top 20 hacker news stories for 2019-12-31

IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-reforms-free-file-program-drops-agreement-not-to-compete-with-turbotax

6 years ago

1721 upvotes – 448 comments

Show HN: A tiny isometric city builder in JavaScript

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity

6 years ago

593 upvotes – 104 comments

Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

https://davebakker.io/onepagecalendar/

6 years ago

517 upvotes – 98 comments

New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity

https://www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/news/news-articles/news/new-material-breaks-world-record-turning-heat-into-electricity/

6 years ago

424 upvotes – 152 comments

Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21924298

6 years ago

423 upvotes – 118 comments

Doing a database join with CSV files

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/12/31/sql-join-csv-files/

6 years ago

357 upvotes – 111 comments

All DMCA notices filed against TorrentFreak in 2019 were bogus

https://torrentfreak.com/all-dmca-notices-filed-against-torrentfreak-in-2019-were-bogus-191231/

6 years ago

349 upvotes – 65 comments

The impact of cannabis access laws on opioid prescribing

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102273

6 years ago

343 upvotes – 188 comments

Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux scheduler is

https://probablydance.com/2019/12/30/measuring-mutexes-spinlocks-and-how-bad-the-linux-scheduler-really-is/

6 years ago

331 upvotes – 93 comments

Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919465

6 years ago

328 upvotes – 89 comments

The old internet died and we watched and did nothing

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/how-we-killed-the-old-internet

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 293 comments

Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21920173

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 263 comments

Key practices for achieving large professional goals

https://nodramadevops.com/2019/12/key-practices-for-achieving-large-professional-goals/

6 years ago

239 upvotes – 36 comments

Immortal Game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_Game

6 years ago

227 upvotes – 52 comments

Crafting Interpreters: Classes and Instances

http://craftinginterpreters.com/classes-and-instances.html

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 13 comments

How to Be a Statistical Detective

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1002/pmrj.12305

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 3 comments

Libcamera – A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS

http://libcamera.org/

6 years ago

184 upvotes – 51 comments

Bushfires in Australia so big they generate pyrocumulonimbus starting more fires

https://www.businessinsider.sg/australia-bushfires-generate-pyrocumulonimbus-thunderstorm-clouds-2019-12/

6 years ago

182 upvotes – 135 comments

Datamining Bandersnatch

https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2019/08/02/datamining-bandersnatch/

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 14 comments

Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

https://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html

6 years ago

173 upvotes – 309 comments
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