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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption in the wild
79 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (2007)
79 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Photographs: Removed
79 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Custom string delimiters in Swift 5
79 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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The OPM hack explained: Bad security practices meet China's Captain America
78 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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PHP + Ajax scripts or the modern ecosystem dilemma
78 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Summarized top 2018 AI research papers
78 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Simulating identification by zip code, sex, and birthdate
78 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Mjs – An interpreter for ECMAScript 1st edition written in C++17
78 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Forget Fortnite–my son is still obsessed with Minecraft
78 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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United States should prepare to build a prototype fusion power plant, panel says
78 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Byrne’s Euclid – A reproduction of the celebrated work from 1847
78 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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National Security Archive's complete index of NSA internal Cryptolog periodical
78 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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The Walter White of Wichita (2016)
78 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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How Two Tiny Volatility Products Helped Fuel a Sudden Stock Slump
78 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Utility Ghost: Gamified redistricting with partisan symmetry
78 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Securing Your Site Like It’s 1999
78 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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They paid $100k to ride on Xcor's space plane. Now they want their money back
77 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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5th December 1978: Acorn Computers Ltd Formed in Cambridge, UK
77 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Consciousness: The last 50 years (and the next)
77 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Show HN: High-performance ahead-of-time compiler for Machine Learning
77 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Sir David Attenborough: Climate change 'our greatest threat'
77 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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QUIC Crypto and simple state machines
77 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Spooky Apollo: Apollo 8 and the CIA
77 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Electron and the Decline of Native Apps
77 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Reverse engineering the ARM1, ancestor of the iPhone's processor (2015)
77 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Austria is the next country working to impose a tech tax on companies like Apple
77 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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The Accidental Room
77 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Machine learning is gradually changing modern agricultural practices
77 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Applied Cryptography Engineering (2013)
77 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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SpaceX recovery attempt not successful: water landing instead of land
77 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Kubernetes 1.13 released
76 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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How the Netherlands Feeds the World (2017)
76 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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The Problem with Feedback
76 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Politicians caused a pay ‘collapse’ for the bottom 90 percent, researchers say
76 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Economic Analysis of Medicare for All
76 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Top Patreon creators launching an alternate crowdfunding platform
76 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Drawing a Picture Has a “Massive” Benefit for Memory versus Writing It Down
76 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Show HN: A beautiful car emissions calculator you'll love
76 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Anthony Levandowski: Pronto AI
76 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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FPGA meets 6502
76 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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EmuTOS, a free operating system for Atari computers
75 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Storing unboxed trait objects in Rust
75 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Show HN: Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax
75 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Migration trends in U.S. metro areas
75 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you fix engineering culture?
75 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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How to break the most popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets
75 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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ADT through the looking glass – lenses, prisms and other optics in Scala
75 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Foundations for Efficient and Expressive Differentiable Programming [pdf]
75 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Einstein’s most effective life hack wasn’t about productivity
75 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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When Power Goes to Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart (2013)
75 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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NLP-progress: Tracking Progress in Natural Language Processing
75 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Every Clojure Talk Ever
75 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Uber exec in March: “we shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles”
75 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Going Head-To-Head: Scylla vs. Amazon DynamoDB
74 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
74 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Anglican: A Probabilistic Programming System
74 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Catnip Immunity and Alternatives
74 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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The Internet Reacts To Australia's Anti-Encryption Bill
74 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Chrome: trick users into giving access to all files on local disk (2016)
74 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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HCL buys Notes from IBM
74 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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LinkedIn Co-Founder Apologizes for Deception in Alabama Senate Race
74 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Stealing Webpages Rendered on Your Browser by Exploiting GPU Vulnerabilities [pdf]
74 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Transposing Instruments
74 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Lenny's history and why he isn't Creative Commons (2017)
74 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence
73 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Why a cocktail of microbes could give protection against disease
73 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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ARM1 Gate-level Simulation
73 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began
73 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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The next big blue collar job is coding
73 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify?
73 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Comixify: Transform video into a comics
73 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Life and Death of a Planetary System
73 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Crash Chrome 70 with the SQLite Magellan Bug
73 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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A Perspective on C++ Standardization in 2018
73 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Ask HN: How was your Advent of Code 2018 experience?
73 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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What happens when packages go bad?
73 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Exploiting LaTeX with CVE-2018-17407
73 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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On Disbelieving Atrocities (1944)
72 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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A Chinese electric car is coming to the US
72 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Blocks – 1969-72
72 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Neurons That Tell Time
72 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions
72 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones (1977)
72 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Why we suck at “solving wicked problems”
72 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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It’s 2019 and I Still Make Websites with My Bare Hands
72 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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How Juul became worth $38B
72 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Let’s Try t-SNE
72 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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What is the .NET IL linker and what does it do?
72 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Michelangelo PyML: Uber’s Platform for Rapid Python ML Model
72 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Shoelace formula
72 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Orphaned currency: the odd case of Somali shillings (2013)
71 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Intro to NFC Payment Relay Attacks
71 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Is a Winning Climate Strategy
71 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Typewriter Cartography
71 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Show HN: Asdfasdf.co – emails from the internet's gibberish form fills
71 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Uber cracked two 80s video games by giving an AI algorithm a new type of memory
71 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Can We Really Inherit Trauma?
71 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Public and private class fields
71 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Leonard Susskind on Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Physics
71 points • comment • dec 16, 2018