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December 2019 Archive
151.
Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
421 points by ellinoora on Dec 16, 2019 | 320 comments
152.
Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later (community.pcgamingwiki.com)
419 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 4, 2019 | 181 comments
153.
My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months (medium.com)
419 points by jhow15 on Dec 3, 2019 | 97 comments
154.
Go + Services = One Goliath Project (engineering.khanacademy.org)
418 points by yawn on Dec 21, 2019 | 434 comments
155.
AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab (twitter.com)
415 points by _ps6d on Dec 9, 2019 | 202 comments
156.
You might literally be buying trash on Amazon (wsj.com)
414 points by mudil on Dec 17, 2019 | 429 comments
157.
An opinionated approach to GNU Make (tech.davis-hansson.com)
414 points by DarkCrusader2 on Dec 17, 2019 | 194 comments
158.
How tracking pixels work (jvns.ca)
413 points by dailymorn on Dec 19, 2019 | 142 comments
159.
Operations for Effective CEOs (sametab.com)
413 points by anacleto on Dec 9, 2019 | 67 comments
160.
Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work
411 points by brian_krejcarek on Dec 16, 2019 | 143 comments
161.
49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change (grahamcluley.com)
410 points by pwg on Dec 13, 2019 | 306 comments
162.
Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?
407 points by HAL9OOO on Dec 23, 2019 | 141 comments
163.
Things end users care about but programmers don't (instadeq.com)
406 points by marianoguerra on Dec 9, 2019 | 245 comments
164.
#include </etc/shadow> (blog.hboeck.de)
406 points by goranmoomin on Dec 17, 2019 | 121 comments
165.
Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline (github.com)
406 points by archivist1 on Dec 22, 2019 | 97 comments
166.
Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console (craigjb.com)
406 points by craigjb on Dec 24, 2019 | 50 comments
167.
An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry (nytimes.com)
405 points by danso on Dec 19, 2019 | 116 comments
168.
Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf] (github.com)
403 points by furcyd on Dec 24, 2019 | 129 comments
169.
Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust (blog.anp.lol)
400 points by anp on Dec 2, 2019 | 190 comments
170.
A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server (twitter.com)
398 points by Impossible on Dec 29, 2019 | 362 comments
171.
Learning to code vs. learning to automate (daedtech.com)
398 points by sharacane on Dec 8, 2019 | 181 comments
172.
WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets (github.com)
396 points by throwaway_shame on Dec 23, 2019 | 185 comments
173.
Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust (github.com)
396 points by adamnemecek on Dec 11, 2019 | 74 comments
174.
If this project is dead, just tell us (github.com)
395 points by omni on Dec 13, 2019 | 313 comments
175.
Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack (breakoutstartups.substack.com)
395 points by ankitkumar98 on Dec 17, 2019 | 241 comments
176.
How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers (dylanpaulus.com)
395 points by ganderzz on Dec 3, 2019 | 233 comments
177.
Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case (arstechnica.com)
390 points by AndrewDucker on Dec 18, 2019 | 131 comments
178.
The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity (augustl.com)
388 points by keyP on Dec 18, 2019 | 179 comments
179.
U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices (reuters.com)
386 points by swat535 on Dec 21, 2019 | 161 comments
180.
Show HN: Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper (eschersket.ch)
386 points by alevskaya on Dec 26, 2019 | 27 comments