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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.0

    205 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  2. MIT lecture series on deep learning in January 2020

    205 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  3. Arcade Game Typography

    205 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  4. Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

    205 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  5. Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality

    205 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  6. Preventing Tracking Prevention Tracking

    204 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  7. Four fired workers file charges against Google

    204 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  8. Click Here to Kill

    204 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  9. Hyperscan: High-performance multiple regex matching library from Intel

    204 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  10. Experiments in Constraint-Based Graphic Design

    203 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  11. Some things every C programmer should know about C (2002)

    203 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  12. UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

    203 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  13. Informer: A bot library that allows masquerading as real users on Telegram

    203 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  14. Million WebSockets and Go (2017)

    202 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  15. The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

    202 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  16. Ohio gas well blowout leaked more than many countries do in a year

    201 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  17. Paul Volcker has died

    200 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  18. Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log?

    200 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  19. What's new in Java 12, 13 and 14

    200 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  20. Bloomberg just bought CityLab and put half its reporters out of a job

    200 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  21. The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919)

    200 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  22. SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don’t disrupt astronomy

    199 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  23. Yoga Effects on Brain Health: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature

    199 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  24. Basics of Compiler Design (2000) [pdf]

    199 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  25. Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?

    198 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  26. World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1

    198 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  27. Launch HN: Buy Me a Coffee (YC W19) – Give your audience a way to thank you

    197 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  28. Born in a Garage

    197 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  29. Why introductory chemistry is boring: a long-term historical perspective

    197 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  30. Meet Dash O’Pepper

    196 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  31. Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year

    196 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  32. I spent way too much effort to win a game show on Dutch national TV

    196 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  33. The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale

    196 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  34. Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement

    195 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  35. Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video]

    195 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  36. Firefox 71

    195 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  37. How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games

    195 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  38. Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped

    194 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  39. Computational photography from selfies to black holes

    194 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  40. Google under investigation for ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings, discouraging unions

    193 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  41. How a Chinese Company Built a $250M Search Hijacking Empire

    193 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  42. Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service

    193 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  43. A Tesla Valve

    192 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  44. Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

    192 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  45. Windows 10 Desktop: Physically building and photographing the logos (2015)

    192 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  46. Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy

    192 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  47. Take action to save .org and prosecute those who sold out the internet

    192 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  48. A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users

    192 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  49. Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (2009)

    192 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  50. Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example

    192 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  51. Amazon is now delivering half its own packages, rivaling FedEx and UPS

    191 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  52. Reject Google Nest or Amazon Ring Corp Surveillance and a Dystopic Future

    191 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  53. Quadratic Payments: A Primer

    190 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  54. The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999)

    190 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  55. We 30x'd our Node parallelism

    190 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  56. Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen

    190 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  57. Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night

    190 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  58. New Features in ES2019

    189 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  59. Why Child Care Is So Expensive

    189 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  60. Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP

    189 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  61. Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

    189 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  62. Taking ML to production with Rust

    189 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  63. An example of exploiting two fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox on Windows

    188 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  64. A walk through the Magit interface

    188 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  65. I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)

    188 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  66. Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission

    188 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  67. Layout 101

    187 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  68. The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming

    187 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  69. Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse

    187 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  70. Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments

    187 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  71. Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors

    187 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  72. Show HN: I'm building a robot that performs haircuts [video]

    186 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  73. Show HN: A guitar tab viewer that listens

    186 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  74. New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person

    185 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  75. Ask HN: How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?

    185 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  76. Git from the Inside Out (2015)

    185 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  77. Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering [pdf]

    185 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  78. Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C

    185 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  79. Game Boy Advance “Hello World” Using Zig

    185 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  80. Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky

    184 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  81. The Eternal Novice Trap

    184 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  82. Doctors are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training

    184 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  83. E-scooter company goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads

    184 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  84. How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll

    184 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  85. What's Next for R?

    184 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  86. A cool way to explain logic gates with water [video]

    183 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  87. Breast cancer detection in mammography using deep learning approach

    183 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  88. My Experience as a Remote Worker

    183 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  89. Navy’s flawed technology set the USS John McCain up for disaster

    182 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  90. The man who made Wolfenstein

    182 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  91. Ask HN: What is your financial “setup”?

    182 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  92. What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%?

    182 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  93. Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate

    182 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  94. SoftRAM 95 (1996)

    182 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  95. Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet

    181 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  96. When an SQL Database Makes a Great Pub/Sub

    181 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  97. Libcamera – A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS

    181 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  98. Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics

    181 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  99. The Difference Between CI and CD

    181 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  100. Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm

    180 points • comment • dec 11, 2019