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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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Robinhood Checking Moved Fast and Broke
451 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
448 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
448 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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The Elements of UI Engineering
446 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects
445 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data'
445 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)
444 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages
439 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds
438 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs
436 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
433 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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How Google Code Search Worked: Regex Matching with a Trigram Index (2012)
432 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims
430 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite
430 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal
427 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH
426 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over
426 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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lsix: ls for images
424 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars
422 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization?
419 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
419 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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CSS grid garden
418 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Social networks are no longer social
415 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel
414 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
414 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Python gets a new governance model
413 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth
413 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
410 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells
409 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
408 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills
408 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
408 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
406 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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How I Wrote a Modern C++ Library in Rust
404 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'
403 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Hashicorp Vault v1.0
402 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next
402 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Writing copy for landing pages
401 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe
400 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix
399 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released
397 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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The Internet of Unprofitable Things
397 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019
394 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Rocket v0.4: Typed URIs, Database Support, Revamped Queries
393 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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StateOfTheArt.ai
392 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers
389 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options?
389 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
387 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals
386 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Google Tech Dev Guide
386 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Reasons Python Sucks
385 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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How the 0.001% invest
382 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Tech company patterns
381 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask
378 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide [pdf]
377 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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China’s Economy Slows Sharply
377 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers
376 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900
374 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted
373 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism
372 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Chinese may take over Mombasa port: Ouko
372 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Turtletoy
370 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler
368 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record
368 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?
367 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Federal judge finds state law governing who is an engineer violates free speech
366 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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PhysX SDK 4.0, an Open-Source Physics Engine
366 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Ask HN: Engineers from non-CS background, how did you pivot into ML/AI?
364 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website
362 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers
361 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration
358 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery
358 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients
358 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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VirtualBox 6.0 released
356 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended
355 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen
355 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps
354 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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The Game Engine Black Book: Doom
353 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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The Cube Rule of Food Identification
352 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft
351 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Clojure 1.10 release
350 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs
349 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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What I learned in ten years of blogging
349 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click
349 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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MIT team develops 3D printer that's 10x faster than comparable 3D printers
347 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996
346 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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How Does React Tell a Class from a Function?
345 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels
345 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30
345 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Linux 4.20 released
344 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds
344 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to steal vehicles
343 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated
343 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless
343 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Show HN: Open source JavaScript library to record and replay the web
343 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Write good git commit messages
342 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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50 CVEs in 50 Days: Fuzzing Adobe Reader
340 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft
336 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People
335 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio
335 points • comment • dec 10, 2018