The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2019

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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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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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ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval icann.org · watchdogtimer · 16 Dec 2019

728 pts 86 comments

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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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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