top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-12

Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

6 years ago

★ 49.2k Ruby MIT
1303 upvotes – 143 comments

Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191211-crows-could-be-the-smartest-animal-other-than-primates

6 years ago

690 upvotes – 411 comments

Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim

https://twitter.com/AntNesterov/status/1205086129504104460

6 years ago

586 upvotes – 217 comments

Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/11/google-gives-feds-1500-leads-to-arsonist-smartphones-in-unprecedented-geofence-search/#7e36570827dc

6 years ago

502 upvotes – 269 comments

Switch to OpenStreetMap

https://switch2osm.org/

6 years ago

500 upvotes – 203 comments

Music for Programming (2011)

http://musicforprogramming.net/

6 years ago

427 upvotes – 261 comments

Thinking in React Hooks

https://wattenberger.com/blog/react-hooks

6 years ago

351 upvotes – 179 comments

We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)

http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/

6 years ago

351 upvotes – 404 comments

A podcast that hacks Ring camera owners live

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bbq4/podcast-livestreams-hacked-ring-cameras-nulledcast

6 years ago

335 upvotes – 269 comments

Httpserver.h: Single header library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C

https://github.com/jeremycw/httpserver.h

6 years ago

★ 1.9k C MIT
332 upvotes – 163 comments

The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM (2018)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/

6 years ago

330 upvotes – 602 comments

Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (2017)

https://hbr.org/2017/11/many-strategies-fail-because-theyre-not-actually-strategies

6 years ago

290 upvotes – 68 comments

Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50754303

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 117 comments

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

https://twinery.org

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 50 comments

If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used for Ads

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/303310-facebook-oculus-vr-data-advertising

6 years ago

245 upvotes – 186 comments

My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup Got Acquired

https://mohddanish.me/my-bootstrapped-micro-startup-got-acquired-for-usd22k-10

6 years ago

233 upvotes – 89 comments

Using Clojure for Web Apps

https://github.com/tbsschroeder/using-clojure-for-web-apps

6 years ago

★ 89 JavaScript
226 upvotes – 119 comments

We Just Got a Rare Look at US National Security Surveillance

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-fbi.html

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 130 comments

Learning from OpenBSD can make computers marginally less horrible

https://telegra.ph/Why-OpenBSD-is-marginally-less-horrible-12-05

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 127 comments

Pedestrian fatally crushed between two parked cars after one started remotely

https://gothamist.com/news/pedestrian-fatally-crushed-between-two-parked-cars-after-one-vehicle-started-remotely

6 years ago

220 upvotes – 222 comments
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