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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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No hospital, just an emergency ‘department’. They’re popping up all over
60 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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The QNX Neutrino Microkernel (2007)
60 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Why REST Sucks
60 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Brute-forcing a seemingly simple number puzzle
60 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Hokusai’s Ghost Stories (ca. 1830)
59 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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British nuclear archive files withdrawn without explanation
59 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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The year in post-quantum crypto [video]
59 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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A History of Flavoring Food with Castoreum
59 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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World’s nations agree on rules to implement Paris climate deal
59 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Portal: Personal Onion Router to Assure Liberty
59 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Apple confirms some iPad Pros ship slightly bent, but says it’s normal
59 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Seasonal Associate
59 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Computing is Everywhere: Bret Victor and Dynamicland [audio]
59 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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USB Killer, yours for $50, lets you easily fry almost every device
59 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
59 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Solving Clasical AI Planning Problems with Fast Downward and Haskell
59 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Online Tracking: A 1M-site Measurement and Analysis (2016) [pdf]
59 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise [audio]
59 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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The Next Great Digital Extinction
59 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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The inconvenient truth about love and divorce (2016)
59 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Why I left React for Vue
58 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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How can dereferencing the first character take longer when the string is longer?
58 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML
58 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh
58 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself
58 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Breaking all the Eggs in C++ (2015)
58 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Show HN: Debucsser, CSS debugging made easy
58 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Turning GraphQL diagrams to mock back end
58 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Attacking Chrome IPC [video]
58 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival
58 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Using different delimiters in sed (2010)
58 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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USGS Announces Largest Continuous Oil Assessment in Texas and New Mexico
58 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Apps sending users’ data to Facebook without their consent
58 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing
58 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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WhatsApp has an encrypted child porn problem
58 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Alibaba has a voice assistant better than Google’s
57 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Neural Networks and Graph Algorithms with Next-Generation Processors [pdf]
57 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Launch HN: Flockjay (YC W19) – $0-upfront tech sales academy for diverse talent
57 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Half-life
57 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Making of Byrne’s Euclid
57 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Generative Practice: The State of the Art (2010)
57 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Emotion Science Keeps Getting More Complicated. Can AI Keep Up?
57 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Donations to arXiv
57 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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The Vimes Boots Theory: Further Reflections
57 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Making Bluetooth Work on Lenovo X1 Carbon 6th Gen with Linux
57 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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People Fall Off Cruise Ships with Alarming Regularity
57 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Gwern’s Review of “The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T” (2012)
57 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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The Technology (2014)
57 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Leaders lose mental capacities, most notably for reading other people (2017)
57 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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DNS Over TLS: Encrypting DNS End-To-end
57 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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A Gentle Introduction to Erasure Codes (2017)
57 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Academia is fucked-up. So why isn’t anyone doing something about it? (2017)
56 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Show HN: Pdftilecut – cut PDF pages into tiles
56 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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AI assisted code completion for C++
56 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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GE Powered the American Century, Then It Burned Out
56 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity Among Older Adults
56 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Fast and accurate object detection in high resolution 4K and 8K video using GPUs
56 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Senior Google employee says quest to stop leaks is now management's top priority
56 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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The Curse of the Black Lotus (2015)
56 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Our Ownershipless Future
56 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task
56 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Cryptographically Certified Hypothesis Testing [pdf]
56 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire
56 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Without Insurance
56 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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It’s a Great Age for Jazz, but Don’t Call It Golden
56 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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The Bootleg Video Vans of the Soviet Union
56 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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The Colossal, Monumental Screw Up That Is Marriott Security
56 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Bitcoin is close to becoming worthless?
56 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Welcome to Our Sampler of Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Beings
56 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Nvidia Extends PhysX for High Fidelity Simulations, Goes Open Source
56 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity defense company moonshot
56 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Niantic, Maker of Hit ‘Pokémon Go’ App, Refuels with $3.9B Valuation
55 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Historians are using facial recognition to identify people in Civil War photos
55 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Auto Dealers, Startups Try Amazon-Style Ordering for Cars
55 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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What These Medical Journals Don’t Reveal: Top Doctors’ Ties to Industry
55 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Why does decentralization matter?
55 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
55 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Intro to Rod Logic (2009)
55 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Spruce beer continues to have a following
55 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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TiDB 2.1 GA: Battle-Tested to Handle an Unpredictable World
55 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
55 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (2017)
55 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Uber Is Headed for a Crash
55 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Fortnite addiction and parenting in the age of screens
55 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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A Millennial’s Tiny Satellites Are Helping China Advance in the Space Race
55 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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The Void (Linux) distribution
55 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Climate Change in a Nutshell: The Gathering Storm [pdf]
55 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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D Language Server
55 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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State Machines and the Strange Case of Mutating API
55 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Serverless and startups
55 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Chrome 72 Beta: Public class fields, user activation and more
54 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Full Metal Jacket: A visual dataflow language (2016)
54 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Court rules universities may have duty to block websites that harass students
54 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Ask HN: Help me weave in STEM topics for a children's book
54 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Blazor Toast Notifications Using Only C#, HTML and CSS
54 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Rate-distortion optimization
54 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Show HN: PuBilling – Embeddable billing portal for your SaaS app
54 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Patch for critical privilege escalation flaw in Kubernetes
54 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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IRC.com outlines its roadmap
54 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Show HN: Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Great Demo
54 points • comment • dec 09, 2018