top 10 hacker news stories for 2019-12-30

What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

https://github.com/imsnif/what

6 years ago

★ 11.7k Rust MIT

How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure

https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-cure/

6 years ago

Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10936-inside_the_fake_like_factories

6 years ago

What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

https://quanticdev.com/articles/most-valuable-thing-to-learn-in-one-hour

6 years ago

Switching from Chrome to Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox

6 years ago

The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago

https://todos.tickgit.com/browse?repo=https://github.com/torvalds/linux

6 years ago

ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar

https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/30/protonmail-takes-aim-at-google-with-an-encrypted-calendar/

6 years ago

RIP Syd Mead (Blade Runner, TRON Designer)

http://sydmead.com/gallery/

6 years ago

Pedestrian routing that offers pleasant alternatives to the shortest route

https://www.gislounge.com/finding-pleasant-routes-using-gis/

6 years ago

KafkaHQ

https://github.com/tchiotludo/kafkahq

6 years ago

★ 3.7k Java Apache-2.0