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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. WASM as a Platform for Abstraction

    83 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  2. The Nightjet: A Big Bet on Train Travelers Who Take It Slow

    83 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  3. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (December 2019)

    83 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  4. DeepMind Memory Task Suite

    83 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  5. Can a USR command damage a ZX Spectrum?

    83 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  6. To stop pancreatic cancer from spreading, cut out the chatter

    83 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  7. Klong: a Simple Array Language

    83 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  8. Ask HN: How do you responsibly report security bugs to open-source projects?

    83 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  9. Greeks set to face fines if they don't spend 30% of their income electronically

    83 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  10. Toyota believes hydrogen fuel cells are the future

    83 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  11. The Joy of Perl (1998)

    83 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  12. The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy

    82 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  13. Genius sues Google and LyricFind over allegedly stolen song lyrics

    82 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  14. An open-source browser extension to auto-skip sponsored segments on YouTube

    82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  15. Why smallpox is no more, but polio and other diseases persist

    82 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  16. To Wash It All Away (2014) [pdf]

    82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  17. An overview of why the US has problems with Huawei

    82 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  18. DIY ‘Meta Clock’ with 24 Analog Clocks

    82 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  19. Flutter: UI platform designed for ambient computing

    82 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  20. How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data unicorn

    82 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  21. Segmentio/encoding: optimized drop-in replacement for Go's encoding/JSON package

    82 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  22. Scarfolk

    82 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  23. Setup for Your Next Golang Project

    82 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  24. Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)

    82 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  25. Get companies to erase your personal data – automated CCPA deletion requests

    82 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  26. Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use?

    82 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  27. Lisp Programming in Vim with Slimv or Vlime

    81 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  28. Huawei expected to surpass Apple to become world’s No 2 phone maker

    81 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  29. XXL: A minimal vector programming language (2016)

    81 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  30. Chaos-mesh: a chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes

    81 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  31. Simple Software Manifesto

    81 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  32. Pro-Indian ‘fake’ websites aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe

    81 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  33. Announcing the Second Edition of Infrastructure as Code

    81 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  34. Formal Reasoning About Programs (2017) [pdf]

    81 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  35. Russia presses Apple to install Kremlin-approved apps

    81 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  36. Crux as General-Purpose Database

    81 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  37. Creating Online Environments That Work Well for Older Users

    81 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  38. Every bookmark manager ever made

    81 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  39. Emotion-detecting tech should be restricted by law

    81 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  40. VirtualBox 6.1

    81 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  41. How McKinsey infiltrated the world of global public health

    80 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  42. Understanding What It's Like to Program in Forth (2008)

    80 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  43. Tech companies will post incoherent ads for open positions in tiny local papers

    80 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  44. Byte Magazine: Future Computers (1981)

    80 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  45. Vox Media to cut hundreds of freelance jobs ahead of California's AB5

    80 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  46. Show HN: dlinject.py – Inject a .so into a running Linux process, without ptrace

    80 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  47. Chunking Optimizations: Let the Knife Do the Work

    80 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  48. Wolf 359

    80 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  49. The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback

    80 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  50. HyperbolaBSD Roadmap: hard fork of the OpenBSD kernel and userspace

    80 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  51. Circumventing the JVM's Bytecode Verifier

    80 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  52. HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customers’ private bug reports

    80 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  53. APL and J (2015)

    80 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  54. 90k Packages Disappear Daily in NYC

    79 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  55. Atari 8-Bit Display List Interrupts: An Advanced Tutorial

    79 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  56. Chinese Mass Surveillance – Snowden

    79 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  57. Topology and complex analysis for the unsuspecting game dev

    79 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  58. Kernel-Bypass Networking

    79 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  59. Colorado bank robber gifts money to passers-by and yells Merry Christmas

    79 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  60. Glush: A robust parser compiler built using non-deterministic automatons

    79 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  61. Climate change driving entire planet to dangerous 'global tipping point‘

    79 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  62. Brave Isn't Bad

    79 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  63. A City Is Not a Tree (1965)

    79 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  64. Problematic monetization in security products, Avira edition

    79 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  65. Efficient Alias of a Built-In Emacs Lisp Function

    79 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  66. 64-bit unix timestamp is not supported in MySQL functions (2005)

    79 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  67. A Rocket to Nowhere (2005)

    79 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  68. Kahan Summation Algorithm

    78 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  69. Tell HN: $13K Sales for “The Good Parts of AWS” on Launch Day

    78 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  70. California’s Assembly Bill 5 came for me today

    78 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  71. America's Most Underappreciated Right: Public Assembly

    78 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  72. Is It Time for the US to Drag Jobs Out of Silicon Valley and into the Heartland?

    78 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  73. Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

    78 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  74. Getting Pagination Wrong (2016)

    78 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  75. From the Big Short to Normal People: Books That Defined the Decade

    78 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  76. Dolphin Scheduler

    78 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  77. The Great Recycling Con [video]

    78 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  78. Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems

    78 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  79. Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)

    78 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  80. Layered Programming (2013)

    77 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  81. So Where’s My Low Voltage DC Wall Socket?

    77 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  82. Visual Studio Code repository is open again

    77 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  83. Escaping San Francisco

    77 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  84. PG&E Had Systemic Problems with Power Line Maintenance, California Probe Finds

    77 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  85. Efficient lock-free durable sets

    77 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  86. Are Humans Fit for Space? A ‘Herculean’ Study

    77 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  87. Two Years Working at Dropbox

    77 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  88. For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865

    77 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  89. Worst Software Metrics

    77 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  90. 1950s Smart Homes and the Longevity of Design

    77 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  91. The Year in Math and Computer Science

    77 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  92. Building a parachute is boggling

    77 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  93. Gitlab 12.6

    77 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  94. Extended BPF: A New Type of Software [pdf]

    76 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  95. Save .ORG from Arbitrary Censorship by Halting the Private Equity Buy-Out

    76 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  96. Reducing carbon footprint of network services with MirageOS [video]

    76 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  97. In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks

    76 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  98. EU beckons Indian tech talent

    76 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  99. A Robot That Explains Its Actions

    76 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  100. Google Reader Killed RSS

    76 points • comment • dec 19, 2019