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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. No hospital, just an emergency ‘department’. They’re popping up all over

    60 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  2. The QNX Neutrino Microkernel (2007)

    60 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  3. Why REST Sucks

    60 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  4. Brute-forcing a seemingly simple number puzzle

    60 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  5. Hokusai’s Ghost Stories (ca. 1830)

    59 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  6. British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation

    59 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  7. The year in post-quantum crypto [video]

    59 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  8. A History of Flavoring Food with Castoreum

    59 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  9. World’s nations agree on rules to implement Paris climate deal

    59 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  10. Portal: Personal Onion Router to Assure Liberty

    59 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  11. Apple confirms some iPad Pros ship slightly bent, but says it’s normal

    59 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  12. Seasonal Associate

    59 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  13. Computing is Everywhere: Bret Victor and Dynamicland [audio]

    59 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  14. USB Killer, yours for $50, lets you easily fry almost every device

    59 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  15. Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?

    59 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  16. Solving Clasical AI Planning Problems with Fast Downward and Haskell

    59 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  17. Online Tracking: A 1M-site Measurement and Analysis (2016) [pdf]

    59 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  18. Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise [audio]

    59 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  19. The Next Great Digital Extinction

    59 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  20. The inconvenient truth about love and divorce (2016)

    59 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  21. Why I left React for Vue

    58 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  22. How can dereferencing the first character take longer when the string is longer?

    58 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  23. Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML

    58 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  24. Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh

    58 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  25. Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself

    58 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  26. Breaking all the Eggs in C++ (2015)

    58 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  27. Show HN: Debucsser, CSS debugging made easy

    58 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  28. Turning GraphQL diagrams to mock back end

    58 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  29. Attacking Chrome IPC [video]

    58 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  30. The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival

    58 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  31. Using different delimiters in sed (2010)

    58 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  32. USGS Announces Largest Continuous Oil Assessment in Texas and New Mexico

    58 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  33. Apps sending users’ data to Facebook without their consent

    58 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  34. The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing

    58 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  35. WhatsApp has an encrypted child porn problem

    58 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  36. Alibaba has a voice assistant better than Google’s

    57 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  37. Neural Networks and Graph Algorithms with Next-Generation Processors [pdf]

    57 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  38. Launch HN: Flockjay (YC W19) – $0-upfront tech sales academy for diverse talent

    57 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  39. Half-life

    57 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  40. Making of Byrne’s Euclid

    57 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  41. Generative Practice: The State of the Art (2010)

    57 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  42. Emotion Science Keeps Getting More Complicated. Can AI Keep Up?

    57 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  43. Donations to arXiv

    57 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  44. The Vimes Boots Theory: Further Reflections

    57 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  45. Making Bluetooth Work on Lenovo X1 Carbon 6th Gen with Linux

    57 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  46. People Fall Off Cruise Ships with Alarming Regularity

    57 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  47. Gwern’s Review of “The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T” (2012)

    57 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  48. The Technology (2014)

    57 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  49. Leaders lose mental capacities, most notably for reading other people (2017)

    57 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  50. DNS Over TLS: Encrypting DNS End-To-end

    57 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  51. A Gentle Introduction to Erasure Codes (2017)

    57 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  52. Academia is fucked-up. So why isn’t anyone doing something about it? (2017)

    56 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  53. Show HN: Pdftilecut – cut PDF pages into tiles

    56 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  54. AI assisted code completion for C++

    56 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  55. GE Powered the American Century, Then It Burned Out

    56 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  56. Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity Among Older Adults

    56 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  57. Fast and accurate object detection in high resolution 4K and 8K video using GPUs

    56 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  58. Senior Google employee says quest to stop leaks is now management's top priority

    56 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  59. The Curse of the Black Lotus (2015)

    56 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  60. Our Ownershipless Future

    56 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  61. This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task

    56 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  62. Cryptographically Certified Hypothesis Testing [pdf]

    56 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  63. The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire

    56 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  64. What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Without Insurance

    56 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  65. It’s a Great Age for Jazz, but Don’t Call It Golden

    56 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  66. The Bootleg Video Vans of the Soviet Union

    56 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  67. The Colossal, Monumental Screw Up That Is Marriott Security

    56 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  68. Bitcoin is close to becoming worthless?

    56 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  69. Welcome to Our Sampler of Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Beings

    56 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  70. Nvidia Extends PhysX for High Fidelity Simulations, Goes Open Source

    56 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  71. Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity defense company moonshot

    56 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  72. Niantic, Maker of Hit ‘Pokémon Go’ App, Refuels with $3.9B Valuation

    55 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  73. Historians are using facial recognition to identify people in Civil War photos

    55 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  74. Auto Dealers, Startups Try Amazon-Style Ordering for Cars

    55 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  75. What These Medical Journals Don’t Reveal: Top Doctors’ Ties to Industry

    55 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  76. Why does decentralization matter?

    55 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  77. One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine

    55 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  78. Intro to Rod Logic (2009)

    55 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  79. Spruce beer continues to have a following

    55 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  80. TiDB 2.1 GA: Battle-Tested to Handle an Unpredictable World

    55 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  81. The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

    55 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  82. Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (2017)

    55 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  83. Uber Is Headed for a Crash

    55 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  84. Fortnite addiction and parenting in the age of screens

    55 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  85. A Millennial’s Tiny Satellites Are Helping China Advance in the Space Race

    55 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  86. The Void (Linux) distribution

    55 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  87. Climate Change in a Nutshell: The Gathering Storm [pdf]

    55 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  88. D Language Server

    55 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  89. State Machines and the Strange Case of Mutating API

    55 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  90. Serverless and startups

    55 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  91. Chrome 72 Beta: Public class fields, user activation and more

    54 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  92. Full Metal Jacket: A visual dataflow language (2016)

    54 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  93. Court rules universities may have duty to block websites that harass students

    54 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  94. Ask HN: Help me weave in STEM topics for a children's book

    54 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  95. Blazor Toast Notifications Using Only C#, HTML and CSS

    54 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  96. Rate-distortion optimization

    54 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  97. Show HN: PuBilling – Embeddable billing portal for your SaaS app

    54 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  98. Patch for critical privilege escalation flaw in Kubernetes

    54 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  99. IRC.com outlines its roadmap

    54 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  100. Show HN: Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Great Demo

    54 points • comment • dec 09, 2018