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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Polio eradication program faces hard choices as endgame strategy falters

    129 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  2. The internet doesn't care about multiplayer games

    129 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  3. Hyperbolic Cellular Automata Simulator

    129 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  4. The front end of an example full-stack app built using Vue and Node

    128 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  5. I’m on Medicare, but I still got stuck with a $25k hospital bill

    128 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  6. Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf]

    128 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  7. Merck’s NotPetya attack: Was it an act of war?

    128 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  8. Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video]

    128 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  9. KernType – A Kerning Game

    128 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  10. Better password protections in Chrome

    127 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  11. Probability Theory for Physically Based Rendering

    127 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  12. Hedge funds listened to Bank of England briefings a few seconds earlier

    127 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  13. The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

    127 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  14. Show HN: ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainfuck Virtual Machine

    127 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  15. Japanese ink supplier Seiko Advance produces colors for Apple’s iPhones

    127 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  16. P-99: Ninety-Nine Prolog Problems

    127 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  17. US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated

    127 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  18. The Factorization of RSA-240

    127 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  19. Cisco devices must regenerate self-signed certificates before 2020

    127 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  20. Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis

    126 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  21. Windows 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium

    126 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  22. Show HN: Create and mail a free postcard

    126 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  23. Hidden Bar: macOS utility to hide unused menu bar icons, written in Swift

    126 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  24. Zugzwang

    126 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  25. What’s Wrong with Bayes

    126 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  26. Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus

    126 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  27. Unintuitive JSON Parsing

    126 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  28. Emulating the Original Gameboy’s CPU

    126 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  29. Unsolicited messages on Keybase

    126 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  30. Make CPython segfault in 5 lines of code

    126 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  31. Leadership behaviors that nurture collaboration are the true drivers of change

    126 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  32. The Evolution of Management: Transitioning Up the Ladder

    126 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  33. Croydon Shut Down

    126 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  34. The curious case of Croatian wikipedia

    126 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  35. A One-Traffic-Light Town with Some of the Fastest Internet in the U.S

    125 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  36. Where do individual contributors go once they peak?

    125 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  37. What Is Systems Programming, Really? (2018)

    125 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  38. ‘The Far Side’ Is Back, Sort Of

    124 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  39. Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber (2016)

    124 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  40. The secret afterlife of lost German luggage

    124 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  41. A charity that spends a sliver of its money on those it purports to serve

    124 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  42. Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%

    124 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  43. You can't just rename your IT Ops team and call it DevOps

    124 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  44. France, Spain, and Italy’s English skills are on the decline: study

    124 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  45. The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land

    124 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  46. Nuclear fusion startup raises $100M to design and build a demo power plant

    124 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  47. Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

    124 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  48. Google to end 'Double Irish, Dutch' tax scheme: filing

    123 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  49. FastMRI initiative releases neuroimaging data set

    123 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  50. Amae: Japan’s deep connection to childish relationships

    123 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  51. How to Think Real Good (2013)

    123 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  52. Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down

    123 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  53. How to Ruin a Company with One Bad Process (2014)

    123 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  54. WeWork’s Escape Plan Is Buried in the Books at Its Tokyo Office

    123 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  55. Father and Daughter Convicted for $100M Fraudulent Tax Refund Scheme

    122 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  56. Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

    122 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  57. Symptoms of Groupthink (2012)

    122 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  58. Whoever built the Boston Marathon bombs is still on the loose (2018)

    122 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  59. Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information

    122 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  60. Coinbase Wallet to remove DApp browser to comply with Apple's policy

    122 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  61. Chips Are Getting Noisier

    122 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  62. Science Books of 2019

    121 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  63. New Story's first 3D-printed houses are now complete

    121 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  64. AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles

    121 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  65. A Predictive Database

    121 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  66. Build an Ioniser in Under $10

    121 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  67. Poetry – Dependency Management for Python – v1.0

    121 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  68. Linux Toolbox

    121 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  69. Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)

    121 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  70. Longest-Serving Professor at Cornell Reflects on Journey Through Academia

    121 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  71. Oklo launches Aurora advanced fission clean energy plant in US

    121 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  72. Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose EC2 Instances

    121 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  73. Things every programmer should know

    121 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  74. Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019?

    120 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  75. Debugging a Live Saturn V

    120 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  76. Studying the effects of interruption on motivation

    120 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  77. A Distributed Meeting Primer

    120 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  78. Cloud kitchens – commercial facilities built to produce food for delivery

    120 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  79. The Consumer Electronics Hall Of Fame: Sony Trinitron (2018)

    120 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  80. Linux: A Portable Operating System (1997) [pdf]

    120 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  81. The Society of the Spectacle

    120 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  82. Command Line Tools to Break Your Dependence on the GUI

    119 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  83. Randy Suess, computer bulletin board inventor, has died

    119 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  84. Uniqlo robots pick up packaged T-shirts and put them in a box

    119 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  85. Piet, a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings

    119 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  86. Google Street View image of a house predicts car accident risk of its resident

    119 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  87. Héctor Garcia-Molina, 1953–2019

    119 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  88. Keeping Top AI Talent in the United States [pdf]

    119 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  89. Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang

    119 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  90. Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense

    119 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  91. Google Cloud Is Having IO Issues in US-EAST1

    118 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  92. What Is the Cost of Building a Subway? [pdf]

    118 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  93. Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It

    118 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  94. LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual (1962) [pdf]

    118 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  95. Labor board rolls back employee email rights after Google recommendation

    118 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  96. Show HN: GoCode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser

    118 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  97. Unexpected Page Fault In Virtualized Environment Advisory

    118 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  98. I don’t use Semantic Web technologies anymore, though they still influence me

    117 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  99. Interface Builder's Alternative Lisp Timeline (2013)

    117 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  100. What Are the React Team Principles?

    117 points • comment • dec 25, 2019