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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Symmetry454

    68 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  2. On System Design (2006) [pdf]

    68 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  3. Bugged Planet

    68 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  4. Today is Esperanto Book Day – why I learned it (2018)

    68 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  5. The ProtonCalendar Security Model

    68 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  6. Loudspeakers used to make dead coral reefs sound healthy, so fish flock to them

    68 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  7. An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

    68 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  8. SQL Performance Explained, the tuning book for developers, is free today

    68 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  9. Tell HN: CNN Lite no longer functional

    68 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  10. Someone found a way to bypass Windows 7 Extended Security Updates checks

    68 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  11. Annual Returns on Stock, T.Bonds and T.Bills: 1928 – Current

    68 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  12. Coding Machines (2009)

    68 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  13. How I run a small discussion mailing list

    68 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  14. IBM CTO Sees Smaller Container Platforms Ahead

    68 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  15. Finala: A cloud scanner that analyzes wasteful and unused resources

    68 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  16. Making AI Philosophical Again: On Philip E. Agre’s Legacy (2014)

    68 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  17. Introduction to Operating System Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2007) [pdf]

    68 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  18. How to Make Toast: Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Science (2001)

    68 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  19. Show HN: Notably – a simple tool for sharing markdown notes

    68 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  20. AWS Security Toolbox

    68 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  21. In Turkey, Keeping a Language of Whistles Alive

    68 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  22. Robert Boyle’s to-do list (2010)

    67 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  23. Agner Krarup Erlang

    67 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  24. AWS DeepComposer

    67 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  25. RDS Pricing Has More Than Doubled

    67 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  26. This isn't fun anymore (2017)

    67 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  27. Generative adversarial networks: What GANs are and how they’ve evolved

    67 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  28. Never Use toString() for Behaviour

    67 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  29. Albert Hofmann's archives shed light on the dawn of the psychedelic era (2018)

    67 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  30. Simulated data: the great equalizer in the AI race?

    67 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  31. Hempcrete – eco-friendly material in Australian homes

    67 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  32. An extended bout of warm wet weather 232M years ago

    67 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  33. Nordic Quack (2009)

    67 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  34. Honu: Syntactic Extension for Algebraic Notation (2012) [pdf]

    67 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  35. The Case for Portland-to-Vancouver High-Speed Rail

    67 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  36. Show HN: Cashbar app – your SaaS revenue in your menu bar

    67 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  37. Ramen restaurant prevalence is associated with stroke mortality in Japan

    67 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  38. Dietary Supplement Use During Chemotherapy and Survival Outcomes of Patients

    67 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  39. Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their startups

    67 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  40. What's Left for Private Messaging? [video]

    67 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  41. Thief Stole Payroll Data for Thousands of Facebook Employees

    67 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  42. The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb

    66 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  43. Tsunebaro Makaguchi – Education Through Interest

    66 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  44. Neurosymbolic AI Advances State of the Art on Math Word Problems

    66 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  45. State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise

    66 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  46. Google Design’s Best of 2019

    66 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  47. The Red and The Black

    66 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  48. Designing a service for password-less temporary access to resources

    66 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  49. Collaborative Software That’s Wary of the Cloud

    66 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  50. What is an Operating System? A historical investigation (1954–1964)

    66 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  51. Aplette: a minimalist APL oriented toward scripting within a UNIX environment

    66 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  52. Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island and left to starve

    66 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  53. Neural networks as non-leaky mathematical abstraction

    66 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  54. Notepad++ v7.8.2: Free Uyghur

    66 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  55. Grad School and Public Health

    66 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  56. Keyboard vs. The Mouse, Part 1 (1989)

    66 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  57. Nearly 500M animals killed in Australian bushfires

    66 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  58. Over the past 35 years, views on privacy and Caller ID have flipped

    66 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  59. The Internet's first general-purpose distributed computing project

    66 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  60. Controlling attention with brain waves

    66 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  61. AGI Has Been Delayed

    66 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  62. H-1B in 2020: Immigration Visa Faces Further Restrictions

    65 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  63. AI and Economic Productivity: Expect Evolution, Not Revolution

    65 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  64. John Wheeler’s H-bomb blues

    65 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  65. Learning Morse code in the 21st century

    65 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  66. Sequoyah – Inventor of the Cherokee Script

    65 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  67. Non-Rectangular Video Cropping with FFMpeg

    65 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  68. Show HN: Referlist – Increase email sign-ups via word of mouth referrals

    65 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  69. Space: The Integrated Team Environment

    65 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  70. Teachers Pay High Fees for Retirement Funds

    65 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  71. Why Aren't Shoes Preventing Running Injuries? (2014)

    65 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  72. Human Rights at a Global Crossroads – Robert Tibbo and Edward Snowden [video]

    65 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  73. 2019’s Top Machine and Deep Learning Research Papers

    65 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  74. String Algorithms in Lisp

    65 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  75. A Quick Primer on Dig

    65 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  76. The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value (2014) [pdf]

    65 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  77. Samoa arrests vaccination critic amid deadly measles crisis

    65 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  78. Apple Security Bounty

    64 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  79. DFS, poker, basketball, Starcraft and strong opinions, weakly held

    64 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  80. Multi-factor authentication isn't necessarily strong

    64 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  81. Amazon's on-site emergency care endangers its employees

    64 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  82. Show HN: Localdots – HTTPS domains for localhost with autoconfig and hot reload

    64 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  83. The Infantorium

    64 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  84. Implementing a Cuckoo Filter in Go

    64 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  85. Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement

    64 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  86. The Social Subsidy of Angel Investing

    64 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  87. Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis: 160k Pages of Medieval Manuscripts Digitized

    64 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  88. How to Track President Trump

    64 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  89. Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)

    64 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  90. Why do publishers still issue hardbacks? (2018)

    64 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  91. A way to make anonymous online donations

    64 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  92. A programmable programming language (2018) [pdf]

    64 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  93. Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (Downloadable Book)

    64 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  94. Making S3 More Resilient Using Lambda Edge

    64 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  95. An immune molecule can sometimes influence the social behavior of mice: study

    64 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  96. A guide to Web Scraping without getting blocked

    63 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  97. Lawyers for users of QuadrigaCX seek exhumation of founder

    63 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  98. A CT scan costs $1,100 in the US – and $140 in Holland

    63 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  99. What is Symplectic Geometry? (2016) [pdf]

    63 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  100. OpenAI Procgen: Procedurally Generated Game-Like RL Environments

    63 points • comment • dec 03, 2019