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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. The Afsluitdijk

    237 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

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

    237 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  3. Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly

    236 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  4. Open Hardware on Its Own Doesn’t Solve the Trust Problem

    236 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  5. Chinese telecoms must use "AI and other technical means" to identify phone users

    236 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  6. How to rewrite it in Rust

    236 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  7. First all-electric seaplane takes flight in B.C.

    236 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  8. “I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”

    235 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  9. How Radar Works

    235 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  10. Scientists Likely Found Way to Grow New Teeth for Patients

    235 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  11. The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat [pdf]

    234 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  12. FTC rules 5-0 that Cambridge Analytica engaged in deceptive practices [pdf]

    234 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  13. Paid Cerberus 'lifetime' licenses are expiring

    233 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  14. German BSI withholds Truecrypt security report

    232 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  15. Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming

    232 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  16. Transputer

    232 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  17. BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar

    231 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  18. A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments

    231 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  19. Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mandarin Pronunciation

    230 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  20. If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used for Ads

    230 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  21. Who Was the Buddha?

    230 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  22. Far Cry

    230 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  23. CDC Confirms a THC Additive, Vitamin E Acetate, Is Culprit in Most Vaping Deaths

    229 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  24. Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS

    229 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  25. Shopping Sucks Now

    228 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  26. Key practices for achieving large professional goals

    228 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  27. Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs

    227 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  28. Show HN: CoreUI Icons – open-source icons with marks in SVG, Webfont and raster

    226 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  29. Judge dismisses Wikimedia case against NSA over Upstream surveillance

    226 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  30. Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen

    226 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  31. Browser-based climate change simulation

    226 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  32. Consumers who sought cash settlement from Equifax probably won't get full $125

    225 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  33. My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup Got Acquired

    225 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  34. Things everyone in ML should know about belief formation in humans [video]

    224 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  35. Apprenticeships Beat Classrooms

    224 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  36. Booking.com agrees to EU demands to change travel offers

    224 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  37. Learn Rust the Dangerous Way

    223 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  38. Facebook fired an employee who was paid bribes to reactivate banned ad accounts

    223 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  39. Many Japanese children refuse to go to school

    222 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  40. Immortal Game

    222 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  41. Machine Learning Crash Course

    222 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  42. A Guide to Distributed Teams

    221 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  43. A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Stories (2018)

    221 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  44. Game Critic Uses Workaround for YouTube's Copyright System (2016)

    221 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  45. China's ambassador threatened Faroese prime minister to sign Huawei 5G deal

    221 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  46. Coolest Things I Learned in 2019

    220 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  47. Still Why No HTTPS?

    220 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  48. Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books

    219 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  49. Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API

    219 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  50. Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback

    218 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  51. Reducing the Performance Gap of Intel's MKL on AMD Threadripper

    218 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  52. Using Clojure for Web Apps

    218 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  53. Crafting Interpreters: Classes and Instances

    218 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  54. Show HN: Version Control for Databases

    218 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  55. What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?

    217 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  56. I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams

    217 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  57. Introduction to Web Development (2018)

    217 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  58. Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared

    217 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  59. Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software

    216 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  60. Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground

    216 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  61. KafkaHQ

    215 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  62. Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America

    215 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  63. Learning from OpenBSD can make computers marginally less horrible

    215 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  64. Ffmpeg-Python: Python bindings for FFmpeg – with complex filtering support

    214 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  65. We Just Got a Rare Look at US National Security Surveillance

    214 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  66. The “security.txt” proposal reached last step in the IETF process

    214 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  67. Pedestrian routing that offers pleasant alternatives to the shortest route

    214 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  68. FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes

    214 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  69. FreeDB Is Shutting Down

    213 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  70. The Feds Get Permission to Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits

    213 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  71. Protobuffers Are Wrong

    213 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  72. Craigslist releases new mobile app for iOS and Android

    213 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  73. Eller’s Algorithm (2012)

    212 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  74. Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet experiment

    212 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  75. Guerilla Gardening (2015)

    212 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  76. How to play with people who are better than you

    212 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  77. A Failed SaaS Postmortem

    212 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  78. Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown

    212 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  79. Pedestrian fatally crushed between two parked cars after one started remotely

    212 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  80. Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

    211 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  81. Tell HN: Merry Christmas

    211 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  82. Google bans niche browsers from Gmail?

    210 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  83. Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer’s proves safe in early human trial

    210 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  84. Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List

    210 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  85. Post-Mortem for Bra Theory

    210 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  86. A Breakthrough in Graph Theory [video]

    210 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  87. Amateur Radio

    209 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  88. EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection

    209 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  89. The Air Force of the Knights Hospitaller

    209 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  90. Bill Atkinson: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple

    208 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  91. Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video]

    208 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  92. Busyness leads to bad decisions

    207 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  93. Giving every IPv6 address a name

    207 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  94. The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed

    207 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  95. Radeon Open Compute 3.0

    207 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  96. File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: 10 years of Ceph

    206 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  97. You Suck at Excel (2015) [video]

    206 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  98. Tips I use to avoid burnout

    206 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  99. Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials

    206 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  100. MIT lecture series on deep learning in January 2020

    205 points • comment • dec 26, 2019