top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-18

Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/12/amazon-apple-google-and-the-zigbee-alliance-to-develop-connectivity-standard/

6 years ago

740 upvotes – 355 comments

Google claims copyright on employee side projects

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1207234468928356352

6 years ago

738 upvotes – 384 comments

Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21822225

6 years ago

673 upvotes – 239 comments

Undocumented Catalina file access change

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/macl.html

6 years ago

566 upvotes – 275 comments

PinePhone Review

https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/18/PinePhone-review.html

6 years ago

487 upvotes – 259 comments

Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium

https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-17/why-we-forked-firefox-and-not-chromium.html

6 years ago

483 upvotes – 122 comments

Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/samsung-chair-imprisoned-and-24-others-found-guilty-in-union-busting-case/

6 years ago

390 upvotes – 131 comments

The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity

https://augustl.com/blog/2019/best_bug_predictor_is_organizational_complexity/

6 years ago

388 upvotes – 179 comments

Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who invented the art of hunting hackers

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-mad-scientist-who-wrote-the-book-on-how-to-hunt-hackers/

6 years ago

384 upvotes – 149 comments

Google's Monopoly-Based Foreign Policy

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/googles-dangerous-monopoly-based

6 years ago

336 upvotes – 152 comments

The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained

https://www.vox.com/2020-presidential-election/2019/12/11/21005008/michael-bloomberg-terminal-net-worth-2020

6 years ago

320 upvotes – 209 comments

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaScript Adaptation

https://sicp.comp.nus.edu.sg/

6 years ago

317 upvotes – 180 comments

Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/18/depression-and-suicide-linked-to-air-pollution-in-new-global-study

6 years ago

300 upvotes – 195 comments

Tech giants sued over deaths of children who mine cobalt

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5399491/tech-giants-sued-over-appalling-deaths-of-children-who-mine-their-cobalt-1.5399492

6 years ago

252 upvotes – 288 comments

Who Was the Buddha?

https://aeon.co/essays/was-the-buddha-an-awakened-prince-or-a-humble-itinerant

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 161 comments

Judge dismisses Wikimedia case against NSA over Upstream surveillance

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/judge-dismisses-wikimedia-case-against-nsa-over-upstream-surveillance/

6 years ago

230 upvotes – 132 comments

A Failed SaaS Postmortem

http://Mattlayman.com/blog/2019/failed-saas-postmortem

6 years ago

225 upvotes – 134 comments

Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/technology/fosta-sex-trafficking-law.html

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 336 comments

A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Stories (2018)

https://hyperallergic.com/435183/freedom-on-the-move/

6 years ago

222 upvotes – 179 comments

Eller’s Algorithm (2012)

http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/eller.html

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 27 comments
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