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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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An Epidemic of Loneliness in America?
105 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Firefox partners with ProtonVPN
105 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche
105 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron
105 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Gatwick Airport: Drone sightings cause delays
105 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Why Most Software Engineers Lose Nothing by Unionizing
105 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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BloomRPC: GUI Client for GRPC Services
105 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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A jackal's nose for the job
105 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Microsoft is Dead (2007)
104 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)
104 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Teensy 3.1 bare metal: Writing a USB driver (2014)
104 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace
104 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Party REPL – A multi-player REPL built for pair-programming [video]
104 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta
104 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Don't allow popups during page unload
104 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods
104 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Investigating Jeanne Calment’s Longevity Record
103 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Show HN: In NSW, if Google doesn't track you, you can't pay Public School fees
103 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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TypeScript in 5 minutes
103 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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A month of Flutter: a look back
103 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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How to do with probabilities what people say you can’t (1985) [pdf]
103 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Paleotronic's 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year One: 1980
103 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Two Chinese Stalagmites Are a 'Holy Grail' for Accurate Radiocarbon Dating
103 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API
103 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Show HN: Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody
103 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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What do you dislike about React Native?
103 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation
103 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Inside the Philly DA’s side hustle –selling seized homes to speculators and cops
102 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps
102 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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The popularity of the Squatty Potty
102 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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A history of the distributed transactional database
102 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data
102 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017)
102 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Rediscovering My Daughter Through Instagram
102 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
102 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Why Exaggeration Jokes Work
102 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Controlling the Spice, Part 3: Westwood’s Dune
102 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Indian technology talent is flocking to Canada
102 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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The price of the Manhattan Project (2013)
101 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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FLI: A binary interface to let Scheme use Python, Lua, Ruby etc's Library
101 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Why are amplitudes complex?
101 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter
101 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Fragmentation Is Why Desktop Linux Failed [video]
101 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as he saw himself
101 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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How to Save the Web
101 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track
101 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control
101 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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David Byrne Curates a Playlist of Great Protest Songs
101 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Slack Taps Goldman Sachs to Lead IPO
101 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (2013) [video]
101 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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German cartel office investigates Amazon’s treatment of small sellers
101 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Jean Bourgain
101 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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A tech addict who works in the tech industry
101 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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HAKMEM (1972) [pdf]
100 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess
100 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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'Say hello to my little vacuum cleaner': US DEA puts spycams in cleaner's kit
100 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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An Introduction to Spacecraft Operations [video]
100 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by Facebook
100 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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3D airplane visualization
100 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China
100 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Mathematics of Neural Networks (1998) [pdf]
100 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Pessimism about parallelism
99 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Student Team Wins Amazon Alexa Artificial Intelligence Challenge
99 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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GNU Wallpapers
99 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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How “One-Plus-Five” Is Shaping American Cities
99 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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TensorFlow Lite is for mobile and embedded devices
99 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Canada Battery Maker Says Flow Storage Costs to Tumble by Half
99 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries?
99 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny
99 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud
99 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism
99 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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The Now Habit (2015)
99 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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The vanished grandeur of accounting (2014)
98 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Surprise DNA Results Are Turning Customer-Service Reps into Therapists
98 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost
98 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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It took seven miles to pull over a Tesla with a seemingly asleep driver
98 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Machine Learning Often a Complicated Way of Replicating Simple Forecasting
98 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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William Blum, US Policy Critic Derided by NYT, Dies at 85
98 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Try F# on WebAssembly
98 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Google's 'two-tier' workforce training document
98 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Response to 'Reasons why Lisp games suffer'
98 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Five Years That Changed Dating
98 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head
98 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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It's all about typography
97 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave
97 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Awesome Python Applications: 180+ case studies in shipping Python software
97 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Apollo 8’s Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World
97 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Show HN: A minimal FFT code
97 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F
97 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Ham Radio – CQ: Personal Mastery Through Hobbies
97 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Text Matching Using Cosine Similarity
97 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster
97 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke (2015)
96 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Visualizing the History of Fugazi
96 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Archiving C64 Tapes Correctly
96 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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An introduction to Georg Cantor’s transfinite paradise
96 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Facebook Alternatives
96 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars as It Drifted Across Midwest Remains a Mystery
96 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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O-bahn Busway
96 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Inside Haddington Dynamics and Their Groundbreaking Dexter Robot Arm
96 points • comment • dec 28, 2018