hackerNews

6

Chrome is Not the Standard (www.chriskrycho.com)

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Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself (engineering.instagram.com)

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8

Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda (www.bloomberg.com)

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7

Rust in 2017: what we achieved (blog.rust-lang.org)

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9

Start your open-source career (blog.algolia.com)

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2

Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk (www.bloomberg.com)

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13

Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games (torrentfreak.com)

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Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name to Long Blockchain (www.bloomberg.com)

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20

Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds for Loot Boxes (kotaku.com)

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4

Show HN: Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents (github.com)

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1

Sam Altman: ‘Too many’ Y Combinator companies raise money (venturebeat.com)

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6

Building a Distributed Log from Scratch, Part 1: Storage Mechanics (bravenewgeek.com)

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16

Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP Plan (www.bloomberg.com)

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Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life (text.npr.org)

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5

Bussed out: How America moves its homeless (www.theguardian.com)

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1

Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations (www.quantamagazine.org)

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4

Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016) (libdill.org)

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31

“username or password is incorrect” is bullshit (hackernoon.com)

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13

FCC Fines Sinclair Broadcast Group $13.4m for Running Sponsored Content as News (variety.com)

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25

Mastodon makes the Internet feel like home again (theoutline.com)

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22

Five years with Rust (words.steveklabnik.com)

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11

Nvidia’s New Policy Limits GeForce Data Center Usage (wirelesswire.jp)

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14

Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet (abc.xyz)

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21

Intermediate Vim tips (kinbiko.com)

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29

Blizzard's Battle.net Silently Adds Root CA (www.reddit.com)

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64

IPhones start slowing down after a year (www.theverge.com)

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3

Show HN: Byte Arena – Code Your Fighter Bot (https://doc.bytearena.com)

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12

Ask HN: How can I learn cyber security? (item?id=15986100)

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9

Man jailed 5½ years, fined US$76,000 for selling VPN in southern China (scmp.com)

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15

How Does the Flu Actually Kill People? (www.scientificamerican.com)

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2

How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda (www.bloomberg.com)

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32

MIT Media Lab's concerns about the cryptocurrency IOTA (www.media.mit.edu)

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2

Facebook billionaire pours funds into high-risk research (www.nature.com)

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14

The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile (blog.jqueryui.com)

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Brain inflammation sows the seeds of Alzheimer’s (cosmosmagazine.com)

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5

Johns Hopkins engineering students build custom walker for tiny toddler (hub.jhu.edu)

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25

Genetic Algorithms for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)

118 points first seen 2017122206 last seen 2017122309 38 comments

8

Massgate – The central server for the game World in Conflict (github.com)

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27

Mattermark (YC S12) to shut down after selling to FullContact (techcrunch.com)

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24

When should behaviour outside a community have consequences inside it? (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

108 points first seen 2017122200 last seen 2017122215 282 comments

9

A lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system (github.com)

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8

5 More Gotchas of Defer in Go – Part II (blog.learngoprogramming.com)

101 points first seen 2017122203 last seen 2017122306 53 comments

16

Advanced Image Manipulation and Data Extraction (blog.algorithmia.com)

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28

Bindgen – Rust tool for generating C bindings (jvns.ca)

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24

Ask HN: Resources for learning about boot loaders? (item?id=15981575)

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28

Kowloon Walled City (en.wikipedia.org)

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12

The Art of Conducting (www.commentarymagazine.com)

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35

Bitcoin Billionaires May Have Found a Way to Cash Out (www.bloomberg.com)

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17

Delay-Tolerant Networks Might Be the Killer App Ham Radio Needs (faradayrf.com)

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25

Senators blast DHS facial scanning at airports (thehill.com)

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77

Max Howell's take on getting rejected by Google (www.quora.com)

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6

Technical feasibility of regulating public Blockchain explored (techtake.info)

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26

FlexBox Playground (the-echoplex.net)

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31

Tar and Curl Come to Windows (blogs.technet.microsoft.com)

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0

Max Howell, author of Homebrew, on being rejected for a job at Google (www.quora.com)

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33

The Microsoft Surface Book 2 (15-Inch) Review: Second Time's the Charm (www.anandtech.com)

61 points first seen 2017122218 last seen 2017122300 84 comments

51

Ask HN: Any open source code/materials on predicting future crimes based on data? (item?id=15979039)

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31

Weekly Machine Learning Opensource Roundup (blog.pocketcluster.io)

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$300B War Beneath the Street: Fighting to Replace America’s Water Pipes (www.nytimes.com)

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48

Superhuman AI in heads-up no-limit poker: Libratus beats top professionals [pdf] (science.sciencemag.org)

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26

Domain-cli: Search domain availability from terminal (github.com)

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49

Ask HN: What is the best book you read on 2017? (item?id=15981305)

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29

The Can’t-Lose Way for Your Business to Pop: Add Bitcoin to Its Name (www.nytimes.com)

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70

Ask HN: Bitcoin Christmas reading (item?id=15982995)

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29

React Native Events in Gory Details: What Happens on the Way to Listeners (levelup.gitconnected.com)

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Macchiato (macchiato-framework.github.io)

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Bitcoin price is crashing (www.cnbc.com)

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The Hunt for Aliens Is a Grassroots Movement Funded by Billionaires (www.inverse.com)

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13

Bernoulli Numbers and Ideal Classes (2008) [pdf] (smf4.emath.fr)

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46

Silicon Valley Techies Still Think They're the Good Guys. They're Not (www.wired.com)

