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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

Mailfence: Secure and Private Email Service
51 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
Cancer Treatment: China Mulls Looser Experimental Therapy Rules
51 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Pathways to Cellular Supremacy in Biocomputing
51 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
Surveillance Giants [pdf]
51 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
Infiltrating Python’s Software Supply Chain
51 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
Mileage runs are last-minute dashes for airline status
51 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Are Physical Laws Inevitable?
51 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
The Mayo Clinic embeds its engineers in real patient treatment
51 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Sanna Marin is to become the world's youngest prime minister at the age of 34
51 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
As wildfires hit Australia, ocean warming from climate change endangers Tasmania
51 points • comment • dec 28, 2019
81-year-old Donald Knuth releases new TAOCP book, ready to write reward checks
51 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Change to Chinese university's charter dropping 'freedom of thought'
51 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
To be a good software engineer, become a French skeptic
51 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Israeli startup claims to succeed where Theranos failed
51 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
First Woman to Beat a Man at World Darts Overwhelmed by Response
50 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
New prosthetic limbs go beyond the functional to allow people to ‘feel’ again
50 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5
50 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Railroad Grade Pocket Watches
50 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
The One Notebook Habit (2018)
50 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack
50 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Kubernetes Config Connector: Provision GCP Infrastructure Using Kubernetes
50 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
Writing JavaScript with Only Six Characters
50 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Henry Heinz used ketchup to improve food safety
50 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Nothing Says 'Hip' Like Ancient Wheat (2016)
50 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
Japan Shrinks by 500k People as Births Fall to Lowest Number Since 1874
50 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
I moved my sites from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify and saved $1000 / year
50 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Emacs on the iPhone (2014) [video]
50 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019
50 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Underwater Drones, Mars Rover Parts and a High-Tech Revival in NYC
50 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Using Binary Space Partitioning in Doom
50 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
Wireless Networking in DOS
50 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Gamma-ray laser moves a step closer to reality
50 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Space Launch Now – Spaceflight News and Events
50 points • comment • dec 29, 2019
Reaper: Digital Audio Workstation
50 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
50 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Linux exists only because of a happy accident
50 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
This Cities: Skylines build recreates the honeycomb Detroit that could have been
50 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Show HN: I built a FOSS service to protect against link shorteners tracking us
50 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Datasette-atom: Define an Atom feed using a custom SQL query
49 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Classic Computer and Video Game Magazine Christmas Covers
49 points • comment • dec 26, 2019
In England, Coroners Decide What Is Treasure and What Is Not
49 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
The Reliability of Enterprise Applications
49 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Hackers 'looking to weaponize Facebook Ad Manager' via trojan in PDF reader
49 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Whatever happened to the Next Big Things?
49 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Collection of Software Bugs
49 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Poetry: Python dependency management and packaging made easy
49 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Hypertext Literal
49 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language
49 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
2020 cybersecurity predictions, as told by a bot
49 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Airbnb Isn’t Uber, Says European Court of Justice
49 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
A Design for Death
49 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Science United – distributed computing for scientific projects
49 points • comment • dec 21, 2019
Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser
49 points • comment • dec 30, 2019
RA-10: a new Argentinian multipurpose research nuclear reactor (2011) [pdf]
49 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Robocall fines rise to $10k per call under newly passed law
48 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Creating Python Virtual Environments with Conda: Why and How
48 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
OpenSSH Key Shielding
48 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
2019: The year revolt went global
48 points • comment • dec 12, 2019
Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
48 points • comment • dec 17, 2019
Spyware in macOS
48 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Knots and Quantum Theory (2011)
48 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Serious Engine – Serious Sam open-source engine (2016)
48 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
A Cart with Legs
48 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Revenue Contribution, Margin Analysis and Growth Rates of SaaS Companies
48 points • comment • dec 15, 2019
U.S. Says Accused Apple Secrets Thief Had Patriot Missile File
48 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs
48 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Python 2.7 will retire in...
48 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
UK court rules MI5 agents can murder, kidnap, and torture
48 points • comment • dec 22, 2019
The Four Stages of Objective-Smalltalk
48 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
How a Chinese Startup Made $50 Million in 3 Months by Stealing US and UK IP
48 points • comment • dec 11, 2019
Running Tips
48 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Facebook Just Gave Repressive Regimes the Ultimate Surveillance Blueprint
48 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
A list of beginner-friendly NLP projects–using pre-trained models
47 points • comment • dec 23, 2019
Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK
47 points • comment • dec 19, 2019
Pixar in a Box (2015)
47 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Iron Curtains Considered Harmful
47 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces
47 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Tenko: A spec-compliant ES2020 JavaScript parser written in JS
47 points • comment • dec 02, 2019
Tuition at the University of California (1970)
47 points • comment • dec 08, 2019
Rubrication Design Examples
47 points • comment • dec 09, 2019
Thames Water don't get password security
47 points • comment • dec 06, 2019
Report for America funded a community Wikipedia editor at a library
47 points • comment • dec 16, 2019
Warren Buffett is spending billions to make Iowa 'the Saudi Arabia of wind'
47 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
I, Who Vowed to Never-Ever Short Stocks Again, Just Shorted the Entire Market
47 points • comment • dec 31, 2019
Ternary Computers: The Setun and the Setun 70 (2006) [pdf]
47 points • comment • dec 24, 2019
Doug's Demo Sequel: 1969
47 points • comment • dec 04, 2019
Show HN: ZenJournal – Fast journal app with chat interface
46 points • comment • dec 25, 2019
Static Analysis for Dockerfiles
46 points • comment • dec 05, 2019
The Cape Cod Disaster
46 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
Show HN: Browser Based PowerPoint Alternative
46 points • comment • dec 14, 2019
Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available
46 points • comment • dec 03, 2019
Escape from System D, episode VI: freedom in sight
46 points • comment • dec 20, 2019
Granular convection
46 points • comment • dec 10, 2019
Setting Up a Jenkins Home Lab
46 points • comment • dec 27, 2019
The Crystal Palace
46 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
A Surveillance Net Blankets China’s Cities
46 points • comment • dec 18, 2019
A $500M Family Feud
46 points • comment • dec 01, 2019
Yahui: The Chinese Art of Elegant Bribery (2011)
46 points • comment • dec 13, 2019
Thomas Edison’s brilliant life, told in reverse
46 points • comment • dec 07, 2019
BeyondProd: Google's Cloud Native Security
46 points • comment • dec 17, 2019