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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. China drafts law protecting foreign IP and prohibiting forced tech transfer

    120 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  2. How India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic

    120 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  3. Detroit News Vehicle of the Year is a Tesla

    120 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  4. Transparency Report: Government requests for customer data globally

    120 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  5. Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA

    120 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  6. A Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun

    119 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  7. Ask HN: Best Centralized Backup Solution

    119 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  8. Storing C++ Objects in Distributed Memory

    119 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  9. Let Google do the patching with new managed base images

    119 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  10. Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will

    119 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  11. We Have Given People Amyloid Disease

    119 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  12. Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 1: The Wild World of WebRTC

    119 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  13. Unmanned grocery delivery is underway in Arizona

    118 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  14. How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight

    118 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  15. Three academics are launching a new journal for arguments to be made anonymously

    118 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  16. Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009)

    118 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  17. Google Data Studio in 10 Minutes: Step-By-Step Guide

    118 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  18. Show HN: Vaex - Out of Core Dataframes for Python and Fast Visualization

    118 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  19. Bullet Journaling (2016)

    117 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  20. Switzerland to test ‘hyperloop’ train technologies

    117 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  21. Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Site, German Court Rules

    117 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  22. Show HN: CoolQLCool – Turn Websites into GraphQL Accessible APIs

    116 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  23. A Lens-Less Camera Built Specially for AI and Computer Vision Programs

    116 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  24. Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – A Deep Dive

    116 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  25. Buttery smooth Emacs (2016)

    116 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  26. Pendulum Waves (2010)

    116 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  27. Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data

    116 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  28. Re: “‬How does writing CSS in JS make it any more maintainable?”

    116 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  29. WALL·E – Typeset in the Future

    115 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  30. YugaByteDB – A Transactional Database with Cassandra, Redis and PostgreSQL APIs

    115 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  31. Simple rules for documenting scientific software

    115 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  32. The Complexity Trap: Think Before You Leap

    115 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  33. DragonFly BSD 5.4

    114 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  34. How the hell have you done it? (1961)

    114 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  35. Pivotal launches serverless framework that works across clouds and on-prem

    114 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  36. Cofounder of Vine and HQ Trivia Dies at 35

    114 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  37. Setback in the outback

    114 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  38. Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

    114 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  39. Searching the Creative Internet

    114 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  40. Introspected REST: An alternative to REST and GraphQL

    114 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  41. The Best History Books 2018

    114 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  42. Get the Font

    114 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  43. US Dept of Energy AS32982 Network Possibly BGP Hijacked by China Telecom

    113 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  44. An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners

    113 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  45. Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf]

    113 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  46. PC/GEOS

    113 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  47. Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

    113 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  48. Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language

    113 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  49. No, negative masses have not revolutionized cosmology

    113 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  50. Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy

    113 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  51. A deep dive into the world of DOS viruses [video]

    113 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  52. Designing Headers for HTTP Compression

    113 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  53. Libpostal: A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world

    112 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  54. A lesson on thinking and acting long term

    112 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  55. What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System

    112 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  56. GoPro to move U.S.-bound camera production out of China

    112 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  57. A tale of 132 e's

    112 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  58. In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (1977)

    112 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  59. Two images of the miners' strike, an instant apart: so which is the classic?

    112 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  60. Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to Occupational Licensing

    112 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  61. Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave

    111 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  62. Fixing a Tough Memory Leak in Python

    111 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  63. Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch

    111 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  64. Yes, You Should Walk Your Cat

    111 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  65. Mozilla revives Mozilla Labs

    111 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  66. Intro to Quantum Information Science

    110 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  67. World's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity

    110 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  68. Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to

    110 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  69. Git quick statistics

    110 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  70. Yale scientists make a borophene breakthrough

    109 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  71. Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing (2016)

    109 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  72. First baby born after deceased womb transplant

    109 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  73. Better Clojure formatting

    109 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  74. How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space

    109 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  75. Connected Components – The one Graph Algorithm you need to know

    109 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  76. Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn

    108 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  77. Search is on for Google workers leaking secrets

    108 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  78. The Matrix.org 2018 year in review

    108 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  79. Incrementally improving the performance of a Python script

    108 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  80. Salk scientists find genetic signatures of biological aging

    108 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  81. Yangtze River Port and Logistics: On-The-Ground Research Shows Assets Fabricated

    108 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  82. Show HN: Inside Python Dict – an explorable explanation

    108 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  83. I was scammed by a celebrity influencer

    108 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  84. Re: [BREAKAGE] Since 4.18, kernel sets SB_I_NODEV implicitly on userns mounts

    107 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  85. Gatwick drones pair 'no longer suspects'

    107 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  86. Show HN: A mobile-friendly, web-based, countries of the world game

    107 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  87. The enormous life of Anthony Bourdain, according to those who knew him best

    107 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  88. MX-80 – Ahead of its time: A small, lightweight computer printer

    107 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  89. Wikipedia2Vec: Optimized Implementation for Learning Embeddings from Wikipedia

    107 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  90. FizzBuzz in ten languages

    107 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  91. How to Block Stingray Devices

    107 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  92. Ask HN: Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?

    107 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  93. Ways the world improved in 2018

    106 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  94. How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2

    106 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  95. “Farout”, the Farthest Object Ever Seen in the Solar System

    106 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  96. Great Wall Motor unveils $9k electric urban car with nearly 200-mile range

    106 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  97. Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping

    106 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  98. US Surgeon General Declares E-cigarette Epidemic Among Youth [pdf]

    106 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  99. Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Facial Recognition App

    106 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  100. Cerberus – Semantic models for C

    105 points • comment • dec 29, 2018