HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

421 points by ellinoora on Dec 16, 2019 | 320 comments

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Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later (community.pcgamingwiki.com)

419 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 4, 2019 | 181 comments

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My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months (medium.com)

419 points by jhow15 on Dec 3, 2019 | 97 comments

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Go + Services = One Goliath Project (engineering.khanacademy.org)

418 points by yawn on Dec 21, 2019 | 434 comments

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AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab (twitter.com)

415 points by _ps6d on Dec 9, 2019 | 202 comments

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You might literally be buying trash on Amazon (wsj.com)

414 points by mudil on Dec 17, 2019 | 429 comments

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An opinionated approach to GNU Make (tech.davis-hansson.com)

414 points by DarkCrusader2 on Dec 17, 2019 | 194 comments

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How tracking pixels work (jvns.ca)

413 points by dailymorn on Dec 19, 2019 | 142 comments

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Operations for Effective CEOs (sametab.com)

413 points by anacleto on Dec 9, 2019 | 67 comments

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Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work

411 points by brian_krejcarek on Dec 16, 2019 | 143 comments

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49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change (grahamcluley.com)

410 points by pwg on Dec 13, 2019 | 306 comments

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Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?

407 points by HAL9OOO on Dec 23, 2019 | 141 comments

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Things end users care about but programmers don't (instadeq.com)

406 points by marianoguerra on Dec 9, 2019 | 245 comments

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#include </etc/shadow> (blog.hboeck.de)

406 points by goranmoomin on Dec 17, 2019 | 121 comments

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Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline (github.com)

406 points by archivist1 on Dec 22, 2019 | 97 comments

166.

Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console (craigjb.com)

406 points by craigjb on Dec 24, 2019 | 50 comments

167.

An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry (nytimes.com)

405 points by danso on Dec 19, 2019 | 116 comments

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Category Theory for Programmers (2014) [pdf] (github.com)

403 points by furcyd on Dec 24, 2019 | 129 comments

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Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust (blog.anp.lol)

400 points by anp on Dec 2, 2019 | 190 comments

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A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server (twitter.com)

398 points by Impossible on Dec 29, 2019 | 362 comments

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Learning to code vs. learning to automate (daedtech.com)

398 points by sharacane on Dec 8, 2019 | 181 comments

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WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets (github.com)

396 points by throwaway_shame on Dec 23, 2019 | 185 comments

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Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust (github.com)

396 points by adamnemecek on Dec 11, 2019 | 74 comments

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If this project is dead, just tell us (github.com)

395 points by omni on Dec 13, 2019 | 313 comments

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Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack (breakoutstartups.substack.com)

395 points by ankitkumar98 on Dec 17, 2019 | 241 comments

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How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers (dylanpaulus.com)

395 points by ganderzz on Dec 3, 2019 | 233 comments

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Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case (arstechnica.com)

390 points by AndrewDucker on Dec 18, 2019 | 131 comments

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The top bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity (augustl.com)

388 points by keyP on Dec 18, 2019 | 179 comments

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U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices (reuters.com)

386 points by swat535 on Dec 21, 2019 | 161 comments

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Show HN: Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper (eschersket.ch)

386 points by alevskaya on Dec 26, 2019 | 27 comments