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Hacker News (Dec 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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Orphaned currency: the odd case of Somali shillings (2013)
71 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Scooter mechanic, once homeless, says cheap rides now help him pay rent
71 points • comment • dec 08, 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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When Shoes Were Fit with X-Rays
71 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Can We Really Inherit Trauma?
71 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Show HN: A new annotation tool for information extraction with Mechanical Turk
70 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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How much less efficient are north-facing solar modules? (2016)
70 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Android Open Source Project Now Includes the Fuchsia SDK and a Fuchsia ‘device’
70 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks [pdf]
70 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Locking in WebKit (2016)
70 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Four Mentorship Archetypes
70 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before
70 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Show HN: Lambdo – Feature engineering and machine learning together
70 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Chess, a Drosophila of reasoning
70 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Emergence
70 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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I’m Chinese, Google’s DragonFly Must Go On
70 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Simulated Dendrochronology of US Immigration 1790-2016
70 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Ask HN: Did you learn any life changing lessons this year?
70 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Netflix’s Movie Blitz Takes Aim at Hollywood’s Heart
70 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Stellar Consensus Protocol and Federated Byzantine Agreement
70 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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The MAD Computer Program
70 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Swedish startup Rdot is trying to take on E Ink
70 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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NetSurf Web Browser
69 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Refactoring Large Functions
69 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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O2 'to seek millions' in damages over data outage
69 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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China introduces ‘social’ punishments for scientific misconduct
69 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Show HN: RedixDB – a fast persistent key-value store with the Redis protocol
69 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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My Stepdad's Huge Dataset
69 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck
69 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: The ‘Little Professors’ (2008)
69 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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FAIR turns five: What we’ve accomplished and where we’re headed
69 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Show HN: Run Puppeteer on AWS Lambda
69 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Transfer learning in low-data environments with FloydHub, fast.ai, and PyTorch
69 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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What Can We Learn from the Intel SPMD Program Compiler?
69 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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China takes surveillance to new heights with flock of robotic doves
69 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Chandra, the pre-teen who released a post-punk record in 1980
69 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Spectre Mitigations Part 2
69 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Hyperloop startup Arrivo is shutting down as workers are laid off
69 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Making the Best of MacBook Air Touchpad on Ubuntu
69 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Abandoned Cities from Around the World
69 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Let cell networks fake LTE signal bars in Android
69 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Attacking end-to-end email encryption [video]
68 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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War Story – The Mystery of the Very Long GC Pauses in .NET Windows Service
68 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?
68 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
68 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content
68 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Ask HN: What is the best practice for reading large pieces of C code?
68 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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A Very Sleepy MySQL Attack
68 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) Operational and Privacy Issues
68 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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BleedingBit: The hidden attack surface within BLE chips [pdf]
68 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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There Are Now More Shows Streaming Than There Are on Broadcast or Cable
68 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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The Squishiest, Sweetest Sleep
68 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Show HN: Stock Trading with Insomnia REST Client and Alpaca API
68 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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A Survey of $RANDOM
68 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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SF is so expensive that waiters can no longer afford to live in the city
68 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Firefighting foam heats up coal fire debate (2010)
68 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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New Neurons for the Brain
68 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Combining Golang and PHP can solve real-world development challenges
68 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Amazon Promised Drone Delivery in Five Years Five Years Ago
67 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Backplane is shutting down
67 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Did Google Cripple Edge’s YouTube Performance?
67 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers
67 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Counting the Components of My Consciousness
67 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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React.js cheatsheet
67 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap
67 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Disinformation Report: An Investigation into Russian IRA Activities in 2016
67 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Bcachefs status update, current work
67 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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China Sees Bankruptcies Surge; Bondholders May Get Less Back
67 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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While we blink, we lose the Web (a rant on WebKit/Blink monoculture)
67 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Chip Industry's Fundamental Shifts in 2018
67 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons
67 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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USA added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists
67 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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UK police release airport drone suspects, admit there may not have been drones
67 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Looking Back on Tech, Startups, and VC in 2018
66 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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China Involved in 90 Percent of Espionage and Industrial Secrets Theft, DOJ says
66 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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'Disneyland for adults': John Portman's dizzying interior legacy
66 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Show HN: Smart contract decompiler that uses symbolic execution
66 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Two Intricate Calligraphy Pages from a 16-Century Manuscript Have Been Decoded
66 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Ask HN: Can I download my HN data?
66 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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How to dump 3000 pounds of confetti on Times Square
66 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Evan Spiegel’s Imperious Style Made Snapchat a Success Until Users Fled
66 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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The plan to move the Swedish town of Kiruna
66 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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How We Deal with Data Quality Using Circuit Breakers
66 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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The Ethereum Price Drop: A Fundamental Analysis
66 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Amazon reveals private Alexa voice data files
66 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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China Warns Canada of ‘Heavy Price’ Over Huawei Arrest
66 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Wild Applause, Secretly Choreographed (2013)
66 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Technology That Changed Air Travel
66 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Acne vulgaris: a disease of Western civilization (2002)
66 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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SOUL: A New Efficient, Portable, Low-Latency Audio Programming Language
66 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Getting to Xanadu
65 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Ex-Canadian Diplomat Michael Kovrig Detained in China
65 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Eviation’s Alice is an all-electric, nine-person aircraft
65 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Up close with New Zealand’s most notorious gang
65 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Memristors for Curious Outsiders
65 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Keydown event doesn't fire on iOS when arrow keys pressed on external keyboard
65 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Basilisk web browser
65 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Reple: “Replay-Based” REPLs for Compiled Languages
65 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Is ASP.NET Core Now a Mature Platform?
65 points • comment • dec 19, 2018