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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
216 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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How Does setState Know What to Do?
216 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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US Is Net Oil Exporter for First Time in 75 Years
215 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Secrets of smooth Béziers
215 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track?
215 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)
215 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Lime and Bird are growing rapidly
214 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls
214 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors
214 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards and the Water Underneath
213 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Jupyter Notebook Tutorial – Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in PyTorch
213 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days
213 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person
212 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Deciphering the postcard-sized raytracer
212 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Why Use F#?
211 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Pointers in C (2010)
211 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Why Design Thinking Works
211 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source
211 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed' black people
211 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks
211 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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LLVM Relicensing Effort
211 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Pytext: A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch
210 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to Cut Back
210 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Lawmakers fed up with Zuckerberg
210 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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The future of Kubernetes is virtual machines
209 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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AWS Outperforms GCP in the 2018 Cloud Report
209 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town
209 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan
208 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Tell HN: Merry Christmas
208 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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ISO-8601, YYYY, yyyy, and why your year may be wrong
208 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
207 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning
206 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Compiler Explorer
206 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Software Methodology: Why One Size Fits No One
206 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Firefox Profilemaker
206 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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State of web browsers in 2018
206 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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REXPaint: Powerful, User-Friendly ASCII Art Editor
205 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)
205 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Serial Port SDR
204 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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A Cornell professor’s trick for getting 1700 peer reviewed publications
204 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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A EULA in FOSS clothing?
204 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Hamiltonian Monte Carlo explained
204 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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The Little Printf
204 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Sketches of Elixir
203 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Google Earth Studio
203 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Linux: IO without entering the kernel
203 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Poland in the 80's Through the Lens of French/Swiss Photographer Bruno Barbey
203 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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The True Cost of Rewrites
203 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Why don't I take military funding? (2004)
202 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and Internet Use
202 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Leaving NYC for Nashville
200 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015)
200 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Bootstrap 3.4.0 released
200 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Inside Rust's Async Transform
199 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
199 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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GCompris: high quality educational software suite for children aged 2 to 10
199 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq
199 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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China Cracks Down on Churches
198 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
198 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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A $9T corporate debt bomb is 'bubbling' in the US economy
198 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Haiku Beta is finally here
198 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Why Are Printed Circuit Boards Usually Green? (2017)
198 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality
198 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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It is fast or it is wrong
198 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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LibreSilicon: Decentralizing semiconductor manufacturing [video]
197 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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What Happens When a Founder Is Fully Vested?
197 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Machine Learning for .NET
197 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Pictures from the Eastern Bloc in the 80s
196 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Fake Net Neutrality Comments Draw A Federal Probe
196 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008)
196 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Scripting API now in public beta
196 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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FBI kicks some of the worst ‘DDoS for hire’ sites off the internet
196 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Leave Gmail in 10 steps
195 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
195 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Fog Waves Are the Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years of Experimenting
195 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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OrbitDB – serverless, peer-to-peer database on top of IPFS
195 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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I Do Not Like Go
194 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?
194 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Introduction to A* (2014)
194 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre (2016)
194 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video]
193 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Clojure is Capable
193 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse
193 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power
192 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux
192 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
192 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Show HN: AlphaZero Science paper
192 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of investing in infrastructure
192 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
192 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend
192 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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More games should be honest about death
191 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions
191 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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What Is Glitter?
191 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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JMAP is on the home straight
190 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Bootstrapping Rust
190 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Build your own IoT/MQTT node for less than $2
190 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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What Kagglers Are Using for Text Classification
190 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Amazon driver arrested after taking GPS 'bait' package off Washington Co. porch
189 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA
189 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to
189 points • comment • dec 18, 2018