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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

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

    54 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  2. IRC.com outlines its roadmap

    54 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  3. Rate-distortion optimization

    54 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  4. The oral history of the Hampsterdance

    54 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  5. A better way to debug Wayland

    54 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  6. Launch HN: Deepgram (YC W16) – Scalable Speech API for Businesses

    54 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  7. Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: the snap-jaw

    54 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

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

    54 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  9. Compiler Fuzzing Through Deep Learning [pdf]

    54 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  10. 7400 Quad 2-Input NAND Gate: Neglected Survivor from a Pre-Microprocessor World

    54 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  11. The majority of Americans say they did not get a pay raise this year

    54 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  12. Golang security resources

    53 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  13. Is there an actual Facebook crisis, or media narrative about Facebook crisis?

    53 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  14. Keybase advisory: Local Privilege Escalation on Linux via Keybase-Redirector

    53 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  15. University friends: By chance or by design?

    53 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  16. Refusal after Refusal

    53 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  17. Reliable Webhooks Using Serverless Architecture

    53 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  18. Mathematics in the 20th century – Sir Michael Atiyah [pdf]

    53 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  19. A Cyclical Theory of Open Source

    53 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  20. An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are

    53 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  21. Become a Facebook-Free Business

    53 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  22. Overload Control for Scaling WeChat Microservices [pdf]

    53 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  23. Why Are We Still So Fat?

    52 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  24. Show HN: Try running deep learning inference on Raspberry Pi

    52 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  25. The Internet as Television

    52 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  26. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2018)

    52 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  27. Work Marathon Guidelines

    52 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  28. Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992)

    52 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  29. Ways of seeing (1972) [video]

    52 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  30. A curated list of the top modular homes

    52 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  31. Chinese Food on Christmas: Data of a Jewish Tradition

    52 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  32. All zeros in a bank card's CVC code

    52 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  33. Why Founders Fail to Grow Their Business

    52 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  34. Fashion brands all seem to be using the same font

    52 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  35. Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy

    52 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  36. Inside the British Army's secret information warfare machine

    52 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  37. MI6 chief questions China's role in UK tech sector

    52 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  38. Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales

    52 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  39. Succincter (2008) [pdf]

    51 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  40. Show HN: I'm 17 and I created a Forth interpreter for the TI-84+ calculator

    51 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  41. Advanced JavaScript Injections

    51 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  42. Use Hooks – A Collection of Reusable React Hooks

    51 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  43. Improving Lua performance using baked functions

    51 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  44. Apps, Trackers, Privacy, and Regulators: The Mobile Tracking Ecosystem [pdf]

    51 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  45. California lets self-driving startup Zoox offer autonomous rides

    51 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  46. Goldman Sachs asks: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'

    51 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  47. Built to Last: John McPhee's Way of Seeing

    51 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  48. Apple iOS 12.1.2 Has a Serious Problem

    51 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  49. California wants to tax text-messaging

    51 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  50. A frugal social worker left $11M to children's charities in his will

    51 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  51. Netcap: A framework for secure and scalable network traffic analysis

    51 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  52. Littlewood's Law and the Global Media

    51 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  53. The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition

    51 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  54. Phonautograph

    51 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  55. The Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Nightmare Came True

    51 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  56. Owner who demolished famed San Francisco house must build replica

    51 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  57. Damn It All: The Penguin Book of Hell

    51 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  58. Addicted to vaped nicotine, teenagers have no clear path to quitting

    51 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  59. Women were written out of science history – it’s time we put them back in

    51 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  60. Ask HN: Favorite fiction books of 2018

    51 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  61. Exclave: Hardware Testing in Mass Production, Made Easier

    51 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  62. Drones Used to Find Toy-Like “Butterfly” Land Mines

    51 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  63. Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES

    51 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  64. Show HN: Distributed blockchain experiment written in Ruby

    51 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  65. Spiking attractor networks

    51 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  66. Ask HN: Learning tech leadership vs. growing as a developer?

    50 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  67. Flutter will change everything, and Apple won’t do anything about it

    50 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  68. 2018's Top Python and R Packages for Data Science and AI

    50 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  69. Introduction to Distributed Training of Neural Networks

    50 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  70. Show HN: SirixDB – versioning through efficient snapshotting

    50 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  71. Not-o-matic Differentiation

    50 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  72. There is no Planet B

    50 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  73. Ask HN: Have I lost my skills in programming?

    50 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  74. Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2018 edition

    50 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  75. Pixar History Revisited: A Corrective (2011)

    50 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  76. Microsoft Clarity – a product to visualize user interactions

    50 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  77. QUIC and HTTP/3: Too big to fail?

    50 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  78. What our science fiction says about us

    50 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  79. The gig worker’s lament

    50 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  80. Ask HN: A server admin panel that “just works?”

    50 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  81. Ask HN: Do you think Google's recaptcha has gone greedy off late?

    50 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  82. MiniRHex: a surprisingly capable six-whegged robot

    50 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  83. A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Biology [pdf]

    50 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  84. Dcentralized url shortening service base on IPFS

    49 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  85. Bitcoin Was a Bubble and It Popped

    49 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  86. JavaScript growth and third parties

    49 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  87. The Pseudo-Time Arrow

    49 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  88. How Photojournalism Killed Kevin Carter (2015)

    49 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  89. Middle class is disappearing in California as wealth gap grows

    49 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  90. Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages

    49 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  91. Fluid Simulation (2007) [pdf]

    49 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  92. NYC sets $17 an hour minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers

    49 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  93. “Silent Night” turns 200

    49 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  94. Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now supports Windows

    49 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  95. Cmm_of_wasm: From WebAssembly to Native Code via the OCaml Back End

    49 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  96. How a City Agency Stockpiled Arms to Fight White-Collar Crime

    49 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  97. Triton: Cloud management platform with first class support for containers

    49 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  98. Cornell University Ergonomics Web (2016)

    49 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  99. Elon Musk's tunnel project is a bad joke

    49 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  100. Ask HN: Ex software developers/engineers, what do you do now?

    49 points • comment • dec 03, 2018