top 20 hacker news stories for 2018-12-12

Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

https://www.namepros.com/blog/confirmed-duck-com-transfers-to-duckduckgo.1113728/

7 years ago

1065 upvotes – 410 comments

An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth

https://twitter.com/gbrockell/status/1072589687489998848

7 years ago

790 upvotes – 337 comments

Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661546

7 years ago

578 upvotes – 347 comments

Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/comcast-rejected-by-small-town-residents-vote-for-municipal-fiber-instead

7 years ago

561 upvotes – 249 comments

Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18662992

7 years ago

542 upvotes – 150 comments

ATDT relief

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/12/11/ring/

7 years ago

524 upvotes – 143 comments

Archive.org donations are currently matched by a generous supporter 2-to-1

https://archive.org/donate/

7 years ago

494 upvotes – 74 comments

Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

https://github.com/grafana/loki

7 years ago

444 upvotes – 162 comments

Ant Colonies Retain Memories That Outlast the Lifespans of Individuals

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ant-colonies-retain-memories-outlast-lifespans-individuals-180971022/

7 years ago

395 upvotes – 66 comments

Write good git commit messages

https://juffalow.com/other/write-good-git-commit-message

7 years ago

360 upvotes – 198 comments

Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verizon-signals-its-yahoo-aol-divisions-are-almost-worthless-n946846

7 years ago

347 upvotes – 228 comments

Puzzle-solving 'doesn't slow down mental decline in older people'

https://www.nhs.uk/news/older-people/puzzle-solving-doesnt-slow-down-mental-decline-older-people/

7 years ago

303 upvotes – 107 comments

Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)

http://250bpm.com/blog:4

7 years ago

289 upvotes – 251 comments

Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-12/employees-at-amazon-s-new-nyc-warehouse-launch-unionization-push

7 years ago

273 upvotes – 302 comments

Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password?

https://blog.1password.com/does-australias-access-and-assistance-law-impact-1password/

7 years ago

260 upvotes – 204 comments

The Onion Futures Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

7 years ago

260 upvotes – 76 comments

Optician Sans – A free font based on the historical eye charts

https://optician-sans.com/

7 years ago

250 upvotes – 91 comments

GitLab Serverless

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/12/11/introducing-gitlab-serverless/

7 years ago

233 upvotes – 122 comments

How Sketch Took on Adobe

https://producthabits.com/how-sketch-took-on-adobe-by-making-a-faster-leaner-cheaper-image-editor/

7 years ago

226 upvotes – 180 comments

Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)

http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/baikonur-buran-soviet-space-shuttle/index.html

7 years ago

223 upvotes – 162 comments
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