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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. We almost demolished teen smoking, and JUUL reintroduced it back

    22 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  2. The Truth About Van Halen and Those Brown M&Ms (2012)

    22 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  3. The Genes That Make Parrots into the Humans of the Bird World

    22 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  4. The Quantum Quest

    22 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  5. Ask HN: Have there been any serious consequences from GDPR yet?

    22 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  6. Ask HN: How to turn mindless browsing time into productive programming time?

    22 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  7. The Errors of TeX (1978-2014) [pdf]

    22 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  8. 500-year-old skeleton still wearing thigh-high boots found in London river

    22 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  9. What school doesn't prepare you for in your first programming job

    22 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  10. Facebook is reportedly planning its own stablecoin

    22 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  11. MIT Deep Learning

    22 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  12. Ask HN: How did you improve your conversational skills?

    22 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  13. Rising Tides Will Sink Global Order

    22 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  14. Apparently Kids Doing ASMR Was a Problem: YouTube Deletes Video [video]

    21 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  15. Bitcoin Derivatives That Cost $1M Will Soon Be Worthless

    21 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  16. Sweden’s Decades-Long Failure to Integrate

    21 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  17. A Brief History of Just-In-Time (2003) [pdf]

    21 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  18. Hyundai Kona Electric Is Next Best Thing to Expensive Teslas

    21 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  19. The millionaires building private police forces in the US

    21 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  20. For avant-garde poets, audio recording was both a breakthrough and a threat

    21 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  21. Luxembourg set to make all public transport free

    21 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  22. Understanding how plants use sunlight

    21 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  23. The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology

    21 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  24. Iron is the new Cholesterol?

    21 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  25. Fierce and furry: Protective feline demons of ancient Egypt

    21 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  26. How to Overcome Cognitive Bias with a Falsification Mindset

    21 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  27. 7 years after trading his kidney for an iPhone 4, Xiao Wang is dying

    21 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  28. New Aphex Twin track remixes

    21 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  29. Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2019?

    21 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  30. Show HN: Shorten your strings using common abbreviations

    21 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  31. Japanese Government Is the Latest to Ban Huawei Network Equipment

    21 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  32. Empirical Evidence on Impact of CA SB826: Gender Quotas for Boards of Directors

    21 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  33. The case for “conditional optimism” on climate change

    21 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  34. Why your iPhone selfies don't look like your face

    21 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  35. The New Tech of Relationships

    21 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  36. Year in Review 2018: GPUs

    21 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  37. Elementary OS, perhaps the Linux world’s best hope for the mainstream

    21 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  38. We finally talked to an actual Waymo passenger – here’s what he told us

    21 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  39. Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem

    21 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  40. On the age of computation in the epoch of humankind

    21 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  41. White House Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees

    21 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  42. Huawei Is China’s Black Mirror Corporation

    21 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  43. Serverless.com framework's CLI tracks all commands and sends it home by default

    21 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  44. How a Dubious Forensic Science Spread Like a Virus

    21 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  45. Hg advent init

    21 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  46. Go 2 Error Values draft implementation – planned for v1.13

    21 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  47. Tell Senate Not to Put the Register of Copyrights in the Hands of the President

    21 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  48. Interesting logos are being replaced with boring ones

    21 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  49. Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple

    21 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  50. Pork fat is healthier than kale

    21 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  51. California transit agencies have 21 years to build zero-emissions bus fleets

    20 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  52. Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose [video]

    20 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  53. Towards a theory of software development expertise

    20 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  54. Category theory – A gentle introduction [pdf]

    20 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  55. We’re No Longer in Smartphone Plateau. We’re in the Smartphone Decline

    20 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  56. What do we know about Zeta Reticuli?

    20 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  57. Ask HN: What kind of revenue alternatives to advertising can websites employ?

    20 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  58. Hybrid qubits solve key hurdle to quantum computing

    20 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  59. Would You Go to China on Business Now?

    20 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  60. How Ted Lieu Became Google’s Accidental Champion

    20 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  61. 52 things I learned in 2018

    20 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  62. The issue with Bitcoin in commerce

    20 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  63. Audi e-tron first drive review: a solid electric SUV

    20 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  64. What comes after serverless?

    20 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  65. Meta Stack Machine vs. Meta State Machine

    20 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  66. Apple exited the home Wi-Fi market at the wrong time

    20 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  67. Social media password, search history could be required to buy firearm in NY

    20 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  68. He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There

    20 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  69. Show HN: ExifShot – A beautiful way to show metadata of your photo

    20 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  70. Show HN: Text Analysis API Demo

    20 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  71. Slack is banning some users with links to Iran even if they’ve left the country

    20 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  72. Time May Be Running Out for Millions of Clocks

    20 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  73. Apple lied about iPhone X screen size and pixel count, lawsuit alleges

    20 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  74. Mosh

    20 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  75. How WhatsApp Fuels Fake News and Violence in India

    20 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  76. Here's how you can set YouTube video playback rate to any speed you like

    20 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  77. Genius can’t be taught

    20 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  78. Counterfeit Monkey: release 8

    20 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  79. Finite of sense and infinite of thought [video]

    20 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  80. America’s Power Grid Isn’t Ready for Electric Cars

    20 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  81. Eager Comprehensions (2003)

    20 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  82. How to Start a Cultural Revolution (2017) [video]

    20 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  83. China’s tech giants want to go global. Just one thing might stand in their way

    20 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  84. Show HN: Automatically delete your negative point HN comments

    20 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  85. The Coming Software Apocalypse

    20 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  86. Hacker News Security

    20 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  87. Review: Helm Personal Server gets email self-hosting (almost) exactly right

    20 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  88. Ask HN: How can I use my phone as a laptop?

    20 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  89. From 'rice bunny' to 'back up the car': China's year of censorship

    20 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  90. How the Ancients can help the Moderns

    20 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  91. Radical Digital Painting [video]

    20 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  92. Amazon reveals private Alexa voice data files

    20 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  93. Ask HN: How can I be happy, knowing I can never learn or read everything online?

    20 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  94. The "Bart": sudden hundreds-of-Bitcoin pumps or dumps to burn the margin traders

    19 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  95. Why I no longer use D3.js

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  96. Show HN: Avenv – A more isolated virtualenv

    19 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  97. These Portraits Were Made by AI: None of These People Exist

    19 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  98. The Fall of Ethereum

    19 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  99. Robespierre the Incorruptible, Robespierre the Daemonic (2014)

    19 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  100. Building a Ruby profiler [video]

    19 points • comment • dec 14, 2018