top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-23

Downsides to working at a tech giant

https://blog.garrytan.com/working-for-microsoft-cost-me-200-dollars-million

6 years ago

700 upvotes – 559 comments

Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-boeing-737-max-ceo/boeing-ceo-ousted-as-737-max-crisis-deepens-idUKKBN1YR1FP

6 years ago

659 upvotes – 609 comments

Working for a startup makes less sense

https://zainamro.com/notes/working-for-a-startup-makes-less-sense

6 years ago

572 upvotes – 378 comments

Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal

https://github.com/ffwff/lilith

6 years ago

542 upvotes – 251 comments

Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21861412

6 years ago

407 upvotes – 141 comments

WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/blob/master/README.md

6 years ago

396 upvotes – 185 comments

Ram Dass has died

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/ram-dass-dies/

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 192 comments

How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)

https://github.blog/2015-06-08-how-to-undo-almost-anything-with-git/

6 years ago

372 upvotes – 79 comments

Open-Source Spotify App

https://github.com/ThasianX/SpotifyDaily

6 years ago

345 upvotes – 110 comments

Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/327

6 years ago

332 upvotes – 117 comments

Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-your-brain-needs-exercise/

6 years ago

284 upvotes – 123 comments

A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52

https://gen.medium.com/my-semester-with-the-snowflakes-888285f0e662

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 177 comments

How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2019/12/20/how-to-create-the-apple-fifth-avenue-cube-in-webgl/

6 years ago

253 upvotes – 23 comments

Learn Rust the Dangerous Way

http://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 23 comments

Many Japanese children refuse to go to school

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50693777

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 245 comments

Post-Mortem for Bra Theory

http://bratheory.com/hiatus/

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 50 comments

Million WebSockets and Go (2017)

https://gbws.io/articles/million-websocket-and-go/

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 34 comments

Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP

https://breakoutstartups.substack.com/p/breakout-startups-24-odoo

6 years ago

195 upvotes – 74 comments

Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-look-through-past-star-catalogues-finds-scores-of-stars-that-have-mysteriously-vanished

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 172 comments

Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines

https://terodox.tech/ui-state-machines/

6 years ago

185 upvotes – 53 comments
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