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Stories from December 23, 2019
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1.Downsides to working at a tech giant (garrytan.com)
700 points by razin on Dec 23, 2019 | 559 comments
2.Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens (reuters.com)
659 points by pseudolus on Dec 23, 2019 | 609 comments
3.Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal (github.com/ffwff)
542 points by hootbootscoot on Dec 23, 2019 | 251 comments
4.UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create (undraw.co)
775 points by pixelN on Dec 22, 2019 | 75 comments
5.Working for a startup makes less sense (zainamro.com)
572 points by zainamro on Dec 23, 2019 | 378 comments
6.Open-Source Spotify App (github.com/thasianx)
345 points by thasian on Dec 23, 2019 | 110 comments
7.People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study (npr.org)
294 points by dhimes on Dec 22, 2019 | 183 comments
8.Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems (washingtonpost.com)
158 points by longdefeat on Dec 19, 2019 | 116 comments
9.Evolutionary history and why physical activity is important for brain health (scientificamerican.com)
284 points by lxm on Dec 23, 2019 | 123 comments
10.Radeon Open Compute 3.0 (github.com/radeonopencompute)
208 points by mroche on Dec 22, 2019 | 55 comments
11.Million WebSockets and Go (2017) (gbws.io)
210 points by riobard on Dec 23, 2019 | 34 comments
12.Ram Dass has died (tricycle.org)
372 points by okareaman on Dec 23, 2019 | 192 comments
13.How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL (tympanus.net)
253 points by cardimart on Dec 23, 2019 | 23 comments
14.Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines (terodox.tech)
185 points by terodox on Dec 23, 2019 | 53 comments
15.The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land (bloomberg.com)
129 points by pseudolus on Dec 23, 2019 | 255 comments
16.WTFPython – Understanding Python through surprising snippets (github.com/satwikkansal)
396 points by throwaway_shame on Dec 23, 2019 | 185 comments
17.The Year in Biology (quantamagazine.org)
107 points by theafh on Dec 23, 2019 | 2 comments
18.Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky (sciencealert.com)
189 points by nabla9 on Dec 23, 2019 | 172 comments
19.Show HN: Linux driver for the Xbox One wireless dongle (github.com/medusalix)
158 points by Medusalix on Dec 22, 2019 | 22 comments
20.Randomize HN: Removing the vote threshold for getting to the front page (danluu.com)
117 points by goranmoomin on Dec 23, 2019 | 54 comments
21.Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing (2018) (github.com/microsoft)
332 points by hnbreak on Dec 23, 2019 | 117 comments
22.Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015) (scientificamerican.com)
114 points by julianshapiro on Dec 22, 2019 | 42 comments
23.Show HN: Timelite, a simple time tracking solution (github.com/overshard)
109 points by overshard on Dec 22, 2019 | 34 comments
24.Okay, Maybe Proofs Aren't Dying After All (scientificamerican.com)
104 points by lelf on Dec 22, 2019 | 12 comments
25.Windows 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium (securelist.com)
128 points by peter_d_sherman on Dec 23, 2019 | 23 comments
26.Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows (github.com/spectresystems)
89 points by GordonS on Dec 23, 2019 | 53 comments
27.Reviewing Bad Schematics as EE Interview Tactic (cushychicken.github.io)
104 points by bcaa7f3a8bbc on Dec 23, 2019 | 107 comments
28.China Is About to Fire Up Its HL-2M Tokamak (newsweek.com)
150 points by off_by_one on Dec 22, 2019 | 162 comments
29.Efficient cache for gigabytes of data written in Go (github.com/allegro)
153 points by alexellisuk on Dec 20, 2019 | 67 comments
30.How Crisco Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food (smithsonianmag.com)
104 points by pseudolus on Dec 23, 2019 | 185 comments

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