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Hacker News (Dec 2018)
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A New Largest-Known Prime Number
133 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Walt Mossberg Quits Facebook
133 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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How Atlanta Is Turning Ex-Cons into Urban Farmers
133 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
133 points • comment • dec 22, 2018
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Huawei Could Divide the World
133 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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Why Do React Hooks Rely on Call Order?
133 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Comparing Pythagorean triples in C++, D, and Rust
133 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Improving compression at scale with Zstandard
132 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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The Most Important Software Innovations (2001-2017)
132 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Second Canadian 'missing' in China
132 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Show HN: Bubblin – Bandcamp for books
132 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Experiment: Recoil vs. Muzzle Velocity
132 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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US Border Officers Don’t Always Delete Collected Traveler Data
131 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Show HN: Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++
131 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Writing a book in public
131 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (2003)
131 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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JAX: Numpy with Gradients, GPUs and TPUs
131 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Show HN: Strength News – An HN-inspired website for sport and gym enthusiasts
131 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Seven tough lessons from ten years in bootstrapped business
131 points • comment • dec 02, 2018
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Giving Mono Souper Powers
131 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings
130 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Don’t use JPEG-XR on the Web
130 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps
130 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Kanren – Logic Programming in Python
130 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Open source confronts its midlife crisis
130 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization
130 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Deepmind Produces a General-Purpose Games-Playing Machine
130 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Physics puzzles
130 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Dependent Haskell
130 points • comment • dec 17, 2018
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Keystone – Open-source Secure Hardware Enclave
130 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Novogratz's Crypto Trading Desk Lost $136M in Nine Months
130 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Alan Turing and the mathematics of pattern formation in nature
129 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Companies controlled by PE firms use bankruptcy to shed pension obligations
129 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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The Ghost in the Machine: An AI Perspective on the Soul [video]
129 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves
129 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Over half of older US workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they retire
129 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day
129 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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US Senate Passes Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Bill
129 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say
129 points • comment • dec 21, 2018
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A novel way to stop the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
129 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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Microsoft Edge
129 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Personal Notes on Corman Lisp 3.1 Release
128 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Fuzzing Like It’s 1989
128 points • comment • dec 31, 2018
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Envoy Proxy at Reddit
128 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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British Telecom bars Huawei's 5G kit from core of network
128 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (2012)
128 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership
128 points • comment • dec 04, 2018
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Ask HN: Anyone doing business using Estonian e-residency?
127 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Heading to a cardiologist
127 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Games Console
127 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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9cc: A Small C Compiler
127 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Chinese Crankshafts (2012)
127 points • comment • dec 30, 2018
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Industry pushes sugary products, while obfuscating the health hazards
127 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Designing web page layouts for screen readers
127 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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New research on the cost of colonization to India
126 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Interactive Jupyter/Python demos of popular machine-learning algorithms
126 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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How Criminals Steal $37B a Year from America’s Elderly
126 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Solving murder with Prolog
126 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning
126 points • comment • dec 23, 2018
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Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud
125 points • comment • dec 07, 2018
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Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergraduate CS program (2009)
125 points • comment • dec 29, 2018
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Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave
125 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Dutch hospitals to drop U.S. body brokers, cite ethical concerns
125 points • comment • dec 09, 2018
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Dirt-poor and ugly – the proud new mantra of those left behind in the new China
125 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed, dominate world today
125 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie
125 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Let the Fountain Pens Flow
125 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors
124 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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Tumblr’s anti-porn algorithm is flagging basically everything as NSFW
124 points • comment • dec 05, 2018
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Advent of Code Python Solutions, Explained
124 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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OpsMop – Config management and app deployment from the creator of Ansible
124 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anything but Zen
124 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models
124 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Risky business: linking Toxoplasma infection and entrepreneurship behavior
124 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Behind the Market Swoon: The Herdlike Behavior of Computerized Trading
124 points • comment • dec 26, 2018
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Make photomosaics, GIFs, and murals from pictures in Python with ML/OpenCV
123 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Google Will Pay Publishers for ‘The Night of the Yellow Ad’
123 points • comment • dec 06, 2018
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What Startups Really Mean by “Why Should We Hire You?”
123 points • comment • dec 01, 2018
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Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python
123 points • comment • dec 16, 2018
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The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention
123 points • comment • dec 18, 2018
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Australia's tech industry savages Labor for backing bill
123 points • comment • dec 12, 2018
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Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie
123 points • comment • dec 24, 2018
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Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles
122 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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Show HN: McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust with a neural network
122 points • comment • dec 03, 2018
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One year into legal pot sales California doesn’t have expected bustling industry
122 points • comment • dec 27, 2018
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Human-Centric Tools for Navigating Code [pdf]
122 points • comment • dec 10, 2018
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How AI could help us with ancient languages like Sumerian
121 points • comment • dec 11, 2018
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Machine Learning Trick of the Day: Instrumental Thinking
121 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances
121 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?
121 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Congress just voted to legalize hemp
121 points • comment • dec 13, 2018
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Why Segment Chose Go, gRPC, and Envoy to Build Their New Config API
121 points • comment • dec 14, 2018
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Reverse Engineering Guide for Beginners: Methodology and tools
121 points • comment • dec 28, 2018
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FireHOL – Linux firewalling and traffic shaping for humans
121 points • comment • dec 08, 2018
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Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Network Coverage
121 points • comment • dec 19, 2018
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On VBScript
121 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries
121 points • comment • dec 20, 2018
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Kurt Gödel and the romance of logic
120 points • comment • dec 25, 2018
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Show HN: CHIP-8 console implemented in FPGA
120 points • comment • dec 15, 2018
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How India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic
120 points • comment • dec 15, 2018