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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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China drafts law protecting foreign IP and prohibiting forced tech transfer
120 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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How India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic
120 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Detroit News Vehicle of the Year is a Tesla
120 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Transparency Report: Government requests for customer data globally
120 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA
120 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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A Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun
119 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Ask HN: Best Centralized Backup Solution
119 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Storing C++ Objects in Distributed Memory
119 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Let Google do the patching with new managed base images
119 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will
119 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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We Have Given People Amyloid Disease
119 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 1: The Wild World of WebRTC
119 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Unmanned grocery delivery is underway in Arizona
118 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight
118 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Three academics are launching a new journal for arguments to be made anonymously
118 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009)
118 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Google Data Studio in 10 Minutes: Step-By-Step Guide
118 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Show HN: Vaex - Out of Core Dataframes for Python and Fast Visualization
118 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Bullet Journaling (2016)
117 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Switzerland to test ‘hyperloop’ train technologies
117 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Site, German Court Rules
117 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Show HN: CoolQLCool – Turn Websites into GraphQL Accessible APIs
116 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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A Lens-Less Camera Built Specially for AI and Computer Vision Programs
116 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – A Deep Dive
116 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Buttery smooth Emacs (2016)
116 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Pendulum Waves (2010)
116 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data
116 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Re: “How does writing CSS in JS make it any more maintainable?”
116 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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WALL·E – Typeset in the Future
115 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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YugaByteDB – A Transactional Database with Cassandra, Redis and PostgreSQL APIs
115 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Simple rules for documenting scientific software
115 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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The Complexity Trap: Think Before You Leap
115 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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DragonFly BSD 5.4
114 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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How the hell have you done it? (1961)
114 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Pivotal launches serverless framework that works across clouds and on-prem
114 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia Dies at 35
114 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Setback in the outback
114 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?
114 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Searching the Creative Internet
114 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Introspected REST: An alternative to REST and GraphQL
114 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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The Best History Books 2018
114 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Get the Font
114 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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US Dept of Energy AS32982 Network Possibly BGP Hijacked by China Telecom
113 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners
113 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf]
113 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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PC/GEOS
113 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
113 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language
113 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology
113 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy
113 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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A deep dive into the world of DOS viruses [video]
113 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Designing Headers for HTTP Compression
113 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Libpostal: A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world
112 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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A lesson on thinking and acting long term
112 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System
112 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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GoPro to move U.S.-bound camera production out of China
112 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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A tale of 132 e's
112 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (1977)
112 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Two images of the miners' strike, an instant apart: so which is the classic?
112 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to Occupational Licensing
112 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave
111 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Fixing a Tough Memory Leak in Python
111 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch
111 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Yes, You Should Walk Your Cat
111 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Mozilla revives Mozilla Labs
111 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Intro to Quantum Information Science
110 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity
110 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to
110 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Git quick statistics
110 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Yale scientists make a borophene breakthrough
109 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing (2016)
109 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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First baby born after deceased womb transplant
109 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Better Clojure formatting
109 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
109 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Connected Components – The one Graph Algorithm you need to know
109 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn
108 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Search is on for Google workers leaking secrets
108 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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The Matrix.org 2018 year in review
108 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Incrementally improving the performance of a Python script
108 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Salk scientists find genetic signatures of biological aging
108 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Yangtze River Port and Logistics: On-The-Ground Research Shows Assets Fabricated
108 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Show HN: Inside Python Dict – an explorable explanation
108 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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I was scammed by a celebrity influencer
108 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Re: [BREAKAGE] Since 4.18, kernel sets SB_I_NODEV implicitly on userns mounts
107 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Gatwick drones pair 'no longer suspects'
107 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Show HN: A mobile-friendly, web-based, countries of the world game
107 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best
107 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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MX-80 – Ahead of its time: A small, lightweight computer printer
107 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Wikipedia2Vec: Optimized Implementation for Learning Embeddings from Wikipedia
107 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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FizzBuzz in ten languages
107 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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How to Block Stingray Devices
107 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?
107 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Ways the world improved in 2018
106 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2
106 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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“Farout”, the Farthest Object Ever Seen in the Solar System
106 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with nearly 200-mile range
106 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping
106 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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US Surgeon General Declares E-cigarette Epidemic Among Youth [pdf]
106 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Facial Recognition App
106 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Cerberus – Semantic models for C
105 points • comment • dec 29, 2018