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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero

    257 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  2. Whats thw crazyest thing ur goats have eaten? (2012)

    257 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  3. A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (2013)

    256 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  4. Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium

    256 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  5. What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life

    256 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  6. The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD

    256 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  7. The Onion Futures Act

    255 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  8. Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us

    255 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  9. T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree

    255 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  10. A list of lists of interview questions

    253 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  11. Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

    252 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  12. Analyzing Hacker News book suggestions in Python

    252 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  13. Inventor May Have Cured Motion Sickness Without Drugs

    252 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  14. Krita in 2018 and 2019

    251 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  15. Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak

    249 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  16. Dad and the Egg Controller

    249 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  17. 8K is now being broadcast in Japan

    249 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  18. IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained

    249 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  19. Librem 5 dev kits are shipping

    249 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  20. Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password?

    248 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  21. GoDaddy is a scam

    248 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  22. Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System

    248 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  23. Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels

    248 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  24. How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf]

    247 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  25. Exploring the .NET Core Runtime

    247 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  26. Red Hat contributes etcd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

    247 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  27. Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video]

    246 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  28. Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia

    245 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  29. Tetris

    245 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  30. Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB

    245 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  31. EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but Don't Use Upload Filter

    244 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  32. “I didn’t meet my girlfriend until 12 years after our daughter was born”

    244 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  33. Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players

    244 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  34. Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V

    243 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  35. Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer

    243 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  36. Ask HN: What should an ideal developer interview process look like?

    242 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  37. Immutable Web Apps

    241 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  38. Long Life Vehicle

    241 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  39. Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to store power in molten salt

    240 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  40. How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item, not two

    240 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  41. Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning

    240 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  42. NHS.UK frontend

    240 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  43. Show HN: Pg-extend-rs – Easy Postgres extensions in Rust

    240 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  44. Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week

    239 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  45. How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games

    239 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  46. New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion

    239 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  47. Millitext – A subpixel text encoding font

    238 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  48. House Oversight Committee Report on Equifax Breach [pdf]

    237 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  49. People who disagree aren't trying to make things complex

    236 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  50. Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015)

    236 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  51. Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging (2017)

    235 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  52. Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech

    235 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  53. K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system

    235 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  54. Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

    235 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  55. Google One

    235 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  56. Convert a Bird Scooter to a personal one with $32 kit

    234 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  57. Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017)

    234 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  58. An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions to 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem

    234 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  59. Optician Sans – A free font based on the historical eye charts

    233 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  60. A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (2016)

    232 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  61. ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier

    232 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  62. Evaluation of five password managers

    232 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  63. At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees

    232 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  64. GitLab Serverless

    231 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  65. My video with 47M views was stolen on YouTube [video]

    231 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  66. Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final 32-Hour Push

    230 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  67. Nihon Noir

    230 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  68. Go Modules in 2019

    230 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  69. A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech

    227 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  70. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1989) [pdf]

    226 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  71. Stories of Steve Jobs in Safari Design Reviews (2014)

    226 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  72. Improvisational theater can reduce anxiety in teens who struggle socially

    226 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  73. Ask HN: How to shadow a CEO?

    225 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  74. Rust and WebAssembly in 2019

    225 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  75. A free clone of the Age of Empires II engine

    225 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  76. How Sketch Took on Adobe

    225 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  77. Max Planck Society Discontinues Agreement with Elsevier

    225 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  78. Shame Storm

    224 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  79. Electron 4.0.0

    223 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  80. Advocating for privacy in Australia

    223 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  81. Patreon suspended my account. They have not notified me

    223 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  82. Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES

    222 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  83. An interview with the documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis

    222 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  84. Cook My Meat: heat diffusion through meat over time

    222 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  85. The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation

    222 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  86. 1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years

    221 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  87. 35th Chaos Communication Congress Live Streams

    221 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  88. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

    220 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  89. The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s

    220 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  90. Minikanren – An embedded DSL for logic programming

    220 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  91. Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles

    219 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  92. UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly?

    219 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  93. AirPods get stuck in low-quality 16 kHz audio mode when starting a VM

    218 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  94. Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?

    218 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  95. FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch

    218 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  96. Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months from launching

    218 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  97. The 50th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Great Demo

    217 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  98. The Second Edition of “Refactoring”

    217 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  99. The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini

    217 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  100. Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account

    217 points • comment • dec 30, 2018