hackerNews

3

Firefox 64 Released (hacks.mozilla.org)

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An Open Letter Regarding Algorithms and My Son's Birth (twitter.com)

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DigitalOcean launches its container service (techcrunch.com)

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Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards (www.reuters.com)

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Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? (item?id=18661546)

469 points first seen 2018121218 last seen 2018121321 298 comments

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Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH (blogs.windows.com)

423 points first seen 2018121209 last seen 2018121318 263 comments

19

The Cube Rule of Food Identification (http://cuberule.com)

347 points first seen 2018121209 last seen 2018121300 174 comments

10

FreeBSD 12.0 is now available (lists.freebsd.org)

316 points first seen 2018121206 last seen 2018121306 136 comments

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Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us (utcc.utoronto.ca)

311 points first seen 2018121203 last seen 2018121400 245 comments

7

Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches (www.erlang-solutions.com)

284 points first seen 2018121203 last seen 2018121318 64 comments

4

Norwegian frigate sinking has far-reaching implications (www.aspistrategist.org.au)

264 points first seen 2018121212 last seen 2018121312 193 comments

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Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push (www.bloomberg.com)

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GoDaddy is a scam (www.reddit.com)

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Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password? (blog.1password.com)

240 points first seen 2018121218 last seen 2018121303 177 comments

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Tetris (www.colinfahey.com)

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7

Announcing GitLab Serverless (about.gitlab.com)

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9

People who disagree with you aren't trying to make things complex (m50d.github.io)

228 points first seen 2018121209 last seen 2018121309 146 comments

5

Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards–and the Water Underneath (www.wsj.com)

213 points first seen 2018121206 last seen 2018121400 112 comments

12

Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend (code.mradford.com)

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Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation (techcrunch.com)

184 points first seen 2018121203 last seen 2018121303 135 comments

14

Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readies Crackdown on Beijing (www.nytimes.com)

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Amazon, Amid Crackdown on Seller Scams, Fires Employees Over Data Leak (www.wsj.com)

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24

The Golden Age of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes (theatlantic.com)

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3

“Diagram of All Space and Time” by Carl Sagan (1960s?) (www.loc.gov)

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1

Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve (dan.langille.org)

181 points first seen 2018121218 last seen 2018121403 39 comments

6

How to Grow Neat Software Architecture Out of Jupyter Notebooks (github.com)

176 points first seen 2018121215 last seen 2018121400 88 comments

4

Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping X32 Support (www.phoronix.com)

168 points first seen 2018121218 last seen 2018121403 107 comments

13

A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain (www.scientificamerican.com)

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3

Michael Seibel on Leadership Attributes in Successful Startup Leaders (torch.io)

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First release of dav1d, the AV1 decoder (www.jbkempf.com)

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14

'Dying All Tensed-Up': 30 Years Since the Troubled Secret Mission of STS-27 (www.americaspace.com)

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15

Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder (songcraft.io)

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9

For-Profit College Chain Closes, Shutting Out Nearly 20,000 Students (www.nytimes.com)

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23

Population Mountains (pudding.cool)

137 points first seen 2018121209 last seen 2018121306 20 comments

8

Show HN: Writing a book in public (200wordsaday.com)

131 points first seen 2018121221 last seen 2018121400 66 comments

26

US Border Officers Don’t Always Delete Collected Traveler Data (www.engadget.com)

130 points first seen 2018121203 last seen 2018121303 39 comments

13

Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave (www.newyorker.com)

125 points first seen 2018121209 last seen 2018121306 47 comments

27

A tale of 132 e's (linuxwit.ch)

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12

Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn (brex.com)

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4

Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping (ai.googleblog.com)

105 points first seen 2018121209 last seen 2018121309 9 comments

22

Show HN: Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody (egeria.rocks)

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23

InVision, valued at $1.9B, picks up $115M Series F (techcrunch.com)

96 points first seen 2018121203 last seen 2018121300 79 comments

7

Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars as It Drifted Across Midwest Remains a Mystery (www.thedrive.com)

95 points first seen 2018121221 last seen 2018121400 37 comments

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I was a senior VP of technology at Starwood – here’s my take on the data breach (www.phocuswire.com)

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27

EPA announces new limitations on enforcement of the Clean Water Act (www.nytimes.com)

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40

RefactoringUI Book (refactoringui.com)

83 points first seen 2018121203 last seen 2018121221 28 comments

42

Google Fusion Tables Shutting Down (support.google.com)

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24

Sliding Right into Information Theory (www.joachim-breitner.de)

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21

Securing Your Site Like It’s 1999 (24ways.org)

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Uber exec in March: “we shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles” (arstechnica.com)

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12

Comixify: Transform video into a comics (https://comixify.ii.pw.edu.pl)

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14

The MAD Computer Program (meatfighter.com)

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Transfer learning in low-data environments with FloydHub, fast.ai, and PyTorch (blog.frame.ai)

68 points first seen 2018121206 last seen 2018121300 11 comments

16

Wild Applause, Secretly Choreographed (2013) (www.nytimes.com)

66 points first seen 2018121206 last seen 2018121300 38 comments

0

Python machine learning notebooks for beginners and experts (github.com)