36 points first seen 2017122215 last seen 2017122218 4 comments

21

The People Who Read Your Airline Tweets (www.nextgov.com)

35 points first seen 2017122215 last seen 2017122606 4 comments

41

Safari Enables Service Workers by Default (webkit.org)

33 points first seen 2017122212 last seen 2017122300 10 comments

40

Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use? (item?id=15984929)

33 points first seen 2017122215 last seen 2017122221 37 comments

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40 Yr Stanford Study Found People with Delayed Gratification More Likely Succeed (jamesclear.com)

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35

Nissan Finance Canada Suffers a Data Breach (www.nissancanadafinance.ca)

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An Open Letter on Why We’re Removing Usernames (theblog.okcupid.com)

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0

Bitcoin price plunges $2,000 in 12 hours as year-end rally fizzles out (www.theguardian.com)

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38

How to Setup a Unix News Server (1999) (aplawrence.com)

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48

Subprime Auto Defaults Are Soaring, and PE Firms Have No Way Out (www.bloomberg.com)

24 points first seen 2017122206 last seen 2017122300 10 comments

42

V8 release 64 (v8project.blogspot.com)

24 points first seen 2017122212 last seen 2017122300 2 comments

34

Build a Serverless Web Application (aws.amazon.com)

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Ask HN: What is the current state of the art in homomorphic encryption? (item?id=15983915)

24 points first seen 2017122215 last seen 2017122221 0 comments

0

Ask HN: What is your side project for 2018? (item?id=15977685)

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74

Ask HN: How to get good in Tensorflow? (item?id=15979780)

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40

Round 1 submissions to NIST post-quantum crypto competition (csrc.nist.gov)

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57

Bitcoin plunges again, now down more than 28% since Sunday’s all-time high (www.marketwatch.com)

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50

Hacking the Tax Plan: Ways to Profit Off the Republican Tax Bill (www.nytimes.com)

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60

Show HN: My First OSS Project, Classic Finder (https://classicmacfinder.com)

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71

If Winklevoss tried to cash out, they’d probably crash the Bitcoin market (www.inverse.com)

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JP Morgan's Guide to Machine Learning (twitter.com)

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The lower your social class, the ‘wiser’ you are, suggests new study (www.sciencemag.org)

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Scientists sniff out Parkinson's disease smell (www.bbc.co.uk)

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35

The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism (1998) (www.lrb.co.uk)

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0

Search domain names if registered or not in terminal (github.com)

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Snapdragon 845 Chromebook in the works (chromeunboxed.com)

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Bitcoin Will Probably Never Be Embraced by the U.S. Government (www.forbes.com)

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Use the Native Web Component Shadow DOM API as React Components (github.com)

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Comcast claims it’ll spend $50B because of net neutrality repeal and tax cut (arstechnica.com)

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86

Who invented hummus? (www.bbc.com)

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Why I am still a Bitcoin Maximalist (theoryofself.com)

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How Deep Learning Detects Eye Disease (blogs.nvidia.com)

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0

How a Failed Kickstarter Campaign Told the World Half the Story (medium.com)

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0

The Current Sex Panic Harks Back to the Era of Coddling Women (www.bloomberg.com)

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Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp (tools.ietf.org)

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How to Build a Billion Dollar App? – George Berkowski – TEDxCityUniversityLondon (www.youtube.com)

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Eric Schmidt will officially step down as Alphabet’s executive chairman (arstechnica.com)

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61

History of Meth Use and Addition in Japan (www.tofugu.com)

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58

Further 8-bit Adventures (mrtomsworld.blogspot.com)

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75

Catalan pro-independence parties keep their majority in snap poll (www.theguardian.com)

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0

Dogecoin Reaches ATH Trading Above $0.008768 per Coin (medium.com)

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68

Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 released (ubports.com)

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How to Setup an NNTP Server on Linux (SO) (serverfault.com)

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iPhones start slowing down after a year of use, but that is way too soon (www.theverge.com)

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Apple Being Sued for 'Purposefully Slowing Down Older iPhone Models' (www.macrumors.com)

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Evaluation of Speech for the Google Assistant (research.googleblog.com)

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Artificial scarcity won’t prop up Bitcoin (fortune.com)

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The SEC's crackdown on cryptocurrencies is about to get serious (www.cnbc.com)

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What Happens When We Let Tech Care for Our Aging Parents (www.wired.com)

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Systemd-resolved is broken (edgeofsanity.net)

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Motivational Health Messaging LLC Gets a Patent on Sending Uplifting Texts (www.eff.org)

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Facebook ditches fake news flag after admitting it was making the problem worse (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Nice hash – new investor so returning funds? (www.nicehash.com)

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0

Funding your business without pitching a VC (www.infoworld.com)

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Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Relax Restrictive Rules on Template Apps (www.macrumors.com)

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Microsoft confirms stalled downloads, bogus errors in Win10 FCU update (www.computerworld.com)

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Strcat Linux kernel bugdoor (twitter.com)

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Webb Telescope’s “Silver and Gold Decorations” – NASA (www.nasa.gov)

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0

Inflation and Participation in Stake Based Token Protocols (medium.com)

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0

Reddit AMA from the Super-Human Poker AI Creators (www.reddit.com)

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8

Simple Habit is Hiring an iOS Engineer-join us as our third engineer (jobs.lever.co)

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Dahmakan (YC S17) Is Hiring a VP of Operations in SE Asia (join.dahmakan.com)

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