top 50% 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

The Feds Get Permission to Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits

https://reason.com/2019/12/18/the-feds-get-permission-to-seize-edward-snowdens-book-profits/

6 years ago

223 upvotes – 152 comments

Ohio gas well blowout leaked more than many countries do in a year

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/ohio-gas-well-accident-last-year-released-surprising-amount-of-methane/

6 years ago

208 upvotes – 81 comments

A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Information of over 3k Ring Users

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolinehaskins1/data-leak-exposes-personal-data-over-3000-ring-camera-users

6 years ago

194 upvotes – 94 comments

Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21030114/robocalls-bill-congress-president-trump-sign-law-illegal-fcc-ajit-pai

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 233 comments

When an SQL Database Makes a Great Pub/Sub

https://threedots.tech/post/when-sql-database-makes-great-pub-sub/

6 years ago

188 upvotes – 67 comments

Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices

https://www.assured.se/2019/12/19/gcp-security/

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 15 comments

The Road to Scala 3

https://www.scala-lang.org/2019/12/18/road-to-scala-3.html

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 189 comments

How to Make Python Wait

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-to-make-python-wait

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 31 comments

Using Python and OCaml in the same Jupyter notebook

https://blog.janestreet.com/using-python-and-ocaml-in-the-same-jupyter-notebook/

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 34 comments

Rob Pike on good commit messages (2014)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/6M4dmZWpFaI

6 years ago

162 upvotes – 94 comments

Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal-study-confirms-racial-bias-many-facial-recognition-systems-casts-doubt-their-expanding-use/

6 years ago

158 upvotes – 116 comments

Technology Preview for secure value recovery

https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/

6 years ago

157 upvotes – 53 comments

Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/airplanes-and-accounting-games-the

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 217 comments

Show HN: ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainfuck Virtual Machine

https://github.com/f-prime/arcanevm

6 years ago

131 upvotes – 31 comments

Cisco devices must regenerate self-signed certificates before 2020

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/704/fn70489.html

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 63 comments

Show HN: CalmJobs.io – Work with companies who values work-life balance

http://calmjobs.io/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 54 comments

Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It

https://www.wsj.com/articles/recycling-rethink-what-to-do-with-trash-now-china-wont-take-it-11576776536

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 152 comments

What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult? (2018)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-makes-the-hardest-equations-in-physics-so-difficult-20180116/

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 42 comments

Tars: Tencent's microservice RPC framework, open-sourced to Linux Foundation

http://tarscloud.org/feeds/3463219192613486

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 101 comments

Contractor admits planting logic bombs in his software

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/contractor-admits-planting-logic-bombs-in-his-software-to-ensure-hed-get-new-work/

6 years ago

115 upvotes – 151 comments

Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy

https://nongaap.substack.com/p/shopify-a-starcraft-inspired-business

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 22 comments

Activity diagram to describe the resolution of HTTP response status codes

https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 10 comments

YouTube Created a Generation of Young Stars. Now They Are Getting Burned Out

https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube-created-a-generation-of-young-stars-now-they-are-getting-burned-out-11576762704

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 166 comments

To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/to-control-its-destiny-facebook-bets-big-on-hardware?pu=hackernewshmb8vq&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock

6 years ago

111 upvotes – 42 comments

India Bans Public Protests to Quell Rising Anger Against Citizenship Law

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-19/india-bans-public-protests-to-quell-rising-anger-against-new-law

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 47 comments

Don’t Shy Away or Risk Cowardly Management

https://avivbenyosef.com/dont-shy-away-or-risk-cowardly-management/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 37 comments

Teaching College-Level Mathematics in Prisons [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201911/rnoti-p1821.pdf

6 years ago

100 upvotes – 43 comments

A Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

https://lithub.com/how-a-mathematical-model-rescued-my-book-about-math/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 20 comments

Demonstration of 4-Row Janko Keyboard (1986) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

Modular C: Reusable and Maintainable Code Using the C Language (1994) [pdf]

http://metamodular.com/Computing/modular-c.pdf

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

Brad Cox: when OOP was about “Software-ICs” and micro-transactions

https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/2019/12/02/brad-cox/

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 76 comments

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Cleared for Final Assembly

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-x-59-quiet-supersonic-research-aircraft-cleared-for-final-assembly

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 60 comments

Genetic testing is an inexact science with real consequences

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/13/20978024/genetic-testing-dna-consequences-23andme-ancestry

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 40 comments

Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk (1738) [pdf]

https://engineering.purdue.edu/~ipollak/ece302/FALL09/notes/Bernoulli_1738.pdf

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 15 comments

Google Reader Killed RSS

https://mcfunley.com/google-reader-killed-rss

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments
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