1536
429
Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/nebraska-farmers-vote-overwhelmingly-right-repair
6 years ago
823
79
SQL Murder Mystery
https://mystery.knightlab.com/
728
86
ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/org-update
444
380
Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/12/free-transit-how-much-cost-kansas-city-bus-streetcar-fare/603397/
434
242
WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
https://www.w3.org/2019/12/pressrelease-wasm-rec.html.en
421
320
Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802452
411
143
Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21805248
345
‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/inside-evil-corp-a-100m-cybercrime-menace/
334
259
Boeing to Suspend 737 Max Production in January
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-to-suspend-737-max-production-in-january-11576532032
319
90
Hammerspoon – macOS automation with Lua
https://www.hammerspoon.org/
305
321
Kotlin vs. Java
https://www.kotlinvsjava.com
273
236
The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3437468
271
54
Microbrowsers Are Everywhere
https://24ways.org/2019/microbrowsers-are-everywhere/
266
122
2020 Cloud Report: AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2020-cloud-report/#
255
207
Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hosting platform
https://www.floatplane.com/
241
194
Travis Kalanick Is Exiting His Uber Holdings Uber Quickly
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-16/travis-kalanick-is-getting-out-of-his-uber-holdings-uber-quickly
234
84
German BSI withholds Truecrypt security report
https://www.golem.de/news/encryption-software-german-bsi-withholds-truecrypt-security-report-1912-145552.html
224
Game Critic Uses Workaround for YouTube's Copyright System (2016)
https://kotaku.com/game-critic-uses-brilliant-workaround-for-youtubes-copy-1773452452
216
106
Amateur Radio
http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2019/08/07/amateur-radio/
209
119
Giving every IPv6 address a name
https://has-a.name
195
“Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/12/neal-stephenson-snowcrash-metaverse-magic-leap-hbo-series.html
118
Amazon is now delivering half its own packages, rivaling FedEx and UPS
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/13/21020938/amazon-logistics-prime-air-fedex-ups-package-delivery-more-than-50-percent
189
160
Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-blocks-sellers-from-using-fedex-ground-for-prime-shipments-2019-12-16-15103614
186
190
Show HN: I'm building a robot that performs haircuts [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY_gpi_gsRI
184
215
Boeing Weighs Cutting or Halting 737 Max Production
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-weighs-cutting-or-halting-737-max-production-11576448990
180
200
Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/agents-of-automation/568795/
174
112
Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/how-i-created-a-deepfake-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-star-treks-data/
173
270
U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling barring prosecution for sleeping in public
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-homelessness/u-s-supreme-court-leaves-in-place-ruling-barring-prosecution-of-homeless-idUSKBN1YK1EA
165
26
Roguelike Tutorial: Up-to-Date and Literate
https://aimlesslygoingforward.com/blog/2019/10/02/roguelike-tutorial-up-to-date-and-literate/
161
38
Lisp Macros by Example
https://m.stopa.io/macros-by-example-6ddbc8f3d93b
156
97
IBM Stops Server Side Swift Framework Development
https://forums.swift.org/t/december-12th-2019/31735
149
201
Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-path-we-didnt-take.html
137
56
Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon
https://aiweirdness.com/post/189511103367/play-ai-dungeon-2-become-a-dragon-eat-the-moon
136
51
The dark side of electronic waste recycling
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/4/20992240/e-waste-recycling-electronic-basel-convention-crime-total-reclaim-fraud
4.2 Kiloyear Event
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.2_kiloyear_event
130
40
Things every programmer should know
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=every%20programmer&sort=byPopularity&type=story
128
44
Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis
http://nautil.us/blog/memories-can-be-injected-and-survive-amputation-and-metamorphosis
127
98
Nuclear fusion startup raises $100M to design and build a demo power plant
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-16/bezos-backed-fusion-start-up-raises-100-million-for-demo-system
125
69
The Society of the Spectacle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
123
39
Build APKs on Android devices with Termux
https://github.com/BuildAPKs/buildAPKs
117
18
OpenTitan: An open-source silicon root of trust from lowRISC
https://opentitan.org
110
A White Lie Gave Japan KFC for Christmas
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-japanese-christmas
108
61
Abe’s New Word Order
http://www.petertasker.asia/articles/abes-new-word-order/
107
5
Rv8 – RISC-V simulator for x86-64 (2018)
https://rv8.io/
101
15
Personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive
https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-16/your-news-is-not-our-business.html
99
30
Book Review: All Therapy Books
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/20/book-review-all-therapy-books/
64
Airbus Beluga XL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Beluga_XL
96
How cloud computing impacts the environment
https://thecloud.christmas/2019/15
91
37
California oceans rising in acidity at alarming rate, study finds
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-16/ocean-acidification-california
Highest Paying Tech Companies of 2019
http://levels.fyi/2019/index.html
62
The Accidental Book Review That Made Jack Kerouac Famous
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-accidental-book-review-that-made-jack-kerouac-famous/2019/12/13/23e94230-04b3-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html
81
35
Donate – iTerm2
https://iterm2.com/donate.html
113
So Where’s My Low Voltage DC Wall Socket?
https://hackaday.com/2016/12/21/so-wheres-my-low-voltage-dc-wall-socket/
77
153
Economists’ projections of interest rates and unemployment have proved too high
https://www.wsj.com/articles/economists-got-the-decade-all-wrong-theyre-trying-to-figure-out-why-11576346400
114
Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case
https://torrentfreak.com/two-las-vegas-men-plead-guilty-in-u-s-criminal-streaming-piracy-case-191214/
75
21
Three Best Business Books of 2019 (According to Every Other Best-of-2019 List)
https://marker.medium.com/the-3-best-business-books-of-2019-according-to-every-other-best-of-2019-list-c53a97e69be6
Amazon is now delivering half its own packages, rivaling FedEx and UPS