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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption in the wild

    79 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  2. Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (2007)

    79 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  3. Photographs: Removed

    79 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  4. Custom string delimiters in Swift 5

    79 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  5. The OPM hack explained: Bad security practices meet China's Captain America

    78 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  6. PHP + Ajax scripts or the modern ecosystem dilemma

    78 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  7. Summarized top 2018 AI research papers

    78 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  8. Simulating identification by zip code, sex, and birthdate

    78 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  9. Mjs – An interpreter for ECMAScript 1st edition written in C++17

    78 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  10. Forget Fortnite–my son is still obsessed with Minecraft

    78 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  11. United States should prepare to build a prototype fusion power plant, panel says

    78 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  12. Byrne’s Euclid – A reproduction of the celebrated work from 1847

    78 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  13. National Security Archive's complete index of NSA internal Cryptolog periodical

    78 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  14. The Walter White of Wichita (2016)

    78 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  15. How Two Tiny Volatility Products Helped Fuel a Sudden Stock Slump

    78 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  16. Utility Ghost: Gamified redistricting with partisan symmetry

    78 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  17. Securing Your Site Like It’s 1999

    78 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  18. They paid $100k to ride on Xcor's space plane. Now they want their money back

    77 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  19. 5th December 1978: Acorn Computers Ltd Formed in Cambridge, UK

    77 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  20. Consciousness: The last 50 years (and the next)

    77 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  21. Show HN: High-performance ahead-of-time compiler for Machine Learning

    77 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  22. Sir David Attenborough: Climate change 'our greatest threat'

    77 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  23. QUIC Crypto and simple state machines

    77 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  24. Spooky Apollo: Apollo 8 and the CIA

    77 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  25. Electron and the Decline of Native Apps

    77 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  26. Reverse engineering the ARM1, ancestor of the iPhone's processor (2015)

    77 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  27. Austria is the next country working to impose a tech tax on companies like Apple

    77 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  28. The Accidental Room

    77 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  29. Machine learning is gradually changing modern agricultural practices

    77 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  30. Applied Cryptography Engineering (2013)

    77 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  31. SpaceX recovery attempt not successful: water landing instead of land

    77 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  32. Kubernetes 1.13 released

    76 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  33. How the Netherlands Feeds the World (2017)

    76 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  34. The Problem with Feedback

    76 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  35. Politicians caused a pay ‘collapse’ for the bottom 90 percent, researchers say

    76 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  36. Economic Analysis of Medicare for All

    76 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  37. Top Patreon creators launching an alternate crowdfunding platform

    76 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  38. Drawing a Picture Has a “Massive” Benefit for Memory versus Writing It Down

    76 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  39. Show HN: A beautiful car emissions calculator you'll love

    76 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  40. Anthony Levandowski: Pronto AI

    76 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  41. FPGA meets 6502

    76 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  42. EmuTOS, a free operating system for Atari computers

    75 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  43. Storing unboxed trait objects in Rust

    75 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  44. Show HN: Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax

    75 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  45. Migration trends in U.S. metro areas

    75 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  46. Ask HN: How do you fix engineering culture?

    75 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  47. How to break the most popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets

    75 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  48. ADT through the looking glass – lenses, prisms and other optics in Scala

    75 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  49. Foundations for Efficient and Expressive Differentiable Programming [pdf]

    75 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  50. Einstein’s most effective life hack wasn’t about productivity

    75 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  51. When Power Goes to Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart (2013)

    75 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  52. NLP-progress: Tracking Progress in Natural Language Processing

    75 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  53. Every Clojure Talk Ever

    75 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  54. Uber exec in March: “we shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles”

    75 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  55. Going Head-To-Head: Scylla vs. Amazon DynamoDB

    74 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  56. Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment

    74 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  57. Anglican: A Probabilistic Programming System

    74 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  58. Catnip Immunity and Alternatives

    74 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  59. The Internet Reacts To Australia's Anti-Encryption Bill

    74 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  60. Chrome: trick users into giving access to all files on local disk (2016)

    74 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  61. HCL buys Notes from IBM

    74 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  62. LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race

    74 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  63. Stealing Webpages Rendered on Your Browser by Exploiting GPU Vulnerabilities [pdf]

    74 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  64. Transposing Instruments

    74 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  65. Lenny's history and why he isn't Creative Commons (2017)

    74 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  66. In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence

    73 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  67. Why a cocktail of microbes could give protection against disease

    73 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  68. ARM1 Gate-level Simulation

    73 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  69. Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began

    73 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  70. The next big blue collar job is coding

    73 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  71. Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify?

    73 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  72. Comixify: Transform video into a comics

    73 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  73. Life and Death of a Planetary System

    73 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  74. Crash Chrome 70 with the SQLite Magellan Bug

    73 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  75. A Perspective on C++ Standardization in 2018

    73 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  76. Ask HN: How was your Advent of Code 2018 experience?

    73 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  77. What happens when packages go bad?

    73 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  78. Exploiting LaTeX with CVE-2018-17407

    73 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  79. On Disbelieving Atrocities (1944)

    72 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  80. A Chinese electric car is coming to the US

    72 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  81. Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Blocks – 1969-72

    72 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  82. Neurons That Tell Time

    72 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  83. Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions

    72 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  84. The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones (1977)

    72 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  85. Why we suck at “solving wicked problems”

    72 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  86. It’s 2019 and I Still Make Websites with My Bare Hands

    72 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  87. How Juul became worth $38B

    72 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  88. Let’s Try t-SNE

    72 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  89. What is the .NET IL linker and what does it do?

    72 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  90. Michelangelo PyML: Uber’s Platform for Rapid Python ML Model

    72 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  91. Shoelace formula

    72 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  92. Orphaned currency: the odd case of Somali shillings (2013)

    71 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  93. Intro to NFC Payment Relay Attacks

    71 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  94. Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Is a Winning Climate Strategy

    71 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  95. Typewriter Cartography

    71 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  96. Show HN: Asdfasdf.co – emails from the internet's gibberish form fills

    71 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  97. Uber cracked two 80s video games by giving an AI algorithm a new type of memory

    71 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  98. Can We Really Inherit Trauma?

    71 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  99. Public and private class fields

    71 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  100. Leonard Susskind on Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Physics

    71 points • comment • dec 16, 2018