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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?

    287 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  2. The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand

    285 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  3. LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten Notes

    284 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  4. Show HN: We used 890M chess games to make an interactive opening graph

    284 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  5. Emotionally focused couple therapy can help love last

    283 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  6. Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017)

    282 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  7. GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC

    282 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  8. Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?

    280 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  9. Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency

    280 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  10. Database Internals

    280 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  11. Apple Sues Nuvia’s CEO, a Former Employee

    280 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  12. Low-Cost VPS Testing

    279 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  13. College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor

    279 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  14. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)

    278 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  15. Faults in Post Office accounting system led to workers being convicted of theft

    277 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  16. Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

    277 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  17. The sad state of personal data and infrastructure

    276 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  18. Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease [pdf]

    276 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  19. Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old

    275 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  20. Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS

    275 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  21. PIA open-sources and announces audit plans

    275 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  22. The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers

    275 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  23. What it's like to bootstrap a business before it can financially support you

    274 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  24. Betrusted: A Security Enclave for Humans

    273 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  25. 88% of Americans use a second screen while watching TV

    272 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  26. Introduction to Stochastic Processes [pdf]

    271 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  27. I only use an iFrame to crawl and scrape content

    271 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  28. Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health

    270 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  29. Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age

    269 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  30. The old internet died and we watched and did nothing

    268 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  31. I Was Wrong About Speed Reading (2015)

    267 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  32. Jack Dorsey Wants to Decentralize Twitter

    266 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  33. Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine

    265 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  34. Microbrowsers Are Everywhere

    265 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  35. 2020 Cloud Report: AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure

    265 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  36. Nim vs. Crystal

    264 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  37. Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?

    263 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  38. DeepSpeech 0.6

    263 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  39. Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding

    263 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  40. France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights

    261 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  41. L-systems

    261 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  42. The Higher States of Bromine

    261 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  43. The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017)

    260 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  44. Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectious diseases combined

    260 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  45. BugJail: New Java debugger – debug across time with mouse

    259 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  46. 37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl

    258 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  47. Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines

    258 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  48. Why the ‘Queen of Shitty Robots’ Renounced Her Crown

    258 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  49. Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup

    258 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  50. Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)

    257 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  51. Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017)

    257 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  52. The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer

    257 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  53. Deploy-your-own-SaaS: “only yours” cloud services for everyday needs

    256 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  54. Repl from Repo

    255 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  55. The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions

    255 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  56. Julian Assange contributed to PostgreSQL

    254 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  57. NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules in PRs

    254 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  58. Oakland shows how to expand housing supply: tell developers they can build homes

    254 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  59. RosettaGit: Same projects in many programming languages

    254 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  60. SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (2011)

    253 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  61. Downtime is an effortless way to improve your memory (2018)

    253 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  62. ACM signed letter opposing open access

    251 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  63. RIP Syd Mead (Blade Runner, TRON Designer)

    251 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  64. Keybase cancels Stellar token airdrop

    250 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  65. The Go runtime scheduler's way of dealing with system calls

    250 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  66. How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL

    249 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  67. Is true hacking dead? What we lost

    248 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  68. Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC

    248 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  69. A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)

    247 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  70. The town's so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE)

    247 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  71. New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality

    246 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  72. Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space

    246 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  73. People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

    246 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  74. Multipass 1.0 – Mini-cloud on Mac or Windows workstation

    246 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  75. Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break internet and cable titans

    246 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  76. FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc

    245 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  77. Is Arm ready for server dominance?

    245 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  78. Say it's 1962, you're lucky enough to be a programmer working with an IBM 7090

    245 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  79. A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52

    244 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  80. Best Illusion of the Year Contest - 2019 Finalists

    244 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  81. Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt

    244 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  82. 36th Chaos Communication Congress – Streams

    243 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  83. Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow

    243 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  84. Big Pile of Vim-Like

    243 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  85. PostgreSQL at low level: stay curious

    243 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  86. Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns [pdf]

    243 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  87. Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hosting platform

    243 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  88. Using WebAssembly from .NET with Wasmtime

    243 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  89. Firefox Full-device VPN

    243 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  90. Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?

    242 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  91. Ask HN: What do top engineers you know do that others don't?

    241 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  92. Climbing the Wealth Ladder

    240 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  93. Ask HN: My company wants my side project. What can I do?

    240 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  94. Indexing Billions of Text Vectors

    240 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  95. The next generation of wall chargers

    240 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  96. How I made a website with Svelte

    240 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  97. BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)

    238 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  98. Cheating in Programming

    238 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  99. SF wants startups to behave, so why did it reject the ‘nice guy’ of e-scooters?

    238 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  100. Apple admits iPhone 11 Pro still collects location data even when told not to

    237 points • comment • dec 04, 2019