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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

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

    71 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

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

    71 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  3. Scooter mechanic, once homeless, says cheap rides now help him pay rent

    71 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

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

    71 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  5. When Shoes Were Fit with X-Rays

    71 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  6. Can We Really Inherit Trauma?

    71 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  7. Show HN: A new annotation tool for information extraction with Mechanical Turk

    70 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  8. How much less efficient are north-facing solar modules? (2016)

    70 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  9. Android Open Source Project Now Includes the Fuchsia SDK and a Fuchsia ‘device’

    70 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  10. A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks [pdf]

    70 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  11. Locking in WebKit (2016)

    70 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  12. Four Mentorship Archetypes

    70 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  13. The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before

    70 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  14. Show HN: Lambdo – Feature engineering and machine learning together

    70 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  15. Chess, a Drosophila of reasoning

    70 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  16. Emergence

    70 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  17. I’m Chinese, Google’s DragonFly Must Go On

    70 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  18. Simulated Dendrochronology of US Immigration 1790-2016

    70 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  19. Ask HN: Did you learn any life changing lessons this year?

    70 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  20. Netflix’s Movie Blitz Takes Aim at Hollywood’s Heart

    70 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  21. Stellar Consensus Protocol and Federated Byzantine Agreement

    70 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  22. The MAD Computer Program

    70 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  23. Swedish startup Rdot is trying to take on E Ink

    70 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  24. NetSurf Web Browser

    69 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  25. Refactoring Large Functions

    69 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  26. O2 'to seek millions' in damages over data outage

    69 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  27. China introduces ‘social’ punishments for scientific misconduct

    69 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  28. Show HN: RedixDB – a fast persistent key-value store with the Redis protocol

    69 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  29. My Stepdad's Huge Dataset

    69 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  30. An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck

    69 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  31. Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: The ‘Little Professors’ (2008)

    69 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  32. FAIR turns five: What we’ve accomplished and where we’re headed

    69 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  33. Show HN: Run Puppeteer on AWS Lambda

    69 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  34. Transfer learning in low-data environments with FloydHub, fast.ai, and PyTorch

    69 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  35. What Can We Learn from the Intel SPMD Program Compiler?

    69 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  36. China takes surveillance to new heights with flock of robotic doves

    69 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  37. Chandra, the pre-teen who released a post-punk record in 1980

    69 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  38. Spectre Mitigations Part 2

    69 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  39. Hyperloop startup Arrivo is shutting down as workers are laid off

    69 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  40. Making the Best of MacBook Air Touchpad on Ubuntu

    69 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  41. Abandoned Cities from Around the World

    69 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  42. Let cell networks fake LTE signal bars in Android

    69 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  43. Attacking end-to-end email encryption [video]

    68 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  44. War Story – The Mystery of the Very Long GC Pauses in .NET Windows Service

    68 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  45. Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?

    68 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  46. Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service

    68 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  47. Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content

    68 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  48. Ask HN: What is the best practice for reading large pieces of C code?

    68 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  49. A Very Sleepy MySQL Attack

    68 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  50. DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) Operational and Privacy Issues

    68 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  51. BleedingBit: The hidden attack surface within BLE chips [pdf]

    68 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  52. There Are Now More Shows Streaming Than There Are on Broadcast or Cable

    68 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  53. The Squishiest, Sweetest Sleep

    68 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  54. Show HN: Stock Trading with Insomnia REST Client and Alpaca API

    68 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  55. A Survey of $RANDOM

    68 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  56. SF is so expensive that waiters can no longer afford to live in the city

    68 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  57. Firefighting foam heats up coal fire debate (2010)

    68 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  58. New Neurons for the Brain

    68 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  59. Combining Golang and PHP can solve real-world development challenges

    68 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  60. Amazon Promised Drone Delivery in Five Years Five Years Ago

    67 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  61. Backplane is shutting down

    67 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  62. Did Google Cripple Edge’s YouTube Performance?

    67 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  63. Show HN: Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers

    67 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  64. Counting the Components of My Consciousness

    67 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  65. React.js cheatsheet

    67 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  66. Package Thief vs. Glitter Bomb Trap

    67 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  67. Disinformation Report: An Investigation into Russian IRA Activities in 2016

    67 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  68. Bcachefs status update, current work

    67 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  69. China Sees Bankruptcies Surge; Bondholders May Get Less Back

    67 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  70. While we blink, we lose the Web (a rant on WebKit/Blink monoculture)

    67 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  71. Chip Industry's Fundamental Shifts in 2018

    67 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  72. Napoleon’s “Englich” Lessons

    67 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  73. USA added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists

    67 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  74. UK police release airport drone suspects, admit there may not have been drones

    67 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  75. Looking Back on Tech, Startups, and VC in 2018

    66 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  76. China Involved in 90 Percent of Espionage and Industrial Secrets Theft, DOJ says

    66 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  77. 'Disneyland for adults': John Portman's dizzying interior legacy

    66 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  78. Show HN: Smart contract decompiler that uses symbolic execution

    66 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  79. Two Intricate Calligraphy Pages from a 16-Century Manuscript Have Been Decoded

    66 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  80. Ask HN: Can I download my HN data?

    66 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  81. How to dump 3000 pounds of confetti on Times Square

    66 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  82. Evan Spiegel’s Imperious Style Made Snapchat a Success Until Users Fled

    66 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  83. The plan to move the Swedish town of Kiruna

    66 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  84. How We Deal with Data Quality Using Circuit Breakers

    66 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  85. The Ethereum Price Drop: A Fundamental Analysis

    66 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  86. Amazon reveals private Alexa voice data files

    66 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  87. China Warns Canada of ‘Heavy Price’ Over Huawei Arrest

    66 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  88. Wild Applause, Secretly Choreographed (2013)

    66 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  89. Technology That Changed Air Travel

    66 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  90. Acne vulgaris: a disease of Western civilization (2002)

    66 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  91. SOUL: A New Efficient, Portable, Low-Latency Audio Programming Language

    66 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  92. Getting to Xanadu

    65 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  93. Ex-Canadian Diplomat Michael Kovrig Detained in China

    65 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  94. Eviation’s Alice is an all-electric, nine-person aircraft

    65 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  95. Up close with New Zealand’s most notorious gang

    65 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  96. Memristors for Curious Outsiders

    65 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  97. Keydown event doesn't fire on iOS when arrow keys pressed on external keyboard

    65 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  98. Basilisk web browser

    65 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  99. Reple: “Replay-Based” REPLs for Compiled Languages

    65 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  100. Is ASP.NET Core Now a Mature Platform?

    65 points • comment • dec 19, 2018