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1
Having Kids (paulgraham.com)
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2
Challenging projects every programmer should try (web.eecs.utk.edu)
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A 497 Terabyte Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers (www.reddit.com)
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Stanford CS 144: Introduction to Computer Networking (cs144.github.io)
305 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121615    27 comments 
9
Database Internals (https://databass.dev)
276 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121606    29 comments 
10
Faults in Post Office accounting system led to workers being convicted of theft (www.bbc.co.uk)
276 points first seen 2019121521 last seen 2019121706    101 comments 
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37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl (medium.com)
258 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121600    254 comments 
3
SF wants startups to behave, so why did it reject the ‘nice guy’ of e-scooters? (www.sfchronicle.com)
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10
Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API (www.vinaysahni.com)
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World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Football #1 (twitter.com)
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2
Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped (www.bbc.co.uk)
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4
Cache of Crypto-Jewish Recipes Dating to Inquisition Found in Miami Kitchen (www.timesofisrael.com)
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9
Layout 101 (docs.google.com)
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1
Krabby – A keyboard interface to the web, inspired by Kakoune (https://krabby.netlify.com)
172 points first seen 2019121521 last seen 2019121703    72 comments 
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Returned online purchases often sent to landfill (www.cbc.ca)
171 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121600    150 comments 
8
Books on Thinking About Thinking (www.bloomberg.com)
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The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019 (www.0x65.dev)
152 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121606    21 comments 
6
Coping with Flexbox (kgrz.io)
144 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121606    46 comments 
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Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over (www.wired.com)
143 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121603    288 comments 
9
Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (maplant.com)
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2
WoW streamer hires YouTubers who leeched off his stream to run official channel (kotaku.com)
134 points first seen 2019121521 last seen 2019121703    84 comments 
11
Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video] (spacepub.space)
128 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121603    47 comments 
4
New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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8
Hidden Bar: tiny macOS utility to hide unused menubar icons, written in Swift (github.com)
123 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121621    70 comments 
34
Linux Toolbox (jvns.ca)
121 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121512    15 comments 
9
Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense (www.vox.com)
119 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121606    83 comments 
42
Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019? (item?id=21792158)
119 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121603    62 comments 
14
Show HN: CuteUID – Generate Cute UIDs (github.com)
106 points first seen 2019121515 last seen 2019121606    23 comments 
52
Uniquely Canadian Stock Photography from CIRA (cira.ca)
105 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121509    38 comments 
15
Information Theory with TensorFlow (www.adhiraiyan.org)
104 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121700    9 comments 
20
How Simple Analytics calculates unique visits without cookies or fingerprinting (docs.simpleanalytics.com)
102 points first seen 2019121500 last seen 2019121600    82 comments 
7
Cracking LUKS/dm-crypt passphrases (diverto.github.io)
102 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121603    51 comments 
8
Centaur Unveils Its New Server-Class x86 Core (fuse.wikichip.org)
100 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121603    32 comments 
22
The Cathedral and the Bizarre (marktarver.com)
99 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121615    118 comments 
15
Moving to Germany as an Australian (2016) (blog.alexanderdickson.com)
98 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121606    192 comments 
16
Why we fall for cons (timharford.com)
96 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121600    47 comments 
29
The Money Men Who Enabled Adam Neumann and the WeWork Debacle (www.wsj.com)
93 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121703    67 comments 
4
Rsuite – R development and data science platform (github.com)
91 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121603    105 comments 
7
Google Assistant Can Now Translate Languages on Your Phone (www.wired.com)
84 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121615    51 comments 
11
Neural Renderer and Differentiable Rendering [video] (www.youtube.com)
83 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121618    14 comments 
27
Toyota believes hydrogen fuel cells are the future (autoweek.com)
82 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121603    163 comments 
32
Police Can Use a Legal Gray Area to Rob Anyone of Their Belongings (2016) (www.theatlantic.com)
79 points first seen 2019121515 last seen 2019121606    11 comments 
6
Problematic monetization in security products, Avira edition (palant.de)
79 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121618    9 comments 
13
Byte Magazine: Future Computers (1981) (archive.org)
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San Francisco supervisors opposing bill to increase housing density (www.sfexaminer.com)
72 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121603    48 comments 
9
Dissecting Linux Kernel Code (finnoleary.net)
71 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121603    5 comments 
38
Zhaoxin Unveiled Next-Generation x86 SoC Plans: 32-Core Servers, Sub-7nm Designs (fuse.wikichip.org)
70 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121515    41 comments 
39
An Opinionated Onboarding Setup for New Hires at Microsoft (www.barik.net)
69 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121521    32 comments 
43
Ramen restaurant prevalence is associated with stroke mortality in Japan (nutritionj.biomedcentral.com)
66 points first seen 2019121515 last seen 2019121603    54 comments 
15
Show HN: Url2cite: Transparently convert links to citations in markdown papers (phiresky.github.io)
62 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121600    10 comments 
36
AWS Re:Invent Presentations (aws.amazon.com)
58 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121615    24 comments 
24
Fixing Impostor Syndrome in Coding Interviews (www.interviewcake.com)
55 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121615    42 comments 
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The Four Stages of Objective-Smalltalk (blog.metaobject.com)
48 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121621    2 comments 
56
