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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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WireGuard for iOS
334 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371
334 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Facebook’s Very Bad Month Just Got Worse
332 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books
331 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research
331 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit
331 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses
330 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)
330 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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“Modern” C++ Lamentations
328 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than was thought
327 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%
327 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Show HN: A new spline
324 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Browsers
324 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets
324 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
324 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey
323 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Just tell me how to use Go Modules
322 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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How ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG
320 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course
317 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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FreeBSD 12.0 is now available
316 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport
313 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us
311 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess
311 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know
310 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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PracticalAI – A practical approach to learning machine learning
310 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Amazon FBA Experiment
309 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Free Hotel Wifi with Python and Selenium
309 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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After landing a lucrative job at a tech startup, I had made a terrible mistake
308 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have?
306 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry
304 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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A Not-Called Function Can Cause a 5X Slowdown
304 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine
303 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2015) [pdf]
303 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
303 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common
302 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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On Shutting Down
301 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
301 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Why I’m so “against” Ethereum
299 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
298 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned
298 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained
297 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Puzzle-solving 'doesn't slow down mental decline in older people'
296 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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What makes BeOS and Haiku unique
296 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals
295 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced database yet
295 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?
291 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps
291 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast
290 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”
290 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer
289 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts
288 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices
288 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware
287 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt
286 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (2016)
286 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software
285 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Mail Loop From Hell (2012)
285 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries
285 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python
284 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Learn Prolog Now
284 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
284 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism
284 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands
283 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content
281 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Gluten Free Antarctica
280 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Snowboarding for Geeks
280 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Ruby 2.6
279 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Essential C (2003) [pdf]
276 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages
276 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)
275 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging cloud-native applications easier
274 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It
274 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Johnson and Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
273 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Nginx on Wasmjit
271 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive
271 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died
270 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
270 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Show HN: Stock Trading from Google Spreadsheet
269 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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QEMU Advent Calendar: A surprise disk image each day until Christmas
269 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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4,400 year old Egyptian tomb discovered in the Saqqara pyramid complex
269 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
269 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Norwegian frigate sinking has far-reaching implications
266 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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The Octopus Is Smart as Heck, But Why?
266 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Brain.js
266 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Show HN: Vector Logo Zone – SVG logos for your readme or credits page
265 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio [video]
265 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes 12% of revenue
264 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve
263 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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A fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante, and a murder
263 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
263 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push
262 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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People with Depression Use Language Differently
262 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Emacs Fireplace
262 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany
262 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Show HN: Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div
261 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018
261 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little
259 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake
259 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Why you should learn F#
258 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction
257 points • comment • dec 08, 2018