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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)

    355 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  2. Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 to 4 learn logic

    354 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  3. Fashionable Problems

    349 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  4. HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client

    349 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  5. France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax

    347 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  6. Tell HN: I used to be homeless and want to work as a software developer

    347 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  7. Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages

    347 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  8. Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture

    346 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  9. Tesseract.js: Pure JavaScript OCR for 100 Languages

    345 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  10. United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Boeing 757s

    344 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  11. Speeding Up the Rust Compiler

    344 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  12. Severed fibre cables disrupted internet access in eastern Europe, Iran, Turkey

    344 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  13. ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar

    343 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  14. Doing a database join with CSV files

    343 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  15. Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

    343 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  16. Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study

    340 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  17. Cyc

    340 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  18. ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

    340 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  19. Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes

    340 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  20. Thinking in React Hooks

    340 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  21. Scaling Etsy

    339 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  22. Open-Source Spotify App

    338 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  23. French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold

    338 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  24. C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)

    338 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  25. Grumpy Website – a blog about everything wrong with modern web & tech

    338 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  26. Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M

    337 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  27. The impact of cannabis access laws on opioid prescribing

    337 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  28. Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage

    333 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  29. We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)

    332 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  30. All DMCA notices filed against TorrentFreak in 2019 were bogus

    332 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  31. I love coding in C

    331 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  32. Boeing to Suspend 737 Max Production in January

    329 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  33. Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy

    329 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  34. How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes

    326 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  35. Darktable 3.0

    326 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  36. Julian Assange “slowly dying” and “often sedated” in Belmarsh prison

    325 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  37. Httpserver.h: Single header library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C

    325 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  38. A podcast that hacks Ring camera owners live

    325 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  39. Generating a Java program with 90% less code

    325 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  40. A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers

    324 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  41. The Nintendo Switch Switch

    324 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  42. Unbundling AWS

    323 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  43. Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System

    321 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  44. An IT migration corrupted 1.3B customer records

    320 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  45. Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)

    319 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  46. We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring

    319 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  47. Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study

    319 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  48. API Practices If You Hate Your Customers

    318 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  49. Great White Sharks Are Terrified of Orcas

    317 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  50. Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?

    317 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  51. Dented Reality: Magic Leap Sees Slow Sales, Steep Losses

    316 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  52. BMW shares AI tools used in production

    316 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  53. Hammerspoon – macOS automation with Lua

    316 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  54. Ruby 2.7

    315 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  55. Message DB: Event Store and Message Store for PostgreSQL

    315 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  56. Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”

    313 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  57. Disaster.radio: a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun

    313 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  58. Learning hardware programming as a software engineer

    313 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  59. Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (1998)

    311 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  60. Go through your family's phone settings and turn on all the privacy features

    311 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  61. Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?

    310 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  62. Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market

    310 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  63. GitHub Actions is my new favorite free programming tool [video]

    309 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  64. Stanford CS 144: Introduction to Computer Networking

    309 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  65. The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained

    307 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  66. How I Switched to Plan 9

    307 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  67. Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections

    306 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  68. The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)

    305 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  69. Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux scheduler is

    305 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  70. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaScript Adaptation

    305 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  71. British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

    305 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  72. Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix

    304 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  73. I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo

    304 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  74. Google has handed information related to my account to the DoJ

    304 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  75. French cities trying to ban public adverts

    303 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  76. OpenLayers

    303 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  77. Help me ask why you didn't just

    302 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  78. Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study

    300 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  79. Kotlin vs. Java

    298 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  80. New boson appears in nuclear decay, could break standard model if confirmed

    297 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  81. Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks

    297 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  82. Category:Obsolete occupations

    296 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  83. A Twitter app bug was used to match 17M phone numbers to user accounts

    295 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  84. Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores

    293 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  85. New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy

    293 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  86. AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide bad results

    293 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  87. Founder came back after 8 years to rewrite Flash photo editor in Canvas/WebGL

    293 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  88. Reputation management firms bury Google results by placing flattering content

    291 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  89. Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper

    291 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  90. Dropbox Transfer

    291 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  91. Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player

    291 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  92. America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Study Says

    290 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  93. Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles

    290 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  94. A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier

    290 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  95. Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests

    288 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  96. Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client Written in Rust

    288 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  97. Dating While Dying

    288 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  98. How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?

    287 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  99. From Zero to Main(): Bare Metal Rust

    287 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  100. Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?

    287 points • comment • dec 29, 2019