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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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Clang compiles much slower and bigger Firefox binaries than GCC 8/9
43 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Chinese Company Says It Will Soon Cross $100/kWh Battery Threshold
43 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Ask HN: Great books you read in 2018?
43 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Army's £113m recruitment website 'was 52 months late'
43 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Twitter Locks WikiLeaks and Multiple WikiLeaks Staff Accounts
43 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Machine Learning 101: 2 yrs of headbanging, so you don't have to (2017) [slides]
43 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, but they are a dead end
43 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Intel Unfolds Roadmaps for Future CPUs and GPUs
43 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Announcing flyio, an R package to interact with data in the cloud
43 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators [pdf]
42 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Latest Windows Insider build makes a major upgrade to Notepad
42 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Machine learning proliferates in particle physics
42 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Scientists Find Red Wolf DNA in a Unique Group of Wild Dogs in Texas
42 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Show HN: Coinboot – a framework for diskless computing
42 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Logitech disables local access on Harmony Hubs, breaks automation systems
42 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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City children four times more lonely than those in countryside
42 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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‘No Morals’: Advertisers React to Facebook Report
42 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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The mystery of the vanishing gun inventor (2013)
42 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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The History of Christmas Lights
42 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Winnipeg ‘chocolategate’: Does a box of treats come with strings attached?
42 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Goodbye FastMail: Aussie government undermining trust in tech companies
42 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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T-Mobile, Sprint see Huawei shun clinching U.S. deal
42 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Untyped Programs Don’t Exist
42 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Yanis Varoufakis: The Euro Has Never Been More Problematic [video]
42 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Facebook shelved a feature intended to promote civil political discourse
42 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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For some in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a ghost town is home
42 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Found: A plane wreck that could solve a 50-year-old mystery
42 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free
42 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Acoustic Location and Sound Mirrors (2004)
42 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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As couples age, humor replaces bickering
42 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Random SCP
42 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Complexity bias in BoardGameGeek
42 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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User retention at Pinterest: tackling an ambiguous problem
41 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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A Visual Defragmenter for the Commodore 64
41 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Don't use the greater than sign in programming (2016)
41 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Recurse Center: The return statement (2015)
41 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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To Help Prevent the Next Big Wildfire, Let the Forest Burn
41 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Facebook Allegedly Offered Advertisers Special Access to Users Data, Activities
41 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Undercover Cells: New Estimate of the Microbes Beneath the Continents
41 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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A Comprehensive Guide on Public Key Cryptography
41 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Build the Linux Kernel and Busybox for ARM and Run Them on QEMU
41 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Netflix using fake Twitter accounts to promote new movie
41 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Ask HN: Career advice for the next years?
41 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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In Booming Oil Field, Natural Gas Can Be Free
41 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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All-electric passenger ferry to be built in New Zealand
41 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Show HN: I built a puzzle / programming challenge with a 0.125 BTC prize
41 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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George H.W. Bush, 41st president of United States dead at 94
41 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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500-Year-Old Body of Man Wearing Thigh-High Boots Found in London Sewer Build
41 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Wall Street's Corruption Runs Deeper Than You Can Fathom
41 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Robinhood will retool checking product following scrutiny
41 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Sending astronauts to Mars would be stupid, astronaut says
41 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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AI Research on Dialogue and Story Generation (Part 3)
41 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Encryption toolkit for media makers: A VeraCrypt guide
40 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Most Money Advice Is Worthless When You’re Poor
40 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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The battle over new nerve cells in adult brains intensifies
40 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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The Worst Measles Outbreak In The European Union
40 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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KLEAK: Practical Kernel Memory Disclosure Detection [pdf]
40 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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RFC 6896 – Secure Cookie Sessions for HTTP
40 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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China to force changes to 20 popular games, ban 9 including Fortnite and PUBG
40 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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The National Park Service Now Owns the Home Where Martin Luther King Jr Was Born
40 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Instagram has turned us against ourselves
40 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Image scanner built using a Lego Mindstorms EV3 set
40 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Microsoft open sources Trill, a tool for processing a trillion events per day
40 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Logic Noise: Sweet, Sweet Oscillator Sounds (2015)
40 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Alphazero crushes Stockfish in 1,000 game match
40 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Retiring Retirement
40 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Ask HN: How are the graphics on this page created?
40 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Scaling the Universe: How Large GPU Clusters Help Understand of Galaxy Formation
40 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Ask HN: Will Apple, Google, Amazon and Others Install Backdoors for Australia?
40 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% speed of light?
40 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Interactive Beginner's Guide to ROP
40 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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An Open Source Tool for Scaling Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
39 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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The Search for the “perfect” Advent Calendar (involves Python and Processing)
39 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”
39 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Enabling Faster, More Capable Robots with Real-Time Motion Planning
39 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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How I replicated an $86M project in 57 lines of code
39 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Fukushima's surfers riding on radioactive waves
39 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Vonnegut’s Asterisk (2013)
39 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Free Ways to Get Landing Page Feedback from Real People
39 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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A woman who outruns men, 200 miles at a time
39 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Study: marketers question effectiveness of retargeting ads
39 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Technical-eBooks: PDFs for programming tutorials
39 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Exorcisms Are Gaining Popularity in the U.S.
39 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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New York's Low Apartment Turnover Hinders Affordability
39 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Interview with Evan You of Vue.js [audio]
39 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent
39 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
39 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Ask HN: How to leave Facebook as a non-user?
39 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Tessellations by Recognizable Figures
39 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Let There Be Light, and Thus, Time (2015) [video]
39 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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A Tribute to Euler (2008) [video]
38 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Flutter – The sky’s the limit
38 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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William Cook: Information, Computation, Optimization [video]
38 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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ForgJs – A lightweight object validator
38 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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A Scramble to Claim the World's Most Coveted Meteorite
38 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Aus Gov to pass laws forcing tech companies help police access encrypted msgs
38 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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A Cashless Economy Locks Out the Poor
38 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet
38 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Teaching and Learning with Jupyter
38 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Notes on how systemd's job engine is structured and other related bits
38 points • comment • dec 29, 2018