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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. What Are the React Team Principles?

    117 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  2. A guide to OCR with Tesseract, OpenCV and Python

    117 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

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

    117 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  4. The eleven nations of the United States and their cultures

    117 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  5. Network.framework: A Modern Alternative to Sockets (2018)

    117 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  6. A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art (2015)

    117 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  7. The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385M-Year-Old Tree Roots

    117 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  8. What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult? (2018)

    117 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  9. Using machine learning to choose compression algorithms

    117 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  10. Build APKs on Android devices with Termux

    117 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  11. Ask HN: Making a mobile app as a back-end developer?

    117 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  12. California car burglaries are at crisis levels

    117 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  13. Announcing the New PubMed

    117 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  14. Shakti, the new data platform from Arthur Whitney

    116 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  15. Assembly Language Programming: Still Relevant Today (2015)

    116 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  16. Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies, aged 61

    116 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  17. I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and write about it

    115 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  18. OpenTitan: An open-source silicon root of trust from lowRISC

    115 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  19. Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit

    115 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  20. JVM Garbage Collectors Benchmarks Report

    115 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  21. Breast Cancer Linked to Permanent Hair Dye and Chemical Hair Straighteners

    115 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  22. Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development

    114 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  23. A genomic predictor of lifespan in vertebrates

    114 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  24. Books on Critical Thinking

    114 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  25. Fed Adds $72.8B to Markets, Balance Sheet Moves to $4.07T

    114 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  26. Dungeon Generation in Enter The Gungeon

    114 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  27. Why tennis balls are yellow or green

    114 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  28. Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance

    114 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  29. DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests

    114 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  30. Carlos Ghosn Flees to Lebanon to Escape Japan Legal System

    114 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  31. Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads

    114 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  32. Citymapper

    114 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  33. When will the Netherlands disappear?

    113 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  34. Tensorflow User Experience

    113 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  35. iKe: a browser-based sandbox for K

    113 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  36. Toxic fumes from idling cruise ships are still a problem in New York

    113 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  37. SoftBank Is Selling Wag Stake Back to Company

    113 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  38. Show HN: Falco – Open-Source Web Performance Monitoring

    113 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  39. Alcohol and social bonding in humans (2018)

    113 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  40. The Ethical Failures Behind the Boeing Disasters

    113 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  41. Larry and Sergey: A Valediction

    113 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  42. FBI asked Sony for data on user who used PlayStation network to sell cocaine

    113 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  43. A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (1999)

    113 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  44. On Technical Writing

    112 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  45. Squashed Bugs, with Failure Rate Heatmaps

    112 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  46. A look inside TSMC

    112 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  47. Tars: Tencent's microservice RPC framework, open-sourced to Linux Foundation

    112 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  48. Show HN: A Go web server with logging, tracing, and demo apps in a single file

    112 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  49. Netflix was the top stock of the decade

    112 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  50. Randomize HN: Removing the vote threshold for getting to the front page

    112 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  51. Show HN: Ordinary Puzzles – An open-source mobile puzzle game

    112 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  52. Bacteria can 'outsmart' programmed cell death

    112 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  53. Implementing WebGPU in Gecko

    112 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  54. George Laurer, co-inventor of the barcode, dies at 94

    112 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  55. What are your options for cognitive enhancement?

    112 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  56. Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue (2018)

    112 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  57. I thought I understood recursion

    111 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  58. Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]

    111 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  59. JSON on the Command Line with Jq

    111 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  60. New Material to Make Lithium Ion Batteries Self-Healing and Easily Recyclable

    110 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  61. JIT and Ruby's MJIT

    110 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  62. Show HN: CalmJobs.io – Work with companies who values work-life balance

    110 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  63. Making a text adventure game with GPT2

    110 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  64. Rx v0.3 Released, a modern and minimalist pixel editor in Rust

    110 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  65. Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)

    110 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  66. What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan?

    110 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  67. Super Mario World Memory Map

    110 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  68. Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf]

    110 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  69. Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater

    110 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  70. Writing web-based interactive fiction with Ink

    110 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  71. China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unintended mutations'

    110 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  72. Social media bots often tweet fake health claims about cannabis: study

    110 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  73. StyleGAN2

    110 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  74. The Feedback Fallacy

    109 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  75. OpenBSD system-call-origin verification

    109 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  76. Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy

    109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  77. Porting a JavaScript App to WebAssembly with Rust (Part 1)

    109 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  78. YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]

    109 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  79. To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware

    109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  80. Create-React-App 3.3

    109 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  81. Face recognition in European police forces

    109 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  82. Boeing 737 Max Was Plagued with Production Problems, Whistle-Blower Says

    109 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  83. Contractor admits planting logic bombs in his software

    109 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  84. Hospital superbugs are evolving to survive hand sanitizers (2018)

    109 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  85. Show HN: Rewtro plays tiny videogames encoded in origami GameBoy cartridges

    109 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  86. Beyond L2 Loss – How We Experiment with Loss Functions

    109 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  87. Ask HN: Which charities do you donate to?

    109 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  88. My Year in Review: 2019

    108 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  89. Show HN: Linkding, a self-hostable bookmark service

    108 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  90. Smalltalk with the GraalVM

    108 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  91. A 6k-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yogurts

    108 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  92. In glyphosate review, WHO agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings (2017)

    108 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  93. Show HN: CuteUID – Generate Cute UIDs

    108 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  94. Why there isn’t an Apache Arrow article in Wikipedia

    108 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  95. Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (2016)

    108 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  96. Flight stats, entertainment, and trying to crack Widevine

    108 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  97. Ask HN: What are successful projects that started as prototyped hypotheses?

    108 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  98. Security in Plan 9 (2002) [pdf]

    107 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  99. One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody

    107 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  100. Biggest list of fully remote, 100% distributed companies

    107 points • comment • dec 11, 2019