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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

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

    35 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  2. The Unpredictable Cactus

    35 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  3. Kodak Reference Handbook (1945)

    35 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  4. Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes

    35 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  5. Promoters of Climate Anxiety

    35 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

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

    35 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  7. Spirit Scripts: Japan’s mysterious outcast alphabets

    35 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  8. Germany Calls for European Firewall Against U.S. Sanctions

    35 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  9. YouTube seeks 'responsibility'

    35 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  10. Sushi Design System

    35 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  11. The Classic Tetris World Championships Explained (2018) [video]

    35 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  12. Bitcoin.com Lists Ponzi Token, Hex, to the Dismay of Bitcoin Fans

    35 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  13. Lipid metabolic pathways converge in motor neuron degenerative diseases

    34 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  14. Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the IPO Fizzle

    34 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  15. You should make a blog!

    34 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  16. EU investigates Google data collection practices

    34 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  17. Through the snow as if on rails

    34 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  18. Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work

    34 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  19. Apple is trolling us on prices?

    34 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  20. Show HN: I built remote.io – Job board for work-at-home / remote careers

    34 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  21. Light – Learning in Interactive Games with Humans and Text

    34 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  22. Records on Bone

    34 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  23. Show HN: Ordered Error Diffusion Dithering

    34 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  24. CCC Schedule – 2019-12-27

    34 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  25. A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs (2018)

    34 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  26. Two Arms and a Head (2011)

    34 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  27. Use of nanoparticles for detection of vascular calcification in atherosclerosis

    34 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  28. Adventures with Dockerised Headed Chrome, Extensions and Selenium-Python

    34 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  29. Chinese criminal gangs spreading swine fever to force farmers to sell pigs

    34 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  30. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel-winning economist, says end the GDP

    34 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  31. Announcing AWS Wavelength for delivering ultra-low latency applications for 5G

    34 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  32. Genetic Test Led 7 Women in 1 Family to Have Major Surgery–Then the Odds Changed

    34 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  33. Show HN: Unifrost – Stream PubSub Messages to the Browser

    34 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  34. Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action

    34 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  35. Kenneth E. Iverson: An Autobiographical Essay (2004) [pdf]

    34 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  36. Driver 'blows up' car with 'excessive' use of air freshener

    33 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  37. Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Tech

    33 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  38. Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Political Ads

    33 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  39. A Life of Pliny

    33 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  40. Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail, and a lucrative ‘hot list’

    33 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  41. Suppressing Innovation: Bell Laboratories and Magnetic Recording (1993)

    33 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  42. Play Sports for a Quieter Brain: Evidence from Division I Collegiate Athletes

    33 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  43. Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise

    33 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  44. Google founders’ exit signals end of era at search giant

    33 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  45. Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for building your next app?

    33 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  46. Americans are putting off medical treatment in record numbers because of cost

    33 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  47. Free of Heavy Metals, New Battery Design Could Alleviate Environmental Concerns

    33 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  48. Let’s Talk about Ghastly Dishwashers

    33 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  49. Is Larkin Good for You?

    33 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  50. When Betelgeuse goes supernova, the brightness will rival a full moon

    33 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  51. A Framework for First Principles Thinking

    33 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  52. Ask HN: Why do tech startup owners do not own the majority of their stock?

    33 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  53. CVE-2019-14899 - Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections

    33 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  54. Why is a circle in a plane surrounded by 6 other circles?

    33 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  55. Apple Platform Security

    33 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  56. Christmas code in 140 characters of JavaScript

    33 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  57. Capacitor but no 'nuclear reactor' found so far in Northwest side man’s garage

    33 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  58. Monads aren't as hard as you think

    33 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  59. JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful (2011)

    33 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  60. The Ergodicity Problem in Economics

    33 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  61. Show HN: HN Card, Hacker News Profile Overlay

    33 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  62. FckdEx

    33 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  63. Zen project forks Zig, relicenses, and “moves” original license to separate file

    33 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  64. Ask HN: What was your biggest failure in 2019?

    33 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  65. Diagram.Codes

    32 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  66. American kids want to be famous on YouTube, kids in China want to go to space

    32 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  67. Carlos Ghosn Flees Trial in Japan for Lebanese Homeland

    32 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  68. Finland is making its online AI crash course free to the world

    32 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  69. Automate GitHub Dependency Updates with Dependabot

    32 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  70. Raiders of the Lost Web (2015)

    32 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  71. Experimenting with RGBW Color Mixing

    32 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  72. Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and Happy New Year

    32 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  73. Arm brings custom instructions to its embedded CPUs

    32 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  74. The Pygmalion Effect: an invisible nudge towards success

    32 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

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

    32 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  76. I Staked Out My Local Domino’s to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza Tracker Is

    32 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  77. What if debit cards could pay for purchases by selling securities?

    32 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  78. The Second SHA-1 Hash Collision

    32 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  79. Retailers Don’t Like Paying the Fees for Your Apple Card

    32 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  80. Dithering in Games, Part 1: Simple Quantization (2016)

    32 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  81. Triangle Rasterization in Practice

    32 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  82. DisseminOA

    32 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  83. Can one earthquake trigger another on the other side of the world?

    32 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  84. AMD Releases Radeon ProRender 2.1

    32 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  85. Tradeoffs: The Currency of Decision Making

    32 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  86. Writers write, but this one couldn’t about the most important person in his life

    32 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  87. MLISP (1968) [pdf]

    32 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  88. A Note on the Use of Dictionaries (2012) [pdf]

    32 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  89. Ask HN: If you could automate one thing you do often at work, what would it be?

    31 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  90. Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build Next

    31 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  91. Google Donated To A Senator Who Voted Against Gay Conversion Therapy Ban

    31 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  92. Merriam-Webster declares ‘they’ its 2019 word of the year

    31 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  93. An oral history of the 2010s

    31 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  94. NASA satellite finds crashed Indian Moon lander Vikram

    31 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  95. Ask HN: Editing and Email Accssibility for Stroke Victim

    31 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  96. New South Wales rolls out mobile phone detection cameras

    31 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  97. Ostif.org Unbound DNS Audit Results – 1 Crit – 5 High – 5 Med

    31 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  98. Show HN: Booky – app to organize notes from books you read

    31 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  99. Going Serverless with OpenFaaS and Golang – Building Optimized Templates

    31 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  100. The Future Internet Regulation

    31 points • comment • dec 01, 2019