top 20 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

Boeing 737 Max: Automated Crashes [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10961-boeing_737max_automated_crashes

6 years ago

Why introductory chemistry is boring: a long-term historical perspective

https://get21stnight.com/2019/12/27/why-introductory-chemistry-is-boring-a-long-term-historical-perspective/

6 years ago

Meet Dash O’Pepper

https://filipeherculano.dev/blog/dash-o-pepper/

6 years ago

Breast cancer detection in mammography using deep learning approach

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11027

6 years ago

Too Much Crypto [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf

6 years ago

CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping

https://gamozolabs.github.io/metrology/2019/12/30/load-port-monitor.html

6 years ago

Ask HN: Ex-Employer gossiping I “hacked” their platform – what to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21913383

6 years ago

What were the creepiest declassified documents of the last decade?

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ehhftl/serious_what_were_the_creepiest_declassified

6 years ago

Changes to accessing and using Geolite2 databases

https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/

6 years ago

How a preventable disaster killed six marines

https://www.propublica.org/article/marines-hornet-squadron-242-crash-pacific-resilard

6 years ago