478
807
Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18635010
7 years ago
467
256
Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent
https://protonmail.com/blog/australia-anti-encryption-law/
395
83
Rocket v0.4: Typed URIs, Database Support, Revamped Queries
https://rocket.rs/v0.4/news/2018-12-08-version-0.4/
378
254
Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/12/08/gut-bacteria-may-offer-a-treatment-for-autism
352
77
MIT team develops 3D printer that's 10x faster than comparable 3D printers
https://www.3ders.org/articles/20181207-mit-team-develop-3d-printer-thats-10x-faster-than-comparable-3d-printers.html
266
126
TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/tsas-roadmap-airport-surveillance-moves-dangerous-direction
229
123
An interview with the documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/06/the-antidote-to-civilisational-collapse
222
195
US Is Net Oil Exporter for First Time in 75 Years
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-06/u-s-becomes-a-net-oil-exporter-for-the-first-time-in-75-years
221
95
UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/06/uk_gchq_bulk_equipment_interference/
219
42
Secrets of smooth Béziers
https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2018/12/08/euler-spiral.html
203
98
Scripting API now in public beta
https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/scripting-api-now-public-beta
190
35
Bézier moi
https://cormullion.github.io/blog/2018/06/21/bezier.html
182
36
A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and Stochastic Gradient Descent
https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46697
177
31
No funding for uncomfortable results
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/12/07/no-funding-for-unwanted-news/
165
200
After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using Waymo's service
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/12/waymos-lame-public-driverless-launch-not-driverless-and-barely-public/
152
135
Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-lays-groundwork-for-ipo-1544231655
150
163
Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/global-u-s-growth-in-smartphone-growth-starts-to-decline.html
66
How Myst Taught a Generation of Gamers to Explore New Worlds
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/exploring-myst-25-years-later
Little Languages
https://www.maxhallinan.com/posts/2018/12/07/little-languages/
148
170
Why is nuclear fusion so hard?
http://blog.sigfpe.com/2018/12/why-is-nuclear-fusion-so-hard.html
145
22
Great Adventure-Game Puzzles
https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/ten-great-adventure-game-puzzles/
24
A map that shows how territorial wolves are
http://www.citypages.com/news/this-data-map-of-minnesota-wolves-is-incredible/502160411
136
92
Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks (2015)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-dont-we-know-where-all-the-trains-are/415152/
132
29
JAX: Numpy with Gradients, GPUs and TPUs
https://github.com/google/jax
127
45
Heading to a cardiologist
https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/a40qm5/heading_to_a_cardiologist/
23
FireHOL – Linux firewalling and traffic shaping for humans
http://firehol.org/
117
54
Get the Font
https://www.getthefont.com/
62
Pivotal launches serverless framework that works across clouds and on-prem
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/07/pivotal-announces-new-serverless-framework/
116
99
Search is on for Google workers leaking secrets
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/search-is-on-for-google-workers-leaking-secrets-9j39cslww
107
13
A jackal's nose for the job
https://www.rbth.com/longreads/jackals/
103
48
How to Save the Web
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/opinion/tim-berners-lee-saving-the-internet.html
Ham Radio – CQ: Personal Mastery Through Hobbies
https://medium.com/@solidi/cq-personal-mastery-through-hobbies-f25aab2e49ad
96
53
Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping
39
Monsanto accused by legal opponents of hiring internet trolls
https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/monsanto-paid-internet-trolls/
Hook on PG&E Tower Eyed as Cause of Deadly Camp Fire
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Hook-on-PGE-Tower-Eyed-as-Cause-of-Deadly-Camp-Fire-502035081.html
88
60
Tumblr refugees trying to save its NSFW content
https://www.fastcompany.com/90277836/meet-the-tumblr-refugees-trying-to-safe-its-adult-content-from-oblivion
87
28
Coding for the World's Trickiest Chip – SEGA's Saturn DSP [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8plen8cLro
80
5
Summarized top 2018 AI research papers
https://www.topbots.com/most-important-ai-research-papers-2018/amp/
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