Best of 2019

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2019. 272 posts.

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PHP 5 and 7.0 end of life

Critical PHP Security Release 21 Oct 2026: PHP released emergency patches on 21 October 2026 for two critical unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) Learn why PHP EOL matters, the security & compliance risks of running unsupported PHP, and how to plan, test, and upgrade to supported versions.