top 50% 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

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

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

7 years ago

Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?

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

7 years ago

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

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

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

7 years ago

ATDT relief

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

7 years ago

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

https://archive.org/donate/

7 years ago

Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs

https://github.com/grafana/loki

7 years ago

★ 28.1k Go AGPL-3.0

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

Write good git commit messages

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

7 years ago

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

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

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

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

7 years ago

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

The Onion Futures Act

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

7 years ago

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

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

7 years ago

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

https://optician-sans.com/

7 years ago

GitLab Serverless

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

7 years ago

How Sketch Took on Adobe

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

7 years ago

Why Use F#?

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/

7 years ago

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

After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/12/nvidia-perfect-storm/

7 years ago

The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-25/brexit-big-short-how-pollsters-helped-hedge-funds-beat-the-crash

7 years ago

The Waterfall methodology was a historic accident and they knew it

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/waterfall.html

7 years ago

Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readies Crackdown on Beijing

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/us/politics/trump-china-trade.html

7 years ago

How to Grow Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks

https://github.com/guillaume-chevalier/How-to-Grow-Neat-Software-Architecture-out-of-Jupyter-Notebooks

7 years ago

★ 530

Let’s build a browser engine (2014)

https://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2014/08/08/toy-layout-engine-1.html

7 years ago

Running FreeBSD on OS X using xhyve, a port of bhyve

https://dan.langille.org/2018/10/02/running-freebsd-on-osx-using-xhyve-a-port-of-bhyve/

7 years ago

Creating Windows XP Icons (2001)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997636.aspx

7 years ago

Internet Search Tips

https://www.gwern.net/Search

7 years ago

A New Connection Between the Gut and Brain

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-connection-between-the-gut-and-brain1/

7 years ago

Taylor Swift tracked stalkers with facial recognition tech at her concert

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137984/taylor-swift-facial-recognition-tech-concert-attendees-stalkers

7 years ago

First release of dav1d, the AV1 decoder

http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2018/First-release-of-dav1d

7 years ago

Microsoft Edge

https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge

7 years ago

★ 2.8k MIT

For-Profit College Chain Closes, Shutting Out Nearly 20k Students

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/business/education-corporation-of-america-closing.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Free and open-source home for art made with code

https://shadergif.com/

7 years ago

A new neural network design could overcome challenges in AI

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612561/a-radical-new-neural-network-design-could-overcome-big-challenges-in-ai/

7 years ago

Writing a book in public

https://200wordsaday.com/words/i-am-writing-a-book-in-public-5585c109c5735a98

7 years ago

Show HN: Strength News – An HN-inspired website for sport and gym enthusiasts

https://www.strengthnws.com

7 years ago

Australia's tech industry savages Labor for backing bill

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/you-bunch-of-idiots-australias-tech-industry-savages-labor-for-backing-the-governments-encryption-bill-2018-12

7 years ago

Storing C++ Objects in Distributed Memory

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brock/blog/storing_cpp_objects.php

7 years ago

Google's 'two-tier' workforce training document

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/11/google-tvc-full-time-employees-training-document

7 years ago

How to do with probabilities what people say you can’t (1985) [pdf]

https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r49.pdf

7 years ago

Response to 'Reasons why Lisp games suffer'

http://techsnuffle.com/2018/12/07/reasons-why-lisp-games-suffer-corrections

7 years ago

Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/now-you-can-train-ml-models-faster-and-lower-cost-cloud-tpu-pods

7 years ago

Archiving C64 Tapes Correctly

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1002

7 years ago

Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars as It Drifted Across Midwest Remains a Mystery

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25438/huge-chaff-cloud-that-lit-up-radars-as-it-drifted-across-the-midwest-remains-a-mystery

7 years ago

How “One-Plus-Five” Is Shaping American Cities

http://archplanbaltimore.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-one-plus-five-is-shaping-american_27.html

7 years ago

The Future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid x86

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13699/intel-architecture-day-2018-core-future-hybrid-x86

7 years ago

Growth Ranker – Top-growing products on Indie Hackers

https://www.growthranker.com

7 years ago

I was a senior VP of tech at Starwood: here’s my take on the guest data breach

https://www.phocuswire.com/Marriott-data-breach-ex-Starwood-perspective

7 years ago

Trump Prepares to Unveil a Vast Reworking of Clean Water Protections

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/climate/trump-clean-water-rollback.html

7 years ago

Facebook retires Nuclide Atom extension

https://blog.atom.io/2018/12/12/facebook-retires-nuclide-extension.html

7 years ago

Tesla sues its alleged saboteur for $167M

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/12/tesla-seeks-167-million-damages-saboteur/

7 years ago

Berkson's Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox

7 years ago

Asking the right question is more important than getting the right answer

https://lemire.me/blog/2018/12/06/asking-the-right-question-is-more-important-than-getting-the-right-answer/

7 years ago

Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD (2017) [pdf]

https://www.bsdfrog.org/pub/events/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf

7 years ago

Securing Your Site Like It’s 1999

https://24ways.org/2018/securing-your-site-like-its-1999/

7 years ago

Instead of Writing a Thousand Words, Part One: Ideas

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ideas-infographic/

7 years ago

In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence

https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-the-long-and-complicated-sentence/

7 years ago

Comixify: Transform video into a comics

https://comixify.ii.pw.edu.pl

7 years ago