1393
405
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
429
197
Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
https://www.evanjones.ca/ordered-vs-unordered-indexes.html
422
82
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
398
181
Learning to code vs. learning to automate
https://daedtech.com/dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-automate/
384
62
Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups
https://github.com/davidferguson/yahoogroups-joiner
288
138
GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC
https://github.com/sapir/gcc-rust/tree/rust
271
93
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
255
99
The Go runtime scheduler's way of dealing with system calls
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoSchedulerAndSyscalls
243
88
Cairo Desktop Environment
https://cairoshell.com/
238
158
Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21738571
237
103
Far Cry
http://ceasarbautista.com/essays/far_cry.html
204
SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don’t disrupt astronomy
https://spacenews.com/spacex-working-on-fix-for-starlink-satellites-so-they-dont-disrupt-astronomy/
198
126
Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy
https://beepb00p.xyz/mypy-error-handling.html
194
86
Quadratic Payments: A Primer
https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/12/07/quadratic.html
190
56
An example of exploiting two fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox on Windows
https://github.com/0vercl0k/CVE-2019-11708
184
Man Loses Home After Failing to Pay $8.41 in Property Taxes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2019/12/06/man-loses-home-after-failing-to-pay-841-in-property-taxes/#9abe2d32a207
90
How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (2017)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article186889938.html
165
106
Climate change and nutrient pollution are depleting oxygen from oceans: study
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50690995
162
107
Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21738331
46
Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime
https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2019/12/06/ecocide-international-criminal-court-vanuatu/
153
29
Caroll Spinney has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/obituaries/caroll-spinney-dead.html
147
70
Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures
http://seriss.com/people/erco/fovicks/
146
123
How to write better game libraries
https://handmade.network/wiki/7138-how_to_write_better_game_libraries
145
Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737529
143
20
Developing a Statically Typed Programming Language (2017)
https://blog.mgechev.com/2017/08/05/typed-lambda-calculus-create-type-checker-transpiler-compiler-javascript/
142
California is about to allow former felons to serve on juries
https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/11/california-former-felons-becoming-jurors-new-2020-law/
141
75
Epsilon: The JDK’s Do-Nothing Garbage Collector
https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/epsilon-the-jdks-do-nothing-garbage-collector
137
101
Using Makefile(s) for Go
https://danishpraka.sh/2019/12/07/using-makefiles-for-go.html
127
31
The curious case of Croatian wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-08-30/Opinion
125
58
Using machine learning to choose compression algorithms
https://vks.ai/2019-12-05-shrynk-using-machine-learning-to-learn-how-to-compress
121
16
Héctor Garcia-Molina, 1953–2019
https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/hctor-garcia-molina-1953-2019/
119
113
Larry and Sergey: A Valediction
http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8661
134
A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millions of Borrowers
https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/20191208772/a-7-credit-limit-jack-mas-ant-lures-hundreds-of-millions-of-borrowers
61
Hospital superbugs are evolving to survive hand sanitizers (2018)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/hospital-superbugs-are-evolving-to-survive-hand-sanitizers/
109
33
Smalltalk with the GraalVM
https://www.javaadvent.com/2019/12/smalltalk-with-the-graalvm.html
108
After a bone marrow transplant, a man has two sets of DNA
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/dna-bone-marrow-transplant-crime-lab.html
Steve Jobs: Out for Revenge (1989)
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/06/magazine/steve-jobs-out-for-revenge.html
19
Satellites Show New Internment Camps in Tibet
https://unpo.org/article/21403
97
12
How TiKV reads and writes
https://tikv.org/blog/how-tikv-reads-writes/
95
28
Show HN: Yazz Pilot – Self Service Apps Without the IT Department
https://github.com/zubairq/pilot
94
34
Gurgel Itaipu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurgel_Itaipu
92
18
Ask HN: What are the best computing-related videos you've watched recently?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737922
85
42
Lisp Programming in Vim with Slimv or Vlime
https://susam.in/blog/lisp-in-vim-with-slimv-or-vlime/
80
Getting Pagination Wrong (2016)
https://blog.jooq.org/2016/08/10/why-most-programmers-get-pagination-wrong/
27
How to Show Available WiFi Networks on Linux from the Command Line
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/11/how-to-show-available-wifi-networks.html
76
14
The Czochralski method for growing single-crystal semiconductors
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-history/modern-civilization-relies-on-this-crystalgrowing-method
35
Show HN: Microfronts – Front-end solution for running multiple frameworks as one
https://github.com/eavichay/microfronts
74
26
Show HN: Notably – a simple tool for sharing markdown notes
https://notably.cc/#/?v=1
Someone found a way to bypass Windows 7 Extended Security Updates checks
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/12/07/someone-found-a-way-to-bypass-windows-7-extended-security-updates-checks/
72
73
A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2019/11/07/a-tale-of-two-covariates-why-owid-and-company-are-wrong-about-us-healthcare/
71
Finala: A cloud scanner that analyzes wasteful and unused resources
https://github.com/similarweb/finala
After a bone marrow transplant, a man has two sets of DNA
