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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)

    498 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  2. Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018)

    498 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  3. Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search

    494 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  4. I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit

    493 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  5. O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation

    493 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  6. Merry Christmas HN

    490 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  7. Minimalism – An undervalued development skill

    482 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  8. PinePhone Review

    482 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  9. Win32 on macOS

    480 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  10. The Plain Text Project

    479 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  11. Switch to OpenStreetMap

    478 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  12. The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf]

    477 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  13. Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium

    476 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  14. Slack have blocked using the website on mobile

    475 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  15. Things that are illegal to build in most American cities now

    473 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  16. Show HN: Space Invaders in C

    473 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  17. Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner

    471 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  18. Build an 8-bit computer from scratch

    469 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  19. Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine

    469 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  20. Building a Search Engine from Scratch

    465 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  21. A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016)

    463 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  22. The modern web is becoming unusable

    462 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  23. Why are my Go executable files so large?

    458 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  24. The Amazon Builders' Library

    456 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  25. Calm Technology

    456 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  26. Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool

    454 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  27. Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters

    450 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  28. Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing

    443 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  29. OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey

    441 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  30. I stood up to my boss, then he got promoted

    439 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  31. 23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M

    439 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  32. S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US

    432 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  33. The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago

    431 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  34. Tony Brooker, creator of Mark 1 Autocode, has died

    430 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  35. Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

    428 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  36. WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation

    426 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  37. Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation

    425 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  38. Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

    425 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  39. Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables

    423 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  40. Rust 1.40

    422 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  41. Amazon CodeGuru – Preview

    422 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  42. New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity

    420 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  43. Music for Programming (2011)

    418 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  44. State of JavaScript 2019

    417 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  45. Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later

    417 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  46. The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)

    415 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  47. Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?

    414 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  48. An opinionated approach to GNU Make

    410 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  49. My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months

    408 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  50. AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab

    407 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  51. You might literally be buying trash on Amazon

    404 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  52. If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)

    404 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  53. #include </etc/shadow>

    404 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  54. Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work

    403 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  55. Amazon Ring went from a smart doorbell company to a surveillance network

    402 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  56. Operations for Effective CEOs

    402 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  57. Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console

    402 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  58. Unbearable news

    400 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  59. How tracking pixels work

    397 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  60. Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline

    396 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  61. Go + Services = One Goliath Project

    396 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  62. Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust

    396 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  63. Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

    395 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  64. Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?

    395 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  65. Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]

    393 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  66. An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry

    390 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  67. Things end users care about but programmers don't

    389 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  68. 49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change

    386 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  69. Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust

    386 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  70. How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers

    386 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  71. Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

    383 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  72. Learning to code vs. learning to automate

    382 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  73. WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets

    381 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  74. Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?

    380 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  75. Show HN: Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper

    379 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  76. Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case

    379 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  77. A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server

    379 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  78. Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who invented the art of hunting hackers

    377 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  79. LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

    376 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  80. If this project is dead, just tell us

    374 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  81. IncludeOS: a minimal unikernel operating system for C++ services

    374 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  82. The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity

    373 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  83. NanoNeuron – simple JavaScript functions that explain how machines learn

    371 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  84. U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices

    371 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  85. Turkey unveils first fully domestically-produced car in $3.7B bet on electric

    370 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  86. Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?

    370 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  87. Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

    369 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  88. W3C recommends WebAssembly

    368 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  89. Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear reactor technology

    368 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  90. Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance

    367 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  91. Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch

    366 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  92. Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without changing anything

    365 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  93. The Amazon Premium

    363 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  94. Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?

    363 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  95. Ram Dass has died

    361 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  96. Hacking GitHub's Auth with Unicode's Turkish Dotless 'I'

    359 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  97. Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

    358 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  98. Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

    358 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  99. Monica: Open-source personal CRM

    357 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  100. Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?

    356 points • comment • dec 13, 2019