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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Show HN: Event-driven Shell – a way to control flows in multiple shell windows

    8 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  2. Waymo: Ghost Riding in a Driverless Car

    8 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  3. Nine Species of Human Once Walked Earth. Now There's Just One

    8 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  4. Scientists devise catalyst that uses light to turn carbon dioxide to fuel

    8 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  5. Lime Scooter Accounts Are Being Sold on the Dark Web

    8 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  6. Amazon CFO killed after colliding with a van delivering the company's packages

    8 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  7. Ask HN: Serverless.com framework vs. raw AWS console?

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  8. Portraits: Umberto Eco, Saul Steinberg, and Aldo Buzzi

    8 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  9. Seed EdTech Investors List

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  10. Electric truck startup Rivian raises $1.3B more to challenge Tesla

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  11. Show HN: Tai, composable, real time, data & trade execution toolkit [Elixir]

    8 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  12. Ruby 24 Year Anniversary

    8 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  13. True Tales of High Adventure (2009)

    8 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  14. Apple's iOS 13.3 update finally lets you disable those annoying Memoji stickers

    8 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  15. The Art of Rhetoric

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  16. The Best Optical Illusion of the Year Will Mess with Your Head

    8 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  17. The Invention of “Ethical AI”

    8 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  18. Show HN: Senior meets junior – Connecting engineers over side projects

    8 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  19. The 2019 Good Tech Awards

    8 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  20. Reddit User Captured a Tornado on Our Sun from His Backyard

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  21. Petitparser: Dynamic Grammars in Smalltalk

    8 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  22. Moving from Simplenote to Notational FZF

    8 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  23. FBI says Russian FaceApp is 'potential counterintelligence threat'

    8 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  24. Preoperative Patient Frailty and Operative Stress and Postoperative Mortality

    8 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  25. The Lost Worlds of Telnet

    8 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  26. Top UN Official Accuses US of Torturing Chelsea Manning

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  27. For SysAdmins: Using a Visual Map for IT Asset/Inventory Tracking

    8 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  28. Ask HN: What Architecture Apple uses in its iOS Apps?

    8 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  29. The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake: Was Nul-Terminated Text Strings Wrong?

    8 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  30. Some More Grants for Open Source Work

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  31. Automatic Derivation of Code Generators from Machine Descriptions (1980) [pdf]

    8 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  32. Hybrids Might Play an Unappreciated Role in Evolution

    8 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  33. Noam Chomsky on the Climate Crisis

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  34. TV Industry Suffers Steepest Drop in Ad Sales Since Recession

    8 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  35. Will Florida Kill an Innocent Man?

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  36. Use Noexcept for Exception Handling in C++ Programs

    8 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  37. OpenHW Group Announces Core-V Chassis SoC Project

    8 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  38. Georgia Governor Appoints Bitcoin Exchange Bakkt CEO Loeffler as New US Senator

    8 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  39. Christopher Hitchens on the Oklahoma bombing and the Republican big tent (1995)

    8 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  40. WaveNet

    8 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  41. Making an open source, privacy-conscious alternative to Google Analytics

    8 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  42. 2019 in Review: 10 Brilliant AI Apps

    8 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  43. The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  44. How China steals American technology and a timeline of recent events

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  45. Rambler plans to sue Twitch for $2.82B in a Russian court

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  46. I got $100K acquisition offer for my microstartup

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  47. People Are Flushing Toilets 10 Times, 15 Times

    7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  48. How the U.S. hydrogen bomb secrets disappeared

    7 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  49. Girls’ comparative advantage in reading can largely explain the STEM gender gap

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  50. Search-warrant demands that Google turn over account info, Android info etc.

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  51. The Decade the Internet Lost Its Joy

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  52. Crusaders want to preserve human culture online. Latest target: Yahoo Groups

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  53. Jeff Bezos in 1999 on Amazon's Plans Before the Dotcom Crash

    7 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  54. Ask HN: I'm setting up some free coding classes, would you be interested?

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  55. Running iOS in QEMU to an interactive bash shell

    7 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  56. Ask HN: Should I use version control or blockchain?

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  57. Gitlab: Acquisitions Handbook

    7 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  58. Gitignore.io: web service to create useful .gitignore files

    7 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  59. How randomly skipping tests made them better (curl)

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  60. Physical maps of subways systems in Paris, London and other cities

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  61. Run containers like a boss with containerd

    7 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  62. Internet shutdowns, once rare, are becoming the norm in much of the world

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  63. Critical tools for running SaaS business

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  64. Show HN: Ultra-low overhead logging for Java

    7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  65. Why is it so difficult to make people change their minds?

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  66. A Framework for Regulating Competition on the Internet

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  67. China’s TikTok Sued by U.S. College Student over Data Use

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  68. Zorin OS Is the Alternative to Windows and macOS

    7 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  69. Ask HN: Where are some low budget and good CS College?

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  70. Bot That Detects When Aircraft Are Circling over Los Angeles

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  71. IBM Changes the Energy Storage Game with Cobalt-Free Battery

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  72. Keybase moves to stop onslaught of spammers

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  73. The Aesthetically Ideal Position of the Nipple–Areola Complex on the Breast

    7 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  74. Bug adds 220MW of fake electricity demand in Ontario

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  75. Compiler Basics: An x86 Upgrade

    7 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  76. Lost Passport in Dubai – Cruise Leaves Soon. Help

    7 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  77. Running 32bit Apps on macOS Catalina

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  78. China's facial recognition rollout reaches into mobile phones, shops and homes

    7 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  79. Puget Systems:“Intel Has Every Right” to Make Intel MKL Run Slower on AMD CPUs

    7 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  80. One Weird Trick for 2020

    7 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  81. What Not to Do on Your Work Computer

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  82. In America, the law is the law* (*if you’re poor, undocumented or nonwhite)

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  83. JavaScript resources you need to know about

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  84. Even aggressive centipedes will co-operate if they have to

    7 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  85. Checking the Ark Compiler Recently Made Open-Source by Huawei

    7 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  86. Expedia CEO and CFO Fired

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  87. Victoria Falls dries to a trickle after worst drought in a century

    7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  88. How to Learn Data Structures and Algorithms (An Ultimate Guide for Beginners)

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  89. Skymind Is Now Pathmind

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  90. Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  91. Pg_query: Parse PostgreSQL Queries in Ruby

    7 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  92. Random Numbers: Nothing Left to Chance (2008)

    7 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  93. Linux Desktops for Minimalists: Getting Started with LXQt and LXDE

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  94. Launch HN: DueFocus, Time Tracker for Gitlab, Trello, Jira, GitHub, Asana

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  95. Nothing Lasts Forever– Not Even on the Internet

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  96. Google Assistant can now interpret 44 languages on smartphones

    7 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  97. Bezos says 'country in trouble' if big tech turns its back on the Pentagon

    7 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  98. Ask HN: What is your 2020 resolution?

    7 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  99. Venturing a Perspective on the Drug Pricing Debate

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  100. The Hero’s Journey – and How to Create Your Own Today

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2019