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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
167 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Inside the AMD Microcode ROM [video]
167 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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The Firefox Dilemma
167 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]
167 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Schedule – 35th Chaos Communication Congress
166 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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San Diego's Bird Scooter Hoarding Problem
166 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Government Hired a Firm for $13.6M to Hire Recruits. It Hired 2
166 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Show HN: Minimal Google Analytics Snippet
166 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything (2012)
166 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
166 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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How McKinsey has helped raise the stature of authoritarian governments
165 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Korg NuTube, vacuum tube for the 21st century
164 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings
164 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Look ma, no locks
164 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter
164 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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I wrote a free book about TDD and clean architecture in Python
163 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU
163 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain
163 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?
163 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future revenues? (2017)
163 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Reflections on DOOM's Development
162 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Tying Allowance to Chores Could Kill Kids’ Motivation to Help Out
162 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?
162 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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LG Releases Gram 17 Laptop: An Ultra-Thin Notebook with a 17.3in Display
162 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules
161 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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The Link Between Inflammation and Depression?
161 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Apple to pull some iPhones in Germany as Qualcomm extends global wins
161 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
161 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Clearing Up a Few Things About Facebook’s Partners
161 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)
161 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
160 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning
160 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Ask HN: Famous anonymous inventions other than Bitcoin?
160 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Jack Parsons and the Occult Roots of JPL
160 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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The Swiss Army Knife of Hashmaps
160 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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HTTPS in the real world
160 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Show HN: Magic Grid – A simple JavaScript library for dynamic grid layouts
160 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that Mozilla failed to fix
160 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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How long is that Bézier?
160 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive
160 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Spending $5k to put Zimbabwe on Street View
159 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Clocks
159 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Internet Search Tips
159 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Seagate Announces 16TB HDD
159 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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On Self-Publishing “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”
159 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl
159 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using Waymo's service
158 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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I Was a Cable Guy. I Saw the Worst of America
158 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Fortnite was 2018’s most important social network
158 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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LED Strain
158 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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There's no such thing as a free watch (2017)
158 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Some unexplained physical symptoms may be caused by unresolved emotional trauma
158 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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V8 release v7.2
158 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017)
157 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010)
157 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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UC Berkeley to build open-source secure enclave using RISC-V
157 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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How to Version-Control Jupyter Notebooks
157 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back
157 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Gravitee: Open-Source API Gateway
157 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Researchers have significantly increased the scope of the Rowhammer threat
156 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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MiSTer: Run Amiga, SNES, NES and Genesis on an FPGA
156 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat?
156 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitive Test
156 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon
155 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies
155 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Why American cities are weirdly shaped
155 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Making Games in Lisp with Hypergiant and Chicken Scheme
155 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Taylor Swift tracked stalkers with facial recognition tech at her concert
154 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Ask HN: How to incorporate machine learning into day job?
154 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Der Spiegel published around 60 stories from a fraudster
154 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Some Hong Kong companies change their name every couple of months
153 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities
153 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Planning – The Core Reason Why Gameplay Feels Good (2017)
153 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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This is the United States’ third biggest housing boom in the modern era
152 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Vue.js and Go example project
152 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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An Introduction to the EMACS Editor (1978)
152 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Public access Linux system: Your non-profit shell provider since 2002
152 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Show HN: DPAGE – build and publish webpages on the decentralized internet
152 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Show HN: Goldpinger – Visualize Kubernetes cluster connectivity
152 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Nasa's New Horizons: Final flyby commands given to distant probe
151 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Valve creates new revenue sharing tiers to give big sellers a break
151 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database?
151 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Rare brain-eating amoebas killed woman who rinsed her sinuses with tap water
151 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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String tokenization in C
150 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Noah: Bash on Ubuntu on macOS
150 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Fbs: Create Linux GUIs with Qt in minutes
150 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rise Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018
149 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales
149 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Ransomware Infects 100K PCs in China, Demands WeChat Payment
149 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Cambridge Analytica Used Fashion Tastes to Identify Right-Wing Voters
149 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door
149 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM [video]
149 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Project A119
149 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors
149 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Mom Lets Her Kids Walk to the Bakery Down the Block. CPS Chastises Her
149 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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In 1991, Congress authorized $650M to make driverless cars a reality (2013)
149 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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I Got Banned from Photographing Arch Enemy
148 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Two years later, I still miss the headphone port
148 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Kong gateway reaches 1.0 GA, now supports service mesh
148 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline
148 points • comment • dec 08, 2018