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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. WireGuard for iOS

    334 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  2. AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371

    334 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  3. Facebook’s Very Bad Month Just Got Worse

    332 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  4. C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books

    331 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  5. Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research

    331 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  6. The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit

    331 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  7. IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses

    330 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  8. Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)

    330 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  9. “Modern” C++ Lamentations

    328 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  10. FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than was thought

    327 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  11. Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%

    327 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  12. Show HN: A new spline

    324 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  13. Browsers

    324 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  14. CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets

    324 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  15. Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake

    324 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  16. Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey

    323 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  17. Just tell me how to use Go Modules

    322 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  18. How ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG

    320 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  19. Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course

    317 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  20. FreeBSD 12.0 is now available

    316 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  21. Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport

    313 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  22. Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us

    311 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  23. YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess

    311 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  24. The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know

    310 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  25. PracticalAI – A practical approach to learning machine learning

    310 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  26. Amazon FBA Experiment

    309 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  27. Free Hotel Wifi with Python and Selenium

    309 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  28. After landing a lucrative job at a tech startup, I had made a terrible mistake

    308 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  29. Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have?

    306 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  30. Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry

    304 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  31. A Not-Called Function Can Cause a 5X Slowdown

    304 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  32. I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine

    303 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  33. An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2015) [pdf]

    303 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  34. Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

    303 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  35. Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common

    302 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  36. On Shutting Down

    301 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  37. Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war

    301 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  38. Why I’m so “against” Ethereum

    299 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  39. Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons

    298 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  40. American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned

    298 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  41. The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained

    297 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  42. Puzzle-solving 'doesn't slow down mental decline in older people'

    296 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  43. What makes BeOS and Haiku unique

    296 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  44. With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals

    295 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  45. At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced database yet

    295 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  46. Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?

    291 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  47. Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps

    291 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  48. Neither PWA nor AMP are needed to make a website load fast

    290 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  49. “In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”

    290 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  50. MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer

    289 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  51. Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts

    288 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  52. Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices

    288 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  53. LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware

    287 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  54. Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt

    286 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  55. Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (2016)

    286 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  56. Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software

    285 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  57. Mail Loop From Hell (2012)

    285 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  58. Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries

    285 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  59. Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python

    284 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  60. Learn Prolog Now

    284 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  61. Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches

    284 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  62. Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism

    284 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  63. The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands

    283 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  64. Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content

    281 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  65. Gluten Free Antarctica

    280 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  66. Snowboarding for Geeks

    280 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  67. Ruby 2.6

    279 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  68. Essential C (2003) [pdf]

    276 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  69. Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages

    276 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  70. Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)

    275 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  71. Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging cloud-native applications easier

    274 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  72. Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It

    274 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  73. Johnson and Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder

    273 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  74. Nginx on Wasmjit

    271 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  75. When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive

    271 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  76. Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died

    270 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  77. The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts

    270 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  78. Show HN: Stock Trading from Google Spreadsheet

    269 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  79. QEMU Advent Calendar: A surprise disk image each day until Christmas

    269 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  80. 4,400 year old Egyptian tomb discovered in the Saqqara pyramid complex

    269 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  81. YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M

    269 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  82. Norwegian frigate sinking has far-reaching implications

    266 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  83. The Octopus Is Smart as Heck, But Why?

    266 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  84. Brain.js

    266 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  85. Show HN: Vector Logo Zone – SVG logos for your readme or credits page

    265 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  86. Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio [video]

    265 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  87. Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes 12% of revenue

    264 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  88. How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve

    263 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  89. A fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante, and a murder

    263 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  90. Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder

    263 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  91. Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push

    262 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  92. People with Depression Use Language Differently

    262 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  93. Emacs Fireplace

    262 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  94. German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany

    262 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  95. Show HN: Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div

    261 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  96. Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018

    261 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  97. Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little

    259 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  98. Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake

    259 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  99. Why you should learn F#

    258 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  100. TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction

    257 points • comment • dec 08, 2018