top 10 hacker news stories for 2020-01-05

Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961560

6 years ago

1337 upvotes – 970 comments

No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation)

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189723

6 years ago

540 upvotes – 274 comments

Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961214

6 years ago

428 upvotes – 433 comments

Cutting Google out of your life (2019)

https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle

6 years ago

365 upvotes – 175 comments

Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler

https://parceljs.org/

6 years ago

347 upvotes – 201 comments

How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)

https://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/

6 years ago

336 upvotes – 166 comments

Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/oracle-copied-amazons-api-was-that-copyright-infringement/

6 years ago

292 upvotes – 123 comments

Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39354-4

6 years ago

289 upvotes – 142 comments

Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression

https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/

6 years ago

271 upvotes – 153 comments

Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice

https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/

6 years ago

265 upvotes – 76 comments
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