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28

Keydown event doesn't fire on iOS when arrow keys pressed on external keyboard (bugs.webkit.org)

64 points first seen 2018121209 last seen 2018121306 14 comments

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The Ethereum Price Drop: A Fundamental Analysis (blog.sfox.com)

64 points first seen 2018121212 last seen 2018121215 108 comments

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We need open source smartphones now more than ever (osjournal.com)

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Ex-Canadian Diplomat Michael Kovrig Detained in China (www.cbc.ca)

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Show HN: Debucsser, CSS debugging made easy (github.com)

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Hokusai’s Ghost Stories (ca. 1830) (publicdomainreview.org)

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The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire (www.nytimes.com)

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Slate's Newly Unionized Writers and Editors Give OK to Strike (www.bloomberg.com)

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Bomb threat forces evacuation of at least 1 Facebook building in Menlo Park (abc7news.com)

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Type hints cheat sheet (Python 3) (mypy.readthedocs.io)

44 points first seen 2018121215 last seen 2018121306 16 comments

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Goodbye FastMail: Aussie government undermining trust in tech companies (www.ctrl.blog)

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AI Research on Dialogue and Story Generation (Part 3) (emshort.blog)

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Hoard: Distributed Data Caching System to Accelerate Deep Learning Training (arxiv.org)

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Maintaining good health at a desk job (debugandrelease.blogspot.com)

36 points first seen 2018121215 last seen 2018121309 3 comments

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Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Biography (www.nationalreview.com)

36 points first seen 2018121221 last seen 2018121400 13 comments

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Google+ hit by second API bug impacting 52.5M users (www.zdnet.com)

32 points first seen 2018121203 last seen 2018121203 4 comments

21

Tumor-Specific Antigens from Way Out There (blogs.sciencemag.org)

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25

Growing Up with Science Fiction (1978) (www.nytimes.com)

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To detect new odors, fruit fly brains improve on a well-known computer algorithm (www.salk.edu)

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Incidence of Dementia Over Three Decades in the Framingham Heart Study (www.nejm.org)

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IRS Gutted: Good news for the wealthy (www.propublica.org)

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Ask HN: Why doesn't MS open-source Edge instead of switching to Chromium? (item?id=18659811)

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Maya Angelou’s cookbooks are a rich part of her literary legacy (www.poetryfoundation.org)

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Go 2 Error Values draft implementation – planned for v1.13 (godoc.org)

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Former Canadian Diplomat Disappears in China, Adding to Tensions (www.nytimes.com)

21 points first seen 2018121215 last seen 2018121306 17 comments

0

CLEAVE – Ergonomic Mechanical Keyboard (www.trulyergonomic.com)

21 points first seen 2018121218 last seen 2018121218 27 comments

67

State of Python in 2018 (medium.com)

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Show HN: Simple tool to upload and paste URL's to screenshots and files (github.com)

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Poor people should get slower internet speeds, American ISPs tell FCC (www.theregister.co.uk)

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Network Identity and Public Key Crypto (cacm.acm.org)

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AMD 7nm Zen 2 and Navi Supply Should Be Plentiful from Underutilized TSMC (hothardware.com)

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Leaked audio reveals Google lobbying to conservatives (www.wired.com)

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Verizon says its media brand including Yahoo and AOL is essentially worthless (www.cnn.com)

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Why criticism of Amazon isn’t sticking (www.vox.com)

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Verizon takes a $4.6B charge on Yahoo and AOL (www.cnbc.com)

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The Found Footage That Provides a Whole New Look at the Apollo 11 Moon Landing (www.vanityfair.com)

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OpenStreetMap reversed DWG decision on Crimea complaint (lists.openstreetmap.org)

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Project A119 (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Speech That Facebook Plans to Punish (www.theatlantic.com)

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Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials (www.theatlantic.com)

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Australia’s horrific new encryption law likely to obliterate its tech scene (thenextweb.com)

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Marlboro maker in takeover talks with cannabis firm Cronos (www.theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: What features you wish Google BigQuery could have? (item?id=18661489)

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Quadriplegic student walks across stage at college graduation using exoskeleton (www.cbsnews.com)

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ICSREF: A Framework for Automated Reverse Engineering of ICS Binaries (arxiv.org)

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Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest (www.theatlantic.com)

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Xkcd: The General Problem (xkcd.com)

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0

Deno, a New Server-Side Runtime by Ryan Dahl (www.youtube.com)

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Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography (medium.com)

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History of Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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Mapping Service Blurs Out Military Bases, but Accidentally Locates Secret Ones (www.popularmechanics.com)

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0

ClearTax (YC S14) Is Hiring Engineering Managers in Bangalore (cleartax.applytojob.com)

0 points first seen 2018121200 last seen 2018121200 N/A comments

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LogDNA (YC W15) Multi-Cloud and Kubernetes Logging Is Hiring Dev Evangelist (logdna.com)

0 points first seen 2018121203 last seen 2018121203 N/A comments

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Jerry (S17) Is Hiring Lead Full Stack Engineer and Other Dev Roles in Montreal (getjerry.com)

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