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Hacker News (30 Dec 2019)

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

    855 points • 178 comments • dec 30, 2019

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

    620 points • 240 comments • dec 30, 2019

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

    618 points • 378 comments • dec 30, 2019

  4. Switching from Chrome to Firefox

    549 points • 300 comments • dec 30, 2019

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

    533 points • 316 comments • dec 30, 2019

  6. The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago

    431 points • 289 comments • dec 30, 2019

  7. ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar

    343 points • 141 comments • dec 30, 2019

  8. RIP Syd Mead (Blade Runner, TRON Designer)

    251 points • 17 comments • dec 30, 2019

  9. KafkaHQ

    215 points • 33 comments • dec 30, 2019

  10. Pedestrian routing that offers pleasant alternatives to the shortest route

    214 points • 90 comments • dec 30, 2019