top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-12-19

Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres

7 years ago

1562 upvotes – 417 comments

For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/?preview

7 years ago

814 upvotes – 264 comments

MailChimp deleted my account with no warning

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/12/mailchimp-deleted-my-account-with-no.html

7 years ago

715 upvotes – 253 comments

Windows Sandbox

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Internals/Windows-Sandbox/ba-p/301849?ranMID=43674&ranEAID=je6NUbpObpQ&ranSiteID=je6NUbpObpQ-_UZUOlZ2ZyTOTejYypcnAQ&epi=je6NUbpObpQ-_UZUOlZ2ZyTOTejYypcnAQ&irgwc=1&OCID=AID681541_aff_7795_1243925&tduid=(ir__i0avhykzmgkfrw2i0ckzh9lp2u2xhyajo2v1pvjr00)(7795)(1243925)(je6NUbpObpQ-_UZUOlZ2ZyTOTejYypcnAQ)()&irclickid=_i0avhykzmgkfrw2i0ckzh9lp2u2xhyajo2v1pvjr00

7 years ago

597 upvotes – 319 comments

As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html

7 years ago

499 upvotes – 190 comments

Introducing Project Mu

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/19/%e2%80%afintroducing-project-mu/

7 years ago

465 upvotes – 143 comments

Google Tech Dev Guide

https://techdevguide.withgoogle.com/

7 years ago

428 upvotes – 238 comments

What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills

https://www.vox.com/health-care/2018/12/18/18134825/emergency-room-bills-health-care-costs-america

7 years ago

424 upvotes – 583 comments

Writing copy for landing pages

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/landing-page-copy

7 years ago

416 upvotes – 84 comments

Python gets a new governance model

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/775105/5db16cfe82e78dc3/

7 years ago

414 upvotes – 175 comments

What I learned in ten years of blogging

https://ferrucc.io/posts/starting-a-blog/

7 years ago

356 upvotes – 162 comments

Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/man-sues-feds-after-being-detained-for-refusing-to-unlock-his-phone-at-airport/

7 years ago

339 upvotes – 237 comments

With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/all-out-of-faithbook/

7 years ago

308 upvotes – 153 comments

Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18147616/facebook-user-data-giveaway-nyt-apple-amazon-spotify-netflix

7 years ago

297 upvotes – 81 comments

LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

https://blog.apnic.net/2018/12/18/librerouter-powering-community-networks-with-free-and-open-hardware/

7 years ago

290 upvotes – 86 comments

Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207101

7 years ago

284 upvotes – 191 comments

The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-December/072422.html

7 years ago

258 upvotes – 101 comments

Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels

http://sh-meet.bigpixel.cn/

7 years ago

256 upvotes – 86 comments

K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/k-cup-creator-john-sylvan-regrets-inventing-keurig-coffee-pod-system-1.2982660

7 years ago

243 upvotes – 339 comments

Go Modules in 2019

https://blog.golang.org/modules2019

7 years ago

238 upvotes – 175 comments
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