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Hacker News (Dec 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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Stop Datamining Me
189 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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The Waterfall methodology was a historic accident and they knew it
189 points • comment • dec 12, 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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Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readies Crackdown on Beijing
188 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You
188 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Kademlia: A Peer-To-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric (2002) [pdf]
188 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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The Y Combinator Database
188 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
188 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time
187 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Quora pays thousands for posting questions
187 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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The Golden Age of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes
187 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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WordPress 5.0: A Gutenberg FAQ
186 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Bézier moi
186 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Portugal’s Economic Revival
186 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Let’s build a browser engine (2014)
186 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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The Social Credit System in China [video]
186 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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C++20 Ranges
186 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar
185 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Amazon, Amid Crackdown on Seller Scams, Fires Employees Over Data Leak
185 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Grab is messing up OpenStreetMap data in Southeast Asia
185 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation
185 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Great Pacific garbage patch cleanup fails to collect plastic
185 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Facebook has always sold data to advertisers, and it probably always will
185 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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911 call centers down in Washington state
185 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Source: Google Allo will be officially shut down soon
184 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane
184 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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The Making Of Dust (2003)
184 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption
184 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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OUC coal plants linked to east Orange County cancer spike, lawsuit claims
184 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Israeli Software Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi, Lawsuit Says
184 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New
184 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Our Cellphones Aren't Safe
184 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Apple to build campus in Austin and sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City
184 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation
183 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Foundations of Animation
183 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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“Diagram of All Space and Time” by Carl Sagan (1960s?)
183 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies
183 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?
183 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday
183 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang
183 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars
182 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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The Skylab 4 Mutiny, 1973 (2012)
182 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love
182 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Sydney Opal Tower: Thousands evacuated after 'crack'
182 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened?
182 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Verizon says to shed 10,400 jobs by mid next year
182 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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The New Brave Is 22% Faster
182 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Keyboardio Kickstarter Day 1278: A startling discovery
181 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube
181 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism
181 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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KubeDB – Run production-grade databases easily on Kubernetes
181 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve
181 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Kubernetes clusters being hijacked to mine cryptocurrencies
181 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Thoughts on, and pictures of, the original Macintosh User Manual
180 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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How to Grow Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks
180 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019
180 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Software Architecture, all you need to know [pdf]
180 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Moving to GitLab
180 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Organizational Debt
179 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and Stochastic Gradient Descent
179 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Liquid: Vim and Emacs-inspired editor written in Clojure
179 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Google Chrome to stop back-button hijacking
178 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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A newly discovered tea plant is caffeine-free
178 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died
178 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Creating Windows XP Icons (2001)
178 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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A Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (2014)
177 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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The little black book of scams (2016)
177 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon [video]
177 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Making Penicillin at Home
177 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019?
176 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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No funding for uncomfortable results
175 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Buying an Amiga 30 years later
175 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
175 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs
175 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?
175 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners
175 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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The Programming Languages Zoo
175 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Why you need both rituals and routines to power your workday
174 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Portal for the C64
174 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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The habit of habit engineering
174 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Movim – Federated, open-source alternative to Tumblr
174 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Algebras we love
174 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift
174 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia moves to human trials
173 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Goldman Legal Woes Mount as Malaysia Slaps First Criminal Charge
173 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record
173 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Firing Frankness
172 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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How AI Training Scales
171 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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From macOS to Windows and WSL
171 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly
171 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Code2vec: learning distributed representations of code
170 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it
170 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Russian Cosmonauts Say That the Hole in the Soyuz Was Drilled from the Inside
170 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor
169 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver
169 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support
168 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Inside the AMD Microcode ROM [video]
167 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]
167 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
167 points • comment • dec 20, 2018