700
559
Downsides to working at a tech giant
https://blog.garrytan.com/working-for-microsoft-cost-me-200-dollars-million
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659
609
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
572
378
Working for a startup makes less sense
https://zainamro.com/notes/working-for-a-startup-makes-less-sense
542
251
Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
https://github.com/ffwff/lilith
407
141
Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21861412
396
185
WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets
https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/blob/master/README.md
372
79
How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)
https://github.blog/2015-06-08-how-to-undo-almost-anything-with-git/
192
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https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/ram-dass-dies/
345
110
Open-Source Spotify App
https://github.com/ThasianX/SpotifyDaily
332
117
Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018)
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/327
284
123
Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-your-brain-needs-exercise/
265
177
A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52
https://gen.medium.com/my-semester-with-the-snowflakes-888285f0e662
253
23
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/
239
Learn Rust the Dangerous Way
http://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/
228
245
Many Japanese children refuse to go to school
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50693777
216
50
Post-Mortem for Bra Theory
http://bratheory.com/hiatus/
210
34
Million WebSockets and Go (2017)
https://gbws.io/articles/million-websocket-and-go/
195
74
Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP
https://breakoutstartups.substack.com/p/breakout-startups-24-odoo
189
172
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
53
Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines
https://terodox.tech/ui-state-machines/
165
140
ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/politics/totok-app-uae.html
160
113
Bazel 2.0
https://blog.bazel.build/2019/12/19/bazel-2.0.html
142
29
The World of Statecharts
https://statecharts.github.io/
137
93
Tesla's stock just hit a record $420
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/23/investing/tesla-stock-420/index.html
136
133
Open letter concerning Facebook's proposals to apply end-to-end encryption
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg
129
255
The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/silicon-valley-seasteaders-go-looking-for-low-tax-sites-on-land
128
Windows 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium
https://securelist.com/windows-0-day-exploit-cve-2019-1458-used-in-operation-wizardopium/95432/
54
Randomize HN: Removing the vote threshold for getting to the front page
https://danluu.com/randomize-hn/
115
3
Beyond L2 Loss – How We Experiment with Loss Functions
https://eng.lyft.com/beyond-l2-loss-how-we-experiment-with-loss-functions-at-lyft-51f9303f5d2d
114
82
Mike Bloomberg is plowing millions of dollars into a secretive tech firm
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/23/mike-bloomberg-campaign-uses-tech-firm-he-founded-earlier-this-year.html
109
France to Raise Pollution Tax on SUVs and Trucks to €22k
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/france-sharpens-offensive-against-suvs-by-raising-penalties
58
Kutt – a modern, open-source URL shortener
https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt
107
2
The Year in Biology
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-biology-2019-20191223/
106
35
Work Shorter Hours in Winter
https://www.wired.com/story/science-explains-why-we-should-work-shorter-hours-winter/
105
13
Target=“_blank” – the most underestimated vulnerability ever
https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/256-targetblank---the-most-underestimated-vulnerability-ever/
31
Chernobyl Dice: A quantum random number generator with a Nixie tube display
https://github.com/nategri/chernobyl_dice
104
How Crisco Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-crisco-made-americans-believers-industrial-food-180973845/
Reviewing Bad Schematics as EE Interview Tactic
https://cushychicken.github.io/bad-schematic-interviews/
98
131
For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/23/787403509/for-her-head-cold-insurer-coughed-up-25-865?t=1577125419719
97
188
Scratch that: Cats film to be 'resupplied' with 'improved visuals'
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/dec/23/cats-film-resupplied-improved-visuals
92
81
All I want for Christmas is to sign in with Apple
https://viorel.me/2019/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-sign-in-with-apple/
89
6
The Periodic Table of Videos
http://www.periodicvideos.com/
Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows
https://github.com/spectresystems/jarvis
87
51
The Nightjet: A Big Bet on Train Travelers Who Take It Slow
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/business/overnight-train-austria.html
85
To stop pancreatic cancer from spreading, cut out the chatter
https://massivesci.com/articles/cancer-pancreas-trebek-crispr-organ-chip-diseases/
84
11
Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems
https://matthewstrom.com/writing/design-apis/
49
Wolf 359
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_359
83
112
HyperbolaBSD Roadmap: hard fork of the OpenBSD kernel and userspace
https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-roadmap/
78
19
Particle Filter
https://leimao.github.io/project/Particle-Filter/
73
Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (2017)
http://shindoisshin.net/blog/dickbars-and-other-readability-excrement
72
1
Deploying Authoritative OCaml-DNS Servers as MirageOS Unikernels
https://hannes.nqsb.io/Posts/DnsServer
36
Learning Morse code in the 21st century
https://airfactsjournal.com/2019/12/learning-morse-code-in-the-21st-century/
69
55
Indoor CO2 could cut our capacity for complex, strategic thinking: study
https://news.yahoo.com/carbon-dioxide-homes-offices-classrooms-131700552.html
ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race