Hacker News on 8 December 2019

• Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14
• Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
• If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)
• Learning to code vs. learning to automate
• Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups
• GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC
• Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow
• The Go runtime scheduler's way of dealing with system calls
• Cairo Desktop Environment
• Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?