 points by jgrahamc on Oct 4, 2021 | 260 comments

1430.

Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm (github.com)

1226 points by ExUtumno on Sep 30, 2016 | 122 comments

1431.

Not everyone has an internal monologue (ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com)

1225 points by altacc on Jan 30, 2020 | 875 comments

1432.

This website has 81% battery power remaining (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

1225 points by behnamoh on Dec 12, 2021 | 351 comments

1433.

Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention (signal.org)

1224 points by jboynyc on May 1, 2018 | 496 comments

1434.

Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft (theverge.com)

1224 points by coloneltcb on Aug 26, 2014 | 391 comments

1435.

We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology (saagarjha.com)

1224 points by gok on May 11, 2020 | 200 comments

1436.

Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal (thehill.com)

1224 points by erict15 on Jan 22, 2018 | 153 comments

1437.

How to Work Hard (paulgraham.com)

1223 points by razin on Jun 29, 2021 | 1124 comments

1438.

Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM (branded3.com)

1223 points by kemayo on Apr 30, 2013 | 409 comments

1439.

Happy New Year 2025

1223 points by martynvandijke on Dec 31, 2024 | 258 comments

1440.

Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot (support.mozilla.org)

1222 points by phantomathkg on May 22, 2025 | 761 comments