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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. Robinhood Checking Moved Fast and Broke

    451 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  2. Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

    448 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  3. Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

    448 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  4. The Elements of UI Engineering

    446 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  5. EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects

    445 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  6. Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data'

    445 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  7. The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)

    444 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  8. Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages

    439 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  9. Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds

    438 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  10. Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

    436 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  11. 911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage

    433 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  12. How Google Code Search Worked: Regex Matching with a Trigram Index (2012)

    432 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  13. Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims

    430 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  14. Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite

    430 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  15. China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal

    427 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  16. Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

    426 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  17. Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over

    426 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  18. lsix: ls for images

    424 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  19. What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars

    422 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  20. Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization?

    419 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  21. Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

    419 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  22. CSS grid garden

    418 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  23. Social networks are no longer social

    415 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  24. Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel

    414 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  25. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)

    414 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  26. Python gets a new governance model

    413 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  27. Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth

    413 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  28. Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

    410 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  29. Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells

    409 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  30. Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018

    408 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  31. What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills

    408 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  32. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)

    408 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  33. Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

    406 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  34. How I Wrote a Modern C++ Library in Rust

    404 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  35. Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System'

    403 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  36. Hashicorp Vault v1.0

    402 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  37. What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next

    402 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  38. Writing copy for landing pages

    401 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  39. 'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe

    400 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  40. Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix

    399 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  41. UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released

    397 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  42. The Internet of Unprofitable Things

    397 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  43. Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019

    394 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  44. Rocket v0.4: Typed URIs, Database Support, Revamped Queries

    393 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  45. StateOfTheArt.ai

    392 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  46. Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers

    389 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  47. I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options?

    389 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  48. Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo

    387 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  49. Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals

    386 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  50. Google Tech Dev Guide

    386 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  51. Reasons Python Sucks

    385 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  52. How the 0.001% invest

    382 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  53. Tech company patterns

    381 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  54. Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask

    378 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  55. Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide [pdf]

    377 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  56. China’s Economy Slows Sharply

    377 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  57. Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers

    376 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  58. Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900

    374 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  59. The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted

    373 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  60. Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism

    372 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  61. Chinese may take over Mombasa port: Ouko

    372 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  62. Turtletoy

    370 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  63. Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler

    368 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  64. Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record

    368 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  65. Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?

    367 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  66. Federal judge finds state law governing who is an engineer violates free speech

    366 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  67. PhysX SDK 4.0, an Open-Source Physics Engine

    366 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  68. Ask HN: Engineers from non-CS background, how did you pivot into ML/AI?

    364 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  69. Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

    362 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  70. Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers

    361 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  71. Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration

    358 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  72. AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery

    358 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  73. China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients

    358 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  74. VirtualBox 6.0 released

    356 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  75. Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended

    355 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  76. Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen

    355 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  77. Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps

    354 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  78. The Game Engine Black Book: Doom

    353 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  79. The Cube Rule of Food Identification

    352 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  80. Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft

    351 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  81. Clojure 1.10 release

    350 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  82. Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs

    349 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  83. What I learned in ten years of blogging

    349 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  84. Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click

    349 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  85. MIT team develops 3D printer that's 10x faster than comparable 3D printers

    347 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  86. Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996

    346 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  87. How Does React Tell a Class from a Function?

    345 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  88. SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels

    345 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  89. Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30

    345 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  90. Linux 4.20 released

    344 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  91. Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds

    344 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  92. Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to steal vehicles

    343 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  93. How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated

    343 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  94. Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless

    343 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  95. Show HN: Open source JavaScript library to record and replay the web

    343 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  96. Write good git commit messages

    342 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  97. 50 CVEs in 50 Days: Fuzzing Adobe Reader

    340 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  98. China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft

    336 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  99. Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People

    335 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  100. The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio

    335 points • comment • dec 10, 2018