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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views

    157 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

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

    157 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  3. United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze

    156 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  4. Pointer Authentication

    156 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  5. Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime

    156 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  6. Rustysd – A minimal drop-in for a subset of systemd in Rust

    156 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  7. An art dealer disappeared with $50M. 17 years later a documentary crew found him

    155 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  8. The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019

    155 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  9. Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks

    155 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  10. Roguelike Tutorial: Up-to-Date and Literate

    155 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  11. Rob Pike on good commit messages (2014)

    155 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  12. Offering software for snooping to governments is a booming business

    155 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  13. Show HN: Linux driver for the Xbox One wireless dongle

    154 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  14. The Science of Wi-Fi on Airplanes

    154 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  15. Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems

    154 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  16. The Two Kinds of Moderate

    154 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  17. Machine Learning Reproducibility Checklist [pdf]

    153 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  18. Student Loans a Lot Like the Subprime Mortgage Debacle, Watchdog Says

    153 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  19. I was a drug rep and know how pharma companies pushed opioids

    153 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  20. Polytope Model

    153 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  21. Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/await and tokio channels

    153 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  22. Use GitHub actions at your own risk

    153 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  23. PGP Encrypted ProtonCalendar from ProtonMail

    152 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  24. Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips

    152 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  25. Technology Preview for secure value recovery

    152 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  26. Google forbids login with niche Linux browsers

    152 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  27. Thoughts On a Year of Exercise

    152 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  28. AirPods Are Becoming a Platform?

    152 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  29. Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop

    152 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  30. IBM Stops Server Side Swift Framework Development

    152 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  31. Efficient cache for gigabytes of data written in Go

    151 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  32. C-for-all: Extending C with modern safety and productivity features

    151 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  33. Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (1983)

    151 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  34. Discontinued Microsoft Products

    151 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  35. Show HN: How to analyse 100 GB of data on your laptop with Python

    151 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  36. Caroll Spinney has died

    151 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  37. Uncover, Understand, Own – Regaining Control over Your AMD CPU [video]

    151 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  38. German expressions that don’t exist in English

    151 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  39. Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction

    150 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  40. Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The CIVICUS Monitor

    150 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  41. A Personal API

    150 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  42. China Is About to Fire Up Its HL-2M Tokamak

    150 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  43. The Value of Grey Thinking (2016)

    149 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  44. Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B

    149 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  45. User Agent Changes

    149 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  46. Show HN: Bash-My-AWS – CLI Commands for AWS

    149 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  47. Thoughts on Forth Programming

    149 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  48. Get PostgreSQL Database Structure as a Detailed JavaScript Object

    149 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  49. Homemade GPS Receiver (2011)

    149 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  50. Lenia – Mathematical Life Forms

    149 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  51. Neural Network

    149 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  52. AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions

    148 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  53. Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code

    148 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  54. Making Games with Kotlin

    148 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  55. Stuff I Learnt in 2019

    148 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  56. “Don’t Try”: The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski

    148 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  57. Multics: An Ancestor of Unix

    148 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  58. Kurt Gödel and the Mechanization of Mathematics

    148 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  59. Amazon Dodges Responsibility for Unsafe Products

    148 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  60. If the universe is 13.8B years old, how can we see 46B light years away? (2018)

    147 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  61. Tell HN: 500 unread mails, 2K unread articles, 5K unread posts – I am drowning

    147 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  62. The Inquirer reaches end-of-life

    147 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  63. McDonald's holds communities together (2016)

    147 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  64. Americans are retiring to Vietnam

    147 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  65. Proxmox VE 6.1 – Open-Source virtualization platform

    147 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  66. Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take

    147 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  67. Selling Juicer

    147 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  68. About Bokeh

    147 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  69. Spain planning on going ahead with ‘Google tax’ despite US tariff threats

    147 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  70. Paean to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (2016)

    147 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  71. Electric Cars Threaten the Heart of Germany’s Economy

    147 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  72. Wisdom (albatross)

    146 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  73. Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures

    146 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  74. Categories of deep recommendation systems

    146 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  75. Mitigating a DDoS on Mastodon

    145 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  76. LocalStorage or WebSQL unexpectedly cleared

    145 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  77. Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (1973) [pdf]

    145 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  78. Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find

    145 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  79. Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk

    145 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  80. Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over

    145 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  81. Show HN: Learn When to Quit

    145 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  82. Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?

    145 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  83. To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down

    145 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  84. Coping with Flexbox

    145 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  85. Odyssey: Scalable PostgreSQL Connection Pooler

    144 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  86. Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?

    144 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  87. Apple’s Activation Lock Will Make It Difficult to Refurbish Macs

    144 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  88. Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020

    144 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  89. Video: A Language for Making Movies

    144 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  90. No, that dot in the domain name of the URL is not a mistake (2004)

    143 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  91. Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped

    143 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  92. ABCL – Common Lisp on the JVM

    143 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  93. NextDNS Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver

    143 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  94. PracticalAI 2.0: A New Platform to Learn ML Using Python, Keras and Tensorflow

    142 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  95. NeurIPS 2019 Notes [pdf]

    142 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  96. Warrantless encryption is a first amendment issue

    142 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  97. "I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat."

    142 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  98. How Microbiomes Affect Fear

    142 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  99. The battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age

    142 points • comment • dec 31, 2019

  100. What I've learned sending proposals to conferences

    142 points • comment • dec 24, 2019