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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you responsibly report security bugs to open-source projects?

New top story from Time: Trump Says He’ll Sign the First Phase of a China Trade Deal on Jan. 15

New top story from Time: Time’s Up for ‘Totes:’ A New Batch of Banned Words Is Out

New top story on Hacker News: Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

New top story on Hacker News: I asked a hacker to spy on me via my Amazon account

New top story on Hacker News: U.S. Goods Trade Deficit Declines to Smallest in Three Years

New top story on Hacker News: A music player for the TS80 soldering iron

New top story on Hacker News: Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux scheduler is

New top story on Hacker News: Microsoft Japan’s 4-day workweek experiment sees productivity jump 40%

New top story on Hacker News: The Immortal Game

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Blackpage – A Social Network for the Command Line

New top story on Hacker News: How a preventable disaster killed six marines

New top story on Hacker News: The Second SHA-1 Hash Collision

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?

New top story on Hacker News: Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser

New top story on Hacker News: New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity

New top story on Hacker News: Police Departments Are Using Swatting Registries to Protect Swatting Targets

New top story on Hacker News: The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009)

New top story on Hacker News: Xinu Is Not Unix

New top story on Hacker News: The Four-Inch Flight – A Lesson from History

New top story on Hacker News: Amazon is about to host a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters

New top story on Hacker News: The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out

New top story on Hacker News: Verdigris: Qt Without Moc

New top story from Time: With Births Down, the U.S. Sees the Slowest Population Growth Rate in a Century

New top story on Hacker News: The battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age

New top story on Hacker News: KernType – A Kerning Game

New top story on Hacker News: Huawei’s Revenue Hits Record $122B in 2019 Despite U.S. Campaign

Wikipedia article of the day for December 31, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: “Wyze was committing espionage against American citizens in the United States”

New top story on Hacker News: Deep learning algorithm outperforms 5 full-time breast imaging specialists

New top story on Hacker News: Researchers observe brain-like behavior in nanoscale device

New top story on Hacker News: What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

New top story on Hacker News: X-Ray Fourier Ptychography

New top story on Hacker News: The Central Limit Theorem and Its Misuse

New top story on Hacker News: An Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure

New top story on Hacker News: German expressions that don’t exist in English

New top story on Hacker News: CPU Introspection: Intel Load Port Snooping

New top story from Time: U.S. Airstrikes in Syria and Iraq Target Militia Blamed for American Contractor’s Death

New top story on Hacker News: Empirical Comparison of DOS Kernels (2015)

New top story on Hacker News: The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones

New top story on Hacker News: Chips Are Getting Noisier

New top story on Hacker News: Tarot for Hackers

New top story on Hacker News: The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago

New top story on Hacker News: The Security Architecture of Qmail (2004) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Andrew Taylor: I’m on Medicare, but I still got stuck with a $25k hospital bill

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Chromda – Serverless Website Screenshots

New top story on Hacker News: Principles of the American Cargo Cult (2003)

New top story on Hacker News: How writing began, and other unexpectedly funny stories about cuneiform [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Taking a look at a covert CIA virtual fencing solution [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Video: A Language for Making Movies

New top story on Hacker News: Quanta’s Year in Math and Computer Science (2019)

Wikipedia article of the day for December 30, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Why I won't switch to Firefox as a web developer

New top story on Hacker News: A 3 weeks trip to Europe costed him 411$

New top story on Hacker News: Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet (1996)

New top story on Hacker News: The Joy of Cosmic Mediocrity

New top story on Hacker News: Tips I use to avoid burnout

New top story on Hacker News: The Bastard Operator From Hell

New top story on Hacker News: Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code

New top story on Hacker News: My Decade in Google Searches

New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Space Launch Now – Spaceflight News and Events

New top story on Hacker News: Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay

New top story on Hacker News: A look inside TSMC

New top story on Hacker News: Build an Ioniser in Under $10

New top story on Hacker News: Why Canada's cannabis bubble burst

New top story on Hacker News: Wisdom (albatross)

New top story on Hacker News: The Ecosystem Is Moving

New top story on Hacker News: YouTube seeks 'responsibility'

Fox News Breaking News Alert

New top story on Hacker News: SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs

New top story on Hacker News: Uncover, Understand, Own – Regaining Control over Your AMD CPU [video]

New top story on Hacker News: Computer Science from the Bottom Up

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures

New top story on Hacker News: FDA approves new treatment for adults with migraine

Wikipedia article of the day for December 29, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: FreeDB Is Shutting Down

New top story on Hacker News: YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client Written in Rust

New top story on Hacker News: Robot Odyssey (1984)

New top story on Hacker News: Pro-Indian 'fake websites targeted decision makers in Europe'

New top story on Hacker News: Interactive Lorenz Attractor

New top story on Hacker News: Optimizing for the Speed of Light

New top story on Hacker News: Why tennis balls are yellow or green

New top story on Hacker News: First-ever electric motorbike made in Nepal

New top story on Hacker News: To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down

New top story on Hacker News: Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives”

New top story on Hacker News: A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines

New top story on Hacker News: CEO of Shopify says long hours aren't necessary for success

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Localdots – HTTPS domains for localhost with autoconfig and hot reload

New top story on Hacker News: Esterel – Synchronous programming language for complex, reactive systems

