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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. The Secret Service wants to test facial recognition around the White House

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  2. How to determine which commands failed/succeeded in your Bash_History file?

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  3. Valery Novoselov: Investigating Jeanne Calment’s Longevity Record

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  4. Why do Waymo self-driving vans get so much hate?

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  5. New Hampshire Police Arrested a Man for Being Mean to Them on the Internet

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  6. A Russian robot hailed as hi-tech on state TV has been unmasked as man in suit

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  7. The modality of mortality in domain names: an in-depth study of domain lifetimes [pdf]

    4 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  8. P≡p Engine Development – Tales of a MIME Warrior

    4 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  9. Amazon Alexa Can Now Detect Smoke Alarms Or Glass Shattering and Notify You

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  10. Critical Kubernetes security flaw (CVE-2018-1002105) in plain English

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  11. Student rescued from ISIS zone by mercenaries hired by thesis advisor [Swedish]

    4 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  12. Lime ordered to remove scooters off Gold Coast streets ‘in two hours’

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  13. GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  14. Trump Says He Plans to Withdraw from NAFTA

    4 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  15. Bitcoin: Time Compression, Causation, and Feedback Loops

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  16. Facts About Facebook’s Messaging Partnerships

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  17. A Professional Safecracker Reveals His Craft

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  18. Potential Personally Identifiable Information (PII ) Compromise of NASA Servers

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  19. The Robots Have Descended on Trump Country

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  20. How London Became a Playground for the Rich

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  21. Timeline for the release of Rails 6.0

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  22. Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump

    4 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  23. The Facebook-ification of podcasts

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  24. Bacon-cancer link: head of UN agency at heart of furore defends its work

    4 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  25. It’s Time for a Bill of Data Rights

    4 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  26. Frenchman to float across the Atlantic – in a barrel

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  27. Microsoft cracks down on tech support scams, 16 call centers raided

    4 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  28. Lxdock: Build and orchestrate your development environments with LXD

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  29. Why I Recycle Programming Problems

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  30. Teaching kids to code: as a developer I think it doesn’t teach important skills

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  31. The Future Book is here but not what we expected

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  32. FSF adds Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre to list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  33. Critical Privilege Escalation Flaw Patched in Kubernetes

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  34. Kelloggs use rejected cornflakes to make beer in bid to cut down on food waste

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  35. Congress Ramps Up War on Sex Workers Through “Protecting” Them

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  36. Why Retirement Communities Are Perfect for Self-Driving Cars

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  37. Uber's Arbitration Policy Comes Back to Bite It in the Ass

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  38. China has become a hotspot for the ‘vertical forest’ building concept

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  39. Corel buys Parallels for Mac

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  40. Show HN: Blind for Apartments – Stay in touch with your neighbors anonymously

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  41. Life Inside China’s Social Credit Laboratory

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  42. The Return of the Charming Kitten: phishing attacks by Iran state-backed hackers

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  43. 4 unexpected lessons I’ve learned after going through Y Combinator this year

    4 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  44. WebSharper: Full-stack, functional reactive web programming for .NET

    4 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  45. Tell Congress Not to Make the Register of Copyrights a Presidential Pawn

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  46. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch – Official Trailer [HD] – Netflix

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  47. Colin Kroll, HQ Trivia and Vine App Co-Founder, Dies in New York Aged 34

    4 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  48. I built the T with Python (and revamped it)

    4 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  49. Catalog of Gradient Descent Optimization Algorithms

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  50. Maria Butina Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Influence U.S. Politics

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  51. Chaim Soutine’s consoling portraiture

    4 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  52. How to make a simple ‘accelerometer’-based driving game with React Native Expo

    4 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  53. Rural broadband is about to get $600M in funding–but there’s a catch

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  54. Coral likes to make its ocean home in places with noisy neighbours

    4 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  55. Backpropagation – Math Simplified

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  56. Lecture Notes on General Relativity

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  57. Why Your AI Might Be Racist

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  58. WW2, 3 Japanese planes mistook Yorktown for their own carrier and tried to land

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  59. Show HN: Chronicler: Offline-first web browser

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  60. Programming should eat itself (Nada Amin, Strangeloop 2014)

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  61. Microsoft confirms that Chrome extensions will run on new Edge browser

    4 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  62. More MIPS R10K die photos

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  63. Uber's Arbitration Policy Comes Back to Bite It in the Ass

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  64. Chinese schools are using ‘smart uniforms’ to track their students’ locations

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  65. Google AI Berlin becomes official

    4 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  66. Der Spiegel to Press Charges Against Reporter Who Made Up Articles

    4 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  67. Richard Branson’s Space-Tourism Company Rockets Out of Atmosphere for First Time

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  68. Hyundai Kona: Pick for North American Utility of the Year

    4 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  69. The “Everything Bubble” Has Popped

    4 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  70. Mapping Service Blurs Out Military Bases, but Accidentally Locates Secret Ones

    4 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  71. Valley of the Boom: New NatGeo Series on Web 1.0 and 1990s Silicon Valley

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  72. Ask HN: What are your opinions on Flutter for mobile dev?

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  73. The Dark Side of the ForSSHe // a Landscape of OpenSSH Backdoors [pdf]

    4 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  74. Arab League set to readmit Syria eight years after expulsion

    4 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  75. Using SuperMinHash to optimally cluster activity streams on Strava

    4 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  76. Health and Human Services department halts HIV research on fetal tissue concerns

    4 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  77. Louis Theroux among those hit by Twitter hack exposing security flaw

    4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  78. Facebook Closes 5 Accounts Tied to Russia-Like Tactics in Alabama Senate Race

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  79. Buterin thread on non-financial applications of crypto blockchains

    4 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  80. Ask HN: Does type safety matter for a web app?

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  81. Waymo's driverless cars on the road: Cautious, clunky, impressive

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  82. Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  83. Ask HN: Who is hiring in December 2018?

    4 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  84. Show HN: My new side project is live. It is city guide for best foods

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  85. A lightbulb is not an idea

    4 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  86. Read Jim Mattis’s Letter to Trump: Full Text

    4 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  87. Taylor Swift used facial recognition to track her stalkers at a concert

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  88. A Chief Security Concern for Executive Teams

    4 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  89. Oregon Man Becomes First Person to Cross Antarctica Unaided

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  90. German court rules Apple infringed Qualcomm patent

    4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  91. Think Eastern Europe Is Authoritarian? Try Germany and France

    4 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  92. National Enquirer’s parent company admitted to trying to undermine 2016 election

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  93. Microsoft Connect(); 2018 Livestream

    4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  94. The Best Android E-Readers of 2018

    4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  95. Linux KVM Continues Offering Much Better Out of Box Performance Than VirtualBox

    4 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  96. What’s next for Paint.NET in 2019

    4 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  97. Subtract

    4 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  98. Show HN: Catvent – an advent calendar with cats

    4 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  99. Failure of Anti-Drone Tests Exposes U.S. Airport Vulnerability

    4 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  100. Is Your Stream Processor Obese?

    4 points • comment • dec 22, 2018