top 10 hacker news stories for 2019-12-08

Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14

https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/verizon-yahoo-bad-form/

6 years ago

1393 upvotes – 405 comments

Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables

https://www.evanjones.ca/ordered-vs-unordered-indexes.html

6 years ago

429 upvotes – 197 comments

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)

https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

6 years ago

422 upvotes – 82 comments

Learning to code vs. learning to automate

https://daedtech.com/dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-automate/

6 years ago

398 upvotes – 181 comments

Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner

6 years ago

★ 82 JavaScript
384 upvotes – 62 comments

GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC

https://github.com/sapir/gcc-rust/tree/rust

6 years ago

★ 203 C GPL-2.0
288 upvotes – 138 comments

Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/a-powerful-statement-of-resistance-from-a-college-student-on-trial-in-moscow

6 years ago

271 upvotes – 93 comments

The Go runtime scheduler's way of dealing with system calls

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoSchedulerAndSyscalls

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 99 comments

Cairo Desktop Environment

https://cairoshell.com/

6 years ago

243 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21738571

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 158 comments
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