top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-24

My Business Card Runs Linux

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/

6 years ago

2595 upvotes – 397 comments

Minimalism – An undervalued development skill

https://volument.com/blog/minimalism-the-most-undervalued-development-skill

6 years ago

506 upvotes – 172 comments

Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console

https://craigjb.com/2019/11/26/gameslab-overview/

6 years ago

406 upvotes – 50 comments

Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf]

https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/

6 years ago

403 upvotes – 129 comments

Darktable 3.0

https://www.darktable.org/2019/12/darktable-300-released/

6 years ago

341 upvotes – 120 comments

An IT migration corrupted 1.3B customer records

https://increment.com/testing/what-broke-the-bank/

6 years ago

327 upvotes – 187 comments

Ask HN: What do top engineers you know do that others don't?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21870889

6 years ago

326 upvotes – 152 comments

French cities trying to ban public adverts

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/dec/23/advertising-breaks-your-spirit-the-french-cities-trying-to-ban-public-adverts

6 years ago

324 upvotes – 132 comments

A Twitter app bug was used to match 17M phone numbers to user accounts

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/24/twitter-android-bug-phone-numbers/

6 years ago

301 upvotes – 125 comments

LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten Notes

https://mathpix.com/

6 years ago

293 upvotes – 51 comments

What it's like to bootstrap a business before it can financially support you

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/whats-it-like-to-bootstrap-a-business-before-it-can-financially-support-you-3472417e29

6 years ago

289 upvotes – 98 comments

Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/technology/chuck-peddle-dead.html

6 years ago

272 upvotes – 53 comments

Cheating in Programming

https://twitter.com/ben_burnes/status/1178676970609139712

6 years ago

244 upvotes – 131 comments

Protobuffers Are Wrong

http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/protos-are-wrong/index.html

6 years ago

229 upvotes – 210 comments

A Breakthrough in Graph Theory [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnu_Ws7Llo4

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 25 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873889

6 years ago

218 upvotes – 1 comments

Hyperscan: High-performance multiple regex matching library from Intel

https://www.hyperscan.io

6 years ago

212 upvotes – 53 comments

Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example

http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2019/12/do-not-trust-journalists-mormon-example.html?m=1

6 years ago

198 upvotes – 209 comments

The man who made Wolfenstein

https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/12/24/21029936/castle-wolfenstein-silas-warner

6 years ago

189 upvotes – 30 comments

Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50902496

6 years ago

187 upvotes – 134 comments
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