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Hacker News (Dec 2019)
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My Business Card Runs Linux
2579 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
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Having Kids
1935 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax
1664 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
1659 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
1531 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14
1391 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
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This Page is Designed to Last
1312 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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The Lesson to Unlearn
1310 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
1292 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Fast
1275 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
1235 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
1213 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
1201 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
1185 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
1135 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
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The Great Cannon has been deployed again
1028 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
992 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down
892 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Challenging projects every programmer should try
881 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Fight back against Google AMP (2018)
864 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth
855 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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FUSE for macOS is no longer open source
835 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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SQL Murder Mystery
816 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop
811 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
806 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
805 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
780 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
779 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
772 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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The world needs more search engines
769 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
761 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?
760 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
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0.30000000000000004
753 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create
746 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation
745 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
736 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package
734 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance
729 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
723 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval
718 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
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Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
717 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
699 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Google claims copyright on employee side projects
698 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study
694 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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The Deep Sea
691 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
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Downsides to working at a tech giant
691 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
686 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game
686 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug
668 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code
665 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV
660 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
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Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
648 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Django 3
644 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
635 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?
628 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]
620 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
618 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
612 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website
611 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Sinkholed
608 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys
607 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
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Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)
598 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
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Happy Hues – Curated colors in context
597 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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Hexing the technical interview (2017)
592 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)
590 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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BPF: A New Type of Software
589 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
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The Product-Minded Software Engineer
585 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Show HN: A tiny isometric city builder in JavaScript
584 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”
575 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
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No to Chrome
574 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
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Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward
569 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?
569 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Undocumented Catalina file access change
566 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
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WireGuard is in net-next
563 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
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NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002)
558 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?
558 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?
553 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
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Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim
552 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
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Windows 95 UI Design
549 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
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Switching from Chrome to Firefox
549 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Advent of Code 2019
545 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
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Scaling React Server Side Rendering
543 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
540 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
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WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security
538 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision
534 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
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What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
533 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
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Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
531 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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What happens when your career becomes your whole identity
530 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Guide to Software Defined Radio
528 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
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Working for a startup makes less sense
525 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
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Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)
523 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
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AMD’s Entire Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out in Japan
521 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success
518 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
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Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs
515 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
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Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020
504 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
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White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit
503 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
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Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
501 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
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Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2
499 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
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If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead
499 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
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Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)
498 points • comment • dec 04, 2019