New top story on Hacker News: Age limit now 21 across US for cigarettes, tobacco products

New top story on Hacker News: Topology and complex analysis for the unsuspecting game dev

New top story from Time: The Darksaber Made a Crucial Appearance in The Mandalorian‘s Season Finale. Here’s Its Significance in Star Wars Lore

New top story on Hacker News: DJ Steve Aoki quietly opens a cloud only pizza restaurant in Oakland

New top story on Hacker News: Variable Fonts: The Future of Web Type (2016)

New top story on Hacker News: Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns

New top story on Hacker News: The US inmates billed per night in jail

New top story on Hacker News: Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool

New top story on Hacker News: The Watch Is Smart, but It Can’t Replace Your Doctor

Wikipedia article of the day for December 28, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Considering Python's Target Audience

New top story on Hacker News: My Semester with the Snowflakes

New top story on Hacker News: Five Card Nancy (1999)

New top story on Hacker News: What can we learn from slime mould?

Fox News Breaking News Alert

New top story on Hacker News: XXL: A minimal vector programming language

New top story on Hacker News: The Machine Learning Reproducibility Checklist [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: On June 11th, the Strand was designated a landmark

New top story on Hacker News: Netflix was the top stock of the decade, delivering over 4k% return

New top story on Hacker News: Move to the Big City

New top story on Hacker News: Turkey’s ban on Wikipedia is ruled unconstitutional

New top story on Hacker News: Generative adversarial networks: What GANs are and how they’ve evolved

New top story on Hacker News: Alcohol and social bonding in humans (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: In New York, Making Ends Meet on a 5-Cent Recycling Deposit

New top story on Hacker News: C Is Not a Low-Level Language: Your Computer Is Not a Fast PDP-11

New top story from Time: Sustainability in Fashion Faces an Uphill Climb as the Industry Remains One of the World’s Largest Polluters

New top story on Hacker News: How has Prop. 13 affected tax distribution in Santa Clara County?

New top story on Hacker News: Elroy Air’s autonomous hybrid aircraft can pick up cargo containers on its own

Wikipedia article of the day for December 27, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper

New top story on Hacker News: Source Code Linking: Merging C Headers into Rust Modules

New top story on Hacker News: Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus

New top story on Hacker News: Life of slavery – the perpetuation of bonded labor in Pakistan

New top story on Hacker News: Most cybercrime doesn't involve computer hacking

New top story from Time: Penn Badgley Wants Viewers of You Season 2 to Keep Questioning the Appeal of His Charming Stalker Joe

New top story on Hacker News: How to Manage Apache Airflow with Systemd on Debian or Ubuntu

New top story on Hacker News: I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)

New top story on Hacker News: Web Scraping: How to Bypass Anti-Scraping Tools on Websites

New top story on Hacker News: Takeaways from coaching over a hundred CEOs, founders and VCs this year

New top story on Hacker News: Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020

New top story on Hacker News: U.S. Tech Giants Bet Big on India, and Now It’s Changing the Rules

New top story on Hacker News: Here’s the story of a game I made in 1994, when I was 12

New top story on Hacker News: Silicon Drift Detector

New top story on Hacker News: RFC 8700 – Fifty Years of RFCs

New top story on Hacker News: Imsai 8080 Replica

New top story on Hacker News: Lawmakers Warn Against Private Equity Firm's .Org Takeover

New top story on Hacker News: RetroArch 1.8.2 – making games more accessible for blind people

New top story on Hacker News: Experimenting with RGBW Color Mixing

New top story on Hacker News: “Breathability” Comparison of Commercial Outerwear Shell Layers (2018) [pdf]

New top story on Hacker News: Z’s Still Not Dead Baby, Z’s Still Not Dead

New top story on Hacker News: Classic Computer and Video Game Magazine Christmas Covers

New top story on Hacker News: Installing a/UX on the Quadra 610

Wikipedia article of the day for December 26, 2019

New top story on Hacker News: AirPods Are Becoming a Platform

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do those eMMC Windows laptops work?

New top story on Hacker News: Ghent Altarpiece: latest phase of restoration unmasks 16th century overpainting

New top story on Hacker News: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney changed video game industry

New top story on Hacker News: Federal Toxmap Shutters, Raising the Ire of Pollution Researchers

New top story on Hacker News: iNaturalist

New top story from Time: New Navy Nuclear Submarines Will Revive the Names of Battleships Sunk at Pearl Harbor

New top story on Hacker News: How We Achieved 40K QPS and 20 Bn Rows of Data in a Single Scale-Out Cluster

New top story on Hacker News: The man who made Wolfenstein

New top story from Time: Putin Says Russia Has Surpassed the U.S. in Hypersonic Weapons

New top story on Hacker News: Natural language isn’t just English [pdf]

New top story from Time: Pope Francis Says God Loves ‘Even the Worst of Us’ at Christmas Midnight Mass

New top story on Hacker News: An art dealer disappeared with $50M. 17 years later a documentary crew found him

New top story on Hacker News: Why Brave Isn't Bad

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console

New top story on Hacker News: Discovering a Galaxy with a Telephoto Lens (2016)

New top story on Hacker News: The investigation into ToTok

New top story on Hacker News: Post-Mortem for Bra Theory

New top story from Time: President Trump and First Lady Melania Attend Christmas Eve Service at West Palm Beach Church