972
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Robinhood launches 3% checking account
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/13/robinhood-free-checking-and-savings-accounts/
7 years ago
592
215
Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46550862
460
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China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal
https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5250
344
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50 CVEs in 50 Days: Fuzzing Adobe Reader
https://research.checkpoint.com/50-adobe-cves-in-50-days/
334
195
The Titanic Was on Fire for Days Before the Iceberg Hit
https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/the-titanic-was-on-fire-for-days-before-the-iceberg-hit-94fa26471dfa
327
142
Free Hotel Wifi with Python and Selenium
https://gkbrk.com/2018/12/free-hotel-wifi-with-python-and-selenium/
288
87
Mail Loop From Hell (2012)
https://blog.dbrgn.ch/2012/7/29/mail-loop-from-hell/
271
136
Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium
https://bts.nomadgate.com/medium-evergreen-content
251
58
Exploring the .NET Core Runtime
http://www.mattwarren.org/2018/12/13/Exploring-the-.NET-Core-Runtime/
240
60
Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07366
214
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AWS Outperforms GCP in the 2018 Cloud Report
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2018_cloud_report/
212
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The True Cost of Rewrites
https://8thlight.com/blog/doug-bradbury/2018/11/27/true-cost-rewrites.html
208
44
Compiler Explorer
https://godbolt.org/
204
127
Fake Net Neutrality Comments Draw A Federal Probe
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevincollier/feds-investigation-net-neutrality-comments
191
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Apple to build campus in Austin and sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/apple-to-build-new-campus-in-austin-and-add-jobs-across-the-us/
187
62
Etsy’s experiment with immutable documentation
https://codeascraft.com/2018/10/10/etsys-experiment-with-immutable-documentation/
171
70
Show HN: Minimal Google Analytics Snippet
https://minimalanalytics.com
148
Is Windows 10 still telling what you're doing even if you don't want it to?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-windows-10-still-telling-microsoft-what-youre-doing-even-if-you-dont-want-it-to/
168
86
The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/climate/cafe-emissions-rollback-oil-industry.html
162
156
A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitive Test
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-self-aware-fish-raises-doubts-about-a-cognitive-test-20181212/
158
56
Fbs: Create Linux GUIs with Qt in minutes
https://build-system.fman.io/linux-gui-programming
155
120
Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-disturbing-plan-add-face-surveillance-yo-0
150
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Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/13/instacart-and-amazon-owned-whole-foods-are-parting-ways/
149
36
DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing
https://github.com/devhubapp/devhub
141
84
LXD 3.8 has been released
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-3-8-has-been-released/3450
138
112
Stablecoin Basis is closing down
https://cryptonews.com/news/usd-133m-stablecoin-basis-is-reportedly-closing-down-3064.htm
108
Second Canadian 'missing' in China
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46548614
135
109
Why Do React Hooks Rely on Call Order?
https://overreacted.io/why-do-hooks-rely-on-call-order/
32
500 miles (2002)
http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
133
Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46552611
126
21
Make photomosaics, GIFs, and murals from pictures in Python with ML/OpenCV
https://github.com/worldveil/photomosaic
Show HN: Vaex - Out of Core Dataframes for Python and Fast Visualization
https://medium.com/vaex/vaex-out-of-core-dataframes-for-python-and-fast-visualization-12c102db044a
125
10
Machine Learning Trick of the Day: Instrumental Thinking
http://blog.shakirm.com/2018/10/machine-learning-trick-of-the-day-8-instrumental-thinking/
122
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Congress just voted to legalize hemp
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/12/18136408/congress-hemp-marijuana-legalization-farm-bill
52
BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances
https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/12/13/boom-risc-v-core-amazon-ec2-f1/
218
Fragmentation Is Why Desktop Linux Failed [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8oeN9AF4G8
103
David Byrne Curates a Playlist of Great Protest Songs
http://davidbyrne.com/radio/david-byrne-presents-the-power-of-song-to-give-voice-is-eternal
101
77
Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2018/12/11/apple-turns-its-back-on-customers-and-nvidia-with-macos-mojave/
97
49
C, C++, x86/x64 assembly: The case of forgotten return
https://yurichev.com/blog/no_return/
90
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Ask HN: What linux desktop tools/apps boosted your productivity?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18669464
19
Microservices Circuit-Breaker Pattern Implementation: Istio vs. Hystrix
https://www.exoscale.com/syslog/istio-vs-hystrix-circuit-breaker/
83
35
Show HN: High-performance ahead-of-time compiler for Machine Learning
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/~andersan/projects/live/triNNity.html
65
In what sense is quantum computing a science?
http://cognitivemedium.com/qc-a-science
Photographs: Removed
https://www.removed.social/series/
81
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Las Vegas Housing Weakness Signals the Slowdown Is Spreading
https://www.wsj.com/articles/las-vegas-housing-weakness-signals-the-slowdown-is-spreading-11544702400
79
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SF is so expensive that waiters can no longer afford to live in the city
https://m.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/san-francisco-so-expensive-housing-waiters-food-13461447.php
78
6
A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks [pdf]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04948
55
Going Head-To-Head: Scylla vs. Amazon DynamoDB
https://www.scylladb.com/2018/12/13/scylla-vs-amazon-dynamodb/
76
4
Windows 10 Sends Your Activity History to Microsoft, Even If You Tell It Not To
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/windows-10-sends-your-activity-history-to-microsoft-even-if-you-tell-it-not-to/
75
106
Public and private class fields
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/12/class-fields
71
Show HN: Stock Trading with Insomnia REST Client and Alpaca API
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18675280
69
51
Firefighting foam heats up coal fire debate (2010)
https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/hot-hell-firefighting-foam-heats-coal-fire-debate-centralia-pa
67
Can Foundational Physics Be Saved?
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/12/can-foundational-physics-be-saved.html
66
12
Commenting without the comments
https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js
63
PlanetScale makes it easy to build multi-cloud databases
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/13/planetscale/
23
Banned from a meeting because of GDPR by the Romanian Ministry of Education
https://twitter.com/AFiscutean/status/1073243007376416769
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