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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Economists’ projections of interest rates and unemployment have proved too high

    76 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  2. Particle Filter

    76 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  3. The Czochralski method for growing single-crystal semiconductors

    76 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  4. A Robot That Explains Its Actions

    76 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

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

    76 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  6. Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook’s Fact-Checking Systems

    76 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  7. Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (2016)

    75 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  8. Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)

    75 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  9. Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case

    75 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  10. In praise of property-based testing

    75 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  11. Taking a look at a covert CIA virtual fencing solution [video]

    75 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  12. What it would take to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air than we put in

    75 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  13. Gsuite suspended my account because I paid

    75 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  14. Metrics That Matter

    75 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  15. Three Best Business Books of 2019 (According to Every Other Best-of-2019 List)

    75 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  16. Commit messages are not titles (2015)

    75 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  17. How to Show Available WiFi Networks on Linux from the Command Line

    75 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  18. Source Code Linking: Merging C Headers into Rust Modules

    74 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  19. International Space Station computer gets a heart transplant

    74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  20. Work Is a Queue of Queues

    74 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  21. Dating of bones from Indonesia confirm Homo erectus roamed planet for 1.8M years

    74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  22. Boom Supersonic (YC W16) XB-1 Fuselage Construction Underway

    74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  23. A few comments on ‘age’

    74 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  24. Ask HN: Partial Bootstrap for a SaaS Startup

    74 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  25. How to Build a Remote Team: Resources and Advice from Remote Companies

    74 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  26. Mining Social Media

    74 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  27. You have to follow the recipe

    74 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  28. Andrew Yang’s math on the robot takeover doesn’t check out

    74 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  29. BPF Theremin, Tetris, and Typewriters

    74 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  30. Neovim Configuration and Plugins in Fennel Lisp

    74 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  31. Reggae: A build system with multiple front ends (D, Python) and back ends

    74 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  32. American Letter Mail Company

    74 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  33. There’s No Winter Break from ‘Publish or Perish’

    74 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  34. Federation is the Worst of all Worlds (2018)

    73 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  35. RabbitMQ integer overflow that leads to heap memory corruption

    73 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  36. Natural language isn’t just English [pdf]

    73 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  37. Hobbes – A Language and an Embedded JIT Compiler

    73 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  38. V8 Release v8.0

    73 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  39. Infosys settles with California over alleged visa scam, tax evasion

    73 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  40. Monads, or Programmable Semicolons (2014)

    73 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  41. How Complex Modern Headlights Can Be

    73 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  42. Ask HN: D programmers, what does your development setup look like?

    73 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  43. Ask HN: Do you still use RSS?

    72 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  44. ARM64 CPUs speculatively execute instructions after ERET

    72 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  45. US government is entitled to all Snowden book proceeds, judge rules

    72 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  46. Machine Learning Christmas Calendar

    72 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  47. Deploying Authoritative OCaml-DNS Servers as MirageOS Unikernels

    72 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  48. Donate – iTerm2

    72 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  49. Genius used watermarks to catch Google stealing its content

    72 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  50. Privacy or Data, a Convenient False Dichotomy

    72 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  51. One year, one lab, 16 spinouts

    72 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  52. Research Papers That Caught the Public's Attention in 2019

    72 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  53. Make your website a black hole to big tech

    72 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  54. Highest Paying Tech Companies of 2019

    72 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  55. San Francisco supervisors opposing bill to increase housing density

    72 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  56. America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008)

    72 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  57. Bitmain Rival’s Founder Arrested as War of Crypto Miners Heats up

    72 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  58. The scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong

    72 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  59. What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families? Now we know

    71 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  60. Ask HN: What are the best computing-related videos you've watched recently?

    71 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  61. Move to the Big City (2018)

    71 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  62. Chimpanzees Spontaneously Dance to Music

    71 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  63. The Liar's Walk: Detecting Deception with Gait and Gesture

    71 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  64. Cray-2 vectorization instruction notes by former Principal Engineer of Cray

    71 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  65. Type systems and the future of programming languages

    71 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  66. DARPA head resigns, moving on to industry

    71 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  67. Bloomberg Beta Investment Documents

    71 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  68. Why do holes horrify me?

    71 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  69. Zhaoxin Unveiled Next-Generation x86 SoC Plans

    71 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  70. Dissecting Linux Kernel Code

    71 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  71. Our Tesla Model 3 Suffered a Failure While Parked

    71 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  72. Pivoting from conventional search to search-as-you-type: Our story with Mozilla

    70 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  73. LifeLabs pays ransom after data breach affecting up to 15M Canadians

    70 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  74. The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap

    70 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  75. Clive James Got It Right

    70 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  76. Bushfires Release over Half Australia’s Annual Carbon Emissions

    70 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  77. Show HN: Microfronts – Front-end solution for running multiple frameworks as one

    70 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  78. Emergent dynamics of neuromorphic nanowire networks

    70 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  79. FTC Weighs Seeking Injunction Against Facebook over How Its Apps Interact

    70 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  80. A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare

    70 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  81. Why was SCTP selected for WebRTC’s data channel? (2014)

    70 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  82. The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones

    70 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  83. Twistronics: superconductor prototypes discovered after twisting graphene sheets

    69 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  84. SafeLife: AI Safety Environments Based on Conway's Game of Life

    69 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  85. How Robert Cottrell of ‘The Browser’ finds the best writing on the web

    69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  86. The Silurian Hypothesis

    69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  87. Automatically finding Codenames clues with GloVe vectors

    69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  88. GPS Is Going Places

    69 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  89. Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (2017)

    69 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  90. Redis 6 RC1 is out today

    69 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  91. The Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’

    69 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  92. Human Web – Data Collection Without Privacy Side-Effects

    69 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  93. Ask HN: How can I tell if I am a good developer?

    69 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  94. Well, duh (1996)

    69 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  95. Two-Headed Go

    69 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  96. A7: Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry

    69 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  97. Verifiable Voting: A Primer

    69 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  98. Missing Movies (2018)

    69 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  99. An Opinionated Onboarding Setup for New Hires at Microsoft

    69 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  100. How I run a small discussion mailing list

    68 points • comment • dec 17, 2019