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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero
257 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Whats thw crazyest thing ur goats have eaten? (2012)
257 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (2013)
256 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium
256 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life
256 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD
256 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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The Onion Futures Act
255 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us
255 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree
255 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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A list of lists of interview questions
253 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms
252 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Analyzing Hacker News book suggestions in Python
252 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Inventor May Have Cured Motion Sickness Without Drugs
252 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Krita in 2018 and 2019
251 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
249 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Dad and the Egg Controller
249 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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8K is now being broadcast in Japan
249 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained
249 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Librem 5 dev kits are shipping
249 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password?
248 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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GoDaddy is a scam
248 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System
248 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels
248 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf]
247 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Exploring the .NET Core Runtime
247 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Red Hat contributes etcd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
247 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Machine learning has become alchemy (2017) [video]
246 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
245 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Tetris
245 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
245 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but Don't Use Upload Filter
244 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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“I didn’t meet my girlfriend until 12 years after our daughter was born”
244 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players
244 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V
243 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer
243 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Ask HN: What should an ideal developer interview process look like?
242 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Immutable Web Apps
241 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Long Life Vehicle
241 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to store power in molten salt
240 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item, not two
240 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning
240 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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NHS.UK frontend
240 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Show HN: Pg-extend-rs – Easy Postgres extensions in Rust
240 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Burnout, stress lead more companies to try a four-day work week
239 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games
239 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion
239 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Millitext – A subpixel text encoding font
238 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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House Oversight Committee Report on Equifax Breach [pdf]
237 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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People who disagree aren't trying to make things complex
236 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015)
236 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging (2017)
235 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech
235 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system
235 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
235 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Google One
235 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Convert a Bird Scooter to a personal one with $32 kit
234 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017)
234 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions to 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem
234 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Optician Sans – A free font based on the historical eye charts
233 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (2016)
232 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier
232 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Evaluation of five password managers
232 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees
232 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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GitLab Serverless
231 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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My video with 47M views was stolen on YouTube [video]
231 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final 32-Hour Push
230 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Nihon Noir
230 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Go Modules in 2019
230 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech
227 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1989) [pdf]
226 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Stories of Steve Jobs in Safari Design Reviews (2014)
226 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Improvisational theater can reduce anxiety in teens who struggle socially
226 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Ask HN: How to shadow a CEO?
225 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Rust and WebAssembly in 2019
225 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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A free clone of the Age of Empires II engine
225 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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How Sketch Took on Adobe
225 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Max Planck Society Discontinues Agreement with Elsevier
225 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Shame Storm
224 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Electron 4.0.0
223 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Advocating for privacy in Australia
223 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Patreon suspended my account. They have not notified me
223 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES
222 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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An interview with the documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis
222 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Cook My Meat: heat diffusion through meat over time
222 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation
222 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years
221 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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35th Chaos Communication Congress Live Streams
221 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
220 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s
220 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Minikanren – An embedded DSL for logic programming
220 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles
219 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly?
219 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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AirPods get stuck in low-quality 16 kHz audio mode when starting a VM
218 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?
218 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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FCC fines Swarm $900K for unauthorized satellite launch
218 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months from launching
218 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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The 50th Anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Great Demo
217 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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The Second Edition of “Refactoring”
217 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini
217 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account
217 points • comment • dec 30, 2018