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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

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

    189 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  2. Stop Datamining Me

    189 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  3. The Waterfall methodology was a historic accident and they knew it

    189 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

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

    189 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  5. Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readies Crackdown on Beijing

    188 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  6. Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You

    188 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  7. Kademlia: A Peer-To-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric (2002) [pdf]

    188 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  8. The Y Combinator Database

    188 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  9. How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives

    188 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  10. Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time

    187 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  11. Quora pays thousands for posting questions

    187 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  12. The Golden Age of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes

    187 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  13. WordPress 5.0: A Gutenberg FAQ

    186 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  14. Bézier moi

    186 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  15. Portugal’s Economic Revival

    186 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  16. Let’s build a browser engine (2014)

    186 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  17. The Social Credit System in China [video]

    186 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  18. C++20 Ranges

    186 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  19. How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar

    185 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  20. Amazon, Amid Crackdown on Seller Scams, Fires Employees Over Data Leak

    185 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  21. Grab is messing up OpenStreetMap data in Southeast Asia

    185 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  22. Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation

    185 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  23. Great Pacific garbage patch cleanup fails to collect plastic

    185 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  24. Facebook has always sold data to advertisers, and it probably always will

    185 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  25. 911 call centers down in Washington state

    185 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  26. Source: Google Allo will be officially shut down soon

    184 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  27. Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

    184 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  28. The Making Of Dust (2003)

    184 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  29. Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption

    184 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  30. OUC coal plants linked to east Orange County cancer spike, lawsuit claims

    184 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  31. Israeli Software Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi, Lawsuit Says

    184 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  32. How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New

    184 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  33. Our Cellphones Aren't Safe

    184 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  34. Apple to build campus in Austin and sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City

    184 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  35. Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation

    183 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  36. Foundations of Animation

    183 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  37. “Diagram of All Space and Time” by Carl Sagan (1960s?)

    183 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  38. Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies

    183 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  39. Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?

    183 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  40. NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday

    183 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  41. Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang

    183 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  42. Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars

    182 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  43. The Skylab 4 Mutiny, 1973 (2012)

    182 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  44. The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love

    182 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  45. Sydney Opal Tower: Thousands evacuated after 'crack'

    182 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  46. AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened?

    182 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  47. Verizon says to shed 10,400 jobs by mid next year

    182 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  48. The New Brave Is 22% Faster

    182 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  49. Keyboardio Kickstarter Day 1278: A startling discovery

    181 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  50. Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube

    181 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  51. Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism

    181 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  52. KubeDB – Run production-grade databases easily on Kubernetes

    181 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  53. Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve

    181 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  54. Kubernetes clusters being hijacked to mine cryptocurrencies

    181 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  55. Thoughts on, and pictures of, the original Macintosh User Manual

    180 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  56. How to Grow Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks

    180 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  57. Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019

    180 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  58. Software Architecture, all you need to know [pdf]

    180 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  59. Moving to GitLab

    180 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  60. Organizational Debt

    179 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  61. A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and Stochastic Gradient Descent

    179 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  62. Liquid: Vim and Emacs-inspired editor written in Clojure

    179 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  63. Google Chrome to stop back-button hijacking

    178 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  64. A newly discovered tea plant is caffeine-free

    178 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  65. Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died

    178 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  66. Creating Windows XP Icons (2001)

    178 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  67. A Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (2014)

    177 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  68. The little black book of scams (2016)

    177 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  69. How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon [video]

    177 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  70. Making Penicillin at Home

    177 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  71. Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019?

    176 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  72. No funding for uncomfortable results

    175 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  73. Buying an Amiga 30 years later

    175 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  74. Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors

    175 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  75. Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs

    175 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  76. Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?

    175 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  77. Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners

    175 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  78. The Programming Languages Zoo

    175 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  79. Why you need both rituals and routines to power your workday

    174 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  80. Portal for the C64

    174 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  81. The habit of habit engineering

    174 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  82. Movim – Federated, open-source alternative to Tumblr

    174 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  83. Algebras we love

    174 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  84. Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift

    174 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  85. Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia moves to human trials

    173 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  86. Goldman Legal Woes Mount as Malaysia Slaps First Criminal Charge

    173 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  87. SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record

    173 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  88. Firing Frankness

    172 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  89. How AI Training Scales

    171 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  90. From macOS to Windows and WSL

    171 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  91. Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly

    171 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  92. Code2vec: learning distributed representations of code

    170 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  93. Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it

    170 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  94. Russian Cosmonauts Say That the Hole in the Soyuz Was Drilled from the Inside

    170 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  95. Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor

    169 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  96. The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver

    169 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  97. Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support

    168 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  98. Inside the AMD Microcode ROM [video]

    167 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  99. Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]

    167 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  100. Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels

    167 points • comment • dec 20, 2018