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The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2019

We track 1,250 stories from December 2019, averaging 250 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 80 stories. Together they drew 157,394 comments, 126 per story on average.

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My Business Card Runs Linux thirtythreeforty.net · rcarmo · 24 Dec 2019
2.6k pts 397 comments
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Having Kids paulgraham.com · yarapavan · 14 Dec 2019
2k pts 863 comments
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IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax propublica.org · danso · 31 Dec 2019
1.7k pts 448 comments
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Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it sloanreview.mit.edu · sarapeyton · 11 Dec 2019
1.7k pts 453 comments
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Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair uspirg.org · howard941 · 16 Dec 2019
1.5k pts 429 comments
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Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14 modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com · Diagon · 8 Dec 2019
1.4k pts 405 comments
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The Lesson to Unlearn paulgraham.com · adunk · 7 Dec 2019
1.3k pts 565 comments
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This Page is Designed to Last jeffhuang.com · tannhaeuser · 19 Dec 2019
1.3k pts 446 comments
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Fast patrickcollison.com · doppp · 21 Dec 2019
1.3k pts 291 comments
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Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf github.com · daolf · 12 Dec 2019
1.3k pts 143 comments
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Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition samsung.com · aritmo · 28 Dec 2019
1.2k pts 688 comments
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How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer markosaric.com · markosaric · 5 Dec 2019
1.2k pts 539 comments
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Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused twitter.com · gyger · 27 Dec 2019
1.2k pts 461 comments
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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet blog.google · minimaxir · 3 Dec 2019
1.2k pts 587 comments
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JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised twitter.com · matt2000 · 15 Dec 2019
1.2k pts 662 comments
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The Great Cannon has been deployed again cybersecurity.att.com · robbya · 6 Dec 2019
1k pts 431 comments
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PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy telegra.ph · ArcVRArthur · 2 Dec 2019
1k pts 359 comments
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Challenging projects every programmer should try web.eecs.utk.edu · azhenley · 14 Dec 2019
911 pts 297 comments
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Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down vice.com · legatus · 3 Dec 2019
908 pts 257 comments
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Fight back against Google AMP (2018) polemicdigital.com · mancerayder · 4 Dec 2019
895 pts 379 comments
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21
Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams? learnaholic · 5 Dec 2019
882 pts 209 comments
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Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? Anon84 · 28 Dec 2019
873 pts 417 comments
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What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth github.com · PleaseHelpMe · 30 Dec 2019
863 pts 180 comments
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FUSE for macOS is no longer open source colatkinson.site · khc · 11 Dec 2019
840 pts 397 comments
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SQL Murder Mystery mystery.knightlab.com · kickscondor · 16 Dec 2019
823 pts 79 comments
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ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop chrisfenton.com · pmarin · 10 Dec 2019
814 pts 149 comments
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Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud theinformation.com · devhwrng · 17 Dec 2019
807 pts 822 comments
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The world needs more search engines 0x65.dev · kkm · 1 Dec 2019
795 pts 519 comments
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Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore blog.nuclearsecrecy.com · Fej · 13 Dec 2019
787 pts 289 comments
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The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor twitter.com · agwa · 3 Dec 2019
783 pts 221 comments
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Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor mattstoller.substack.com · jashkenas · 5 Dec 2019
781 pts 310 comments
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Apple News No Longer Supports RSS mjtsai.com · newscracker · 27 Dec 2019
781 pts 263 comments
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UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create undraw.co · pixelN · 22 Dec 2019
775 pts 75 comments
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0.30000000000000004 0.30000000000000004.com · beznet · 2 Dec 2019
768 pts 402 comments
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The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation blogs.harvard.edu · metasj · 3 Dec 2019
750 pts 176 comments
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Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize nbcnews.com · danso · 17 Dec 2019
743 pts 715 comments
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Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package github.com · LegitGandalf · 5 Dec 2019
741 pts 114 comments
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard apple.com · _quhg · 18 Dec 2019
740 pts 355 comments
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Google claims copyright on employee side projects twitter.com · zoobab · 18 Dec 2019
738 pts 384 comments
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ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance techcrunch.com · mindgam3 · 11 Dec 2019
730 pts 153 comments
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Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media twitter.com · andreigheorghe · 11 Dec 2019
728 pts 406 comments
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42
ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval icann.org · watchdogtimer · 16 Dec 2019
728 pts 86 comments
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43
Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game ItsFirefly · 22 Dec 2019
716 pts 193 comments
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Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study newatlas.com · howard941 · 11 Dec 2019
708 pts 112 comments
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Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client yeokhengmeng.com · yeokm1 · 19 Dec 2019
705 pts 235 comments
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The Deep Sea neal.fun · thereyougo · 21 Dec 2019
703 pts 96 comments
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Downsides to working at a tech giant blog.garrytan.com · razin · 23 Dec 2019
700 pts 559 comments
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Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates bbc.com · hhs · 12 Dec 2019
690 pts 411 comments
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Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code feeding.cloud.geek.nz · edward · 29 Dec 2019
685 pts 227 comments
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The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug twitter.com · pkilgore · 13 Dec 2019
676 pts 185 comments
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51
Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory? deanstag · 18 Dec 2019
673 pts 239 comments
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Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV techcrunch.com · samaysharma · 17 Dec 2019
660 pts 162 comments
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Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens reuters.com · pseudolus · 23 Dec 2019
659 pts 609 comments
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Django 3 docs.djangoproject.com · cstuder · 2 Dec 2019
657 pts 187 comments
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Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots selfhostedsource.tech · techindex · 5 Dec 2019
656 pts 112 comments
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Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019? ignoramous · 22 Dec 2019
643 pts 85 comments
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Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017) twitter.com · zdw · 19 Dec 2019
639 pts 431 comments
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure statnews.com · KKKKkkkk1 · 30 Dec 2019
633 pts 382 comments
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No to Chrome notochrome.org · dredmorbius · 6 Dec 2019
632 pts 306 comments
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Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video] media.ccc.de · sturza · 30 Dec 2019
626 pts 243 comments
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