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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source analytics for WordPress

    180 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  2. Boeing Weighs Cutting or Halting 737 Max Production

    180 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  3. Car-Free Streets Will Soon Be the Norm

    180 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  4. So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014)

    179 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  5. Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices

    179 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  6. How to Be a Statistical Detective

    179 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  7. The soul of a new computer company

    179 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  8. “Breathability” Comparison of Commercial Outerwear Shell Layers (2018) [pdf]

    179 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  9. Business Models

    178 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  10. How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (2017)

    178 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  11. Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines

    178 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  12. How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster

    178 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  13. The Siege of Carrie Lam

    177 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  14. Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Is Leaving the Company’s Board of Directors

    177 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  15. The next professional network will not look like LinkedIn

    177 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  16. Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018)

    177 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  17. U.S. government removes detailed pollution map from internet

    177 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  18. A Better Qt Because of Open Source and KDE

    177 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  19. Structuring Your Project

    177 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  20. India builds detention camps for up to 1.9m people not on citizens register

    176 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  21. Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info

    176 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  22. NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars

    176 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  23. The Road to Scala 3

    175 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  24. Python Type Hints

    175 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  25. Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)

    174 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  26. Kill Sticky Headers (2013)

    174 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  27. BBC Sound Effects

    174 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  28. Bushfires in Australia so big they generate pyrocumulonimbus starting more fires

    173 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  29. Killersheep – Silly game to show off the new features of Vim 8.2

    173 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  30. CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping

    173 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  31. Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D

    173 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  32. Must and Must Not: On writing documentation

    173 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  33. Returned online purchases often sent to landfill

    172 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  34. Ember.js Octane Edition

    172 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  35. 'Shockingly High' Number of Injuries at Amazon's Staten Island Warehouse

    172 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  36. Show HN: Krabby – A keyboard interface to the web, inspired by Kakoune

    172 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  37. Functional programming design patterns (2015) [video]

    171 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  38. Ask HN: Ex-Employer gossiping I “hacked” their platform – what to do?

    171 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  39. Java's URL.equals() Performs DNS Resolution

    171 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  40. Jeff Dean interview: Machine learning trends in 2020

    171 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  41. The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse

    171 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  42. Boeing astronaut capsule for NASA stalls in orbit

    171 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  43. Twitter to decentralize something

    171 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  44. Tract: A Hugo theme for ambitious documentation projects

    170 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  45. An industrious mouse tidies up a retired electrician’s tool shed each night

    169 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  46. 267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online

    169 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  47. The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID

    169 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  48. Man Loses Home After Failing to Pay $8.41 in Property Taxes

    169 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  49. On Linux's Random Number Generation

    169 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  50. Datamining Bandersnatch

    169 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  51. Apple has a secret team working on internet satellites

    169 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  52. A new way to make quadratic equations easy

    168 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  53. A hiring test I'd like to run

    168 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  54. We need to adopt a no-commute culture

    168 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  55. Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552

    168 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  56. A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines

    168 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  57. Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Processes

    167 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  58. Write Junior Code

    167 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  59. The Principles of Versioning in Go

    167 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  60. Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater

    166 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  61. Linux 3.8 introduced unprivileged user namespaces [pdf]

    166 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  62. Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD

    166 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  63. Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow

    166 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  64. A New Search Engine

    166 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  65. Too Much Crypto [pdf]

    166 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  66. The Pineapple Fund donated $55M in nonprofit Bitcoin grants

    165 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  67. Global Wave of Debt Is Largest, Fastest in 50 Years

    165 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  68. Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in Insider Trading Ring

    165 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  69. “Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers

    165 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  70. Man sentenced to prison after assault of domain name owner who refused to sell

    165 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  71. Changes to accessing and using Geolite2 databases

    165 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  72. New disclosures to our archive of state-backed information operations

    165 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  73. Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized

    164 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  74. Files Are Hard (2015)

    164 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  75. Thieves Are Using Bluetooth to Target Vehicle Break-Ins

    164 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  76. U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling barring prosecution for sleeping in public

    164 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  77. SuperShuttle is going out of business

    164 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  78. Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook

    163 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  79. Incident: Wizz Air and Air Europa Planes in Near Collision over Spain

    163 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  80. Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel

    162 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  81. What were the creepiest declassified documents of the last decade?

    162 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  82. Software Library: MS-DOS Games

    162 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  83. Sand Theft

    162 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  84. How a preventable disaster killed six marines

    162 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  85. Ask HN: Best ways to volunteer?

    162 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  86. Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF (2018)

    162 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  87. Books on Thinking About Thinking

    161 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  88. How to Make Python Wait

    161 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  89. A Good Year for “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”

    160 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  90. Climate change and nutrient pollution are depleting oxygen from oceans: study

    160 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  91. How to Make Remote a Success

    159 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  92. Lisp Macros by Example

    158 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  93. Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029

    158 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  94. Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

    158 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  95. Visualising the amount of microplastic we eat

    158 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  96. ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race

    158 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  97. How Smartphones Betray Democracy

    158 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  98. Conclusions from analyzing Y Combinator’s investing history

    158 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  99. Bazel 2.0

    158 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  100. What the World Can Learn from Hongkong [video]

    157 points • comment • dec 29, 2019