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JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
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545
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Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
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463
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Calm Technology
https://calmtech.com/
423
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Unbearable news
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348
122
A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/eaphr8/a_dropbox_account_gave_me_stomach_ulcers/
344
28
Stanford CS 144: Introduction to Computer Networking
https://cs144.github.io/
321
38
BMW shares AI tools used in production
https://www.bmwblog.com/2019/12/13/bmw-shares-ai-algorithms-used-in-production-available-on-github/
289
104
Faults in Post Office accounting system led to workers being convicted of theft
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50747143
284
12
Introduction to Stochastic Processes [pdf]
https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/gordanz/notes/introduction_to_stochastic_processes.pdf
262
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The Higher States of Bromine
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/11/21/the-higher-states-of-bromine
248
Best Illusion of the Year Contest - 2019 Finalists
http://illusionoftheyear.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2019/
242
158
SF wants startups to behave, so why did it reject the ‘nice guy’ of e-scooters?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/SF-wants-startups-to-behave-so-why-did-it-reject-14903323.php
239
61
BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar
https://getbitbar.com/
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Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21796088
212
Yoga Effects on Brain Health: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature
https://content.iospress.com/articles/brain-plasticity/bpl190084
202
37
I spent way too much effort to win a game show on Dutch national TV
https://vincenttunru.com/hacking-a-gameshow/
198
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The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming
https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-is-trialing-high-quality-video-streaming-links-191209/
179
75
Show HN: Krabby – A keyboard interface to the web, inspired by Kakoune
https://krabby.netlify.com
177
58
Killersheep – Silly game to show off the new features of Vim 8.2
https://github.com/vim/killersheep
175
25
Books on Thinking About Thinking
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-14/10-books-to-clarify-thinking-about-thinking
171
44
Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater
https://newatlas.com/environment/sound-waves-microplastics-laundry-wastewater/
162
Rustysd – A minimal drop-in for a subset of systemd in Rust
https://github.com/KillingSpark/rustysd
53
Show HN: Coerce – Actor runtime for Rust using async/await and tokio channels
https://github.com/LeonHartley/Coerce-rs/
149
32
Show HN: Clayoven – a minimalist website generator for math, code, and articles
https://github.com/artagnon/clayoven
147
74
LocalStorage or WebSQL unexpectedly cleared
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1033655
142
23
Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C
http://maplant.com/gc.html
140
26
A new cycle-stepped 6502 CPU emulator
https://floooh.github.io/2019/12/13/cycle-stepped-6502.html
139
41
Show HN: HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Terminal
https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui/tree/master/examples/hnterm
133
72
Hidden Bar: macOS utility to hide unused menu bar icons, written in Swift
https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden
132
43
Zugzwang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang
125
Amae: Japan’s deep connection to childish relationships
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191212-japans-deep-connection-to-childish-relationships
123
68
Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)
http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.html
119
JVM Garbage Collectors Benchmarks Report
https://ionutbalosin.com/2019/12/jvm-garbage-collectors-benchmarks-report-19-12/
Show HN: CuteUID – Generate Cute UIDs
https://github.com/alexdredmon/cuteuid
113
9
Writing web-based interactive fiction with Ink
https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/web-tutorial/
108
Information Theory with TensorFlow
https://www.adhiraiyan.org/deeplearning/03.00-Probability-and-Information-Theory#13
102
66
Caffeine enhances activity of common antidepressants in forced swim test in mice
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715838/
101
67
Architect Has Painstakingly Standardized the World's Subway Maps (2014)
https://www.citylab.com/design/2014/04/architect-has-painstakingly-standardized-worlds-subway-maps/8843/
97
Veteran executives and financiers helped fuel WeWork’s rise and fall
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-money-men-who-enabled-adam-neumann-and-the-wework-debacle-11576299616
95
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Climate talks break up with no agreement on carbon trading
https://www.ft.com/content/33f5d282-1f3f-11ea-92da-f0c92e957a96
89
20
A tiny Python exception oddity
https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-tiny-python-exception-oddity.html?m=1
88
13
Police Can Use a Legal Gray Area to Rob Anyone of Their Belongings (2016)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/how-police-use-a-legal-gray-area-to-rob-suspects-of-their-belongings/495740/
Frail Older Patients Struggle After Even Minor Operations
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/health/frail-elderly-surgery.html
87
52
Google Assistant Can Now Translate Languages on Your Phone
https://www.wired.com/story/google-assistant-can-now-translate-on-your-phone/
86
84
WASM as a Platform for Abstraction
http://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/wasm-as-a-platform-for-abstraction/
85
17
The Curse of Milk Sickness
https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2019/02/the-curse-of-milk-sickness-part-1-of-2.html
55
Emotion-detecting tech should be restricted by law
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50761116
83
Can a USR command damage a ZX Spectrum?
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2261/can-a-usr-command-damage-a-zx-spectrum
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