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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. O-bahn Busway

    96 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

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

    96 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  3. As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the world’s “extraction colony”

    95 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  4. Show HN: A UI That Lets Readers Control How Much Information They See

    95 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  5. A free and open Indoor Navigation Service with superb accuracy

    95 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  6. Overdose Deaths Set a Record Last Year

    95 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  7. Ask HN: What awesome stuff have you come across lately?

    95 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  8. Central Londoners to be subjected to facial recognition test this week

    95 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  9. Hook on PG&E Tower Eyed as Cause of Deadly Camp Fire

    95 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  10. Stripe open-sources Skycfg, a configuration builder for Kubernetes

    95 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  11. Growth Ranker – Top-growing products on Indie Hackers

    95 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  12. Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed Rail Project

    95 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  13. Even more fun with building and benchmarking Firefox with GCC and Clang

    95 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  14. Yak shaving and fixing

    95 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  15. Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign

    94 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  16. How Flutter uses Widgets, Elements, RenderObjects to create eye-candy at 120fps

    94 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  17. Program Verification with F* (2017)

    94 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  18. The Future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid x86

    94 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  19. Do I Offend?

    94 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  20. Why Black Hole Interiors Grow Almost Forever

    94 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  21. Centralization vs. Decentralization

    94 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  22. Game for learning Web Typography: The Equilateral Triangle

    94 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  23. A quest for beauty and clear thinking: interviewing John Baez

    94 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  24. Few people are actually trapped in filter bubbles. Why do they say they are?

    94 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  25. Haskell to Perl 6

    94 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  26. On Ghost Users and Messaging Backdoors

    94 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  27. The End of the Ad-Supported Web

    93 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  28. The Illustrated BERT: How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning

    93 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  29. I was a senior VP of tech at Starwood: here’s my take on the guest data breach

    93 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  30. NetBeans 10.0

    93 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  31. The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (2014)

    93 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  32. Writing and coding by voice with Talon

    93 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  33. Sears to pay $25.3M in bonuses to top execs after filing for bankruptcy

    93 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  34. Survey: 1 In 4 Adults Checks Phone Less Than A Minute After Waking Up

    93 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  35. IBM‘s Project Debater does debate club-style discussions with humans

    93 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  36. Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body

    93 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  37. Missing Emirati princess 'planned escape for seven years'

    93 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  38. When Your Profiler Lies

    93 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  39. How Did Indonesia and Malaysia Become Majority-Muslim?

    93 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  40. How to steal Ethers: scanning for vulnerable contracts

    93 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  41. Show HN: KubeDB – Kubernetes-ready production-grade databases

    93 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  42. Small stupid things that make up my dev environment

    92 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  43. Darwinian data structure selection

    92 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  44. Harvard Physics Problem of the Week (2002-2004)

    92 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  45. Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’

    92 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  46. Googlers Write to CEO Demanding Equal Treatment for Contractors

    92 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  47. Monsanto accused by legal opponents of hiring internet trolls

    92 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  48. Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory

    92 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  49. Cross-Platform Language Design [pdf]

    92 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  50. Screenshoteer – Command-line website screenshots and mobile emulations

    92 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  51. Resiliency with Queues: Building a System That Never Skips a Beat in a Billion

    91 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  52. Open-sourcing DeepFocus, an AI-powered system for more realistic VR images

    91 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  53. Six Degrees of YC Separation

    91 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  54. How to Make a Crystal Radio – No Batteries, No External Power (2015) [video]

    91 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  55. Ion Propulsion – A Plane with No Moving Parts [video]

    91 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  56. Stanford professor: ‘The workplace is killing people and nobody cares’

    91 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  57. A study on the willful regulation of autonomic function during cold exposure

    91 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  58. Elon and the collective

    91 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  59. Maxwell's fluid model of magnetism (2015)

    91 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  60. On Having No Head: Cognition Throughout Biological Systems (2016)

    91 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  61. Amazon’s Grocery Push Keeps Stumbling After Whole Foods Purchase

    91 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  62. Warhol’s Bleak Prophecy

    90 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  63. Israeli Police Recommend Indicting Netanyahu in Telecom Case

    90 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  64. Adding Up the Cost of Tax Breaks for Big Tech’s Data Centers (2016)

    90 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  65. Implementing VisiCalc (2015)

    90 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  66. Categories for the Working Hacker [video]

    90 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  67. 8bitworkshop IDE: Designing Hardware with Verilog

    90 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  68. Bach, the Master Recycler

    90 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  69. As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)

    90 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  70. The Property Industry Is Falling Out of Love with WeWork

    90 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  71. Best Practices for Using Functional Programming in Python

    90 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  72. Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos – a Problem for Video Game Developers

    90 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  73. Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton

    90 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  74. Page Views on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

    89 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  75. The Practical Guide to Hacking Bluetooth Low Energy

    89 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  76. Show HN: AutoComplete.js v2.0

    89 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  77. How to Memorize the Largest Known Prime

    89 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  78. Python 3.7.2 and 3.6.8 are now available

    89 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  79. Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined

    89 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  80. Cyberattack from outside the U.S. hits newspapers across the country

    89 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  81. BitChute Suspended By Patreon

    89 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  82. Arthur C. Clarke’s eccentric and influential predictions

    89 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  83. VW says combustion cars will fade away after 2026

    89 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  84. BladeRF 2.0 micro

    89 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  85. Old coal mines can be underground food farms

    88 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  86. A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises

    88 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  87. Forget new year’s resolutions and conduct a ‘past year review’ instead

    88 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  88. Sloc Cloc and Code Revisited – Optimizing an Already Fast Go Application

    88 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  89. The usefulness of useless knowledge (1939) [pdf]

    88 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  90. Blazor – A .NET web framework that runs in the browser with WebAssembly

    88 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  91. Show HN: TypeScript to GraphQL conversion tool with type inference

    88 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  92. Facebook retires Nuclide Atom extension

    87 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  93. Anatomy of a shell

    87 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  94. How to drive in India (2015)

    87 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  95. Tesla sues its alleged saboteur for $167M

    87 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  96. Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance (2013)

    87 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  97. Discovered: The Most-Distant Solar System Object Ever Observed

    87 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  98. GNU Mes 0.17: towards bootstrappable builds for GuixSD

    87 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  99. Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials

    86 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  100. Front-End Microservices

    86 points • comment • dec 07, 2018