top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-20

Guide to Software Defined Radio

https://luaradio.io/new-to-sdr.html

6 years ago

The modern web is becoming unusable

https://omarabid.com/the-modern-web

6 years ago

Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters

https://lemire.me/blog/2019/12/19/xor-filters-faster-and-smaller-than-bloom-filters/

6 years ago

Tesseract.js: Pure JavaScript OCR for 100 Languages

https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/

6 years ago

New boson appears in nuclear decay, could break standard model if confirmed

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/new-boson-hidden-in-beryllium-decay-check-new-physics-maybe/

6 years ago

Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/business/facebook-ai-generated-profiles.html

6 years ago

The sad state of personal data and infrastructure

https://beepb00p.xyz/sad-infra.html

6 years ago

Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/in-the-2010s-decade-we-became-alienated-by-technology

6 years ago

BugJail: New Java debugger – debug across time with mouse

https://bugjail.com/

6 years ago

People Who Do Not Exist Invade Facebook

https://analysis.leadstories.com/3471185-fake-faces-people-Who-Do-Not-Exist-Invade-Facebook-To-Influence-2020-Elections.html

6 years ago

Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space

https://qz.com/africa/1772671/ethiopia-launched-its-first-space-satellite-with-chinas-help/

6 years ago

CDC Confirms a THC Additive, Vitamin E Acetate, Is Culprit in Most Vaping Deaths

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/20/790154919/cdc-confirms-a-thc-contaminant-vitamin-e-acetate-the-culprit-in-most-vaping-deat

6 years ago

Consumers who sought cash settlement from Equifax probably won't get full $125

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/19/court-awards-80-million-to-consumer-attorneys-in-equifax-case.html

6 years ago

You Suck at Excel (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

6 years ago

Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/12/20/apple-launches-public-bug-bounty-program/

6 years ago

Navy’s flawed technology set the USS John McCain up for disaster

https://features.propublica.org/navy-uss-mccain-crash/navy-installed-touch-screen-steering-ten-sailors-paid-with-their-lives/

6 years ago

Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C

https://github.com/mkirchner/gc

6 years ago

★ 1.3k C MIT

Ember.js Octane Edition

https://blog.emberjs.com/2019/12/20/octane-is-here.html

6 years ago

Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info

https://www.fellowage.io/?r=hn

6 years ago

Boeing astronaut capsule for NASA stalls in orbit

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50855395

6 years ago