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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

    216 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  2. How Does setState Know What to Do?

    216 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  3. US Is Net Oil Exporter for First Time in 75 Years

    215 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  4. Secrets of smooth Béziers

    215 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  5. Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track?

    215 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  6. Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)

    215 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  7. Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

    214 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  8. China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls

    214 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  9. New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors

    214 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  10. Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards and the Water Underneath

    213 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  11. Jupyter Notebook Tutorial – Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in PyTorch

    213 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  12. PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days

    213 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  13. Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person

    212 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  14. Deciphering the postcard-sized raytracer

    212 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  15. Why Use F#?

    211 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  16. Pointers in C (2010)

    211 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  17. Why Design Thinking Works

    211 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  18. Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source

    211 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  19. Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed' black people

    211 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  20. China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buses, Taxis and Trucks

    211 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  21. LLVM Relicensing Effort

    211 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  22. Pytext: A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch

    210 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  23. As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to Cut Back

    210 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  24. Lawmakers fed up with Zuckerberg

    210 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  25. The future of Kubernetes is virtual machines

    209 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  26. AWS Outperforms GCP in the 2018 Cloud Report

    209 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  27. The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town

    209 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  28. ECMAScript modules in Node.js: the new plan

    208 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  29. Tell HN: Merry Christmas

    208 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  30. ISO-8601, YYYY, yyyy, and why your year may be wrong

    208 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  31. Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor

    207 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  32. After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning

    206 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  33. Compiler Explorer

    206 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  34. Software Methodology: Why One Size Fits No One

    206 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  35. Firefox Profilemaker

    206 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  36. State of web browsers in 2018

    206 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  37. REXPaint: Powerful, User-Friendly ASCII Art Editor

    205 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  38. SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)

    205 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  39. Serial Port SDR

    204 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  40. A Cornell professor’s trick for getting 1700 peer reviewed publications

    204 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  41. A EULA in FOSS clothing?

    204 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  42. Hamiltonian Monte Carlo explained

    204 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  43. The Little Printf

    204 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  44. Sketches of Elixir

    203 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  45. Google Earth Studio

    203 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  46. Linux: IO without entering the kernel

    203 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  47. Poland in the 80's Through the Lens of French/Swiss Photographer Bruno Barbey

    203 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  48. The True Cost of Rewrites

    203 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  49. Why don't I take military funding? (2004)

    202 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  50. Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and Internet Use

    202 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  51. Leaving NYC for Nashville

    200 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  52. NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015)

    200 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  53. Bootstrap 3.4.0 released

    200 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  54. Inside Rust's Async Transform

    199 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  55. The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race

    199 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  56. GCompris: high quality educational software suite for children aged 2 to 10

    199 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  57. Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq

    199 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  58. China Cracks Down on Churches

    198 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  59. Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission

    198 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  60. A $9T corporate debt bomb is 'bubbling' in the US economy

    198 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  61. Haiku Beta is finally here

    198 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  62. Why Are Printed Circuit Boards Usually Green? (2017)

    198 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  63. Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality

    198 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  64. It is fast or it is wrong

    198 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  65. LibreSilicon: Decentralizing semiconductor manufacturing [video]

    197 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  66. What Happens When a Founder Is Fully Vested?

    197 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  67. Machine Learning for .NET

    197 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  68. Pictures from the Eastern Bloc in the 80s

    196 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  69. Fake Net Neutrality Comments Draw A Federal Probe

    196 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  70. Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008)

    196 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  71. Scripting API now in public beta

    196 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  72. FBI kicks some of the worst ‘DDoS for hire’ sites off the internet

    196 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  73. Leave Gmail in 10 steps

    195 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  74. John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team

    195 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  75. Fog Waves Are the Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years of Experimenting

    195 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  76. OrbitDB – serverless, peer-to-peer database on top of IPFS

    195 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  77. I Do Not Like Go

    194 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  78. Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?

    194 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  79. Introduction to A* (2014)

    194 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  80. Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre (2016)

    194 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  81. Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video]

    193 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  82. Clojure is Capable

    193 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  83. Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse

    193 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  84. A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power

    192 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  85. Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux

    192 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  86. AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server

    192 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  87. Show HN: AlphaZero Science paper

    192 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  88. Jack Ma: US wasted trillions on warfare instead of investing in infrastructure

    192 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  89. WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS

    192 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  90. Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend

    192 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  91. More games should be honest about death

    191 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  92. The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions

    191 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  93. What Is Glitter?

    191 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  94. JMAP is on the home straight

    190 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  95. Bootstrapping Rust

    190 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  96. Build your own IoT/MQTT node for less than $2

    190 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  97. What Kagglers Are Using for Text Classification

    190 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  98. Amazon driver arrested after taking GPS 'bait' package off Washington Co. porch

    189 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  99. What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA

    189 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  100. Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to

    189 points • comment • dec 18, 2018