top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-29

Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code

https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/encoding-wifi-access-point-passwords-qr-code/

6 years ago

685 upvotes – 227 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)

https://www.bottomupcs.com/index.xhtml

6 years ago

618 upvotes – 76 comments

Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018)

https://alexand.ro/2018/08/how-focus-became-more-valuable-than-intelligence

6 years ago

571 upvotes – 213 comments

Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21908577

6 years ago

485 upvotes – 231 comments

Why are my Go executable files so large?

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/go-file-size/

6 years ago

468 upvotes – 330 comments

A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1210997702152069120

6 years ago

398 upvotes – 362 comments

IncludeOS: a minimal unikernel operating system for C++ services

https://www.includeos.org/

6 years ago

380 upvotes – 181 comments

French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold

https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/19/french-court-valve-steam-resold/

6 years ago

352 upvotes – 241 comments

Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?

https://www.jefftk.com/p/programmers-should-plan-for-lower-pay

6 years ago

339 upvotes – 492 comments

Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21905423

6 years ago

338 upvotes – 182 comments

Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/researchers-discover-when-its-good-to-get-the-blues/

6 years ago

323 upvotes – 162 comments

Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?

https://medium.com/@byuu_san/googles-monopoly-is-stifling-free-software-e63dea114f39

6 years ago

302 upvotes – 176 comments

Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/

6 years ago

★ 7.6k C++ GPL-3.0
301 upvotes – 131 comments

The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017)

https://fee.org/articles/the-stingray-is-exactly-why-the-4th-amendment-was-written/

6 years ago

269 upvotes – 149 comments

SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (2011)

https://www.samygo.tv/

6 years ago

255 upvotes – 72 comments

Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21906650

6 years ago

238 upvotes – 135 comments

Tips I use to avoid burnout

http://addyosmani.com/blog/burnout/

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 78 comments

Ffmpeg-Python: Python bindings for FFmpeg – with complex filtering support

https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python

6 years ago

★ 10.9k Python Apache-2.0
220 upvotes – 29 comments

Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.0

http://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html?2.0.0#2.0.0

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 35 comments

The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999)

http://bofh.bjash.com/

6 years ago

196 upvotes – 94 comments
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