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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. Arrest Shakes Huawei as Global Skepticism of Its Business Grows

    38 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  2. “Starting Dec 17, adult content will not be allowed on Tumblr.”

    38 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  3. Colossus 237: Apollo 8 Flight Software

    38 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  4. Why Developers don’t TDD: a podcast series

    38 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  5. The Octal Small Form Pluggable (OSFP) implements 400Gb Ethernet

    38 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  6. Session types in programming languages (2016)

    38 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  7. SoftBank’s Arab Backers Balk at Planned Acquisition of WeWork

    38 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  8. Violence Escalates as France Scrambles to Respond to ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters

    38 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  9. POLA Would Have Prevented the Event-Stream Incident

    38 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  10. Show HN: Python JSON library in Rust, faster than ujson

    38 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  11. Liqian: The Chinese town founded by Roman legionnaires

    38 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  12. Ask HN: Are modular neural networks an interesting avenue for further research?

    38 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  13. A Year After the Middle Class Tax Cut, the Rich Are Winning

    38 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  14. The path to production: how and where to segregate test environments

    38 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  15. How I raised my $11.5m VC fund

    38 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  16. Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection (2005) [pdf]

    38 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  17. Hammer time: fixing the printer on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe

    37 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  18. Hoard: Distributed Data Caching System to Accelerate Deep Learning Training

    37 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  19. NPR‘s Best Books of 2018

    37 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  20. Show HN: CoolBeans, an IDE distribution

    37 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  21. IHMC Teaches Atlas to Walk Like a Human

    37 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  22. Chipotle’s Mandatory Arbitration Agreements Are Backfiring

    37 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  23. Reading linear texts on paper versus computer screen (2013) [pdf]

    37 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  24. Show HN: Fincher, a steganography tool for text

    37 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  25. The Lazy Susan Is Neither Classic nor Chinese (2014)

    37 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  26. Aaron Klug, 92, Dies; His 3-D Images of Bodily Molecules Won a Nobel

    37 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  27. Pre-War Covers for Novae Terrae, the Magazine of the Science Fiction Association

    37 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  28. Programming a Problem-Oriented-Language (1970)

    37 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  29. Rethinking how we interview in Microsoft’s Developer Division

    37 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  30. Implementation of the OWASP Mobile TOP 10 methodology for testing Android apps

    37 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  31. Brian May revives Victorian virtual reality

    37 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  32. The What’s Next Intermittent Computing Architecture [pdf]

    37 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  33. The cult of science

    37 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  34. Maintaining good health at a desk job

    37 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  35. Gogs/gogs: Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service

    37 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  36. Experience of phantom limbs lets amputees control real replacements

    37 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  37. “What is the FCC hiding?” Pai still won’t release net neutrality server logs

    37 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  38. How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment

    37 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  39. Moral Machine

    37 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  40. The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository

    37 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  41. Ask HN: What books/activities do you recommended for being more charismatic?

    36 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  42. Ask HN: I work from home and I’m expecting a kid this year, I need pro tips

    36 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  43. Intel Unveils a Groundbreaking Way to Make 3D Chips

    36 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  44. Understanding the Type of ‘call/cc’

    36 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  45. Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Biography

    36 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  46. AIVA – Music Engine

    36 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  47. Intuition is wrong, unless these conditions are met

    36 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  48. Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll Dies

    36 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  49. Show HN: Vitriol – distributed, serverless publishing platform

    36 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  50. If hackers attacked the hospital (2017)

    36 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  51. Ask HN: How do you handle your depression?

    36 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  52. Third-wave antiracism makes sense, but it's a dead end

    36 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  53. “Genuine people personalities” are coming to our gadgets?

    36 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  54. LOOP (programming language)

    36 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  55. On Being Accused (Neil DeGrasse Tyson)

    36 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  56. Delightful Animations

    36 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  57. Thailand legalizes medicinal marijuana in New Year’s ‘gift’

    36 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  58. The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang reviewed

    36 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  59. Aller Artix-7 FPGA Board with M.2 Interface

    35 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  60. Chinese National Charged with Committing Theft of Trade Secrets

    35 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  61. Students are turning to sex work for extra money

    35 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  62. Sir Hiram Maxim’s Pipe of Peace

    35 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  63. One Man’s Quest to Outrace Wind (2011)

    35 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  64. Amazon Prime is getting worse, and it’s making me question the nature of reality

    35 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  65. Jered Threatin: A conversation with a false rock god

    35 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  66. Stop adding cancer-causing chemicals to our bacon, experts tell meat industry

    35 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  67. “Write Drunk, Edit Sober” Is Bad Advice

    35 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  68. Ask HN: Kibana like data explorer UI for PostgreSQL?

    35 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  69. Women Who Code Moves Global HQ from SF to Atlanta with Help from Home Depot

    35 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  70. Australia rushes its ‘dangerous’ anti-encryption bill into parliament

    35 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  71. Why China's electric car industry is leaving Detroit, Japan, Germany in the dust

    35 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  72. Grand Theft Cobalt: Rotterdam

    35 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  73. Innovations of 2018

    35 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  74. Multiparty Session C: Safe Parallel Programming with Message Optimisation (2012)

    35 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  75. Test Your Knowledge of American Incarceration

    34 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  76. Infinitesimal machinery (1993) [pdf]

    34 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  77. Open offices can lead to closed minds

    34 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  78. J4K Retrospective

    34 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  79. Slow television

    34 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  80. At Gathering of Spy Chiefs, U.S., Allies Agreed to Contain Huawei

    34 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  81. What is the funniest and stupidest software project you know?

    34 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  82. Assessing efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change [pdf]

    34 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  83. The costly journey of returned goods means big business for some

    34 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  84. Nassim Taleb on IQ

    34 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  85. Some California beaches have been off-limits, but public outrage is changing

    34 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  86. Research estimates vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking

    34 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  87. Google+ hit by second API bug impacting 52.5M users

    34 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  88. Facebook is Open-sourcing PyText for faster NLP development

    34 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  89. “God Help American Science”: Engineering Theatre and Spectacle (2016)

    34 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  90. 500 Google employees pen letter saying the firm should move ahead with Dragonfly

    34 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  91. From Graduate School Student to Amazon Warehouse Janitor

    34 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  92. Election Cybersecurity Progress Report: Will the U.S. be ready for 2020? [video]

    34 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  93. Docker Compose on Kubernetes

    34 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  94. The Vimes Boots Theory: Further Reflections

    34 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  95. Bill Gates urges U.S. to take the lead in nuclear power

    34 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  96. Testing the Grave Digger Monster Truck (2010)

    34 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  97. Runbox 7 Webmail App Is Now Open Source

    34 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  98. Ask HN: Is there a decentralised alternative to Slack?

    34 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  99. Nvidia Makes PhysX Open-Source

    33 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  100. Why bad software architecture is easy to monetize

    33 points • comment • dec 14, 2018