top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-03

Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

https://blog.google/inside-google/alphabet/letter-from-larry-and-sergey

6 years ago

1204 upvotes – 587 comments

Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down

6 years ago

908 upvotes – 257 comments

The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

https://twitter.com/jedisct1/status/1201927500223438854

6 years ago

783 upvotes – 221 comments

BPF: A New Type of Software

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-of-software.html

6 years ago

603 upvotes – 185 comments

Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source

https://metaflow.org

6 years ago

517 upvotes – 114 comments

A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016)

https://unicodepowersymbol.com/we-did-it-how-a-comment-on-hackernews-lead-to-4-%c2%bd-new-unicode-characters/

6 years ago

488 upvotes – 186 comments

Amazon CodeGuru – Preview

https://aws.amazon.com/codeguru/

6 years ago

429 upvotes – 203 comments

My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months

https://medium.com/@joshahowarth/how-my-show-hn-project-got-acquired-after-6-months-954f81ca6a18

6 years ago

419 upvotes – 97 comments

We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring

http://blog.interviewing.io/we-ran-the-numbers-and-there-really-is-a-pipeline-problem-in-eng-hiring/

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 638 comments

The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/3/20992885/best-amazon-cyber-monday-deals-alexa-private-label-brands

6 years ago

287 upvotes – 195 comments

Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691802

6 years ago

260 upvotes – 248 comments

Big Pile of Vim-Like

https://vim.reversed.top/

6 years ago

250 upvotes – 129 comments

FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-health-fda-talc/

6 years ago

249 upvotes – 129 comments

Firefox Full-device VPN

https://private-network.firefox.com/vpn

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 115 comments

A Guide to Distributed Teams

https://increment.com/teams/a-guide-to-distributed-teams/

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 24 comments

FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7746531/FBI-warns-citizens-connected-televisions-provide-hackers-window-homes.html

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 273 comments

How to play with people who are better than you

https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/Xc6GEBEAACgABJG_

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 184 comments

Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/11/28/economists-are-rethinking-the-numbers-on-inequality

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 352 comments

Four fired workers file charges against Google

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/03/google-is-no-longer-listening-four-fired-workers-file-charges-against-tech-giant

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 270 comments

Firefox 71

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/12/firefox-71-a-winter-arrival/

6 years ago

211 upvotes – 65 comments
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