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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. The gene-based hack that is revolutionizing epidemiology

    5 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  2. These Journalists Lost Their Jobs. Here Are the Stories They Couldn’t Tell

    5 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  3. Scala 2 Roadmap Update: The Road to Scala 3

    5 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  4. Spell Checker in Python

    5 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  5. Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use the App. It’s Not the Only One

    5 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  6. Cops storm Nginx's Moscow offices after a Russian biz claims it owns Nginx

    5 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  7. China’s space programme gets back on track with successful rocket launch

    5 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  8. Piles of insecure smart toys fill retailers shelves

    5 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  9. Science does advance one funeral at a time

    5 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  10. Why are people attracted to 50:50 probabilities?

    5 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  11. OverDrive Media Acquired by PE Firm

    5 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  12. Tesla launches $2k Acceleration Boost for 3.9s 0-60 MPH in Model 3 Dual Motor

    5 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  13. Putin: Russia manifesto outlining plans is coming true

    5 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  14. Tech Stack: How I quickly developed a successful product as a solo developer

    5 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  15. Osquery vs. Ossec: Which Is Best for Linux Security in 2020?

    5 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  16. CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X Running on Google Cloud Platform

    5 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  17. Chinese programmers work like slaves in Cambodia

    5 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  18. Ask HN: Net Neutrality Repeal Consequences?

    5 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  19. Chinese scientists are collecting DNA to build a ‘genetic tool’ for surveillance

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  20. DeepMind co-founder moves to Google

    5 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  21. Boeing considers suspending or halting 737 Max production

    5 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  22. Ethereum Studio

    5 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  23. ‘Star Wars’ Owes a Great Debt to Akira Kurosawa’s ‘The Hidden Fortress’

    5 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  24. Bastillion – A web-based bastion host with auditing and key management

    5 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  25. Billionaires haven’t earned all they have

    5 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  26. Ask HN: What do you do with your free tier or dirt-cheap VM?

    5 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  27. The Experts Look Ahead: Cramming more components onto integrated circuits (1965) [pdf]

    5 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  28. History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin

    5 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  29. America Shouldn’t Panic About China

    5 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  30. The Main Problem with Tesla's Supercharger Network

    5 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  31. Waiting for Betelgeuse: what's up with the tempestuous star?

    5 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  32. Tech Companies Need Philosophers

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  33. 'This is small talk purgatory': what Tinder taught me about love

    5 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  34. Ransomware Gangs Now Outing Victim Businesses That Don’t Pay Up

    5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  35. A closed-door meeting shows farmers are waking up on climate change

    5 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  36. Why Event-Based Systems?

    5 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  37. Self-cleaning solar panels: why nanotexture and hydrophobicity matter

    5 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  38. Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For

    5 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  39. Reddit says UK-US trade talks document leak 'linked to Russia'

    5 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  40. 2019 My year in review: inlets proxy and tunnel

    5 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  41. Ransomeware attack hits major US data center provider

    5 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  42. HSBC bank steals money from Hong Kong resistance movement

    5 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  43. WireGuard merged to net-next, on its way to Linux 5.6

    5 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  44. Widespread Protests Across India Against the Citizenship Amendment Bill

    5 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  45. An Inside-Out Course on Number Theory (Last Class)

    5 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  46. Does Natural Law Need Elegant Mathematics?

    5 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  47. Google finally ends support for the old Google Glass after a controversial life

    5 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  48. Is Net Zero Emissions an Impossible Goal?

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  49. Alphabet,Apple,Tesla, Microsoft exploit child labor to mine cobalt for batteries

    5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  50. First human head transplant could be achieved by 2030

    5 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  51. Boost's shared_ptr up to 10× slower than OCaml's garbage collection (2011)

    5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  52. Apple New Mac Pro Desktop Costs $52,000. Without $400 Wheels

    5 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  53. Prime Power: How Amazon Squeezes the Businesses Behind Its Store

    5 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  54. Apple's Independent Repair Program Is a Useless PR Stunt

    5 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  55. Ask HN: Who Owns Atmosphere of Earth?

    5 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  56. Ask HN: do you ever clean your email marketing db from inactives?

    5 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  57. Fast Cloudfront Log Queries Using AWS Athena and Serverless

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  58. An Interview with Drew DeVault

    5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  59. Goals vs. objectives and why you got it wrong

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  60. Elon's Cybertruck Reveal Was So Bad It Merited Him a Garbage Pail Kid Card

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  61. Elon Musk wins defamation trial over 'pedo guy' tweet

    5 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  62. Radiation breaks connections in the brain

    5 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  63. Keynes foresaw the chaos that would follow from the Versailles peace treaty

    5 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  64. iPhone 11’s U1 chip necessitates constant geolocation checks, Apple says

    5 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  65. Ask HN: Moonlight without violating employment contract?

    5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  66. Mobile industry has stifled eSIM–and the DOJ is demanding change

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  67. Magic Leap’s next-generation headset is reportedly ‘years away from launch’

    5 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  68. Bayesian inference explains human choices in group decision-making

    5 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  69. Why data centres are the new frontier in the fight against climate change

    5 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  70. Practical DevOps #2: On shaming and blaming

    5 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  71. AWS Nitro Enclaves

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  72. JavaScript Promise combinators: race, all, allSettled, any

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  73. Is psychopathy untreatable? Why researchers are starting to change their minds

    5 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  74. China produces 95% of world's gallium, used in 5G base station chipsets

    5 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  75. Can we lose Space for decades due to space debris?

    5 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  76. Cdcontainers – library of data containers and data structures for C

    5 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  77. Bringing On-Prem Kubernetes to Cloud Parity

    5 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  78. The most influential games of the decade

    5 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  79. Taiwan loses 3k chip engineers to 'Made in China 2025'

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  80. Austin Is the No. 1 Tech Town in the U.S. for IT Pros

    5 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  81. Putting pigs in the shade: the radical farming system banking on trees

    5 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  82. Password Generator

    5 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  83. Lidar Camera L515 – Intel RealSense Depth and Tracking Cameras

    5 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  84. Henry Finn Built $2M/Year Video Production Company

    5 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  85. Ask HN: HN Holiday Theme

    5 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  86. Ask HN: Good strategies for finding jobs with companies in specific fields?

    5 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  87. How the Immigrant Dream Died in an Automotive Shantytown

    5 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  88. Write Dumb Code – Advice from Four Leading Java Developers

    5 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  89. Dynamic Periodic Table

    5 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  90. Why People Pretend to Talk as Their Pets

    5 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  91. Solutions to the tiny window manager challenge – Julia Evans' Blog

    5 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  92. Thanks for inspiring a generation of pointless gadgets, Keurig

    5 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  93. Choose Your Docker Base Image Wisely

    5 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  94. Golfer Embraces Fan with Down Syndrome Whose Yell Caused Miss on Crucial Shot

    5 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  95. New York's high-rise jails: what could go wrong?

    5 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  96. Show HN: Navattic – A Visual Content Management Platform for Pre-Sales Demos

    5 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  97. Five Card Nancy (1999)

    5 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  98. Ask HN: What personal blogs would you recommend?

    5 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  99. Room to Breathe: My Quest for Clean Indoor Air

    5 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  100. Tesla Proved the Haters Wrong

    5 points • comment • dec 23, 2019