top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-19

This Page is Designed to Last

https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/

6 years ago

1321 upvotes – 446 comments

Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client

http://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/

6 years ago

705 upvotes – 235 comments

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296

6 years ago

639 upvotes – 431 comments

Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-mozilla-the-decision/50620

6 years ago

541 upvotes – 246 comments

Eat This Much – Automatic Meal Planner

https://www.eatthismuch.com/

6 years ago

483 upvotes – 312 comments

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296

6 years ago

461 upvotes – 405 comments

State of JavaScript 2019

https://2019.stateofjs.com/

6 years ago

448 upvotes – 355 comments

Rust 1.40

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/12/19/Rust-1.40.0.html

6 years ago

430 upvotes – 150 comments

How tracking pixels work

https://jvns.ca/blog/how-tracking-pixels-work/

6 years ago

413 upvotes – 142 comments

An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

6 years ago

405 upvotes – 116 comments

The Amazon Premium

http://calpaterson.com/amazon-premium.html

6 years ago

370 upvotes – 260 comments

Severed fibre cables disrupted internet access in eastern Europe, Iran, Turkey

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50851420

6 years ago

347 upvotes – 161 comments

How Shopify Manages API Versioning and Breaking Changes

https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/shopify-manages-api-versioning-breaking-changes

6 years ago

333 upvotes – 92 comments

Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix

https://matrix.org/blog/2019/12/19/welcoming-mozilla-to-matrix/

6 years ago

332 upvotes – 4 comments

GitHub Actions is my new favorite free programming tool [video]

https://www.bytesized.xyz/github-actions-tutorial

6 years ago

316 upvotes – 129 comments

Multipass 1.0 – Mini-cloud on Mac or Windows workstation

https://multipass.run/

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 107 comments

Santa hat removed from VS Code after complaint

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268

6 years ago

243 upvotes – 157 comments

The Afsluitdijk

https://theafsluitdijk.com/

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 100 comments

Apprenticeships Beat Classrooms

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2019/06/07/apprenticeships/

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 106 comments

Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/12/02/the-real-reasons-why-job-seekers-are-not-given-feedback/#303e3aaeadf1

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 335 comments
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