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December 2019 Archive
31.
Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor (mattstoller.substack.com)
781 points by jashkenas on Dec 5, 2019 | 310 comments
32.
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS (mjtsai.com)
781 points by newscracker on Dec 27, 2019 | 263 comments
33.
UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create (undraw.co)
775 points by pixelN on Dec 22, 2019 | 75 comments
34.
0.30000000000000004 (0.30000000000000004.com)
768 points by beznet on Dec 2, 2019 | 402 comments
35.
The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation (blogs.harvard.edu)
750 points by metasj on Dec 3, 2019 | 176 comments
36.
Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize (nbcnews.com)
743 points by danso on Dec 17, 2019 | 715 comments
37.
Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package (github.com)
741 points by LegitGandalf on Dec 5, 2019 | 114 comments
38.
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard (apple.com)
740 points by _quhg on Dec 18, 2019 | 355 comments
39.
Google claims copyright on employee side projects (twitter.com)
738 points by zoobab on Dec 18, 2019 | 384 comments
40.
ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance (techcrunch.com)
730 points by mindgam3 on Dec 11, 2019 | 153 comments
41.
Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media (twitter.com)
728 points by andreigheorghe on Dec 11, 2019 | 406 comments
42.
ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval (icann.org)
728 points by watchdogtimer on Dec 16, 2019 | 86 comments
43.
Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game
716 points by ItsFirefly on Dec 22, 2019 | 193 comments
44.
Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study (newatlas.com)
708 points by howard941 on Dec 11, 2019 | 112 comments
45.
Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client (yeokhengmeng.com)
705 points by yeokm1 on Dec 19, 2019 | 235 comments
46.
The Deep Sea (neal.fun)
703 points by thereyougo on Dec 21, 2019 | 96 comments
47.
Downsides to working at a tech giant (blog.garrytan.com)
700 points by razin on Dec 23, 2019 | 559 comments
48.
Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates (bbc.com)
690 points by hhs on Dec 12, 2019 | 411 comments
49.
Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code (feeding.cloud.geek.nz)
685 points by edward on Dec 29, 2019 | 227 comments
50.
The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug (twitter.com)
676 points by pkilgore on Dec 13, 2019 | 185 comments
51.
Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?
673 points by deanstag on Dec 18, 2019 | 239 comments
52.
Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV (techcrunch.com)
660 points by samaysharma on Dec 17, 2019 | 162 comments
53.
Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens (reuters.com)
659 points by pseudolus on Dec 23, 2019 | 609 comments
54.
Django 3 (docs.djangoproject.com)
657 points by cstuder on Dec 2, 2019 | 187 comments
55.
Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots (selfhostedsource.tech)
656 points by techindex on Dec 5, 2019 | 112 comments
56.
Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?
643 points by ignoramous on Dec 22, 2019 | 85 comments
57.
Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017) (twitter.com)
639 points by zdw on Dec 19, 2019 | 431 comments
58.
How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (statnews.com)
633 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Dec 30, 2019 | 382 comments
59.
No to Chrome (notochrome.org)
632 points by dredmorbius on Dec 6, 2019 | 306 comments
60.
Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video] (media.ccc.de)
626 points by sturza on Dec 30, 2019 | 243 comments