top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-01

The world needs more search engines

https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-01/the-world-needs-cliqz-the-world-needs-more-search-engines.html

6 years ago

795 upvotes – 519 comments

Advent of Code 2019

https://adventofcode.com/2019

6 years ago

552 upvotes – 122 comments

HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie

6 years ago

367 upvotes – 89 comments

Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1201003855770607618

6 years ago

340 upvotes – 235 comments

Unbundling AWS

https://www.tclauson.com/2019/09/11/Unbundling-AWS.html

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 175 comments

Help me ask why you didn't just

https://blog.plover.com/tech/why-dont-you.html

6 years ago

315 upvotes – 343 comments

Show HN: We used 890M chess games to make an interactive opening graph

https://www.chessroots.com/

6 years ago

295 upvotes – 38 comments

Downtime is an effortless way to improve your memory (2018)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180208-an-effortless-way-to-strengthen-your-memory

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 63 comments

The next generation of wall chargers

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/1/30/18203879/gan-chargers-anker-powerport-atom-pd-1-ravpower-45w

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 195 comments

How Radar Works

https://www.daniellowengrub.com/blog/2019/10/26/radar

6 years ago

242 upvotes – 58 comments

EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-alphabet-antitrust-exclusive/exclusive-eu-antitrust-regulators-say-they-are-investigating-googles-data-collection-idUSKBN1Y40NX

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 111 comments

Take action to save .org and prosecute those who sold out the internet

https://drewdevault.com/2019/11/29/dotorg.html

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 27 comments

Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (2009)

https://lwn.net/Articles/326505/

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 110 comments

The Difference Between CI and CD

https://fire.ci/blog/the-difference-between-ci-and-cd/

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 58 comments

Doctors are turning to YouTube to fill in gaps in their training

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/24/doctors-are-watching-surgical-procedures-on-youtube.html

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 178 comments

Files Are Hard (2015)

http://danluu.com/file-consistency/

6 years ago

170 upvotes – 50 comments

A Good Year for “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”

https://jeremykun.com/2019/12/01/a-good-year-for-a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics/

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 51 comments

Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips

https://www.wsj.com/articles/huawei-manages-to-make-smartphones-without-american-chips-11575196201?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 198 comments

Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50432080

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 103 comments

I was a drug rep and know how pharma companies pushed opioids

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-was-a-drug-rep-i-know-how-pharma-companies-pushed-opioids/2019/11/25/82b1da88-beb9-11e9-9b73-fd3c65ef8f9c_story.html

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 151 comments
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