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Hacker News (Dec 2018)

  1. A New Largest-Known Prime Number

    133 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  2. Walt Mossberg Quits Facebook

    133 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  3. How Atlanta Is Turning Ex-Cons into Urban Farmers

    133 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  4. Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA

    133 points • comment • dec 22, 2018

  5. Huawei Could Divide the World

    133 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  6. Why Do React Hooks Rely on Call Order?

    133 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  7. Comparing Pythagorean triples in C++, D, and Rust

    133 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  8. Improving compression at scale with Zstandard

    132 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  9. The Most Important Software Innovations (2001-2017)

    132 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  10. Second Canadian 'missing' in China

    132 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  11. Show HN: Bubblin – Bandcamp for books

    132 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  12. Experiment: Recoil vs. Muzzle Velocity

    132 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  13. US Border Officers Don’t Always Delete Collected Traveler Data

    131 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  14. Show HN: Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++

    131 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  15. Writing a book in public

    131 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  16. The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (2003)

    131 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  17. JAX: Numpy with Gradients, GPUs and TPUs

    131 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  18. Show HN: Strength News – An HN-inspired website for sport and gym enthusiasts

    131 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  19. Seven tough lessons from ten years in bootstrapped business

    131 points • comment • dec 02, 2018

  20. Giving Mono Souper Powers

    131 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  21. Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings

    130 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  22. Don’t use JPEG-XR on the Web

    130 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  23. The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps

    130 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  24. Kanren – Logic Programming in Python

    130 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  25. Open source confronts its midlife crisis

    130 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  26. Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization

    130 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  27. Deepmind Produces a General-Purpose Games-Playing Machine

    130 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  28. Physics puzzles

    130 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  29. Dependent Haskell

    130 points • comment • dec 17, 2018

  30. Keystone – Open-source Secure Hardware Enclave

    130 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  31. Novogratz's Crypto Trading Desk Lost $136M in Nine Months

    130 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  32. Alan Turing and the mathematics of pattern formation in nature

    129 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  33. Companies controlled by PE firms use bankruptcy to shed pension obligations

    129 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  34. The Ghost in the Machine: An AI Perspective on the Soul [video]

    129 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  35. Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves

    129 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  36. Over half of older US workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they retire

    129 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  37. The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day

    129 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  38. US Senate Passes Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Bill

    129 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  39. Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say

    129 points • comment • dec 21, 2018

  40. A novel way to stop the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

    129 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  41. Microsoft Edge

    129 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  42. Personal Notes on Corman Lisp 3.1 Release

    128 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  43. Fuzzing Like It’s 1989

    128 points • comment • dec 31, 2018

  44. Envoy Proxy at Reddit

    128 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  45. British Telecom bars Huawei's 5G kit from core of network

    128 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  46. Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (2012)

    128 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  47. Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership

    128 points • comment • dec 04, 2018

  48. Ask HN: Anyone doing business using Estonian e-residency?

    127 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  49. Heading to a cardiologist

    127 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  50. Games Console

    127 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  51. 9cc: A Small C Compiler

    127 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  52. Chinese Crankshafts (2012)

    127 points • comment • dec 30, 2018

  53. Industry pushes sugary products, while obfuscating the health hazards

    127 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  54. Designing web page layouts for screen readers

    127 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  55. New research on the cost of colonization to India

    126 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  56. Interactive Jupyter/Python demos of popular machine-learning algorithms

    126 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  57. How Criminals Steal $37B a Year from America’s Elderly

    126 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  58. Solving murder with Prolog

    126 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  59. A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning

    126 points • comment • dec 23, 2018

  60. Six Detroit area doctors indicted in $500M health care fraud

    125 points • comment • dec 07, 2018

  61. Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergraduate CS program (2009)

    125 points • comment • dec 29, 2018

  62. Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave

    125 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  63. Dutch hospitals to drop U.S. body brokers, cite ethical concerns

    125 points • comment • dec 09, 2018

  64. Dirt-poor and ugly – the proud new mantra of those left behind in the new China

    125 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  65. Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed, dominate world today

    125 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  66. Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie

    125 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  67. Let the Fountain Pens Flow

    125 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  68. Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

    124 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  69. Tumblr’s anti-porn algorithm is flagging basically everything as NSFW

    124 points • comment • dec 05, 2018

  70. Advent of Code Python Solutions, Explained

    124 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  71. OpsMop – Config management and app deployment from the creator of Ansible

    124 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  72. Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anything but Zen

    124 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  73. Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models

    124 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  74. Risky business: linking Toxoplasma infection and entrepreneurship behavior

    124 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  75. Behind the Market Swoon: The Herdlike Behavior of Computerized Trading

    124 points • comment • dec 26, 2018

  76. Make photomosaics, GIFs, and murals from pictures in Python with ML/OpenCV

    123 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  77. Google Will Pay Publishers for ‘The Night of the Yellow Ad’

    123 points • comment • dec 06, 2018

  78. What Startups Really Mean by “Why Should We Hire You?”

    123 points • comment • dec 01, 2018

  79. Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python

    123 points • comment • dec 16, 2018

  80. The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention

    123 points • comment • dec 18, 2018

  81. Australia's tech industry savages Labor for backing bill

    123 points • comment • dec 12, 2018

  82. Using data to determine if Die Hard is a Christmas movie

    123 points • comment • dec 24, 2018

  83. Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles

    122 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  84. Show HN: McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust with a neural network

    122 points • comment • dec 03, 2018

  85. One year into legal pot sales California doesn’t have expected bustling industry

    122 points • comment • dec 27, 2018

  86. Human-Centric Tools for Navigating Code [pdf]

    122 points • comment • dec 10, 2018

  87. How AI could help us with ancient languages like Sumerian

    121 points • comment • dec 11, 2018

  88. Machine Learning Trick of the Day: Instrumental Thinking

    121 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  89. BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances

    121 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  90. What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

    121 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  91. Congress just voted to legalize hemp

    121 points • comment • dec 13, 2018

  92. Why Segment Chose Go, gRPC, and Envoy to Build Their New Config API

    121 points • comment • dec 14, 2018

  93. Reverse Engineering Guide for Beginners: Methodology and tools

    121 points • comment • dec 28, 2018

  94. FireHOL – Linux firewalling and traffic shaping for humans

    121 points • comment • dec 08, 2018

  95. Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Network Coverage

    121 points • comment • dec 19, 2018

  96. On VBScript

    121 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  97. Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries

    121 points • comment • dec 20, 2018

  98. Kurt Gödel and the romance of logic

    120 points • comment • dec 25, 2018

  99. Show HN: CHIP-8 console implemented in FPGA

    120 points • comment • dec 15, 2018

  100. How India's sex workers prevented an Aids epidemic

    120 points • comment • dec 15, 2018