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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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Arrest Shakes Huawei as Global Skepticism of Its Business Grows
38 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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“Starting Dec 17, adult content will not be allowed on Tumblr.”
38 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Colossus 237: Apollo 8 Flight Software
38 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Why Developers don’t TDD: a podcast series
38 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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The Octal Small Form Pluggable (OSFP) implements 400Gb Ethernet
38 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Session types in programming languages (2016)
38 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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SoftBank’s Arab Backers Balk at Planned Acquisition of WeWork
38 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Violence Escalates as France Scrambles to Respond to ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters
38 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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POLA Would Have Prevented the Event-Stream Incident
38 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Show HN: Python JSON library in Rust, faster than ujson
38 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Liqian: The Chinese town founded by Roman legionnaires
38 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Ask HN: Are modular neural networks an interesting avenue for further research?
38 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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A Year After the Middle Class Tax Cut, the Rich Are Winning
38 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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The path to production: how and where to segregate test environments
38 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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How I raised my $11.5m VC fund
38 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection (2005) [pdf]
38 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Hammer time: fixing the printer on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe
37 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Hoard: Distributed Data Caching System to Accelerate Deep Learning Training
37 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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NPR‘s Best Books of 2018
37 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Show HN: CoolBeans, an IDE distribution
37 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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IHMC Teaches Atlas to Walk Like a Human
37 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Chipotle’s Mandatory Arbitration Agreements Are Backfiring
37 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Reading linear texts on paper versus computer screen (2013) [pdf]
37 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Show HN: Fincher, a steganography tool for text
37 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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The Lazy Susan Is Neither Classic nor Chinese (2014)
37 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Aaron Klug, 92, Dies; His 3-D Images of Bodily Molecules Won a Nobel
37 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Pre-War Covers for Novae Terrae, the Magazine of the Science Fiction Association
37 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Programming a Problem-Oriented-Language (1970)
37 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Rethinking how we interview in Microsoft’s Developer Division
37 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Implementation of the OWASP Mobile TOP 10 methodology for testing Android apps
37 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Brian May revives Victorian virtual reality
37 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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The What’s Next Intermittent Computing Architecture [pdf]
37 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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The cult of science
37 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Maintaining good health at a desk job
37 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Gogs/gogs: Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service
37 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Experience of phantom limbs lets amputees control real replacements
37 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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“What is the FCC hiding?” Pai still won’t release net neutrality server logs
37 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment
37 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Moral Machine
37 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository
37 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Ask HN: What books/activities do you recommended for being more charismatic?
36 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Ask HN: I work from home and I’m expecting a kid this year, I need pro tips
36 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Intel Unveils a Groundbreaking Way to Make 3D Chips
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Understanding the Type of ‘call/cc’
36 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Biography
36 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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AIVA – Music Engine
36 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Intuition is wrong, unless these conditions are met
36 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Vine Co-Founder Colin Kroll Dies
36 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Show HN: Vitriol – distributed, serverless publishing platform
36 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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If hackers attacked the hospital (2017)
36 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Ask HN: How do you handle your depression?
36 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Third-wave antiracism makes sense, but it's a dead end
36 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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“Genuine people personalities” are coming to our gadgets?
36 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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LOOP (programming language)
36 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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On Being Accused (Neil DeGrasse Tyson)
36 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Delightful Animations
36 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Thailand legalizes medicinal marijuana in New Year’s ‘gift’
36 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang reviewed
36 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Aller Artix-7 FPGA Board with M.2 Interface
35 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Chinese National Charged with Committing Theft of Trade Secrets
35 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Students are turning to sex work for extra money
35 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Sir Hiram Maxim’s Pipe of Peace
35 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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One Man’s Quest to Outrace Wind (2011)
35 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Amazon Prime is getting worse, and it’s making me question the nature of reality
35 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Jered Threatin: A conversation with a false rock god
35 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Stop adding cancer-causing chemicals to our bacon, experts tell meat industry
35 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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“Write Drunk, Edit Sober” Is Bad Advice
35 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Ask HN: Kibana like data explorer UI for PostgreSQL?
35 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Women Who Code Moves Global HQ from SF to Atlanta with Help from Home Depot
35 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Australia rushes its ‘dangerous’ anti-encryption bill into parliament
35 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Why China's electric car industry is leaving Detroit, Japan, Germany in the dust
35 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Grand Theft Cobalt: Rotterdam
35 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Innovations of 2018
35 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Multiparty Session C: Safe Parallel Programming with Message Optimisation (2012)
35 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Test Your Knowledge of American Incarceration
34 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Infinitesimal machinery (1993) [pdf]
34 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Open offices can lead to closed minds
34 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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J4K Retrospective
34 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Slow television
34 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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At Gathering of Spy Chiefs, U.S., Allies Agreed to Contain Huawei
34 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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What is the funniest and stupidest software project you know?
34 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Assessing efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change [pdf]
34 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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The costly journey of returned goods means big business for some
34 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Nassim Taleb on IQ
34 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Some California beaches have been off-limits, but public outrage is changing
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Research estimates vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking
34 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Google+ hit by second API bug impacting 52.5M users
34 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Facebook is Open-sourcing PyText for faster NLP development
34 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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“God Help American Science”: Engineering Theatre and Spectacle (2016)
34 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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500 Google employees pen letter saying the firm should move ahead with Dragonfly
34 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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From Graduate School Student to Amazon Warehouse Janitor
34 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Election Cybersecurity Progress Report: Will the U.S. be ready for 2020? [video]
34 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Docker Compose on Kubernetes
34 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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The Vimes Boots Theory: Further Reflections
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Bill Gates urges U.S. to take the lead in nuclear power
34 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Testing the Grave Digger Monster Truck (2010)
34 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Runbox 7 Webmail App Is Now Open Source
34 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Ask HN: Is there a decentralised alternative to Slack?
34 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Nvidia Makes PhysX Open-Source
33 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Why bad software architecture is easy to monetize
33 points • comment • dec 14, 2018