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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. Clang compiles much slower and bigger Firefox binaries than GCC 8/9

    43 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  2. Chinese Company Says It Will Soon Cross $100/kWh Battery Threshold

    43 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  3. Ask HN: Great books you read in 2018?

    43 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  4. Army's £113m recruitment website 'was 52 months late'

    43 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  5. Twitter Locks WikiLeaks and Multiple WikiLeaks Staff Accounts

    43 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  6. Machine Learning 101: 2 yrs of headbanging, so you don't have to (2017) [slides]

    43 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  7. Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, but they are a dead end

    43 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  8. Intel Unfolds Roadmaps for Future CPUs and GPUs

    43 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  9. Announcing flyio, an R package to interact with data in the cloud

    43 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  10. Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators [pdf]

    42 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  11. Latest Windows Insider build makes a major upgrade to Notepad

    42 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  12. Machine learning proliferates in particle physics

    42 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  13. Scientists Find Red Wolf DNA in a Unique Group of Wild Dogs in Texas

    42 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  14. Show HN: Coinboot – a framework for diskless computing

    42 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  15. Logitech disables local access on Harmony Hubs, breaks automation systems

    42 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  16. City children four times more lonely than those in countryside

    42 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  17. ‘No Morals’: Advertisers React to Facebook Report

    42 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  18. The mystery of the vanishing gun inventor (2013)

    42 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  19. The History of Christmas Lights

    42 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  20. Winnipeg ‘chocolategate’: Does a box of treats come with strings attached?

    42 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  21. Goodbye FastMail: Aussie government undermining trust in tech companies

    42 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  22. T-Mobile, Sprint see Huawei shun clinching U.S. deal

    42 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  23. Untyped Programs Don’t Exist

    42 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  24. Yanis Varoufakis: The Euro Has Never Been More Problematic [video]

    42 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  25. Facebook shelved a feature intended to promote civil political discourse

    42 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  26. For some in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a ghost town is home

    42 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  27. Found: A plane wreck that could solve a 50-year-old mystery

    42 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  28. Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free

    42 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  29. Acoustic Location and Sound Mirrors (2004)

    42 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  30. As couples age, humor replaces bickering

    42 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  31. Random SCP

    42 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  32. Complexity bias in BoardGameGeek

    42 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  33. User retention at Pinterest: tackling an ambiguous problem

    41 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  34. A Visual Defragmenter for the Commodore 64

    41 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  35. Don't use the greater than sign in programming (2016)

    41 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  36. Recurse Center: The return statement (2015)

    41 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  37. To Help Prevent the Next Big Wildfire, Let the Forest Burn

    41 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  38. Facebook Allegedly Offered Advertisers Special Access to Users Data, Activities

    41 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  39. Undercover Cells: New Estimate of the Microbes Beneath the Continents

    41 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  40. A Comprehensive Guide on Public Key Cryptography

    41 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  41. Build the Linux Kernel and Busybox for ARM and Run Them on QEMU

    41 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  42. Netflix using fake Twitter accounts to promote new movie

    41 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  43. Ask HN: Career advice for the next years?

    41 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  44. In Booming Oil Field, Natural Gas Can Be Free

    41 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  45. All-electric passenger ferry to be built in New Zealand

    41 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  46. Show HN: I built a puzzle / programming challenge with a 0.125 BTC prize

    41 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  47. George H.W. Bush, 41st president of United States dead at 94

    41 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  48. 500-Year-Old Body of Man Wearing Thigh-High Boots Found in London Sewer Build

    41 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  49. Wall Street's Corruption Runs Deeper Than You Can Fathom

    41 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  50. Robinhood will retool checking product following scrutiny

    41 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  51. Sending astronauts to Mars would be stupid, astronaut says

    41 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  52. AI Research on Dialogue and Story Generation (Part 3)

    41 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  53. Encryption toolkit for media makers: A VeraCrypt guide

    40 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  54. Most Money Advice Is Worthless When You’re Poor

    40 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  55. The battle over new nerve cells in adult brains intensifies

    40 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  56. The Worst Measles Outbreak In The European Union

    40 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  57. KLEAK: Practical Kernel Memory Disclosure Detection [pdf]

    40 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  58. RFC 6896 – Secure Cookie Sessions for HTTP

    40 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  59. China to force changes to 20 popular games, ban 9 including Fortnite and PUBG

    40 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  60. The National Park Service Now Owns the Home Where Martin Luther King Jr Was Born

    40 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  61. Instagram has turned us against ourselves

    40 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  62. Image scanner built using a Lego Mindstorms EV3 set

    40 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  63. Microsoft open sources Trill, a tool for processing a trillion events per day

    40 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  64. Logic Noise: Sweet, Sweet Oscillator Sounds (2015)

    40 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  65. Alphazero crushes Stockfish in 1,000 game match

    40 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  66. Retiring Retirement

    40 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  67. Ask HN: How are the graphics on this page created?

    40 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  68. Scaling the Universe: How Large GPU Clusters Help Understand of Galaxy Formation

    40 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  69. Ask HN: Will Apple, Google, Amazon and Others Install Backdoors for Australia?

    40 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  70. What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% speed of light?

    40 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  71. Interactive Beginner's Guide to ROP

    40 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  72. An Open Source Tool for Scaling Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    39 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  73. The Search for the “perfect” Advent Calendar (involves Python and Processing)

    39 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  74. WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”

    39 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  75. Enabling Faster, More Capable Robots with Real-Time Motion Planning

    39 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  76. How I replicated an $86M project in 57 lines of code

    39 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  77. Fukushima's surfers riding on radioactive waves

    39 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  78. Vonnegut’s Asterisk (2013)

    39 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  79. Free Ways to Get Landing Page Feedback from Real People

    39 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  80. A woman who outruns men, 200 miles at a time

    39 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  81. Study: marketers question effectiveness of retargeting ads

    39 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  82. Technical-eBooks: PDFs for programming tutorials

    39 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  83. Exorcisms Are Gaining Popularity in the U.S.

    39 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  84. New York's Low Apartment Turnover Hinders Affordability

    39 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  85. Interview with Evan You of Vue.js [audio]

    39 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  86. In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent

    39 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  87. Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

    39 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  88. Ask HN: How to leave Facebook as a non-user?

    39 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  89. Tessellations by Recognizable Figures

    39 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  90. Let There Be Light, and Thus, Time (2015) [video]

    39 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  91. A Tribute to Euler (2008) [video]

    38 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  92. Flutter – The sky’s the limit

    38 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  93. William Cook: Information, Computation, Optimization [video]

    38 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  94. ForgJs – A lightweight object validator

    38 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  95. A Scramble to Claim the World's Most Coveted Meteorite

    38 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  96. Aus Gov to pass laws forcing tech companies help police access encrypted msgs

    38 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  97. A Cashless Economy Locks Out the Poor

    38 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  98. The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet

    38 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  99. Teaching and Learning with Jupyter

    38 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  100. Notes on how systemd's job engine is structured and other related bits

    38 points • comment • dec 29, 2018