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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. An Overview of the Monad

    91 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  2. All I want for Christmas is to sign in with Apple

    90 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  3. Librem 5 USA

    90 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  4. Brad Cox: when OOP was about “Software-ICs” and micro-transactions

    90 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  5. The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the “worst” video game

    90 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  6. Demonstration of 4-Row Janko Keyboard (1986) [video]

    90 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  7. Show HN: The Program – my series launched on HN, now featured on Apple Podcasts

    90 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  8. The unending quest to explain consciousness

    90 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  9. Using the same blogging software for 20 years

    90 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  10. Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict Success 35 Years Later

    90 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  11. A music player for the TS80 soldering iron

    90 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  12. Firefox 71: A year-end arrival

    90 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  13. Homelessness rises in U.S., driven by California housing crisis

    90 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  14. Farmers rushed into hemp, but now face a glut

    89 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  15. Long Names Are Long (2016)

    89 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  16. Global warming-induced migratory bird body size reduction and shape change

    89 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  17. Single Tone Detection with the Goertzel Algorithm (2012)

    89 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  18. Vim 8.2

    89 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  19. React Suspense

    89 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  20. America's Missile That Uses Sword Blades Instead of Explosives Has Struck Again

    89 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  21. Inca Road System

    89 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  22. A Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

    89 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  23. Satellites Show New Internment Camps in Tibet

    89 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  24. ApostropheCMS – An Open-Source Node.js CMS for the Enterprise

    89 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  25. Intel's “Cripple AMD” Function

    89 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  26. Show HN: Kareer Day – Learn About Jobs by People Who've Done Them

    89 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  27. The First Credit Card Ever (2016)

    88 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  28. Climate talks break up with no agreement on carbon trading

    88 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  29. OMG: Our Machinery Guidebook

    88 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  30. RFC 8700 – Fifty Years of RFCs

    88 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  31. Genetic testing is an inexact science with real consequences

    88 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  32. Modular C: Reusable and Maintainable Code Using the C Language (1994) [pdf]

    88 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  33. Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor

    88 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  34. The Ketamine Chronicles, April 2019

    88 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  35. The rise of solar is ‘jeopardising the grid’ and it's a lesson for Australia

    88 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  36. NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Cleared for Final Assembly

    88 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  37. Amazon is about to host a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters

    87 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  38. The Neural Network Zoo (2016)

    87 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  39. Short-lived light sources discovered in the sky

    87 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  40. Ask HN: How do you justify taking unpaid vacation as self employed?

    87 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  41. Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?

    87 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  42. iNaturalist

    87 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  43. Launch HN: Vouch (YC S19) – Business Insurance for Startups

    87 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  44. Framework Patterns

    87 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  45. Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's Proton initiative

    87 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  46. Rivian's platform approach to electric vehicles helped it raise $3B this year

    87 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  47. The world’s most-beloved money-losing business needs your help

    87 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  48. Dave Clark, The Man Who Built Amazon’s Delivery Machine

    87 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  49. Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

    87 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  50. What we know about you when you click on this article

    87 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  51. Russian flag and national anthem banned from 2020 Olympics

    87 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  52. If Bitcoin Looks Like It Isn’t Trading, It’s Because It Isn’t

    86 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  53. Intel Takes Lidar Indoors

    86 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  54. Ant Colony Optimization Visualization for the Travelling Salesman Problem

    86 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  55. Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed for 3 years

    86 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  56. Startup Pivots

    86 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  57. The Periodic Table of Videos

    86 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  58. Surgeons withdraw support for heart disease advice

    86 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  59. Rock the Cash Box: Writing a Host Processor for a ATM

    86 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  60. Does simultaneous multithreading still make sense?

    86 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  61. Single-Assignment C

    86 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  62. Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

    86 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  63. A Bank Behind the Fintech Boom

    86 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  64. Google Assistant Can Now Translate Languages on Your Phone

    86 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  65. Joel Spolsky is (semi-)retired

    85 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  66. Verdigris: Qt Without Moc

    85 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  67. Lego Block Structures as a Sub-Kelvin Thermal Insulator

    85 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  68. Semigroup Resonance FizzBuzz

    85 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  69. Show HN: Bravo – Turn designs into native iOS and Android apps without coding

    85 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  70. Yocto: Tools for building a custom embedded Linux distribution

    85 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  71. Dog insurer: 'jumping, running, slipping, tripping, playing' not covered (2016)

    85 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  72. To Understand the Future of AI, Study Its Past

    85 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  73. The future of finance is self-driving money

    85 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  74. Russia deploys Avangard hypersonic missile system

    85 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  75. California oceans rising in acidity at alarming rate, study finds

    85 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  76. How to Build a SaaS Unicorn: The Outreach Story

    85 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  77. Retro68 – a GCC-based cross-compiler for classic 68K and PPC Macintoshes

    85 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  78. Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet (1996)

    85 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  79. Survivorship Bias: The Tale of Forgotten Failures

    85 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  80. Frail Older Patients Struggle After Even Minor Operations

    85 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  81. Show HN: Chromda – Serverless Website Screenshots

    85 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  82. Washington’s new anti-robocall law won’t stop the calls

    85 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  83. Onboarding Automation Case Study: Winning Back 80% of Our Time

    84 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  84. The Accidental Book Review That Made Jack Kerouac Famous

    84 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  85. Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability

    84 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  86. Neural Renderer and Differentiable Rendering [video]

    84 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  87. Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook’s Internal Divisions on Politics

    84 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  88. Police Can Use a Legal Gray Area to Rob Anyone of Their Belongings (2016)

    84 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  89. Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk (1738) [pdf]

    84 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  90. The Curse of Milk Sickness

    84 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  91. Cheat at Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock

    84 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  92. The Unix C library API can only be reliably used from C

    84 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  93. House Passes Bill Establishing a Clear Definition of Insider Trading

    84 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  94. Turning .NET assemblies into FPGA hardware

    84 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  95. Strongly Typed Events

    84 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  96. The falling price of a TV set

    84 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  97. Google halts political ads in Singapore as election looms: documents

    84 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  98. FDA approves new treatment for adults with migraine

    84 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  99. A tiny Python exception oddity

    84 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  100. The Rise of the Architectural Cult

    83 points • comment • dec 30, 2019