hackerNews

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Google Maps' Moat (www.justinobeirne.com)

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WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities (www.reuters.com)

794 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122306 404 comments

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Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains (www.janbambas.cz)

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120M American Households Exposed In 'Massive' ConsumerView Database Leak (www.forbes.com)

461 points first seen 2017122012 last seen 2017122221 154 comments

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iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages (www.geekbench.com)

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New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff (blog.mozilla.org)

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Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court (www.bbc.com)

331 points first seen 2017122021 last seen 2017122115 396 comments

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The Google-Facebook Duopoly Threatens Diversity of Thought (www.wsj.com)

315 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122203 215 comments

9

Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase (blog.coinbase.com)

301 points first seen 2017122012 last seen 2017122109 264 comments

4

Dynamicland (dynamicland.org)

290 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2021040918 110 comments

3

Post Mortem: The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code (www.gamasutra.com)

283 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122115 191 comments

12

Tacotron 2: Generating Human-Like Speech from Text (research.googleblog.com)

277 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122109 50 comments

6

Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units (reneweconomy.com.au)

263 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122203 82 comments

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In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (www.nytimes.com)

250 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122109 193 comments

7

Building a Home Aquaponics System: The Basics (www.thissmarthouse.net)

249 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122115 71 comments

9

I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA (item?id=15962146)

244 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122109 302 comments

6

Artists and writers whose works enter the public domain in 2018 (publicdomainreview.org)

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How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune (www.nytimes.com)

209 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122100 262 comments

11

A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots (www.atlasobscura.com)

196 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122106 35 comments

12

Image text recognition APIs showdown (dataturks.com)

188 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122109 75 comments

19

How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm (konghq.com)

184 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122106 32 comments

22

The Screenless Office (screenl.es)

183 points first seen 2017122000 last seen 2017122106 131 comments

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There’s now more than 200k pending Bitcoin transactions (blockchain.info)

179 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122100 133 comments

6

OpenRailwayMap (www.openrailwaymap.org)

172 points first seen 2017122012 last seen 2017122115 58 comments

8

How to not waste time on a side project when trying to get a job (hackcareer.com)

165 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122015 61 comments

25

Microsoft Moves to End Secrecy in Sexual Harassment Claims (www.nytimes.com)

164 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122100 78 comments

14

Overview of the Crystal language (marmelab.com)

134 points first seen 2017122000 last seen 2017122006 80 comments

12

OpenBSD 6.2 and CDE (jamesdeagle.blogspot.com)

125 points first seen 2017122018 last seen 2017122112 55 comments

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BMW delivers its 100,000th electrified vehicle this year (electrek.co)

123 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122100 63 comments

14

Gerrymandering with geographically compact districts (dustingmixon.wordpress.com)

121 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122100 103 comments

10

Stats without Tears (brownmath.com)

120 points first seen 2017122012 last seen 2017122106 18 comments

17

Unravelling Konami's Arcade DRM (mon.im)

96 points first seen 2017122000 last seen 2017122009 22 comments

14

Searching for Good Neural Networks with Neuroevolution (eng.uber.com)

96 points first seen 2017122000 last seen 2018093000 19 comments

22

Philosophy Needs a New Definition (lareviewofbooks.org)

94 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122103 56 comments

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CS349D Cloud Computing Technology, Autumn 2017 (web.stanford.edu)

93 points first seen 2017122015 last seen 2017122109 6 comments

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Where’s the Next Silicon Valley? VC Is Betting on the Midwest (spectrum.ieee.org)

92 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122103 291 comments

21

Inside the World's Only Watch Design University (www.hodinkee.com)

92 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122106 4 comments

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Bitcoin exchange Youbit shuts after second hack attack (www.bbc.co.uk)

78 points first seen 2017122000 last seen 2017122009 81 comments

22

2012 Wine bug "Drawing in Photoshop CS5 is almost impossible" now fixed (bugs.winehq.org)

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25

Improving app security and performance on Google Play for years to come (android-developers.googleblog.com)

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24

Toyetic (en.wikipedia.org)

70 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122100 4 comments

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Show HN: Ethereum Canvas – Draw on the blockchain (ethereumcanvas.com)

68 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122100 43 comments

16

Faster Progress Bars: Manipulating Perceived Duration with Augmentations (2010) (www.chrisharrison.net)

66 points first seen 2017122000 last seen 2017122009 30 comments

57

Rust vector guarantees (doc.rust-lang.org)

