top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-21

Fast

https://patrickcollison.com/fast

6 years ago

1314 upvotes – 291 comments

The Deep Sea

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

6 years ago

703 upvotes – 96 comments

Go + Services = One Goliath Project

https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm

6 years ago

418 upvotes – 434 comments

U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-navy/u-s-navy-bans-tiktok-from-government-issued-mobile-devices-idUSKBN1YO2HU

6 years ago

386 upvotes – 161 comments

Monica: Open-source personal CRM

https://www.monicahq.com/

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 129 comments

Scaling Etsy

https://twitter.com/mcfunley/status/1194713711337852928

6 years ago

352 upvotes – 110 comments

Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks

http://dcernst.github.io/resources/free-and-open-source-textbooks/

6 years ago

321 upvotes – 46 comments

Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (1998)

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-October/017019.html

6 years ago

318 upvotes – 174 comments

ACM signed letter opposing open access

https://newsroom.publishers.org/researchers-and-publishers-oppose-immediate-free-distribution-of-peer-reviewed-journal-articles

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 138 comments

Coolest Things I Learned in 2019

https://www.perell.com/blog/2019/12/11/coolest-things-i-learned-in-2019

6 years ago

254 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mandarin Pronunciation

https://mandarintonetrainer.com

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 183 comments

Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/boeing-s-profit-push-may-have-left-737-max-pilots-unprepared

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 132 comments

Ask HN: What is your financial “setup”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853636

6 years ago

200 upvotes – 143 comments

Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 38 comments

A cool way to explain logic gates with water [video]

https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1188749430020698112

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 38 comments

Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851207

6 years ago

163 upvotes – 49 comments

Google forbids login with niche Linux browsers

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/12/couldnt-sign-you-in-google-browser-error-linux

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 85 comments

Neural Network

http://nxxcxx.github.io/Neural-Network/

6 years ago

154 upvotes – 14 comments

NeurIPS 2019 Notes [pdf]

https://david-abel.github.io/notes/neurips_2019.pdf

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 33 comments

The Art of Dying

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/23/the-art-of-dying

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 81 comments
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