top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-22

UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

https://undraw.co/

6 years ago

775 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858226

6 years ago

716 upvotes – 193 comments

Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858866

6 years ago

643 upvotes – 85 comments

Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/20/autonomous-delorean-drives-sideways-move-forward/

6 years ago

580 upvotes – 188 comments

How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TristanJung/20191206/355250/How_Do_Bullets_Work_in_Video_Games.php

6 years ago

566 upvotes – 221 comments

NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002)

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html

6 years ago

564 upvotes – 87 comments

Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)

https://jnd.org/apples_products_are_getting_harder_to_use_because_they_ignore_principles_of_design/

6 years ago

535 upvotes – 500 comments

Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline

https://github.com/dosyago/22120

6 years ago

★ 3.8k JavaScript
406 upvotes – 97 comments

Fashionable Problems

http://paulgraham.com/fp.html

6 years ago

365 upvotes – 185 comments

People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/01/755185560/optimists-for-the-win-finding-the-bright-side-might-help-you-live-longer

6 years ago

294 upvotes – 183 comments

Paid Cerberus 'lifetime' licenses are expiring

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/12/21/cerberus-paid-lifetime-license-expiration/

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 168 comments

Things everyone in ML should know about belief formation in humans [video]

https://slideslive.com/38921495/how-to-know

6 years ago

236 upvotes – 42 comments

Booking.com agrees to EU demands to change travel offers

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-booking-hldg-eu/booking-com-agrees-to-change-way-it-presents-travel-offers-eu-idUSKBN1YO18C

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 184 comments

Guerilla Gardening (2015)

http://www.guerrillagardening.org/

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 40 comments

Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer’s proves safe in early human trial

https://newatlas.com/science/microdosing-lsd-alzheimers-phase1-trial-results-safety/

6 years ago

214 upvotes – 107 comments

UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-and-a-with-navy-pilot-chad-underwood.html

6 years ago

213 upvotes – 197 comments

Radeon Open Compute 3.0

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/tree/roc-3.0.0

6 years ago

★ 6.4k Shell MIT
208 upvotes – 55 comments

Windows 10 Desktop: Physically building and photographing the logos (2015)

https://gmunk.com/Windows-10-Desktop/

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 105 comments

New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person

https://news.mit.edu/2019/first-laser-ultrasound-images-humans-1219

6 years ago

192 upvotes – 42 comments

What's Amazon's market share? 35% or 5%?

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/12/amazons-market-share19

6 years ago

186 upvotes – 93 comments

Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF (2018)

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/16/why-gov-uk-content-should-be-published-in-html-and-not-pdf/

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 59 comments

How Smartphones Betray Democracy

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-democracy-protests.html

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 105 comments

Show HN: Linux driver for the Xbox One wireless dongle

https://github.com/medusalix/xow

6 years ago

★ 1.4k C++ GPL-2.0
158 upvotes – 22 comments

China Is About to Fire Up Its HL-2M Tokamak

https://www.newsweek.com/china-about-fire-its-artificial-sun-quest-fusion-energy-1477705

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 162 comments

French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/12/20/three-french-executives-were-convicted-suicides-their-workers/

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 115 comments

Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books (2017)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyoa-choose-your-own-adventure-maps

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 55 comments

We've Just Had the Best Decade in Human History

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/12/weve-just-had-the-best-decade-in-human-history-seriously/

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 210 comments

Croydon Shut Down

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-regions/southern/disruption-at-victoria-and-london-bridge/

6 years ago

129 upvotes – 85 comments

Longest-Serving Professor at Cornell Reflects on Journey Through Academia

https://cornellsun.com/2019/12/09/60-years-later-longest-serving-professor-at-cornell-reflects-on-journey-through-academia/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 24 comments

Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang

https://thebulletin.org/2019/12/fact-check-five-claims-about-thorium-made-by-andrew-yang/#

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 92 comments

Debugging a Live Saturn V

http://www.zamiang.com/post/debugging-a-live-saturn-v

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 35 comments

LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual (1962) [pdf]

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 21 comments

JSON on the Command Line with Jq

https://shapeshed.com/jq-json/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 38 comments

Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/why-creativity-is-a-numbers-game/

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 42 comments

Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf]

https://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/backus_turingaward_lecture.pdf

6 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

OpenBSD system-call-origin verification

https://lwn.net/Articles/806776/

6 years ago

112 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: Timelite, a simple time tracking solution

https://github.com/overshard/timelite

6 years ago

★ 270 JavaScript BSD-2-Clause
109 upvotes – 34 comments

A programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger

https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 27 comments

Predicting When P=NP Is Resolved

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/predicting-when-pnp-is-resolved/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 62 comments

Okay, Maybe Proofs Aren't Dying After All

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/okay-maybe-proofs-arent-dying-after-all/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 12 comments

Chinese Mass Surveillance – Snowden

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1208469511051075585

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 23 comments

Homelessness rises in U.S., driven by California housing crisis

https://www.axios.com/hud-homelessness-rises-in-us-driven-by-california-f231500a-2fee-4477-813e-e838923e0288.html

6 years ago

98 upvotes – 144 comments

Vectorized execution brings a 10x performance increase for expression evaluation

https://pingcap.com/blog/10x-performance-improvement-for-expression-evaluation-made-possible-by-vectorized-execution/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 46 comments

MegaZeux: Game creation system released in 1994 and still being developed today

https://www.digitalmzx.com/

6 years ago

95 upvotes – 17 comments

Climate change driving entire planet to dangerous 'global tipping point‘

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/earth-tipping-point/

6 years ago

94 upvotes – 133 comments

A Bank Behind the Fintech Boom

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2019/12/17/the-forbes-investigation-inside-the-secret-bank-behind-the-fintech-boom/#e384e423c10c

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 30 comments

What we know about you when you click on this article

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/10/20962868/vox-media-privacy-policy-explained-what-we-know-about-you

6 years ago

90 upvotes – 45 comments

Klong: a Simple Array Language

http://t3x.org/klong/

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 73 comments

Gitlab 12.6

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/12/22/gitlab-12-6-released/

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 28 comments

Ask HN: Best practices for hiring software contractors?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858813

6 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments
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