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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels

    167 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  2. Inside the AMD Microcode ROM [video]

    167 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  3. The Firefox Dilemma

    167 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  4. Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]

    167 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  5. Schedule – 35th Chaos Communication Congress

    166 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  6. San Diego's Bird Scooter Hoarding Problem

    166 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  7. Government Hired a Firm for $13.6M to Hire Recruits. It Hired 2

    166 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  8. Show HN: Minimal Google Analytics Snippet

    166 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  9. The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything (2012)

    166 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  10. What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)

    166 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  11. How McKinsey has helped raise the stature of authoritarian governments

    165 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  12. Korg NuTube, vacuum tube for the 21st century

    164 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  13. Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings

    164 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  14. Look ma, no locks

    164 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  15. DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter

    164 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  16. I wrote a free book about TDD and clean architecture in Python

    163 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  17. Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU

    163 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  18. A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain

    163 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  19. If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?

    163 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  20. The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future revenues? (2017)

    163 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  21. Reflections on DOOM's Development

    162 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  22. Tying Allowance to Chores Could Kill Kids’ Motivation to Help Out

    162 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  23. Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?

    162 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  24. LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display

    162 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  25. The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules

    161 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  26. The Link Between Inflammation and Depression?

    161 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  27. Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany as Qualcomm extends global wins

    161 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  28. Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

    161 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  29. Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners

    161 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  30. Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)

    161 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  31. I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    160 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  32. Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning

    160 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  33. Ask HN: Famous anonymous inventions other than Bitcoin?

    160 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  34. Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL

    160 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  35. The Swiss Army Knife of Hashmaps

    160 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  36. HTTPS in the real world

    160 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  37. Show HN: Magic Grid – A simple JavaScript library for dynamic grid layouts

    160 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  38. Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that Mozilla failed to fix

    160 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  39. How long is that Bézier?

    160 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  40. New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive

    160 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  41. Spending $5k to put Zimbabwe on Street View

    159 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  42. What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Clocks

    159 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  43. Internet Search Tips

    159 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  44. Seagate Announces 16TB HDD

    159 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  45. On Self-Publishing “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”

    159 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  46. Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl

    159 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  47. After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using Waymo's service

    158 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  48. I Was a Cable Guy. I Saw the Worst of America

    158 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  49. Fortnite was 2018’s most important social network

    158 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  50. LED Strain

    158 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  51. There's no such thing as a free watch (2017)

    158 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  52. Some unexplained physical symptoms may be caused by unresolved emotional trauma

    158 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  53. V8 release v7.2

    158 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  54. An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017)

    157 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  55. Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010)

    157 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  56. UC Berkeley to build open-source secure enclave using RISC-V

    157 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  57. How to Version-Control Jupyter Notebooks

    157 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  58. Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back

    157 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  59. Gravitee: Open-Source API Gateway

    157 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  60. Researchers have significantly increased the scope of the Rowhammer threat

    156 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  61. MiSTer: Run Amiga, SNES, NES and Genesis on an FPGA

    156 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  62. The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat?

    156 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  63. A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitive Test

    156 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  64. I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon

    155 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  65. Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies

    155 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  66. Why American cities are weirdly shaped

    155 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  67. Making Games in Lisp with Hypergiant and Chicken Scheme

    155 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  68. Taylor Swift tracked stalkers with facial recognition tech at her concert

    154 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  69. Ask HN: How to incorporate machine learning into day job?

    154 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  70. Der Spiegel published around 60 stories from a fraudster

    154 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  71. Some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months

    153 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  72. Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities

    153 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  73. Planning – The Core Reason Why Gameplay Feels Good (2017)

    153 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  74. This is the United States’ third biggest housing boom in the modern era

    152 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  75. Vue.js and Go example project

    152 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  76. An Introduction to the EMACS Editor (1978)

    152 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  77. Public access Linux system: Your non-profit shell provider since 2002

    152 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  78. Show HN: DPAGE – build and publish webpages on the decentralized internet

    152 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  79. Show HN: Goldpinger – Visualize Kubernetes cluster connectivity

    152 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  80. Nasa's New Horizons: Final flyby commands given to distant probe

    151 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  81. Valve creates new revenue sharing tiers to give big sellers a break

    151 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  82. Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database?

    151 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  83. Rare brain-eating amoebas killed woman who rinsed her sinuses with tap water

    151 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  84. String tokenization in C

    150 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  85. Noah: Bash on Ubuntu on macOS

    150 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  86. Fbs: Create Linux GUIs with Qt in minutes

    150 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  87. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018

    149 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  88. Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales

    149 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  89. Ransomware Infects 100K PCs in China, Demands WeChat Payment

    149 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  90. Cambridge Analytica Used Fashion Tastes to Identify Right-Wing Voters

    149 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  91. Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door

    149 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  92. Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM [video]

    149 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  93. Project A119

    149 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  94. Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors

    149 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  95. Mom Lets Her Kids Walk to the Bakery Down the Block. CPS Chastises Her

    149 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  96. In 1991, Congress authorized $650M to make driverless cars a reality (2013)

    149 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  97. I Got Banned from Photographing Arch Enemy

    148 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  98. Two years later, I still miss the headphone port

    148 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  99. Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh

    148 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  100. Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline

    148 points • comment • dec 08, 2018