top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-17

Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud?pu=hackernewsyw3xln&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

6 years ago

807 upvotes – 822 comments

Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/security-engineer-says-google-fired-her-trying-notify-co-workers-n1103031

6 years ago

743 upvotes – 715 comments

Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/over-100-pbs-local-stations-start-streaming-today-on-youtube-tv/

6 years ago

660 upvotes – 162 comments

The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) [pdf]

https://bunniefoo.com/bunnie/essential/essential-guide-shenzhen-web.pdf

6 years ago

485 upvotes – 192 comments

23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/23andme-gsk-dna-data-deal,news-27685.html

6 years ago

449 upvotes – 299 comments

Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21812442

6 years ago

441 upvotes – 94 comments

You might literally be buying trash on Amazon

https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-might-be-buying-trash-on-amazonliterally-11576599910

6 years ago

414 upvotes – 429 comments

An opinionated approach to GNU Make

https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/make/

6 years ago

414 upvotes – 194 comments

#include </etc/shadow>

https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/898-include-etcshadow.html

6 years ago

406 upvotes – 121 comments

Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

https://breakoutstartups.substack.com/p/breakout-startups-23-mattermost

6 years ago

395 upvotes – 241 comments

Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815123

6 years ago

384 upvotes – 300 comments

LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/logmein-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-francisco-partners-and-evergreen-for-4-3b/

6 years ago

380 upvotes – 289 comments

France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-amf-bloomberg/frances-amf-watchdog-fines-bloomberg-5-million-over-vinci-hoax-idUSKBN1YK1VN

6 years ago

349 upvotes – 254 comments

Message DB: Event Store and Message Store for PostgreSQL

https://blog.eventide-project.org/articles/announcing-message-db/

6 years ago

321 upvotes – 99 comments

From Zero to Main(): Bare Metal Rust

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/zero-to-main-rust-1

6 years ago

293 upvotes – 84 comments

PIA open-sources and announces audit plans

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/12/dont-trust-verify/

6 years ago

281 upvotes – 157 comments

Climbing the Wealth Ladder

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 313 comments

The town's so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE)

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/time/hacked-days

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 55 comments

Browser-based climate change simulation

https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=2.7.6

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 267 comments

Still Why No HTTPS?

https://www.troyhunt.com/still-why-no-https/

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 336 comments
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