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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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O-bahn Busway
96 points • comment • dec 19, 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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As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the world’s “extraction colony”
95 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Show HN: A UI That Lets Readers Control How Much Information They See
95 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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A free and open Indoor Navigation Service with superb accuracy
95 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Overdose Deaths Set a Record Last Year
95 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Ask HN: What awesome stuff have you come across lately?
95 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Central Londoners to be subjected to facial recognition test this week
95 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Hook on PG&E Tower Eyed as Cause of Deadly Camp Fire
95 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Stripe open-sources Skycfg, a configuration builder for Kubernetes
95 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Growth Ranker – Top-growing products on Indie Hackers
95 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed Rail Project
95 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Even more fun with building and benchmarking Firefox with GCC and Clang
95 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Yak shaving and fixing
95 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign
94 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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How Flutter uses Widgets, Elements, RenderObjects to create eye-candy at 120fps
94 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Program Verification with F* (2017)
94 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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The Future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid x86
94 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Do I Offend?
94 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Why Black Hole Interiors Grow Almost Forever
94 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Centralization vs. Decentralization
94 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Game for learning Web Typography: The Equilateral Triangle
94 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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A quest for beauty and clear thinking: interviewing John Baez
94 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Few people are actually trapped in filter bubbles. Why do they say they are?
94 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Haskell to Perl 6
94 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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On Ghost Users and Messaging Backdoors
94 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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The End of the Ad-Supported Web
93 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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The Illustrated BERT: How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning
93 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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I was a senior VP of tech at Starwood: here’s my take on the guest data breach
93 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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NetBeans 10.0
93 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (2014)
93 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Writing and coding by voice with Talon
93 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Sears to pay $25.3M in bonuses to top execs after filing for bankruptcy
93 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Survey: 1 In 4 Adults Checks Phone Less Than A Minute After Waking Up
93 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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IBM‘s Project Debater does debate club-style discussions with humans
93 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body
93 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Missing Emirati princess 'planned escape for seven years'
93 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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When Your Profiler Lies
93 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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How Did Indonesia and Malaysia Become Majority-Muslim?
93 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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How to steal Ethers: scanning for vulnerable contracts
93 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Show HN: KubeDB – Kubernetes-ready production-grade databases
93 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Small stupid things that make up my dev environment
92 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Darwinian data structure selection
92 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Harvard Physics Problem of the Week (2002-2004)
92 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’
92 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Googlers Write to CEO Demanding Equal Treatment for Contractors
92 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Monsanto accused by legal opponents of hiring internet trolls
92 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory
92 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Cross-Platform Language Design [pdf]
92 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Screenshoteer – Command-line website screenshots and mobile emulations
92 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Resiliency with Queues: Building a System That Never Skips a Beat in a Billion
91 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Open-sourcing DeepFocus, an AI-powered system for more realistic VR images
91 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Six Degrees of YC Separation
91 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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How to Make a Crystal Radio – No Batteries, No External Power (2015) [video]
91 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Ion Propulsion – A Plane with No Moving Parts [video]
91 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Stanford professor: ‘The workplace is killing people and nobody cares’
91 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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A study on the willful regulation of autonomic function during cold exposure
91 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Elon and the collective
91 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Maxwell's fluid model of magnetism (2015)
91 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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On Having No Head: Cognition Throughout Biological Systems (2016)
91 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Amazon’s Grocery Push Keeps Stumbling After Whole Foods Purchase
91 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Warhol’s Bleak Prophecy
90 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Israeli Police Recommend Indicting Netanyahu in Telecom Case
90 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Adding Up the Cost of Tax Breaks for Big Tech’s Data Centers (2016)
90 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Implementing VisiCalc (2015)
90 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Categories for the Working Hacker [video]
90 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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8bitworkshop IDE: Designing Hardware with Verilog
90 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Bach, the Master Recycler
90 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)
90 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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The Property Industry Is Falling Out of Love with WeWork
90 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Best Practices for Using Functional Programming in Python
90 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos – a Problem for Video Game Developers
90 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton
90 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Page Views on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
89 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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The Practical Guide to Hacking Bluetooth Low Energy
89 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Show HN: AutoComplete.js v2.0
89 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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How to Memorize the Largest Known Prime
89 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Python 3.7.2 and 3.6.8 are now available
89 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined
89 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Cyberattack from outside the U.S. hits newspapers across the country
89 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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BitChute Suspended By Patreon
89 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Arthur C. Clarke’s eccentric and influential predictions
89 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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VW says combustion cars will fade away after 2026
89 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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BladeRF 2.0 micro
89 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Old coal mines can be underground food farms
88 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
88 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Forget new year’s resolutions and conduct a ‘past year review’ instead
88 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Sloc Cloc and Code Revisited – Optimizing an Already Fast Go Application
88 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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The usefulness of useless knowledge (1939) [pdf]
88 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Blazor – A .NET web framework that runs in the browser with WebAssembly
88 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Show HN: TypeScript to GraphQL conversion tool with type inference
88 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Facebook retires Nuclide Atom extension
87 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Anatomy of a shell
87 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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How to drive in India (2015)
87 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Tesla sues its alleged saboteur for $167M
87 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance (2013)
87 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Discovered: The Most-Distant Solar System Object Ever Observed
87 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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GNU Mes 0.17: towards bootstrappable builds for GuixSD
87 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials
86 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Front-End Microservices
86 points • comment • dec 07, 2018