61 points first seen 2017122018 last seen 2017122106 77 comments

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Consumers are frustrated by endless streaming services (blog.peer5.com)

58 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122015 97 comments

28

GitHub OAuth Security Issue (gist.github.com)

57 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122106 5 comments

18

Letter to Santa Kube (jpetazzo.github.io)

55 points first seen 2017122000 last seen 2017122012 27 comments

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NY lawsuit asks: Is graffiti art protected under federal law? (www.latimes.com)

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A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk (arxiv.org)

49 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122106 10 comments

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GDPR: Why We Stopped Selling Stuff to Europe (www.brentozar.com)

48 points first seen 2017122000 last seen 2017122006 38 comments

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Truth from Zero? (rjlipton.wordpress.com)

45 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122015 16 comments

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Competing with BigCo: 2018 Edition (medium.learningbyshipping.com)

43 points first seen 2017122018 last seen 2017122203 5 comments

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How Canada’s Health Care System Helped Create a Killer (thewalrus.ca)

42 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122100 21 comments

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The Problem with Using HackerRank as a Programmer Screening Tool (dreynaud.fail)

42 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122021 39 comments

23

Ricardo's Comparative Advantage After Two Centuries (conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)

41 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122018 27 comments

26

Shipwreck Is Everywhere (hudsonreview.com)

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New study shows how birds work to sing together (phys.org)

40 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122021 5 comments

35

How to Grow as a Data Scientist (www.theseattledataguy.com)

39 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122106 0 comments

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BlackBerry will shutter its app store on December 31st, 2019 (www.engadget.com)

38 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122021 34 comments

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Show HN: NSL Archive – A record of publicly disclosed national security letters (nslarchive.org)

38 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122106 2 comments

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Microsoft Removes Google’s Chrome Installer from the Windows Store (www.theverge.com)

38 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122103 53 comments

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Show HN: Swapping Position and Brightness in Grayscale Images (www.productchart.com)

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Short Seller Says Naive Bitcoin Traders Open a Pathway to Profit (www.bloomberg.com)

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We Might Be Eating Cactus in the Future (earther.com)

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Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought and Drove a T-34 and Then Went on a Rampage (www.warhistoryonline.com)

31 points first seen 2017122012 last seen 2017122012 9 comments

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Elixir GenServer Explained to Redux Developers (marmelab.com)

30 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122106 3 comments

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Exploding cows, baby killers and death rays (2016) (natlib.govt.nz)

26 points first seen 2017122000 last seen 2017122021 5 comments

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IEDM 2017: AMD’s grand vision for the future of HPC – WikiChip Fuse (fuse.wikichip.org)

26 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122021 3 comments

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FDA Bans Triclosan, 23 Other Antiseptic Ingredients [pdf] (s3.amazonaws.com)

25 points first seen 2017122015 last seen 2017122021 0 comments

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Senate and House Pass Sweeping Republican Tax Bill (www.nytimes.com)

25 points first seen 2017122018 last seen 2017122018 3 comments

15

Taking a Long Look at QUIC [pdf] (conferences.sigcomm.org)

24 points first seen 2017122000 last seen 2019080221 4 comments

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If You Had Bought Crypto – How rich would you be if you invested in Crypto? (ifyouhadboughtcrypto.com)

24 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122006 29 comments

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Old mill town aims to become manufacturing center of human organs (www.politico.com)

24 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122106 4 comments

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Statistic of the Year 2017: Winners announced (www.statslife.org.uk)

22 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122100 11 comments

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Success Academy's Radical Educational Experiment (www.newyorker.com)

22 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122021 2 comments

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SpaceX recovery boat spotted with huge claw-like “fairing grabber” (www.teslarati.com)

22 points first seen 2017122021 last seen 2017122103 3 comments

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Netflix vs. cable: Subscribers are neck and neck now, says PwC (www.fastcompany.com)

21 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122006 10 comments

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Punk science: a growing movement wants to make scientific tools available to all (www.economist.com)

19 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122021 2 comments

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'iHac Pro' vs. iMac Pro (medium.com)

19 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122012 35 comments

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The Negro Travelers' Green Book, Spring 1956 (library.sc.edu)

19 points first seen 2017122015 last seen 2017122100 0 comments

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Waymo will provide insurance to passengers in its self-driving cars (techcrunch.com)

17 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122100 4 comments

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BMW reaches 100,000 electric vehicle sales target for 2017 (techcrunch.com)

