top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-14

Having Kids

http://paulgraham.com/kids.html

6 years ago

1992 upvotes – 863 comments

Challenging projects every programmer should try

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/challengingprojects.html

6 years ago

911 upvotes – 297 comments

If You Can't Buy the Keyboard You Want, Build It Instead

https://imgur.com/gallery/fGa13nZ

6 years ago

501 upvotes – 368 comments

Win32 on macOS

https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-December/156602.html

6 years ago

486 upvotes – 130 comments

Tony Brooker, creator of Mark 1 Autocode, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/technology/tony-brooker-dead.html

6 years ago

433 upvotes – 77 comments

Database Internals

https://databass.dev

6 years ago

305 upvotes – 38 comments

37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl

https://medium.com/@sloane_ryan/im-a-37-year-old-mom-i-spent-seven-days-online-as-an-11-year-old-girl-here-s-what-i-learned-9825e81c8e7d

6 years ago

287 upvotes – 281 comments

The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer

https://www.wired.com/story/the-next-nuclear-plants-will-be-small-svelte-and-safer/

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 239 comments

Enough with the Dead Butterflies (2017)

https://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

6 years ago

263 upvotes – 28 comments

New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/taking-sex-differences-in-personality-seriously/

6 years ago

262 upvotes – 328 comments

Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API

https://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-restful-api

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 36 comments

What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/12/from-prison-to-silicon-valley/603406/

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 222 comments

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier League #1

https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/status/1205862206946074624

6 years ago

204 upvotes – 124 comments

Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50720823

6 years ago

197 upvotes – 110 comments

Returned online purchases often sent to landfill

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/it-s-pretty-staggering-returned-online-purchases-often-sent-to-landfill-journalist-s-research-reveals-1.5393806

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 157 comments

The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019

https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-14/the-architecture-of-a-large-scale-web-search-engine-circa-2019.html

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 22 comments

Pointer Authentication

https://github.com/apple/llvm-project/blob/apple/master/clang/docs/PointerAuthentication.rst

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 43 comments

Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21792158

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 71 comments

Coping with Flexbox

https://kgrz.io/coping-with-flexbox.html

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 55 comments

Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over

https://www.wired.com/story/uber-lyft-suggest-cheap-rides-could-be-over

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 309 comments

Kramnik and AlphaZero: How to Rethink Chess‎

https://www.chess.com/article/view/no-castling-chess-kramnik-alphazero

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 85 comments

Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video]

https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/f60bee0e-31d3-4aca-9e49-6fcdc87ad40d

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 49 comments

Linux Toolbox

https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/21/print-collection-of-my-first-7-zines/

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 15 comments

Uniquely Canadian Stock Photography from CIRA

https://cira.ca/stock-images

6 years ago

118 upvotes – 42 comments

How Simple Analytics calculates unique visits without cookies or fingerprinting

https://docs.simpleanalytics.com/uniques

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 85 comments

The Cathedral and the Bizarre

http://marktarver.com/thecathedralandthebizarre.html

6 years ago

107 upvotes – 124 comments

Cracking LUKS/dm-crypt passphrases

https://diverto.github.io/2019/11/18/Cracking-LUKS-passphrases

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 62 comments

Moving to Germany as an Australian (2016)

http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/moving-to-germany-as-an-australian

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 206 comments

Centaur Unveils Its New Server-Class x86 Core

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3099/centaur-unveils-its-new-server-class-x86-core-cns-adds-avx-512/

6 years ago

105 upvotes – 33 comments

Why we fall for cons

http://timharford.com/2019/12/why-we-fall-for-cons/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 49 comments

Rsuite – R development and data science platform

https://github.com/WLOGSolutions/RSuite

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 113 comments

Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-energy-space-quantum-weirdness.html

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 36 comments

Scarfolk

https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 23 comments

Neural Renderer and Differentiable Rendering [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJ4tEwhgo8

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 14 comments

Cheat at Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/195083/cheat-at-rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

What Happened to Software Development?

https://hackernoon.com/what-happened-to-software-development-j92032w9

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 79 comments
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