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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. An Epidemic of Loneliness in America?

    105 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  2. Firefox partners with ProtonVPN

    105 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  3. Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche

    105 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  4. Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron

    105 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  5. Gatwick Airport: Drone sightings cause delays

    105 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  6. Why Most Software Engineers Lose Nothing by Unionizing

    105 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  7. BloomRPC: GUI Client for GRPC Services

    105 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  8. A jackal's nose for the job

    105 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  9. Microsoft is Dead (2007)

    104 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  10. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)

    104 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  11. Teensy 3.1 bare metal: Writing a USB driver (2014)

    104 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  12. Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace

    104 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  13. Party REPL – A multi-player REPL built for pair-programming [video]

    104 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  14. Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta

    104 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  15. Don't allow popups during page unload

    104 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  16. Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods

    104 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  17. Investigating Jeanne Calment’s Longevity Record

    103 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  18. Show HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't pay Public School fees

    103 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  19. TypeScript in 5 minutes

    103 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  20. A month of Flutter: a look back

    103 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  21. How to do with probabilities what people say you can’t (1985) [pdf]

    103 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  22. Paleotronic's 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year One: 1980

    103 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  23. Two Chinese Stalagmites Are a 'Holy Grail' for Accurate Radiocarbon Dating

    103 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  24. Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API

    103 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  25. Show HN: Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody

    103 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  26. What do you dislike about React Native?

    103 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  27. Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation

    103 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  28. Inside the Philly DA’s side hustle –selling seized homes to speculators and cops

    102 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  29. Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps

    102 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  30. The popularity of the Squatty Potty

    102 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  31. A history of the distributed transactional database

    102 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  32. We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data

    102 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  33. Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017)

    102 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  34. Rediscovering My Daughter Through Instagram

    102 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  35. How Much of the Internet Is Fake?

    102 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  36. Why Exaggeration Jokes Work

    102 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  37. Controlling the Spice, Part 3: Westwood’s Dune

    102 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  38. Indian technology talent is flocking to Canada

    102 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  39. The price of the Manhattan Project (2013)

    101 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  40. FLI: A binary interface to let Scheme use Python, Lua, Ruby etc's Library

    101 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  41. Why are amplitudes complex?

    101 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  42. The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter

    101 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  43. Fragmentation Is Why Desktop Linux Failed [video]

    101 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  44. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as he saw himself

    101 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  45. How to Save the Web

    101 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  46. Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track

    101 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  47. How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control

    101 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  48. David Byrne Curates a Playlist of Great Protest Songs

    101 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  49. Slack Taps Goldman Sachs to Lead IPO

    101 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  50. Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (2013) [video]

    101 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  51. German cartel office investigates Amazon’s treatment of small sellers

    101 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  52. Jean Bourgain

    101 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  53. A tech addict who works in the tech industry

    101 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  54. HAKMEM (1972) [pdf]

    100 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  55. Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess

    100 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  56. 'Say hello to my little vacuum cleaner': US DEA puts spycams in cleaner's kit

    100 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  57. An Introduction to Spacecraft Operations [video]

    100 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  58. Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by Facebook

    100 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  59. 3D airplane visualization

    100 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  60. A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China

    100 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  61. A Beginner’s Guide to the Mathematics of Neural Networks (1998) [pdf]

    100 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  62. Pessimism about parallelism

    99 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  63. Student Team Wins Amazon Alexa Artificial Intelligence Challenge

    99 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  64. GNU Wallpapers

    99 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  65. How “One-Plus-Five” Is Shaping American Cities

    99 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  66. TensorFlow Lite is for mobile and embedded devices

    99 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  67. Canada Battery Maker Says Flow Storage Costs to Tumble by Half

    99 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  68. Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries?

    99 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  69. Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny

    99 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  70. Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud

    99 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  71. The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

    99 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  72. The Now Habit (2015)

    99 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  73. The vanished grandeur of accounting (2014)

    98 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  74. Surprise DNA Results Are Turning Customer-Service Reps into Therapists

    98 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  75. Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

    98 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  76. It took seven miles to pull over a Tesla with a seemingly asleep driver

    98 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  77. Machine Learning Often a Complicated Way of Replicating Simple Forecasting

    98 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  78. William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85

    98 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  79. Try F# on WebAssembly

    98 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  80. Google's 'two-tier' workforce training document

    98 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  81. Response to 'Reasons why Lisp games suffer'

    98 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  82. Five Years That Changed Dating

    98 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  83. Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head

    98 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  84. It's all about typography

    97 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  85. Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave

    97 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  86. Awesome Python Applications: 180+ case studies in shipping Python software

    97 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  87. Apollo 8’s Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World

    97 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  88. Show HN: A minimal FFT code

    97 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  89. InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F

    97 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  90. Ham Radio – CQ: Personal Mastery Through Hobbies

    97 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  91. Text Matching Using Cosine Similarity

    97 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  92. Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster

    97 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  93. How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015)

    96 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  94. Visualizing the History of Fugazi

    96 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  95. Archiving C64 Tapes Correctly

    96 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  96. An introduction to Georg Cantor’s transfinite paradise

    96 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  97. Facebook Alternatives

    96 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  98. Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars as It Drifted Across Midwest Remains a Mystery

    96 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  99. O-bahn Busway

    96 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  100. Inside Haddington Dynamics and Their Groundbreaking Dexter Robot Arm

    96 points • comment • dec 28, 2018