top 50% 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

Advent of Code 2019

https://adventofcode.com/2019

6 years ago

HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie

6 years ago

★ 38k Python BSD-3-Clause

Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage

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

6 years ago

Unbundling AWS

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

6 years ago

Help me ask why you didn't just

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

6 years ago

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

https://www.chessroots.com/

6 years ago

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

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

How Radar Works

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

6 years ago

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

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

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

6 years ago

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

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

6 years ago

The Difference Between CI and CD

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

6 years ago

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

Files Are Hard (2015)

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

6 years ago

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

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

Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views

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

6 years ago

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

Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (1973) [pdf]

https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/49/569/203.full.pdf

6 years ago

Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat (2017)

https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-identify-a-metal-that-conducts-electricity-but-not-heat

6 years ago

Getting a scientific prize for open-source software

http://gael-varoquaux.info/programming/getting-a-big-scientific-prize-for-open-source-software.html

6 years ago

LibrePCB 0.1.3 released, now with DRC

https://librepcb.org/blog/2019-11-30_release_0.1.3/

6 years ago

Tree-sitter: new incremental parsing system for programming tools (2018) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jes3bD6P0To

6 years ago

Shakti, the new data platform from Arthur Whitney

https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/3002752/shakti-arthur-whitney

6 years ago

The Cornell Note-taking System (2001)

http://lsc.cornell.edu/notes.html

6 years ago

Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kali-linux-adds-undercover-mode-to-impersonate-windows-10/

6 years ago

A Computability Proof of Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/a-computability-proof-of-g%C3%B6dels-first-incompleteness-theorem-2d685899117c

6 years ago

Farmers Are Using Food Waste to Make Electricity

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/11/30/783001327/chew-on-this-farmers-are-using-food-waste-to-make-electricity

6 years ago

Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/02/26/cybersyn-and-allendes-semi-automated-luxury-socialism/

6 years ago

Corporate Spies Are Watching Organized Labor

https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-spies-are-watching-organized-labor/

6 years ago

Farmers rushed into hemp, but now face a glut

https://www.wsj.com/articles/farmers-rushed-into-hemp-now-they-face-a-glut-11575118801?mod=rsswn

6 years ago

The rise of solar is ‘jeopardising the grid’ and it's a lesson for Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-01/rise-of-rooftop-solar-power-jeopardising-wa-energy-grid/11731452

6 years ago

Inca Road System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_road_system

6 years ago

Yocto: Tools for building a custom embedded Linux distribution

https://www.yoctoproject.org/

6 years ago

Understanding What It's Like to Program in Forth (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/33.html

6 years ago

Neovim Configuration and Plugins in Fennel Lisp

https://oli.me.uk/neovim-configuration-and-plugins-in-fennel-lisp/

6 years ago