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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. My Business Card Runs Linux

    2579 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  2. Having Kids

    1935 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  3. IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax

    1664 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  4. Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it

    1659 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  5. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

    1531 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  6. Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14

    1391 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  7. This Page is Designed to Last

    1312 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  8. The Lesson to Unlearn

    1310 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  9. Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

    1292 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  10. Fast

    1275 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  11. Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

    1235 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  12. How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer

    1213 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  13. Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

    1201 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  14. Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused

    1185 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  15. JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

    1135 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  16. The Great Cannon has been deployed again

    1028 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  17. PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy

    992 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  18. Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down

    892 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  19. Challenging projects every programmer should try

    881 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  20. Fight back against Google AMP (2018)

    864 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  21. What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

    855 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  22. FUSE for macOS is no longer open source

    835 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  23. SQL Murder Mystery

    816 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  24. ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop

    811 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  25. Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

    806 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  26. Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?

    805 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  27. The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

    780 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  28. Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore

    779 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  29. Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

    772 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  30. The world needs more search engines

    769 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  31. Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor

    761 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  32. Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

    760 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  33. 0.30000000000000004

    753 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  34. UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

    746 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  35. The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation

    745 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  36. Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard

    736 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  37. Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package

    734 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  38. ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance

    729 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  39. Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media

    723 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  40. ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval

    718 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  41. Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize

    717 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  42. Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client

    699 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  43. Google claims copyright on employee side projects

    698 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  44. Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study

    694 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  45. The Deep Sea

    691 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  46. Downsides to working at a tech giant

    691 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  47. Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates

    686 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  48. Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

    686 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  49. The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug

    668 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  50. Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code

    665 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  51. Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

    660 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  52. Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens

    648 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  53. Django 3

    644 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  54. Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots

    635 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  55. Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?

    628 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  56. Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

    620 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  57. How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure

    618 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

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

    612 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  59. Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website

    611 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  60. Sinkholed

    608 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  61. Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys

    607 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  62. Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)

    598 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  63. Happy Hues – Curated colors in context

    597 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  64. Hexing the technical interview (2017)

    592 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  65. T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)

    590 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  66. BPF: A New Type of Software

    589 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  67. The Product-Minded Software Engineer

    585 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  68. Show HN: A tiny isometric city builder in JavaScript

    584 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  69. A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”

    575 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  70. No to Chrome

    574 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  71. Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward

    569 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  72. Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?

    569 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  73. Undocumented Catalina file access change

    566 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  74. WireGuard is in net-next

    563 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  75. NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002)

    558 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  76. How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?

    558 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  77. Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?

    553 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  78. Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

    552 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  79. Windows 95 UI Design

    549 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  80. Switching from Chrome to Firefox

    549 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  81. Advent of Code 2019

    545 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  82. Scaling React Server Side Rendering

    543 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  83. An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

    540 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  84. WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

    538 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  85. Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision

    534 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  86. What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

    533 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  87. Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

    531 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  88. What happens when your career becomes your whole identity

    530 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  89. Guide to Software Defined Radio

    528 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  90. Working for a startup makes less sense

    525 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  91. Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)

    523 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  92. AMD’s Entire Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out in Japan

    521 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  93. Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success

    518 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  94. Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs

    515 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  95. Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

    504 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  96. White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit

    503 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  97. Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence

    501 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  98. Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2

    499 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  99. If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead

    499 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  100. Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)

    498 points • comment • dec 04, 2019