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Top of Month - Dec 2019

1. My Business Card Runs Linux
   (24 Dec 2019 | 2595 points | Comments)

2. Having Kids
   (14 Dec 2019 | 1992 points | Comments)

3. IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax
   (31 Dec 2019 | 1721 points | Comments)

4. Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
   (11 Dec 2019 | 1673 points | Comments)

5. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
   (16 Dec 2019 | 1536 points | Comments)

6. Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14
   (8 Dec 2019 | 1393 points | Comments)

7. The Lesson to Unlearn
   (7 Dec 2019 | 1333 points | Comments)

8. This Page is Designed to Last
   (19 Dec 2019 | 1321 points | Comments)

9. Fast
   (21 Dec 2019 | 1314 points | Comments)

10. Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
    (12 Dec 2019 | 1303 points | Comments)

11. Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
    (28 Dec 2019 | 1246 points | Comments)

12. How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
    (5 Dec 2019 | 1238 points | Comments)

13. Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
    (27 Dec 2019 | 1236 points | Comments)

14. Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
    (3 Dec 2019 | 1204 points | Comments)

15. JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised
    (15 Dec 2019 | 1168 points | Comments)

16. The Great Cannon has been deployed again
    (6 Dec 2019 | 1043 points | Comments)

17. PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
    (2 Dec 2019 | 1004 points | Comments)

18. Challenging projects every programmer should try
    (14 Dec 2019 | 911 points | Comments)

19. Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down
    (3 Dec 2019 | 908 points | Comments)

20. Fight back against Google AMP (2018)
    (4 Dec 2019 | 895 points | Comments)

21. Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
    (5 Dec 2019 | 882 points | Comments)

22. Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?
    (28 Dec 2019 | 873 points | Comments)

23. What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth
    (30 Dec 2019 | 863 points | Comments)

24. FUSE for macOS is no longer open source
    (11 Dec 2019 | 840 points | Comments)

25. SQL Murder Mystery
    (16 Dec 2019 | 823 points | Comments)

26. ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop
    (10 Dec 2019 | 814 points | Comments)

27. Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
    (17 Dec 2019 | 807 points | Comments)

28. The world needs more search engines
    (1 Dec 2019 | 795 points | Comments)

29. Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
    (13 Dec 2019 | 787 points | Comments)

30. The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
    (3 Dec 2019 | 783 points | Comments)

31. Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
    (5 Dec 2019 | 781 points | Comments)

32. Apple News No Longer Supports RSS
    (27 Dec 2019 | 781 points | Comments)

33. UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create
    (22 Dec 2019 | 775 points | Comments)

34. 0.30000000000000004
    (2 Dec 2019 | 768 points | Comments)

35. The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation
    (3 Dec 2019 | 750 points | Comments)

36. Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
    (17 Dec 2019 | 743 points | Comments)

37. Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package
    (5 Dec 2019 | 741 points | Comments)

38. Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
    (18 Dec 2019 | 740 points | Comments)

39. Google claims copyright on employee side projects
    (18 Dec 2019 | 738 points | Comments)

40. ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance
    (11 Dec 2019 | 730 points | Comments)

41. Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
    (11 Dec 2019 | 728 points | Comments)

42. ICANN Delays .ORG Sale Approval
    (16 Dec 2019 | 728 points | Comments)

43. Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game
    (22 Dec 2019 | 716 points | Comments)

44. Ultrasound destroys 80 percent of prostate cancers in one-year study
    (11 Dec 2019 | 708 points | Comments)

45. Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
    (19 Dec 2019 | 705 points | Comments)

46. The Deep Sea
    (21 Dec 2019 | 703 points | Comments)

47. Downsides to working at a tech giant
    (23 Dec 2019 | 700 points | Comments)

48. Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
    (12 Dec 2019 | 690 points | Comments)

49. Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code
    (29 Dec 2019 | 685 points | Comments)

