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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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The Secret Service wants to test facial recognition around the White House
4 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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How to determine which commands failed/succeeded in your Bash_History file?
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Valery Novoselov: Investigating Jeanne Calment’s Longevity Record
4 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Why do Waymo self-driving vans get so much hate?
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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New Hampshire Police Arrested a Man for Being Mean to Them on the Internet
4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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A Russian robot hailed as hi-tech on state TV has been unmasked as man in suit
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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The modality of mortality in domain names: an in-depth study of domain lifetimes [pdf]
4 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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P≡p Engine Development – Tales of a MIME Warrior
4 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Amazon Alexa Can Now Detect Smoke Alarms Or Glass Shattering and Notify You
4 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Critical Kubernetes security flaw (CVE-2018-1002105) in plain English
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Student rescued from ISIS zone by mercenaries hired by thesis advisor [Swedish]
4 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Lime ordered to remove scooters off Gold Coast streets ‘in two hours’
4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Trump Says He Plans to Withdraw from NAFTA
4 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Bitcoin: Time Compression, Causation, and Feedback Loops
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Facts About Facebook’s Messaging Partnerships
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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A Professional Safecracker Reveals His Craft
4 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Potential Personally Identifiable Information (PII ) Compromise of NASA Servers
4 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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The Robots Have Descended on Trump Country
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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How London Became a Playground for the Rich
4 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Timeline for the release of Rails 6.0
4 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump
4 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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The Facebook-ification of podcasts
4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Bacon-cancer link: head of UN agency at heart of furore defends its work
4 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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It’s Time for a Bill of Data Rights
4 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Frenchman to float across the Atlantic – in a barrel
4 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Microsoft cracks down on tech support scams, 16 call centers raided
4 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Lxdock: Build and orchestrate your development environments with LXD
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Why I Recycle Programming Problems
4 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Teaching kids to code: as a developer I think it doesn’t teach important skills
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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The Future Book is here but not what we expected
4 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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FSF adds Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre to list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions
4 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Critical Privilege Escalation Flaw Patched in Kubernetes
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Kelloggs use rejected cornflakes to make beer in bid to cut down on food waste
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Congress Ramps Up War on Sex Workers Through “Protecting” Them
4 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Why Retirement Communities Are Perfect for Self-Driving Cars
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Uber's Arbitration Policy Comes Back to Bite It in the Ass
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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China has become a hotspot for the ‘vertical forest’ building concept
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Corel buys Parallels for Mac
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Show HN: Blind for Apartments – Stay in touch with your neighbors anonymously
4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Life Inside China’s Social Credit Laboratory
4 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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The Return of the Charming Kitten: phishing attacks by Iran state-backed hackers
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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4 unexpected lessons I’ve learned after going through Y Combinator this year
4 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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WebSharper: Full-stack, functional reactive web programming for .NET
4 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Tell Congress Not to Make the Register of Copyrights a Presidential Pawn
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch – Official Trailer [HD] – Netflix
4 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Colin Kroll, HQ Trivia and Vine App Co-Founder, Dies in New York Aged 34
4 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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I built the T with Python (and revamped it)
4 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Catalog of Gradient Descent Optimization Algorithms
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Maria Butina Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Influence U.S. Politics
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Chaim Soutine’s consoling portraiture
4 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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How to make a simple ‘accelerometer’-based driving game with React Native Expo
4 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Rural broadband is about to get $600M in funding–but there’s a catch
4 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Coral likes to make its ocean home in places with noisy neighbours
4 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Backpropagation – Math Simplified
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Lecture Notes on General Relativity
4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Why Your AI Might Be Racist
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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WW2, 3 Japanese planes mistook Yorktown for their own carrier and tried to land
4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Show HN: Chronicler: Offline-first web browser
4 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Programming should eat itself (Nada Amin, Strangeloop 2014)
4 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Microsoft confirms that Chrome extensions will run on new Edge browser
4 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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More MIPS R10K die photos
4 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Uber's Arbitration Policy Comes Back to Bite It in the Ass
4 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Chinese schools are using ‘smart uniforms’ to track their students’ locations
4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Google AI Berlin becomes official
4 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Der Spiegel to Press Charges Against Reporter Who Made Up Articles
4 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Richard Branson’s Space-Tourism Company Rockets Out of Atmosphere for First Time
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Hyundai Kona: Pick for North American Utility of the Year
4 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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The “Everything Bubble” Has Popped
4 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Mapping Service Blurs Out Military Bases, but Accidentally Locates Secret Ones
4 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Valley of the Boom: New NatGeo Series on Web 1.0 and 1990s Silicon Valley
4 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Ask HN: What are your opinions on Flutter for mobile dev?
4 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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The Dark Side of the ForSSHe // a Landscape of OpenSSH Backdoors [pdf]
4 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Arab League set to readmit Syria eight years after expulsion
4 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Using SuperMinHash to optimally cluster activity streams on Strava
4 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Health and Human Services department halts HIV research on fetal tissue concerns
4 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Louis Theroux among those hit by Twitter hack exposing security flaw
4 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Facebook Closes 5 Accounts Tied to Russia-Like Tactics in Alabama Senate Race
4 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Buterin thread on non-financial applications of crypto blockchains
4 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Ask HN: Does type safety matter for a web app?
4 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Waymo's driverless cars on the road: Cautious, clunky, impressive
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?
4 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Ask HN: Who is hiring in December 2018?
4 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Show HN: My new side project is live. It is city guide for best foods
4 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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A lightbulb is not an idea
4 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Read Jim Mattis’s Letter to Trump: Full Text
4 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Taylor Swift used facial recognition to track her stalkers at a concert
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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A Chief Security Concern for Executive Teams
4 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Oregon Man Becomes First Person to Cross Antarctica Unaided
4 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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German court rules Apple infringed Qualcomm patent
4 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Think Eastern Europe Is Authoritarian? Try Germany and France
4 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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National Enquirer’s parent company admitted to trying to undermine 2016 election
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Microsoft Connect(); 2018 Livestream
4 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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The Best Android E-Readers of 2018
4 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Linux KVM Continues Offering Much Better Out of Box Performance Than VirtualBox
4 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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What’s next for Paint.NET in 2019
4 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Subtract
4 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Show HN: Catvent – an advent calendar with cats
4 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Failure of Anti-Drone Tests Exposes U.S. Airport Vulnerability
4 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Is Your Stream Processor Obese?
4 points • comment • dec 22, 2018