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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Show HN: Increase your readability and productivity with this simple extension

    57 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  2. A Reality Check on Quantum Computers

    57 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  3. Node-based a/v composition: programs as graphs and graphs as compositional tools

    57 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  4. DoH: Anti-Competitive and Network Neutrality Aspects

    57 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  5. Stonehenge 1875 family photo may be earliest at monument

    57 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  6. Stripe's 210 Day Hold Practices

    57 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  7. Most cybercrime doesn't involve computer hacking

    57 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  8. Declarative assembly of web applications from pre-defined concepts

    57 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  9. DepHell – Project Management for Python

    57 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  10. Going 100% Green Will Pay for Itself in Seven Years, Study Finds

    57 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  11. India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy

    57 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  12. New Floating Cycle Roundabout (2012)

    56 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  13. Fixing Impostor Syndrome in Coding Interviews

    56 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  14. Benchmarking Spreadsheet Systems

    56 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  15. A scenario in which the Euler fluid equations fail

    56 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  16. Interview with Rui Pinto of Football Leaks

    56 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  17. Particle Life

    56 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  18. False Friends of the Slavist

    56 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  19. Building a More Honest Internet

    56 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  20. Jisei: The Japanese Death Poem (2013)

    56 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  21. ECMAScript proposal: String.prototype.replaceAll

    56 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  22. CIA Gift Shop

    56 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  23. Esterel – Synchronous programming language for complex, reactive systems

    56 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  24. A woman lied on her resume to land a $185,000-a-year job. Now shes going to jail

    56 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  25. San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and Hating Itself

    55 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  26. Investigating Privilege Escalation Methods in AWS

    55 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  27. The dark ages of AI: A panel discussion at AAAI-84 (1985)

    55 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  28. German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to hand over user passwords

    55 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  29. Fermented Foods: Definitions and Characteristics, Impact on Gut Microbiota etc.

    55 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  30. Web Application Firewall for PHP

    55 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  31. X-Ray Audio: Soviet-era bootleg audio recordings

    55 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  32. Jobs, Jobs Everywhere, but Most of Them Kind of Suck

    55 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  33. Ask HN: Which is the best book on nutrition?

    55 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  34. OnlyOffice Community Server: open-source collaboration projects

    55 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  35. We Kept Almost Making Money

    55 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  36. Messy handwriting reveals mystery translator: Queen Elizabeth I

    55 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  37. An overview of direct memory access (2014)

    55 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  38. Head of Chinese research integrity is exposed for scientific fraud

    55 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  39. Researchers Find a Remarkable Ripple Effect When You Give Cash to Poor Families

    55 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  40. One Instruction Set Computer

    54 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  41. Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

    54 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  42. HOWTO: Get tenure (2015)

    54 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  43. A reflection about automatic transcription of music (2018)

    54 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  44. Magic Eye Tube

    54 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  45. Yahoo Extends deadline for downloading Yahoo Groups data to Jan 31 2020

    54 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  46. Stone Age chewing gum holds clues to the life of a girl who lived 5700 years ago

    54 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  47. Empirical Comparison of DOS Kernels (2015)

    54 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  48. Writing an ALSA Driver (2007)

    54 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  49. Greyhound offers free bus tickets home to runaway kids

    54 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  50. ZMOB: A multiprocessor computer with 256 Z80 CPUs. (1981) [pdf]

    54 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  51. GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Batteries

    54 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  52. Making Swift code extensible through plugins

    54 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  53. A Content Marketing Strategy

    54 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  54. The US inmates billed per night in jail

    54 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  55. Microsoft Japan’s 4-day workweek experiment sees productivity jump 40%

    54 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  56. A vet's hellish diary of climate change

    54 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  57. Morons Funding the Fight Against Morons

    54 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  58. McKinsey and Company: Capital’s Willing Executioners

    54 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  59. Sacred scripture lives and evolves, is never fixed

    54 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  60. The Curious Case of Aurelius Capital vs. Puerto Rico

    54 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  61. Pythonic News – HN Clone

    54 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  62. Tuv sees black for Tesla: Cybertruck would not get approval in Europe

    54 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  63. Results vs. Hours: creating a results-focused work environment

    53 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  64. Sonos requires access to your location to install a Sonos system

    53 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  65. ElastiQuill: A modern blog engine built on top of Elasticsearch

    53 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  66. The Soviets Sponsored a Doomed Expedition to a Hollow Earth Kingdom (2016)

    53 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  67. Deep Differential Testing of JVM Implementations [pdf]

    53 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  68. Memory recall dependent on gene influencing hippocampus-based circadian clock

    53 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  69. The $100M ARR Club

    53 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  70. If All Stories Were Written Like Science Fiction Stories (2004)

    53 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  71. Chicken Dots

    53 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  72. New York City Is on the Verge of Disaster

    53 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  73. Brain Unrolling: Generators and the Sweet Syntactic Sugar of Coroutines

    53 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  74. The Drums of Cyberwar

    53 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  75. The Decade of Swift

    53 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  76. Shields Down (2016)

    53 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  77. Dutch university hit by cyber attack on its Windows systems

    53 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  78. AMD Zen 4 CPUs Rumored On Track For 2021 Release

    53 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  79. Anyscale, from the creators of the Ray distributed computing project, launches

    53 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  80. When is a nation not a nation? Somaliland’s dream of independence (2018)

    53 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  81. The Future of War Technology

    53 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  82. K Language: Remarks on Style (1995) [pdf]

    53 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  83. Uber in talks to sell UberEats’ India business to Zomato

    53 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  84. Reversing a real-world 249 bytes backdoor

    52 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  85. A single-celled organism that can live on material from a meteorite

    52 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  86. Connectome-Specific Harmonic Waves on LSD (2017)

    52 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  87. Systemd Opened Security Hole in Linux, VPNs Could Be Compromised

    52 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  88. Get Your Firefox Flashback

    52 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  89. Hiring Is Obsolete (2005)

    52 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  90. A First Try at ROI: Ranking 4,500 Colleges [pdf]

    52 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  91. The Far Side is officially online for the first time, with new comics to come

    52 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  92. Defunctionalization: Everybody Does It, Nobody Talks About It

    52 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  93. Two standard alcoholic drinks a day no longer safe, health officials say

    52 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  94. The Submersible Nuclear Ramjet: Part Nuclear Bomber, Part Submarine (2018)

    52 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  95. You don't have to work 80 hours a week to be successful

    52 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  96. MacBook keyboard problems: Apple fails to halt class action over flawed design

    52 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  97. Billionaires extract wealth rather than create it

    52 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  98. Portability and Interoperability

    52 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  99. A years-long domain name feud ended in a bloody shootout

    52 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  100. Sanna Marin is to become the world's youngest prime minister at the age of 34

    51 points • comment • dec 09, 2019