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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. The Pitfalls of Too Much Security

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  2. Reasons to Scale Horizontally

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  3. Building a Seamless Search Experience Across Multiple Sources with Apache Spark

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  4. China launched more rockets into orbit in 2018 than any other country

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  5. Microsoft pledges $10M to Code.org to expand computer education

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  6. History of SPARC systems from 1987

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  7. When Fortnite pwnd Google: the most overlooked story of the year

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  8. Bloomberg Beta Investment Documents

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  9. How Netflix Gives All Its Engineers SSH Access to Instances in Production (2016)

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  10. George H.W. Bush: War Crimes, Racism, and Obstruction of Justice

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  11. ZX Spectrum Code Hidden in Bandersnatch

    7 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  12. “I’m a Goner”: Inside the Sinking of the El Faro

    7 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  13. Ask HN: Why did people switch from COBOL to newer languages?

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  14. Christmas Truce of 1914

    7 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  15. It's Open Source, but we're not going to tell you how to build it

    7 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  16. Update4j – the Java update/launch framework – now has a cool demo app

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  17. Show HN: Notable – The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  18. Claim of CRISPR’d baby girls stuns genome editing summit

    7 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  19. Lawyer files a collusion complaint with the FTC against Patreon and PayPal [vid]

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  20. Ask HN: How can I convert a series of blog posts into an e-book?

    7 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  21. Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX – even on Windows

    7 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  22. Free images for your startup / website

    7 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  23. George W. Bush Is Smarter Than You (2013)

    7 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  24. Justice Dept. charges Chinese nationals in ‘extensive’ global hacking campaign

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  25. I found a bug in Google images

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  26. Is Geotagging on Instagram Ruining Natural Wonders? Some Say Yes

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  27. NeurIPS 2018 Recap

    7 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  28. BlackBerry's bet on connected cars pays off

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  29. Apple Shares Six Free Classic Audiobooks Narrated by Celebrities

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  30. Asbestos might be making a comeback?

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  31. Der Spiegel reporter Claas Relotius sacked over 'invented' stories

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  32. The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years

    7 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  33. How Hackers Sell Luxury Hotel Rooms for Next to Nothing

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  34. Google denies altering YouTube code to break Microsoft Edge

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  35. Test-induced design damage (2014)

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  36. Cryptographer Adam Back and Hashcash

    7 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  37. We finally know how fish swim so fast

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  38. The “VIP syndrome”: A clinical study in hospital psychiatry (1964)

    7 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  39. What would life look like if it wasn't carbon based?

    7 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  40. Bitcoin’s Technical Flaw

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  41. A cold war between Android and Chrome because of PWAs

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  42. The $35B race to cure a silent killer that affects 30M Americans

    7 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  43. Show HN: A WebGL EWA Surface Splatting Renderer

    7 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  44. Marlboro maker in takeover talks with cannabis firm Cronos

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  45. Personally I’ve Never Experienced Anything Like That

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  46. Thoughts on Interviewing at Big Tech Companies

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  47. Show HN: Apathy – Analyzing web server call paths from access logs

    7 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  48. Quaternion modeling of the helical path for analysis of the DNA molecule [pdf]

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  49. Going extinct: why corporate giants die

    7 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  50. I Predicted 23 Celebrity Deaths in 2017 – Then My Predictions Came True

    7 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  51. Private Winten: new Windows 10 privacy tweaker with firewall

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  52. Stanislav Petrov – The man who saved the world

    7 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  53. Larry Eisenberg, 99, Dead; His Limericks Were Very Well Read

    7 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  54. It's time for a hyper-crash, say multifractal analyses of the main stock index

    7 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  55. Evolutionary Psychopathology

    7 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  56. Why is congress trying to pass an obviously unconstitutional law?

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  57. You can’t buy an ethical smartphone today

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  58. U.K. Lawmakers Document Summarizing Facebook’s Seized Internal Facebook Emails [pdf]

    7 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  59. Australia gets world-first encryption busting laws

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  60. U.S. internet speeds rose nearly 40 percent this year

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  61. Scala Developer Survey Results 2018

    7 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  62. A Christmas Story (The Beatification of George H. W. Bush)

    7 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  63. Lakeith Stanfield’s AR Balancing Act

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  64. Unabomber's Manifesto(Industrial Society and Its Future)

    7 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  65. Once We Start Geoengineering, We Won't Be Able to Stop

    7 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  66. Last-minute $4.4B bid on bankrupt Sears

    7 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  67. But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction [video]

    7 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  68. Mr. Dickens Goes to Washington

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  69. Building vs. Buying an ESignature API

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  70. Google Illegally Revealed Murder Suspect's Name via Mass Email

    7 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  71. Show HN: CheerpJ 1.3 – Compile any Java application to JS/HTML5

    7 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  72. Macsyma

    7 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  73. The Blank Box – When lifted, a 12-gauge shotgun blank goes off (2017)

    7 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  74. Tumblr begins hiding adult content: “This has not been an easy transition”

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  75. Housing shortage will bite California's economy

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  76. No more doubts: Two independent studies confirm LIGO’s Nobel discovery

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  77. The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about

    7 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  78. OpenStreetMap Foundation silently sides with Russia?

    7 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  79. Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor (77 Years Ago Today)

    7 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  80. DHS says: Walls work

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  81. Facebook Sheds $22B of Market Value

    7 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  82. Ask HN: What is the single decision that increase your life quality?

    7 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  83. How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown

    7 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  84. Decentralized Open Sourced Content Discovery and Social Platform on Blockchain

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  85. Ask HN: Site really slow, doesn't use Cloudflare?

    7 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  86. Can you really sue Fortnite for 'stealing' your dance moves?

    7 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  87. Ask HN: People currently [Working] in compilers, what are your goto resources

    7 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  88. Ask HN: Do you drink alcohol?

    6 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  89. One test to diagnose them all: researchers exploit cancers’ unique DNA signature

    6 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  90. What are biggest shortcomings of emacs?

    6 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  91. ASUS CEO resigns as company shifts mobile focus to power users

    6 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  92. YouTube faces backlash on Twitter over lifted, uncredited holiday video

    6 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  93. Ask HN: How are you going to grow your business in 2019

    6 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  94. Samsung's 2019 TVs can remotely access your PC

    6 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  95. Break Up Google for the Public Good

    6 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  96. How to install the Spotify culture in your organization

    6 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  97. Documenting a thought process with RFCs

    6 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  98. Improving HTML Time to First Byte

    6 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  99. Professor who knew Gates at Harvard: He was the smartest person I've ever met

    6 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  100. Donald Trump Is a Good President

    6 points • comment • dec 14, 2018