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Hacker News (Dec 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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IRC.com outlines its roadmap
54 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Rate-distortion optimization
54 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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The oral history of the Hampsterdance
54 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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A better way to debug Wayland
54 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Launch HN: Deepgram (YC W16) – Scalable Speech API for Businesses
54 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: the snap-jaw
54 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Show HN: Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Great Demo
54 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Compiler Fuzzing Through Deep Learning [pdf]
54 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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7400 Quad 2-Input NAND Gate: Neglected Survivor from a Pre-Microprocessor World
54 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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The majority of Americans say they did not get a pay raise this year
54 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Golang security resources
53 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Is there an actual Facebook crisis, or media narrative about Facebook crisis?
53 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Keybase advisory: Local Privilege Escalation on Linux via Keybase-Redirector
53 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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University friends: By chance or by design?
53 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Refusal after Refusal
53 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Reliable Webhooks Using Serverless Architecture
53 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Mathematics in the 20th century – Sir Michael Atiyah [pdf]
53 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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A Cyclical Theory of Open Source
53 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are
53 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Become a Facebook-Free Business
53 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Overload Control for Scaling WeChat Microservices [pdf]
53 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Why Are We Still So Fat?
52 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Show HN: Try running deep learning inference on Raspberry Pi
52 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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The Internet as Television
52 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2018)
52 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Work Marathon Guidelines
52 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992)
52 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Ways of seeing (1972) [video]
52 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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A curated list of the top modular homes
52 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Chinese Food on Christmas: Data of a Jewish Tradition
52 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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All zeros in a bank card's CVC code
52 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Why Founders Fail to Grow Their Business
52 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Fashion brands all seem to be using the same font
52 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy
52 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Inside the British Army's secret information warfare machine
52 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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MI6 chief questions China's role in UK tech sector
52 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales
52 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Succincter (2008) [pdf]
51 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Show HN: I'm 17 and I created a Forth interpreter for the TI-84+ calculator
51 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Advanced JavaScript Injections
51 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Use Hooks – A Collection of Reusable React Hooks
51 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Improving Lua performance using baked functions
51 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Apps, Trackers, Privacy, and Regulators: The Mobile Tracking Ecosystem [pdf]
51 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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California lets self-driving startup Zoox offer autonomous rides
51 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Goldman Sachs asks: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
51 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Built to Last: John McPhee's Way of Seeing
51 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Apple iOS 12.1.2 Has a Serious Problem
51 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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California wants to tax text-messaging
51 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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A frugal social worker left $11M to children's charities in his will
51 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Netcap: A framework for secure and scalable network traffic analysis
51 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Littlewood's Law and the Global Media
51 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition
51 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Phonautograph
51 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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The Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Nightmare Came True
51 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Owner who demolished famed San Francisco house must build replica
51 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Damn It All: The Penguin Book of Hell
51 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Addicted to vaped nicotine, teenagers have no clear path to quitting
51 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Women were written out of science history – it’s time we put them back in
51 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Ask HN: Favorite fiction books of 2018
51 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Exclave: Hardware Testing in Mass Production, Made Easier
51 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Drones Used to Find Toy-Like “Butterfly” Land Mines
51 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES
51 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Show HN: Distributed blockchain experiment written in Ruby
51 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Spiking attractor networks
51 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Ask HN: Learning tech leadership vs. growing as a developer?
50 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Flutter will change everything, and Apple won’t do anything about it
50 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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2018's Top Python and R Packages for Data Science and AI
50 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Introduction to Distributed Training of Neural Networks
50 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Show HN: SirixDB – versioning through efficient snapshotting
50 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Not-o-matic Differentiation
50 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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There is no Planet B
50 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Ask HN: Have I lost my skills in programming?
50 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2018 edition
50 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Pixar History Revisited: A Corrective (2011)
50 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Microsoft Clarity – a product to visualize user interactions
50 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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QUIC and HTTP/3: Too big to fail?
50 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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What our science fiction says about us
50 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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The gig worker’s lament
50 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Ask HN: A server admin panel that “just works?”
50 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Ask HN: Do you think Google's recaptcha has gone greedy off late?
50 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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MiniRHex: a surprisingly capable six-whegged robot
50 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Biology [pdf]
50 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Dcentralized url shortening service base on IPFS
49 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Bitcoin Was a Bubble and It Popped
49 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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JavaScript growth and third parties
49 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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The Pseudo-Time Arrow
49 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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How Photojournalism Killed Kevin Carter (2015)
49 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Middle class is disappearing in California as wealth gap grows
49 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
49 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Fluid Simulation (2007) [pdf]
49 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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NYC sets $17 an hour minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers
49 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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“Silent Night” turns 200
49 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now supports Windows
49 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Cmm_of_wasm: From WebAssembly to Native Code via the OCaml Back End
49 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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How a City Agency Stockpiled Arms to Fight White-Collar Crime
49 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Triton: Cloud management platform with first class support for containers
49 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Cornell University Ergonomics Web (2016)
49 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Elon Musk's tunnel project is a bad joke
49 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Ask HN: Ex software developers/engineers, what do you do now?
49 points • comment • dec 03, 2018