The Startup Side Project Bubble (2013) (davidhauser.com)
39 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121512    26 comments 
48
How Unix Works (neilkakkar.com)
37 points first seen 2019121515 last seen 2019121615    4 comments 
14
Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World (www.lrb.co.uk)
37 points first seen 2019121521 last seen 2019121609    5 comments 
25
Tradeoffs: The Currency of Decision Making (fs.blog)
32 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121600    0 comments 
26
Sushi Design System (medium.com)
32 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121603    10 comments 
30
What I Learned about Style and Writing from Watching Bruce Lee (philipkiely.com)
30 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121603    2 comments 
43
Saving web pages as PDFs in 2019, a real challenge (www.humaneinterface.net)
29 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121600    17 comments 
19
Global Constraint Catalog – A Dictionary for Constraint Programming (sofdem.github.io)
25 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121606    2 comments 
48
A function to sleep a 1000 years: explained (bowero.nl)
24 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121515    15 comments 
39
Iter - 100+ Go implementation of C++ STL iterators and algorithms (github.com)
22 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121600    2 comments 
52
100% automated, official certificates for Docker containers (ungleich.ch)
21 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121606    2 comments 
49
Crows have learnt how to make a meal of cane toads (2018) (www.australiangeographic.com.au)
20 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121515    5 comments 
69
Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide, 2019 edition (arstechnica.com)
19 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121506    0 comments 
40
Using Matplotlib with Scala on Notebook (and More) (warisradji.com)
17 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121515    5 comments 
33
Product Vision, In Action (www.crowdform.co.uk)
16 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121603    0 comments 
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RocksDB (rocksdb.org)
15 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121518    3 comments 
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The Thermodynamics Behind the Mac Pro (www.popularmechanics.com)
13 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121512    6 comments 
35
Indonesian cave paintings show the dawn of imaginative art and spiritual belief (theconversation.com)
11 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121515    4 comments 
38
Ten Commandments of Startup Success with Reid Hoffman (tim.blog)
11 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121600    0 comments 
55
What Happened to Software Development? (hackernoon.com)
10 points first seen 2019121500 last seen 2021030918    0 comments 
0
Germany requests WhatsApp, Gmail etc. to hand over passwords in plaintext to DOJ (translate.google.de)
10 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121506    0 comments 
69
Two Malicious Python Libraries Caught Stealing SSH and GPG Keys (github.com)
10 points first seen 2019121515 last seen 2019121600    0 comments 
0
Visual Studio Code November 2019 Update (code.visualstudio.com)
9 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121509    2 comments 
0
Beyond Mortality: Older Frail Adults Considering Surgical Intervention (jamanetwork.com)
9 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121512    3 comments 
55
Vintage Chemistry Sets (www.evilmadscientist.com)
9 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121518    0 comments 
0
Neural Renderer and Differentiable Rendering (youtu.be)
8 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121503    0 comments 
77
Remastering Vintage Films with Temporal Source-Reference Attention Networks (medium.com)
8 points first seen 2019121503 last seen 2019121506    0 comments 
0
Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables (engineering.fb.com)
8 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121506    0 comments 
32
Preoperative Patient Frailty and Operative Stress and Postoperative Mortality (jamanetwork.com)
8 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121603    2 comments 
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Low-wage work is pervasive, there aren’t enough “good jobs” to go around (www.brookings.edu)
8 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121600    0 comments 
0
Russia Raids Office of U.S. Web Server Giant in Copyright Clash (www.bloomberg.com)
7 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121518    0 comments 
0
Four compulsive advantages of Industry 4.0 (rootquotient.com)
6 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121506    4 comments 
82
Escape Competition by Being Yourself (medium.com)
6 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121509    0 comments 
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A directory of people all of their best content (waitwho.is)
6 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121509    0 comments 
0
Pg_query: Parse PostgreSQL Queries in Ruby (pganalyze.com)
6 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121506    0 comments 
0
Jeff Dean's NeurIPS interview on how ML is newly used in Google systems (www.wired.com)
6 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121512    0 comments 
0
Lime Scooter Accounts Are Being Sold on the Dark Web (www.vice.com)
6 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121518    0 comments 
0
Zorin OS Is the Alternative to Windows and macOS (zorinos.com)
5 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121509    3 comments 
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Wanted: Virtual reality headsets that aren’t made in China (www.defensenews.com)
5 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121515    0 comments 
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Andrew “Bunnie” Huang – Supply Chain Security: “If I Were a Nation State ” (www.youtube.com)
5 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121518    0 comments 
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Why are people attracted to 50:50 probabilities? (www.economist.com)
5 points first seen 2019121521 last seen 2019121600    0 comments 
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Storage Combinators in Go (github.com)
4 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121506    0 comments 
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In Vivo Sequestration of Innate Small Molecules to Promote Bone Healing (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
4 points first seen 2019121509 last seen 2019121509    0 comments 
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Generate React CLI (hashnode.com)
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Barrett, Rogers consider declassifying secretive space programs (www.defensenews.com)
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A new, more user-friendly language for programming supercomputers (engineering.stanford.edu)
4 points first seen 2019121518 last seen 2019121518    2 comments 
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New Orleans declares state of emergency following cyber attack (www.forbes.com)
3 points first seen 2019121506 last seen 2019121506    0 comments 
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Millennials Are Leaving Religion (fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points first seen 2019121512 last seen 2019121512    0 comments 
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Show HN: Xcode REPL for remote coding interviews (www.bananaide.com)
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