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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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We almost demolished teen smoking, and JUUL reintroduced it back
22 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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The Truth About Van Halen and Those Brown M&Ms (2012)
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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The Genes That Make Parrots into the Humans of the Bird World
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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The Quantum Quest
22 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Ask HN: Have there been any serious consequences from GDPR yet?
22 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Ask HN: How to turn mindless browsing time into productive programming time?
22 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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The Errors of TeX (1978-2014) [pdf]
22 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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500-year-old skeleton still wearing thigh-high boots found in London river
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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What school doesn't prepare you for in your first programming job
22 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Facebook is reportedly planning its own stablecoin
22 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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MIT Deep Learning
22 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Ask HN: How did you improve your conversational skills?
22 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Rising Tides Will Sink Global Order
22 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Apparently Kids Doing ASMR Was a Problem: YouTube Deletes Video [video]
21 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Bitcoin Derivatives That Cost $1M Will Soon Be Worthless
21 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Sweden’s Decades-Long Failure to Integrate
21 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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A Brief History of Just-In-Time (2003) [pdf]
21 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Hyundai Kona Electric Is Next Best Thing to Expensive Teslas
21 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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The millionaires building private police forces in the US
21 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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For avant-garde poets, audio recording was both a breakthrough and a threat
21 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Luxembourg set to make all public transport free
21 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Understanding how plants use sunlight
21 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology
21 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Iron is the new Cholesterol?
21 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Fierce and furry: Protective feline demons of ancient Egypt
21 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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How to Overcome Cognitive Bias with a Falsification Mindset
21 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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7 years after trading his kidney for an iPhone 4, Xiao Wang is dying
21 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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New Aphex Twin track remixes
21 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2019?
21 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Show HN: Shorten your strings using common abbreviations
21 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Japanese Government Is the Latest to Ban Huawei Network Equipment
21 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Empirical Evidence on Impact of CA SB826: Gender Quotas for Boards of Directors
21 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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The case for “conditional optimism” on climate change
21 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Why your iPhone selfies don't look like your face
21 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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The New Tech of Relationships
21 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Year in Review 2018: GPUs
21 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Elementary OS, perhaps the Linux world’s best hope for the mainstream
21 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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We finally talked to an actual Waymo passenger – here’s what he told us
21 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem
21 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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On the age of computation in the epoch of humankind
21 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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White House Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
21 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Huawei Is China’s Black Mirror Corporation
21 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Serverless.com framework's CLI tracks all commands and sends it home by default
21 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus
21 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Hg advent init
21 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Go 2 Error Values draft implementation – planned for v1.13
21 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Tell Senate Not to Put the Register of Copyrights in the Hands of the President
21 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Interesting logos are being replaced with boring ones
21 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple
21 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Pork fat is healthier than kale
21 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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California transit agencies have 21 years to build zero-emissions bus fleets
20 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose [video]
20 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Towards a theory of software development expertise
20 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Category theory – A gentle introduction [pdf]
20 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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We’re No Longer in Smartphone Plateau. We’re in the Smartphone Decline
20 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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What do we know about Zeta Reticuli?
20 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Ask HN: What kind of revenue alternatives to advertising can websites employ?
20 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Hybrid qubits solve key hurdle to quantum computing
20 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Would You Go to China on Business Now?
20 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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How Ted Lieu Became Google’s Accidental Champion
20 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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52 things I learned in 2018
20 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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The issue with Bitcoin in commerce
20 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Audi e-tron first drive review: a solid electric SUV
20 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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What comes after serverless?
20 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Meta Stack Machine vs. Meta State Machine
20 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Apple exited the home Wi-Fi market at the wrong time
20 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Social media password, search history could be required to buy firearm in NY
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There
20 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Show HN: ExifShot – A beautiful way to show metadata of your photo
20 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Show HN: Text Analysis API Demo
20 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Slack is banning some users with links to Iran even if they’ve left the country
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Time May Be Running Out for Millions of Clocks
20 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Apple lied about iPhone X screen size and pixel count, lawsuit alleges
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Mosh
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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How WhatsApp Fuels Fake News and Violence in India
20 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Here's how you can set YouTube video playback rate to any speed you like
20 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Genius can’t be taught
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Counterfeit Monkey: release 8
20 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Finite of sense and infinite of thought [video]
20 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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America’s Power Grid Isn’t Ready for Electric Cars
20 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Eager Comprehensions (2003)
20 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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How to Start a Cultural Revolution (2017) [video]
20 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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China’s tech giants want to go global. Just one thing might stand in their way
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Show HN: Automatically delete your negative point HN comments
20 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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The Coming Software Apocalypse
20 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Hacker News Security
20 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Review: Helm Personal Server gets email self-hosting (almost) exactly right
20 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Ask HN: How can I use my phone as a laptop?
20 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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From 'rice bunny' to 'back up the car': China's year of censorship
20 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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How the Ancients can help the Moderns
20 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Radical Digital Painting [video]
20 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Amazon reveals private Alexa voice data files
20 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Ask HN: How can I be happy, knowing I can never learn or read everything online?
20 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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The "Bart": sudden hundreds-of-Bitcoin pumps or dumps to burn the margin traders
19 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Why I no longer use D3.js
19 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Show HN: Avenv – A more isolated virtualenv
19 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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These Portraits Were Made by AI: None of These People Exist
19 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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The Fall of Ethereum
19 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Robespierre the Incorruptible, Robespierre the Daemonic (2014)
19 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Building a Ruby profiler [video]
19 points • comment • dec 14, 2018