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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Elliptic Curve Cryptography Tutorial

    40 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  2. Greenwald: IG's Report on FBI Spying Reveals Scandal of Historic Magnitude

    40 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  3. NHS gives Amazon free use of health data under Alexa advice deal

    40 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  4. The weird criticism that Big Tech is too digital

    40 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  5. The Evolution of Trust (2017)

    40 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  6. Honda Refuses to Track Stolen Accord Because Owner Didn't Pay for HondaLink

    40 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  7. Continuous Integration and Deployment with Bazel

    40 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  8. More on NX Insanity

    40 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  9. Xinu Is Not Unix

    40 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  10. The Animal-AI Testbed

    40 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  11. New books mount aggressive but ultimately unpersuasive defenses of multiverses

    40 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  12. The vandals destroying libraries should have the book thrown at them

    39 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  13. PPX: Probabilistic Programming EXecution Protocol and API Based on Flatbuffers

    39 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  14. Mobile Providers’ Coverage Maps Investigation [pdf]

    39 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  15. Subscriptions Are Remaking Corporate America (2018)

    39 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  16. Astronomers on the verge of detecting “first light”

    39 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  17. A Nice Component Gallery

    39 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  18. China due to introduce face scans for mobile users

    39 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  19. I documented every surveillance camera on my way to work in New York City

    39 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  20. Learning human objectives by evaluating hypothetical behaviours

    39 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  21. State of Startups, 2019

    39 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  22. Time-Restricted Eating in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: Study

    39 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  23. ChezWEB: Hygienic Literate Programming for Chez Scheme

    39 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  24. California, and the US, shouldn’t be afraid of density and upzoning

    39 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  25. ‘Zork’ Source Code, Presumed Lost, Has Been Uploaded to GitHub

    39 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  26. A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen from Above

    39 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  27. How fashion startups get accepted into tech accelerators

    39 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  28. The Lost History of the ‘City’ of Brooklyn

    38 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  29. Reddit community loses mind after VSCode removes Santa hat at request of user

    38 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  30. Fu-Go Balloon Bomb

    38 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  31. Christmas is one of the biggest days of the year for hackers

    38 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  32. 36C3 Staff Brutally Assaulted Me for Political Reasons

    38 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  33. The Genius in My Basement (2011)

    38 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  34. Big tech companies have been at the cutting edge of corporate tax avoidance

    38 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  35. Practical Introduction to Prometheus for Developers

    38 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  36. Certbot 1.0 Is Released

    38 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  37. Ditch the GPS

    38 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  38. No Alcohol, No Coffee for 27 Months (2016)

    38 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  39. TLDR Digital Safety Checklist

    38 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  40. Ask HN: Do you still code in BASIC?

    38 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  41. Calling on startups to support NumFOCUS

    38 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  42. A Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs in Space (2010)

    38 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  43. Ask HN: How do you keep your notes organized?

    38 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  44. The Daily Mail’s List of Things That Give You Cancer: From a to Z

    38 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  45. Bot Submissions to Comment Website Can’t Be Distinguished from Human Submissions

    38 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  46. Mormon Church has misled members on $100B tax-exempt investment fund

    38 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  47. The Dark Side of WebAssembly (2018)

    38 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  48. A Large-Scale Analysis of Early Domain Deletions

    38 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  49. Most Europeans Now Prefer AMD CPUs over Intel

    38 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  50. Awesome Google Colab and 30+ example notebooks

    38 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  51. Running LibFuzzer in a Browser, via WASM [pdf]

    37 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  52. U.S. Tech Giants Bet Big on India, and Now It’s Changing the Rules

    37 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  53. Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law”

    37 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  54. Information teleported between two computer chips for the first time

    37 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  55. Apple Used the DMCA to Take Down a Tweet Containing an iPhone Encryption Key

    37 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  56. How We Achieved 40K QPS and 20B Rows of Data in a Single Scale-Out Cluster

    37 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  57. Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic

    37 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  58. Recent Books on Dinosaurs

    37 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  59. ‘Horrific’ typo valued Wasatch County home at almost $1B

    37 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  60. Unity vs. Unreal Engine: Which Is Better for XR Development

    37 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  61. Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament

    37 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  62. What Is Secure Remote Password (SRP) Protocol and How to Use It?

    37 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  63. Elite violence and elite numeracy in Europe from 500 to 1900 CE: A co-evolution

    37 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  64. Tracking Electric Scooters in Lisbon

    37 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  65. The Space Force is officially the sixth U.S. military branch

    37 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  66. Simultaneous recruiting of new graduates

    37 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  67. Sarah2 Cipher

    37 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  68. Ask HN: First time working from home; what to do or not do?

    37 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  69. Rclone – Rsync for Cloud Storage

    37 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  70. Pony 0.33.1

    36 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  71. Show HN: I made a simple generator to create UX design exercises to practice

    36 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  72. MIT's Building 20: “The Magical Incubator” (1998)

    36 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  73. On the Complexity of Crafting Crash-Consistent Applications (2014) [pdf]

    36 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  74. Anki, Jibo, and Kuri: What We Can Learn from Social Robots That Didn't Make It

    36 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  75. Show HN: No-Code CI for Android

    36 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  76. A single wild tree on a New Zealand island could soon get some neighbors

    36 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  77. Tom Kiefer documents lives via items seized by border patrol

    36 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  78. Ruby 2.x Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain (2018)

    36 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  79. ‘The Amazon Is Completely Lawless’: The Rainforest After Bolsonaro’s First Year

    36 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  80. Hiding in Plain Sight: Tracking/Exposing America’s Most Wanted Using OSINT

    36 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  81. A Third of America’s Economy Is Concentrated in Thirty-one Counties

    36 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  82. Code Surfer – Rad Code Slides

    36 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  83. Sound Matters (2011) [pdf]

    36 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  84. Facebook rejects ad of two men kissing to spread awareness on world-aids day

    36 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  85. 文言 – A programming language for the ancient Chinese

    36 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  86. SunEngine – Site engine that supports forums, articles and blogs

    36 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  87. Introduction to Gate

    36 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  88. Accidentally Overwriting Another Local Variable in C and C++

    36 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  89. The Fundamental Problem in Python 3

    36 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  90. A brief look at async-await

    36 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  91. State found $117k in double payments through data analytics

    35 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  92. Being more efficient on GitHub

    35 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  93. French Strike Aims to Save an Envied, but Convoluted, Approach to Pensions

    35 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  94. Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany

    35 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  95. The Unpredictable Cactus

    35 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  96. Age limit now 21 across US for cigarettes, tobacco products

    35 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  97. Infinite Multiplayer Minesweeper

    35 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  98. Sushi Design System

    35 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  99. Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes

    35 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  100. Ask HN: Someone posted an my passport on Facebook. Anything I can do?

    35 points • comment • dec 06, 2019