16 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122003 0 comments

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The Complete Guide to Building Strings in C++ (www.fluentcpp.com)

16 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122015 6 comments

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Fastest Growing SDKs of 2017 (mightysignal.com)

16 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122012 0 comments

76

FLIMP the GIMP has a security problem (flimp.fuzzing-project.org)

16 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122100 0 comments

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People couldn’t believe two dogs killed their owner (www.washingtonpost.com)

13 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122006 3 comments

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Show HN: A Platform for Many-Agent Reinforcement Learning (github.com)

13 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122021 2 comments

82

Flaw in GitHub OAuth logic allowed unrestricted access to private repositories (item?id=15963787)

13 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122012 0 comments

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Let's Bury the Hustle (m.signalvnoise.com)

13 points first seen 2017122012 last seen 2017122015 0 comments

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Reddit was a misinformation hotspot in 2016 election, study says (www.cnet.com)

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Tiny creatures takes centre stage in a battle to work out the tree of life (www.nature.com)

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0

Will your taxes go up or down in 2018 under the new tax bill? (www.washingtonpost.com)

11 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122009 0 comments

0

Ask HN: How you keep yourself motivated for year long projects? (item?id=15959251)

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0

Get Google Chrome Installer – Microsoft Store (www.microsoft.com)

10 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122006 11 comments

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Chip of the Day: TRW MPY-16AJ – Making Multiplication Manageable (www.cpushack.com)

10 points first seen 2017122012 last seen 2017122021 0 comments

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Coinbase added Bitcoin Cash (mobile.twitter.com)

10 points first seen 2017122012 last seen 2017122015 4 comments

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This angry inventor has a special gift for package thieves: Revenge (www.washingtonpost.com)

9 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122006 12 comments

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Virgin Hyperloop One Sets a New Speed Record (www.wired.com)

9 points first seen 2017122003 last seen 2017122106 2 comments

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A New Scientific Technique Reveals How Ancient Humans Made Art (news.artnet.com)

9 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122009 0 comments

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Edmund Berkeley's "Simon", which has been called the first personal computer (www.historyofinformation.com)

9 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122100 0 comments

0

Python 3.6.4 (www.python.org)

9 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122006 3 comments

0

Bell, Cineplex, Rogers and Shaw are trying to end net neutrality in Canada (actions.sumofus.org)

9 points first seen 2017122009 last seen 2017122009 0 comments

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Yeelight, the Bluetooth LED Bedside Lamp from Xiaomi That Spies on You (medium.com)

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How Activists Took Control of a University: The Case Study of Evergreen State (quillette.com)

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What Ruby Needs (redmonk.com)

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Litecoin founder sells all his litecoins (amp.reddit.com)

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Show HN: Price Optimization API (https://pricingengine.io)

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Things that helped me move into engineering management (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

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End of the smashed phone screen? Self-healing glass discovered by accident (www.theguardian.com)

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Distributing the News: UUCP to UUNET (2015) [pdf] (www.usenix.org)

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EFF Asks Copyright Office to Improve Exemptions to the DMCA (www.eff.org)

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Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users? b2b (item?id=15962752)

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Massive Cloud Leak Exposes Alteryx, Experian, US Census Bureau Data (www.darkreading.com)

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Banks Find Success Suing Over Data Breaches (www.jdsupra.com)

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Leveraging Ada Run-Time Checks with Fuzz Testing in AFL (blog.adacore.com)

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France passes law to ban all oil and gas production by 2040 (www.seattletimes.com)

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Mysterious alien cigar 'asteroid' is interstellar lump of ice, not a spaceship (phys.org)

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An antenna company that helps elephants and rocket cars (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Amazon registers lobbyist in Georgia, sparking rumors about Atlanta’s HQ2 chance (www.geekwire.com)

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Fundamental challenges with public blockchains (medium.com)

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A Brief History of the Perl Programming Language Which Turned 30 Today (blog.adafruit.com)

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The Fastest, Easiest FPGA Blinker, Ever (www.xess.com)

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The future is frozen (medium.com)

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NASA Helps Create a More Silent Night – NASA (www.nasa.gov)

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Another ICO Draws a Securities Class Action Lawsuit (www.dandodiary.com)

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SafeButler (YC S17) is hiring employee #2 to modernize insurance (item?id=15961836)

0 points first seen 2017122006 last seen 2017122006 N/A comments

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Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Head of Growth (item?id=15965057)

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