50. The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug
    (13 Dec 2019 | 676 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?
    (18 Dec 2019 | 673 points | Comments)

52. Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV
    (17 Dec 2019 | 660 points | Comments)

53. Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
    (23 Dec 2019 | 659 points | Comments)

54. Django 3
    (2 Dec 2019 | 657 points | Comments)

55. Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots
    (5 Dec 2019 | 656 points | Comments)

56. Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?
    (22 Dec 2019 | 643 points | Comments)

57. Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
    (19 Dec 2019 | 639 points | Comments)

58. How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
    (30 Dec 2019 | 633 points | Comments)

59. No to Chrome
    (6 Dec 2019 | 632 points | Comments)

60. Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]
    (30 Dec 2019 | 626 points | Comments)

61. Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys
    (4 Dec 2019 | 624 points | Comments)

62. Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website
    (6 Dec 2019 | 623 points | Comments)

63. Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?
    (7 Dec 2019 | 622 points | Comments)

64. Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2016)
    (29 Dec 2019 | 618 points | Comments)

65. Sinkholed
    (4 Dec 2019 | 616 points | Comments)

66. The Product-Minded Software Engineer
    (7 Dec 2019 | 616 points | Comments)

67. Happy Hues – Curated colors in context
    (13 Dec 2019 | 606 points | Comments)

68. BPF: A New Type of Software
    (3 Dec 2019 | 603 points | Comments)

69. Hexing the technical interview (2017)
    (5 Dec 2019 | 598 points | Comments)

70. T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)
    (25 Dec 2019 | 595 points | Comments)

71. Show HN: A tiny isometric city builder in JavaScript
    (31 Dec 2019 | 593 points | Comments)

72. A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer”
    (11 Dec 2019 | 589 points | Comments)

73. Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim
    (12 Dec 2019 | 586 points | Comments)

74. What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
    (30 Dec 2019 | 585 points | Comments)

75. Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2
    (5 Dec 2019 | 584 points | Comments)

76. Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward
    (22 Dec 2019 | 580 points | Comments)

77. Working for a startup makes less sense
    (23 Dec 2019 | 572 points | Comments)

78. Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018)
    (29 Dec 2019 | 571 points | Comments)

79. Switching from Chrome to Firefox
    (30 Dec 2019 | 568 points | Comments)

80. WireGuard is in net-next
    (9 Dec 2019 | 567 points | Comments)

81. Undocumented Catalina file access change
    (18 Dec 2019 | 566 points | Comments)

82. How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?
    (22 Dec 2019 | 566 points | Comments)

83. NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002)
    (22 Dec 2019 | 564 points | Comments)

84. Windows 95 UI Design
    (25 Dec 2019 | 555 points | Comments)

85. An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
    (13 Dec 2019 | 554 points | Comments)

86. Advent of Code 2019
    (1 Dec 2019 | 552 points | Comments)

87. Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success
    (27 Dec 2019 | 552 points | Comments)

88. Scaling React Server Side Rendering
    (27 Dec 2019 | 551 points | Comments)

89. Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine
    (15 Dec 2019 | 545 points | Comments)

90. WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security
    (27 Dec 2019 | 545 points | Comments)

91. What happens when your career becomes your whole identity
    (27 Dec 2019 | 544 points | Comments)

92. Guide to Software Defined Radio
    (20 Dec 2019 | 543 points | Comments)

93. Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
    (23 Dec 2019 | 542 points | Comments)

94. Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision
    (19 Dec 2019 | 541 points | Comments)

95. Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)
    (22 Dec 2019 | 535 points | Comments)

96. Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs
    (26 Dec 2019 | 533 points | Comments)

97. Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)
    (4 Dec 2019 | 528 points | Comments)

98. AMD’s Entire Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU Inventory Sold Out in Japan
    (2 Dec 2019 | 525 points | Comments)

99. Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source
    (3 Dec 2019 | 517 points | Comments)

100. Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020
     (31 Dec 2019 | 517 points | Comments)