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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
1536 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Please do not attempt to simplify this code
1518 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL
1305 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Quora User Data Compromised
1237 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?
1197 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Goodbye, EdgeHTML
1140 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States
1112 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver
1074 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10
1040 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
1037 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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JIRA is an antipattern
993 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Robinhood launches 3% checking account
964 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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The Yoda of Silicon Valley
964 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Firefox 64 Released
942 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves
920 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics
917 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares
905 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
865 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
861 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Facial recognition: It’s time for action
856 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to
820 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
806 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain
798 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says
778 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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DigitalOcean launches its container service
762 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth
761 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
755 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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A well-known URL for changing passwords
740 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Facebook's seized files published by MPs
727 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Things I Don’t Know as of 2018
702 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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MailChimp deleted my account with no warning
701 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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DOOMBA
673 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much?
672 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
668 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
661 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Guide to scaling engineering organizations
656 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces
651 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode”
651 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Larry Roberts has died
649 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
630 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Ask HN: What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?
628 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
628 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool
625 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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How DOOM fire was done
623 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?
618 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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UCLA asked faculty to consider declining to review for Elsevier journals
611 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
602 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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We should replace Facebook with personal websites
586 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.
586 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space
585 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Windows Sandbox
581 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation
580 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
575 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Fridge 0.2
575 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
563 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world
557 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier
555 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead
546 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Lyft Files for IPO
546 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0
540 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Changes to U.S. federal authorities relating to production and marketing of hemp
532 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Write Your Own Virtual Machine
530 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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How the Valley treats experienced people
526 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Rust 2018 is here, but what is it?
523 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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ATDT relief
522 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain
515 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Windows file access performance compared to Linux
507 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones
504 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics (2017)
503 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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MIPS Goes Open Source
502 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
496 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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The Friendship That Made Google Huge
495 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users
494 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Fish shell 3.0
493 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
492 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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They Rejected Us
490 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Archive.org donations are currently matched by a generous supporter 2-to-1
489 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
487 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library
485 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
484 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Stop Learning Frameworks
484 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
481 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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SIPC Says It Has Serious Concerns About Robinhood's New Product
476 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real
476 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
472 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Repl.it Multiplayer
471 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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A blogging style guide
471 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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PyTorch 1.0 is out
468 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers
465 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Neural Networks as Ordinary Differential Equations
464 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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How to Grow Old (1951)
464 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Introducing Project Mu
463 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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My Dad's Friendship with Charles Barkley
462 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Blender 2.8
461 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
457 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
457 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Why Not to Use Quora
456 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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An Apology and an Update
456 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent
455 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Robinhood Checking Moved Fast and Broke
451 points • comment • dec 17, 2018